To celebrate Pride Month 2021 a selection of articles from across our journals are available free to read. The chosen articles span a wide range of topics including queer film experience, the role social networking apps play in creating gay identity, the difficulties faced by lesbian asylum seekers, and the intersection between race and sexuality.

Articles free to read for Pride Month June 2021 

Music, Sound, and the Moving Image
ON HOW QUEER CINEMA MIGHT FEEL
DAVINA QUINLIVAN

Contemporary French Civilization
DIGITAL GEOGRAPHIES: ONLINE SPACES AND GAY IDENTITY IN TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY FRANCE
BRIAN TROTH

Town Planning Review
RAINBOW DIASPORA: THE EMERGING RENAISSANCE OF GAY NEIGHBOURHOODS
ALEX BITTERMAN

Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies
GAY PASTS AND DISABILITY FUTURE(S) TENSE : HETERONORMATIVE TRAUMA AND PARASITISM IN MIDNIGHT COWBOY
DAVID MITCHELL

Labour History: A Journal of Labour and Social History
‘PROUD AND EMPLOYED’: THE GAY AND LESBIAN MOVEMENT AND THE VICTORIAN TEACHERS’ UNIONS IN THE 1970S
GRAHAM WILLETT

Contemporary French Civilization
THE “L” IN THE LGBTI “ALPHABET SOUP”: ISSUES FACED BY LESBIAN ASYLUM SEEKERS AND OTHER NON-WESTERN LESBIAN EXILES IN FRANCE
BRONWYN WINTER 

Comma
THE RETICENT ARCHIVES: PRESERVING LGBTTTIQ HISTORIES
CHERYL AVERY 

Modern Believing
LOVE IS A MANY GENDERED THING: GENDER ROLES, RELATIONSHIPS AND TRANS PEOPLE
CHRISTINA BEARDSLEY 

Science Fiction Film & Television
CLARKE AND KUBRICK’S 2001: A QUEER ODYSSEY
DOMINIC JANES, 

Essays in Romanticism
INVITATIONS AND WITHDRAWALS: QUEER ROMANTIC ECOLOGIES IN WILLIAM BLAKE’S THE BOOK OF THEL AND JOHN CLARE’S “THE NIGHTINGALE’S NEST”
HANNAH, DANIEL

Quebec Studies
FROM VOODOO QUEENS TO DRAG QUEENS: DANY LAFERRIÈRE’S QUEER MONTREAL – FRENCH AMERICAN, BLACK ATLANTIC CITY
JARROD HAYE, 

Journal of Romance Studies
PLEIN SOLEIL AND THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY: SUN, STARS AND HIGHSMITH’S QUEER PERIPHERY
MICHAEL WILLIAMS