Networks of Anglophone LGBTQ+ Exile Writers

From 1900 to 1969

With the support of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF):

An inscription on the tomb of Oscar Wilde in Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris taken from the epitaph of The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898)

This interactive platform visualizes global connections between Anglophone LGBTQ+ exile writers from 1900 to 1969. A series of visualizations, including graphs, maps, and timelines, display the global movements and creative exchanges of these writers across space and time. The selected timeframe of 1900 to 1969 for this network covers a period in which intense legal pressures were placed on LGBTQ+ people.Show note on historical context.

The platform tracks the migration of LGBTQ+ exile writers during the decades before the gay liberation movement, a time when many people were forced out of the United States and the United Kingdom due to the criminalization of homosexuality.Read more.

Visualizing the Extent of the Network

Here you can explore the full extent of the network of LGBTQ+ exile writers and find information about the size of the project database.

Visualizing by Writer

Here you can tailor the visualizations according to a particular LGBTQ+ exile writer. The visualizations display their meetings and creative exchanges across time and space.

Visualizing by Location

Here you can explore the network through maps that display the correspondence and meetings of LGBTQ+ exile writers across the globe.

Rights and Credits

Published with the support of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF): 10.55777/PUD40
Research results from: 10.55777/PUD40 and 10.55776/P35199

Author

Benjamin Robbins, PhD

License

Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) 4.0 International
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