Linden Archives Book Launch & Talk
Linden Archives — Stuart Linden Rhodes' Manchester book launch with a talk from Stuart Linden and a book signing.
Join us on Thursday 7 November, from 6pm for the launch of Linden Archives. This book presents a collection of photographs of Pride events and Mr Gay UK contests alongside Club and Bar images from London, Brighton, Newcastle and Manchester.
Following on from his first successful publication Out and About with Linden (a queer archive of the north), Stuart Linden Rhodes has produced a new larger edition photobook of the queer 1990’s titled simply Linden Archives. This book presents a collection of photographs of Pride events, Mr Gay UK contests alongside Club and Bar images from London and Brighton to Newcastle and Manchester. The foreword is written by actor Russell Tovey.
A photobook that seeks to encapsulate a peoples defiant in the face of the AIDS crises and discriminatory laws. Included in this work are many images that have fallen foul of Instagram's unjustly censorious and baffling algorithm — alongside uninhibited photographs of Vivienne Westwood, Jean Paul Gaultier, Derek Jarman, Take That, Julian Clary, Peter Tatchell, Paul O'Grady, East 17 and many more.
Thursday 7 November | 6pm for a 6.30pm start!
Talk/In conversation with Q&A 6.30pm-7.30pm
Book signing 7.30pm-8pm
Tickets £5 or £3 student/low-waged
Click here to book your place on Eventbrite
More about Linden
Linden was the roving reporter for APN and the Gay Times during the early to mid 1990s, his columns for those magazines were entitled: Out & About with Linden. Stuart Linden Rhodes was also a lecturer at a local further education college, the pseudonym 'Linden' adopted due to concerns generated by draconian Clause 28 legislation sanctioned by Tory governments of the era. At home in North Yorkshire during the 'rona lockdowns of 2020-21, Stuart established the Linden Archives online as a way to preserve his work and look back fondly on the brash, thriving gay scene of the 1990s. More recently, his photography has featured on BBC television & radio and in Mastermind Magazine, Crotch, The Guardian, You Otter Know and Photography – A Queer History. Imagery from the archives have been exhibited at the Grundy Art Gallery, Queer Britain, Moray Pride, Vane Gallery and the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum as part of the Museum of Youth Culture.
