Rainbow Trap: Kevin Guyan on Queer Lives, Classifications and the Dangers

Rainbow Trap: Kevin Guyan on Queer Lives, Classifications and the Dangers

Rainbow Trap reveals how the fight for LGBTQ equalities in the UK is shaped – & constrained – by the classifications we encounter every day.

By Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop

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Thursday, July 3 · 7 - 8pm GMT+1

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Lighthouse - Edinburgh’s Radical Bookshop

43-45 West Nicolson Street Edinburgh EH8 9DB United Kingdom

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  • Event lasts 1 hour

Rainbow Trap reveals how the fight for LGBTQ equalities in the UK is shaped – and constrained – by the classifications we encounter every day.

We are overjoyed to be hosting an Edinburgh launch for local author and researcher Kevin Guyan, hosted by the wondrous Gemma Milne!

Looking across six systems – the police and the recording of hate crimes; dating apps and digital desire; outness in the film and television industry; borders and LGBTQ asylum seekers; health and fitness activities; and DEI initiatives in the workplace – Rainbow Trap documents how inclusive interventions – such as new legislation, revamped diversity policies and tech fixes – have attempted to bring historically marginalized communities out of the shadows.

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Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop

We are an independent community bookshop on the radical left, politically engaged and socially conscious. We celebrate diversity of thought and expression, championing voices from the margins. We house 10,000 titles across politics, poetry, history and fiction, as well as children's books and feminist, environmental, anti-racist & LGBTQ+ writing.

Open 7 days a week in Edinburgh’s Southside, with a year round event program.