Did you know that, contrary to popular belief, homosexuals are not a wholly modern invention? To prove that this is so, one of Britain’s leading historical associations, the Society of Antiquaries of London (SAL), has decided, for one night only, to transition itself temporarily into the Society of Antiqueeries, by holding a special symposium for expert his/herstorians, called 'Queer(ing) Space(s) from Antiquity to the Present' which, appropriately enough for such an absolute horror show, takes place on October 30th, the day before Hallowe’en.
Also highly appropriate was when the initial call for papers was put out – February 14th, or Valentine’s Day, when the conference organisers made enticing kissy-kissy faces to any specialist scholars queer-minded enough to want to get involved. SAL sought contributions which centred upon “examining the residues of queer histories in spaces, buildings [and] landscapes”, which sounds alarmingly like archaeologists scraping all the sperm off the walls in Studio 54 to preserve for all posterity. SAL has a long and glorious history, being founded in 1707, granted a Royal Charter in 1751 and having among its many former Fellows such illustrious archaeological names as Sir Mortimer Wheeler and Sir Arthur Evans. Is this really how low it has now stooped in desperate pursuit of free woke-points from Stonewall?
Make a House a Homo
According to SAL’s online blurb, the conference aspires to adopt a “transnational/transcultural and – no less crucially – transtemporal outlook”, as well as a transgenderist one, centred upon the idea
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I thought the Roman Empire was quite okay with homosexuality, surely there’s enough material there for this organisation which professes to be interested in the past to keep them going for years without having to assign modern values to more recent historical artifacts or locations.
please follow Woke Waste – a list of taxpayer funded garbage like those mentioned here. Academia is dead. Universities are breeding grounds for weirdos and gay-denying men (mostly) bent on more denial by writing gibberish.
Mr Tucker’s pieces, while being always entertaining and clever, usually irritate me through over-reliance on silly puns. By contrast, today’s piece, positively bursting with puns, has made me laugh myself sick (and also cringe quite a bit, viz “Far from being regulated [sic] to the shadows…”)
“brown back alley”
“Kelmscott – which, like so many homosexuals, is open to the public every Thursday, Friday and Saturday between the hours of 10.30am and 5.00pm”
“a sort of magic architectural tranny-producing machine”
” ‘a mode of sexuality inseparable from and mediated through fire’, like a gloryhole in an oven.”
“What precisely does it say about a man that the first thing he thinks when he sees a large candle is not “That will come in handy when Ed Milliband’s Green power-cuts come in shortly”, but “I bet you could really shove that up someone’s bum”?”
“…thus performing an act of ‘time dissent’ and making the place into a well-known ‘meeting point for the East Berlin queer community’, particularly the in-house toilet facilities.”
“This dubious and delusional practice reaches its big gay climax in…”
Very, very funny – but Tucker’s final question – why the f**k is this utter crap taken seriously… Read more »
What fun. Quare is actually an early spelling of query. There are a few maps that perpetuated the existence of a village named Quare in Wiltshire where the cartographer, John Speed, hadn’t identified its real name (Butcombe). But it seems apt to use it here as a substitute for don’t know.
To me, “quare” referred to Brendan Behan, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, or, best of all, Harry & Paul. Lol. I can now add your Wiltshire village to the list!
Queer away.., sorry, but I couldn’t care less!
That was an entertaining read! If we invoke the DS’s ‘Conspiracy/Cock-up binary I think this is definitely an example of the latter.
My theory is that expansion of the universities has lead to the overpopulation of humanities/social sciences professors with no real talent. The only way for them to make their mark is to trot out some research in one of the ‘sexy’ research areas, larded with the current buzzwords. But, what to do when so many of their talentless peers have already viewed just about everything ‘though a queer lens’ already? So they fall on the subject of ‘rearing fancy mice’ or philately, conduct a couple of interviews, fling it all together with references to Baudrillard and vocabulary that signifies their membership of the academy, and Bob’s your auntie. No-one reads or cares about their output – it’s virtually unreadable anyway. The only problem is that someone has to fund it.
That’s not the only problem
All of this output serves to reinforce the taboo against viewing homosexuality as an aberration. Voicing that view can cost you your career
… Black “extends architectural thinking beyond its anthropocentric disciplinary traditions”, and thus “disrupts the industry’s technoscientific anatomy” by acting to “queer, problematise, and ‘reworld’ hum-animal infrastructures needed for navigating these troubling times”.
The decadence of our civilisation in made flesh, as it were.
“transnational/transcultural and – no less crucially – transtemporal outlook”, as well as a transgenderist one…
No doubt transveraceous, too.
This modern notion homosexuals were chased with pitch forks and prosecuted is leftist bs. They were perfectly entitled to do whatever they liked in their own homes and also in various groups named other things provided they were discrete. Prosecutions were rare and generally only for having sex in public places like toilets. Frankly I don’t really care but utterly sick of the endless propaganda and notion this is some great cause when it isn’t. The species would not further itself if men and women didn’t want to breed, we’d go extinct so it’s obvious LBGT dogma should not be promoted to children.