Queer Domesticities: Matt Cook on Home Life, Family and Community in London

By Justin Bengry Author Interviews, LGBTQ, United Kingdom 0 comments

Matt Cook explores queer men’s experiences of home and homemaking in the metropolis.

Jeffrey Weeks reflects on "Sexual Politics in the Era of Reagan and Thatcher"

By Jeffrey Weeks LGBTQ, United Kingdom 0 comments

I can’t help thinking about the importance of having an open, exploratory, but consistent political and intellectual project.

Sexual Politics in the Era of Reagan and Thatcher: Marc Stein in Conversation with Jeffrey Weeks

By Marc Stein LGBTQ, United Kingdom 0 comments

In May 1988, when Marc Stein was working as the coordinating editor of Gay Community News in Boston, Massachusetts, he interviewed Jeffrey Weeks, the influential British sociologist and historian.

Lines of Dissent at London Metropolitan Archives: Finding and Creating LGBTQ Histories

By Claire Hayward LGBTQ, United Kingdom Comments are Disabled

The 12th LGBTQ History and Archives Conference at LMA chose queer inheritance as its theme.

Challenging Heterosexism: The Haringey Experiment, 1986-1987

By Bob Cant LGBTQ, United Kingdom 4 comments

Who is going to take responsibility for researching the sexual politics of Haringey in the 1980s?

Uncovering Cleveland Street: Sexuality, Surveillance and late-Victorian Scandal

By Katie Hindmarch-Watson LGBTQ, Sexual Labour, United Kingdom 0 comments

Cleveland Street is an acknowledged milestone of London’s sexual past.

Clitoridectomies: Female Genital Mutilation c.1860-2014

By Agnes Arnold-Forster Medicine and the Body, United Kingdom 9 comments

Doctors in Britain removed the clitoris on women explicitly to eradicate elements of female libido.