Fire Island – In Conversation with Jack Parlett

Lyrical and vivid, Fire Island is a deeply personal exploration of an iconic destination, and to the men and women whose ardour and determination spread freedom across its shores.

Jack Parlett is the author of The Poetics of Cruising: Queer Visual Culture from Whitman to Grindr (2022), Fire Island: A Queer History (2022) and the forthcoming Flamboyance: The Art of Burning Brightly (2026). He received a PhD in English Literature from Cambridge University in 2019, and he has held fellowships and residencies at University College, Oxford and Harvard University. His poetry includes the pamphlet Same Blue, Different You (2020), and his critical writing has appeared in the New Yorker, Document Journal, Granta, Boston Review, Literary Hub and elsewhere.

This event is part of our LGBT History Month programme