Aesthetic preferences of Horace Walpole’s coterie cannot be understood independently from their own sexual preferences.
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The Glamour Boys: The Secret Story of the Rebels who Fought for Britain to Defeat Hitler
NOTCHES sits down with Chris Bryant as he discusses his new book The Glamour Boys with Richard Grayson.
Lady Chatterley’s Lover: A Queer Case
The Chatterley trial hinged on the disavowing or defending of ‘deviant’ sexual acts within the novel, making it a distinctly queer case.
‘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.
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