The often-repeated, shady story of how Marc Vaultier turned away people from Taboo’s door turns out to be apocryphal.
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The Two Faces of Taboo
Marc Vaultier was the gender-bender doorman who played a central role in the success of Leigh Bowery’s infamous nightclub Taboo
Contextualising Taboo: Leigh Bowery and the Media
Leigh Bowery’s nightclub Taboo is mythologised as London’s most decadent nightclub of the 1980s.
“Beyond the Law”: The Politics Ending the Death Penalty for Sodomy in Britain
Beyond the Law focuses on the multiple ways various groups of individuals in the early nineteenth century understood what sodomy was, and what constituted an ethical response to it.
Illegitimacy, Family and Stigma in England, 1660-1834
What were the consequences of illegitimacy in the long eighteenth century?
A Secret Between Gentlemen
Rediscovering an early twentieth-century sex scandal.
Wolfenden’s Women: Prostitution in Post-war Britain
How was prostitution presented in the Wolfenden Report?
