Mie Astrup Jensen is an ESRC-funded PhD Candidate at the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, UCL. She explores how the negative perceptions around being religious and LGBTQ+ is being broken down by developments that are making religious spaces and LGTBQ+ groups more inclusive. Continue reading In God’s image: LGBTQ+ Jews in England
This LGBT+ History Month, Richard C.M. Mole, Professor of Political Sociology (UCL SSEES), researches identity, sexuality, and migration, particularly of queer individuals in Eastern Europe. In this piece, he looks at the experiences of queer Poles leaving their home towns and migrating to Warsaw or elsewhere in Europe, where they can more freely explore or express their sexuality. Continue reading ‘They explode with gayness’: Polish queer migration and self-realisation
This LGBT+ History Month, Ada Wordsworth, Final Year Russian Studies Student at UCL SSEES, explores how queerness and ideas of European values intersect in Russia. Continue reading Gayropa: Russia, Europe and Queer Life
This LGBT+ History Month, Aydan Greatrick, ESRC-funded PhD Candidate at UCL, explores the challenges queer refugees and support organisations have faced in Germany since 2015. Continue reading Supporting LGBTQ+ asylum seekers in Germany: a story of hope and contradiction
