The Chatterley trial hinged on the disavowing or defending of ‘deviant’ sexual acts within the novel, making it a distinctly queer case.
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‘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.
Lesbian Networks of (Cat) Care During the Sex Wars
On Thursday afternoon, August 12, 1982, Amber Hollibaugh called Dorothy Allison to finalize cat-sitting arrangements for Alice B. Toklas, the cat.
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.
Toward an Anti-racist History of Sexuality
NOTCHES’ commitment in working toward an anti-racist history of sexuality.
Out and about with GLF in London, September 1971
There’s a real buzz about GLF and I want to be part of it.
‘Behaviour Which Merits a Horrible and Wretched Death’: Sex, Sin and the Black Death in Medieval England
Medieval people feared that the Black Death was a punishment for sin, and hoped that abstaining from sex could save them.
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Illegitimacy in Medieval Scotland, 1100-1500
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The Correspondence of Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, 1846-1894
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Sexual Politics and Feminist Science: Women Sexologists in Germany, 1900-1933
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The People’s Porn: A History of Handmade Pornography in America
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Lesbianism and the Criminal Law: Three Centuries of Legal Regulation in England and Wales