How can heritage sites connect and interpret LGBTQ+ histories? How to: Queer Your Historic House is a free downloadable resource designed to help heritage professionals uncover and integrate queer narratives into historic spaces.
This practical, budget-friendly guide is designed for curators, visitor services staff, educators, and volunteers working across heritage sites. Drawing on years of hands-on experience in historic houses, it provides a framework for rethinking object interpretation, challenging biases, and linking contextual LGBTQ+ stories into the property’s narrative—even at sites with no direct queer history. The guide offers tools to explore broader social and cultural contexts, drawing meaningful links between historic spaces, collections and queer experiences of the past to tell a more complete story of a historic house.
Recording of the Toolkit launch event, 20 May 2025
Speakers (in order of appearance): Indigo Dunphy-Smith, Judith O’Flynn, Alice Strickland, Matthew Butler
A Queer Was Here 