Queer Wales

I. The Queer Past Before 1900 Queer Loss: Felicia Hemans, (trans)nationalism, and the Welsh Bard Daniel Hannah ‘Gender difference is nothing’: Cranogwen and Victorian Wales Jane Aaron ‘Please don’t whip me this time’: The Passions of George Powell of Nant-Eos Harry Heuser From Huw Arwystli to Siôn Eirian: Representitive Examples of Cadi/Queer Life from Medieval to Twentieth Century Welsh Literature Mihangel Morgan II. Placing Queer Wales after 1900 ‘A queer kind of fancy’: women, same-sex desire, and nation in Welsh literature Kirsti Bohata ‘Not friends / But fellows in a union that ends’: Associations of Welshness and Non-heteronormativity in Edward Thomas Andrew Webb Fairy Tale Drag and the Transgender Nation in Rhys Davies, Erica Wooff, and Jan Morris. Huw Osborne III. Building Queer Wales Post-Devolution Lesbian Motherhood in the South Wales Valleys: A Narrative Exploration Alys Einion Living in Fear: Homophobic Hate Crime in Wales Matthew Williams and Jasmin Tregidga Heb addysg, heb ddawn (Without education, without gift): LGBTQ Youth in Educational Settings in Wales John Sam Jones IV. Performing Contemporary Queer Wales Omnisexuality and the City: Exploring National and Sexual Identity through BBC Wales’ Torchwood Rebecca Williams and Ruth McElroy Queer/Welsh and Welsh/Queer: Performing Hybrid Wales Stephen Greer