Jeff Meek

My guest in this episode is Jeff Meek. Jeff is Lecturer in Economic and Social History at the University of Glasgow, UK. He is interested in the experiences of gay and bisexual men in post-war Scotland, as well as the history of same-sex desire from the 17th century to the late 20th century in Scotland. His recent work includes "A Purer Form of Loneliness’: Loneliness and the Search for Community amongst Gay and Bisexual Men in Scotland, 1940 to 1980". His book, Queer Trades, Sex, and Society: Male Prostitution and the War on Homosexuality in Interwar Scotland, is published with Routledge.