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The Road to Section 28
Conservatives exploited homophobia to discredit opposition to Section 28, leaving Labour ambivalent to outright opposition.
The Way Out: Sebastian Buckle on Homosexuality in Modern Britain
Public discourse on homosexuality through the images, ideas & judgements made about queer lives.
Queen and Country: Emma Vickers on Same-Sex Desire in the British Armed Forces
What is the history of same-sex love and desire in the British Armed Forces?
Prison Sex in the Mid-Victorian English Convict System
Penal administrators and reformers viewed the potential spread of ‘unnatural crime’ with horror.
‘Every time I see a cock I go funny’: what regional studies bring to histories of sexuality
When sexual desire was not attached to notions of sexual identity.
Would you mind if Neil Bartlett asked you a few personal questions about sex?
The Wellcome Collection’s ‘Institute of Sexology’ was the first major event of its kind in the UK.
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Working Out: Reflections of gay trade union activism in the 1970s UK
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Toward an Anti-racist History of Sexuality
Out and about with GLF in London, September 1971
‘Behaviour Which Merits a Horrible and Wretched Death’: Sex, Sin and the Black Death in Medieval England