Uncovering the playful occupations listed for sex workers in the 1870 census.
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“Beyond the Law”: The Politics Ending the Death Penalty for Sodomy in Britain
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.
Outrageous! The Story of Section 28 and Britain’s Battle for LGBT Education
Are there parallels between the homophobic 1980s and the present day?
How to Write the History of Pederasty in the Age of Groomers
Rachel Hope Cleves closes out the symposium on her book Unspeakable: A Life Beyond Sexual Morality.
Age Difference and Queer Feminism: Bryher, H.D. and Norman Douglas
Jana Funke shows us how Rachel Hope Cleves’ Unspeakable: A Life Beyond Sexual Morality offers a framework for understanding the erotics of age in queer and trans relationships.
The Fires of Lust: Sex in the Middle Ages
By exploring their sex lives, The Fires of Lust brings ordinary medieval people to life.
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The Bars Are Ours: Histories and Cultures of Gay Bars in America, 1960 and After
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In a Rapture of Distress: Women’s Sexuality and Modern India
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Family Matters: Queer Households and the Half-Century Struggle for Legal Recognition
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Slapping Leather: Queer Cowfolx at the Gay Rodeo
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A Queer New York: Geographies of Lesbians, Dykes, and Queers