Out & About With Linden
Stuart Linden Rhodes
£23.00
Throughout the 1990s Stuart Linden Rhodes was leading a double life. During the day he was a teacher in the classroom. But as day turned to night Stuart was to be found behind his trusty camera, capturing the goings on in LGBTQ bars, pubs, and clubs across the north of... Read More
Throughout the 1990s Stuart Linden Rhodes was leading a double life. During the day he was a teacher in the classroom. But as day turned to night Stuart was to be found behind his trusty camera, capturing the goings on in LGBTQ bars, pubs, and clubs across the north of England in Blackpool, Birmingham, Derby, Liverpool, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle, York just to name a few.
The scene Stuart shot was a diverse and vibrant populated by people of all shapes, sizes, colours, and creeds. It is a scene which was uniquely of its time and has since vanished, much like Stuart’s photographs which weren’t seen for nearly thirty years.
It was during the first lockdown, spring 2020, when Stuart was clearing his attic that he happened upon the negatives from the 1990s. He began scanning them and, on a whim, uploaded an image to Instagram. He got a like, then a follower and now, at the time of writing, Out & About with Linden has attracted over 4000 followers, pieces in the national press and now, a book.
As well as more than one hundred extraordinary images – many of them unpublished – this book features new interviews with some of the acts, clubbers, and patrons from the scene at that time.
The book features newly written contributions from Mel B, Angie Brown, Julian Clary, Hazell Dean, Nicki French, Paul O’Grady, Boy George, David Hoyle, Su Pollard, Heather Small, Denise Welch, Kelly Wilde and you, the brilliant clubbers and punters who filled the floors of queer venues across the north in the 1990s.