Panel event at Coast is Queer festival, Brighton, with John Grindrod, Diarmud Hester, Michael Hall and Martin Dines.

Queer lives don’t only unfold in cities or capitals — they are everywhere, in suburbs, archives, domestic spaces and inherited stories that refuse to stay neatly contained. Join three acclaimed researchers/writers as they map queer experience across the everyday and the overlooked.

John Grindrod’s Tales of the Suburbs, is a vivid and often surprising history of LGBTQ+ life beyond the city, tracing chosen families, hidden networks and queer resilience in ordinary places. Diarmud Hester’s Nothing Ever Just Disappears is a lyrical exploration of how queer lives are shaped by the spaces they inhabit, from Paris to Cambridge to Dungeness, and Michael Hall threads together memory, legacy and identity to ask what we carry forward from those who came before us, A Queer Inheritance, as he explores alternative (and fabulous) histories in the National Trust.

Chaired by Martin Dines, whose work on queer culture and space has helped shape contemporary thinking about LGBTQ+ histories, this session asks how place, memory and inheritance continue to shape queer life today. Tickets here.