British queer history

Brian Lewis is Professor of History at McGill University, Montreal

• Introduction: British queer history – Brian Lewis1. Politics and the reporting of sex between men in the 1820s – Charles Upchurch2. Naturalism, labour and homoerotic desire: Henry Scott Tuke – Jongwoo Jeremy Kim3. Bricks and Flowers: Unconventionality and queerness in Katherine Everett’s life writing – Mo Moulton4. ‘A peculiarly obscure subject’: The missing ‘case’ of the heterosexual – Laura Doan 5. ‘These young men who come down from Oxford and write gossip’: Society gossip, homosexuality and the logic of revelation in the interwar popular press – Ryan Linkof6. Thinking queer: The social and the sexual in interwar Britain – Matt Houlbrook7. ‘I conformed; I got married. It seemed like a good idea at the time’: Domesticity in post-war lesbian oral history – Amy Tooth Murphy8. Mr Grey goes to Washington: The homophile internationalism of Britain’s Homosexual Law Reform Society – David Minto9. The homosexual as a social being in Britain, 1945–68 – Chris Waters10. Films and filming: the making of a queer marketplace in pre-decriminalisation Britain – Justin Bengry11. The cultural politics of gay pornography in 1970s Britain – Paul R. DeslandesIndex

'The historians are coming and they’re bringing the New Queer History. The essays collected in British queer history present original perspectives and fascinating new data on the social, sexual and gendered past. Recommended!'Jonathan Ned Katz, author of The Invention of Heterosexuality and founder of OutHistory.org