The Wellcome Collection’s ‘Institute of Sexology’ was the first major event of its kind in the UK.
Archives of Desire
Archives of Desire: Analog Sexting
My grandparents helped pave the way for virtual trysts.
Archives of Desire: Soft-Core Pornography and Activism in the 1960s
The Los Angeles Advocate captured the essence of an important segment of the LGBTQ culture.
The Rejected: Homophile Activists in the Spotlight
The Rejected was a groundbreaking representation of gays in the American media.
Archives of Desire: James Huneker “Nosophilia: A Nordau Heroine”
Discussions of “deviant” sexuality were visible and vibrant within artistic and literary communities.
Archives of Desire: A Lavender Reading of J. Edgar Hoover
Collier’s made one of the earliest print references to the sexuality of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover.
Archives of Desire: Happiness of Womanhood Newsletter, 1977
Fears of changing sexual mores shaped HOW’s women’s worldview and mobilized their politics.