Kirsty Loehr: A Short History of Queer Women

Join Kirsty Loehr in conversation with Lottie o'Conor, as part of The Book Corner's and The Grayston Unity's TOWN Festival.

No, they weren’t ‘just friends’! Queer women have been written out of history since, well, forever. ‘But historians famously care about women!’, said no one. From Anne Bonny and Mary Read who sailed the seas together disguised as pirates, to US football captain Megan Rapinoe declaring ‘You can’t win a championship without gays on your team’, via countless literary salons and tuxedos, A Short History of Queer Women sets the record straight on women who have loved other women through the ages.

Kirsty Loehr is a writer and English teacher. She has a master’s degree in transnational creative writing and loves football, history and humour – but not necessarily in that order. She lives in Brighton with her son and three cats.

Lottie O'Conor is a London-based writer and journalist. She writes on culture, lifestyle and business for titles including The Guardian, FT, Huffington Post and Grazia.