On 30 November 2015 the BBC aired a documentary entitled, Coming Oot! A Fabulous History of Gay Scotland. The documentary featured NOTCHES co-founder and editor Amy Tooth Murphy and NOTCHES contributors Bob Cant and Jeff Meek. Amy Tooth Murphy It’s been a good while since I first ‘came oot’. In fact, next year marks […]
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Queer round the edges: Mary Stewart’s post-war middlebrow fiction (cont’d)
Amy Tooth Murphy Part 2: The Case of the Vanishing Queen Regular readers may well be poised on the edge of their seats, awaiting the resolution of Tuesday’s nail-biting cliffhanger. When last we saw our middlebrow heroes, gruff butch, Marion Bradford, had met a grisly end at the bottom of […]
Queer round the edges: Mary Stewart’s post-war middlebrow fiction
Amy Tooth Murphy Part 1: The Case of the Disposable Butch Over the last few months, on the recommendation of a friend, I’ve been working my way through the novels of Mary Stewart, a British post-war novelist of middlebrow fiction. Stewart’s 1950s and 1960s back catalogue is made up of […]
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