How ideas of deviant female sexuality became foundational to modern social thought in colonial India.
Sexual Labour
Public City/Public Sex: Homosexuality, Prostitution, and Urban Culture Nineteenth-Century Paris
Women who sold sex and men who sought sex with other men shaped the emergence of modern Paris.
Queer History and the Holocaust
Queer experiences of the Holocaust have been marginalised, ignored and denied.
Sex on the Home Front: Venereal Disease and the Topography of Heterosexuality
On July 26, 1942, a solider in the U.S. military found out that he had recently contracted a venereal disease.
“When Sex Threatened the State”: An Interview with Saheed Aderinto
Aderinto argues that the British perceived prostitution as evidence of African “primitiveness.”
Uncovering Cleveland Street: Sexuality, Surveillance and late-Victorian Scandal
Cleveland Street is an acknowledged milestone of London’s sexual past.
Drunk Canadians in London, November 1916
The sexual history of war lies at the very heart of the history of war itself.
Recent Posts
Working Out: Reflections of gay trade union activism in the 1970s UK
Men of Superior IQ: Connecting Homosexuality to Intelligence in Cold War-Era Canada
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