The Chatterley trial hinged on the disavowing or defending of ‘deviant’ sexual acts within the novel, making it a distinctly queer case.
United Kingdom
‘An Equality of Injustice’: The Sex Buyers’ Bill and Lessons from History
Sex workers living under these regimes have to keep selling sex in a climate made significantly more hostile by further criminalization.
Protective Practices: A History of the London Rubber Company and the Condom Business
The story of the historic London Rubber Company and Durex condom business, with a foreword by Lesley A. Hall.
Working Out: Reflections of gay trade union activism in the 1970s UK
Coming out at work was challenging enough but it was often overlooked in the early gay liberation movement.
Out and about with GLF in London, September 1971
There’s a real buzz about GLF and I want to be part of it.
Moral Instruction, Venereal Disease, and Eugenic Manliness during World War I
Sexual health and the preservation of eugenically valuable British servicemen.
Dardanella and Peter: What does Microhistory offer to the History of Sexuality?
How is modern microhistory useful for understanding early twentieth-century sexual modernism in Britain?
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Queer as Cop: Gay Patrol Units and the White Fantasy of Safety
Campaigning for Lesbian and Gay Rights in Ireland, 1981-1993