Gianmaria Colpani's previous research project, titled 'Digging Against the Grain: The Political Moment of Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners, 1984-85' (2021-2024), received a VENI grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). It focused on the solidarity group Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM), which was active during the 1984-85 great miners' strike in the UK. The project analyzed the political and ideological composition of LGSM against the backdrop of processes of fragmentation and recomposition of the British left under Thatcherism. Additionally, the project reconstructed the links between LGSM and other women's, lesbian, and Black groups active in London during the strike, thus foregrounding the role played by gender and race, alongside sexuality and class, in the trajectory of the group. The overall goal of this research was to identify the 'political moment' of LGSM as a unique entry point for a genealogy of the shifting relations between neoliberalism, the left, and the intersecting politics of class, sexuality, race, and gender.

Colpani's current project, titled ‘Fabulous Subjects: Queer Intellectuals and their Archives’ (2026-2011), received a VIDI grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). This new project will map and study several archives of queer intellectuals involved in queer and trans communities and movements from the 1970s to the present. Its twofold goal is to develop a theory of the queer organic intellectual, while identifying the specific features of queer intellectuals' archives.