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.
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Wolfenden’s Women: Prostitution in Post-war Britain
How was prostitution presented in the Wolfenden Report?
Freaking in Interwar Britain
Even under the gaze of social conservatism, ‘gay’ life was hiding in plain sight.
David Levison and the Heterosexual Revolution in Scotland
In a diatribe delivered to the Church of Scotland’s General Assembly in 1974, Leon David Levision preached that sex without love was ‘mutual exploitation and despoliation.’
United Queerdom: From the Legends of the Gay Liberation Front to the Queers of Tomorrow
United Queerdom is a toolkit of case studies, strategies, philosophies, methodologies and tactics for LGBTQIA+ liberation in the spirit of the original aims of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF).
Lovers in Leicester: A Twentieth-Century Gay Couple
Jo Somerset reads between the lines to decipher a gay couple’s secret life in Leicester during the twentieth century.
Lesbianism and the Criminal Law: Three Centuries of Legal Regulation in England and Wales
A socio-legal history of lesbianism and the criminal law from the eighteenth century to the present.
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Pubic Politics in Homosexual Action Groups in 1970s West Germany
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The ‘Chosen Family’ Dinner: A non-normative insight into queer homemaking