Coming out at work was challenging enough but it was often overlooked in the early gay liberation movement.
Recent Posts
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.
Moral Instruction, Venereal Disease, and Eugenic Manliness during World War I
Sexual health and the preservation of eugenically valuable British servicemen.
Following in Vesta’s footsteps! How to name queerness in museums
Vesta Tilley is a complicated figure in respect of queerness as Museums Sheffield has uncovered.
Reporting Abortions in Post-Conquest New Spain
A sixteenth-century scribe recorded the sexual and reproductive behaviour of indigenous women in colonial Mexico.
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Drag: A British History
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Urning: Queer Identity in the German Nineteenth Century
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Race, Sexuality and Identity in Britain and Jamaica: The Biography of Patrick Nelson, 1916-1963
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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