Early modern travellers found Sweden’s saunas both exotic and erotic, but local attitudes were more complicated.
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Canada’s First Gay Student Activist Group
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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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