A revealing new biography sheds light on X-rated star Marilyn Chambers’ extraordinary career and explores her status as an unsung gay icon.
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Filth, Flamboyance and Fun in Gay Slang Polari
Polari is the language of survival—a play on words, a political act.
Screening Gay Characters with Disabilities
Two contemporary films challenge traditional combinations of disability and sexuality in cinema.
Porno Chic and the Sex Wars: A Roundtable on the Politics of Sexual Representations in the 1970s – Part 2
What can pornography’s history tell us about its basic appeal?
CFP: Histories of “Smut,” “Porn” and “Obscenity”
How do we historicize the production, consumption and circulation of sexual images and texts?
Digital Witnesses: The Parker-Hulme Murder Case and the Teaching of Crime and Sexual Deviance
The Parker-Hulme murder gripped the town of Christchurch, New Zealand in the summer of 1954.
