The Institute of Sexology at the Wellcome Trust is the first major exhibition in the UK dedicated to the history of sexology.
Tag: cultural history
Queer Domesticities: Matt Cook on Home Life, Family and Community in London
Matt Cook explores queer men’s experiences of home and homemaking in the metropolis.
Heterosexuality and Americanization: "Social Education" for Immigrant Youth in the 1920s
An “American Style” marriage, reformers believed, was one solution to the problem of unassimilated immigrants.
Uncovering Cleveland Street: Sexuality, Surveillance and late-Victorian Scandal
Cleveland Street is an acknowledged milestone of London’s sexual past.
Before Grindr, or, The Dangers of the "Gay Bachelor"
When the UK government proposed the criminalization of queer personal ads.
Jack the Ripper: Case Never Closed
Why does Jack the Ripper generate so much popular interest?
Sexual Pleasure, AIDS, and Gay Politics
In the early days of the AIDS epidemic gay men struggled to reconcile 1970s sexual openness with the growing danger of a deadly disease.