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The Courtauld is an internationally renowned centre for the teaching and research of art history and a major public gallery. Be part of an international community of influential art enthusiasts, thought leaders and change makers. Jeremy Atherton Lin explores queer identit ies through manufactured objects and the built environment.

Seeking a lineage of gay culture while alert to the ahistoricism this quest often elicitsthe author details his own experiences, but also traces back to s Hollywood discos and earlier still to cruising tunnels built beneath London in the s. E ach site bar itself as a palimpsest of queer rumours and suggestions.

T hrough toponomy, legal opinions, police reports and listing applications, as well as discursive forays into literature and pop culture, the book excavates these sites to use as case studies into the various ways that gay populations have played complex roles in transform ing the urban landscape.

This lecture examines buildings drawn from the book to delineate the research methodologies used in such a subjective archaeology. Jeremy Atherton Lin is an American essayist based in London. He studied playwriting at the University of California, Los Angeles UCLA and worked as an editor before establish ing his idiolect through observational writings in blogs and zines.

He received the MA in Writing from the Royal College of Art RCAwhere h is final project considered the appropriated gay garment as reification of shifting post- industrial economies, and in particular the role of queer fetishization in th at trajectory. His focus has since evolved into an ongoing exploration of the bind between place and identity.

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