Stories
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The indelible harm caused by conversion therapy
With first-hand evidence from two powerful testimonies, neurologist Jules Montague explores the destructive history of conversion therapy, a punitive treatment designed to ‘cure’ people of homosexuality.
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The shocking ‘treatment’ to make lesbians straight
Being a lesbian has never been a crime in the UK, but 50 years ago, some psychologists experimented with treatments to try to ‘cure’ women of their orientation. Find out what this involved.
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Sex in graphic novels
Sex and sexuality have long been explored in the history of the graphic novel.
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It’s getting mighty crowded
Mid-20th-century population-density research on mice produced a whiskered apocalypse, predicted to become the fate of humans too. But perhaps a more compassionate approach could fend this off.
Catalogue
- Books
A queer little history of art / Alex Pilcher.
Pilcher, AlexDate: 2017- Books
Practicing desire : homosexual sex in the era of AIDS / Gary W. Dowsett.
Dowsett, G. W. (Gary W.)Date: 1996- Archives and manuscripts
'Would You Mind?' installation in The Institute of Sexology exhibition, Wellcome Collection
Bartlett, Neil, 1958-Date: 2015Reference: WT/NVB- Books
Gender and the long postwar : the United States and the two Germanys, 1945-1989 / edited by Karen Hagemann, Sonya Michel.
Date: [2014]- Books
Female masculinity / Judith Halberstam.
Halberstam, Jack, 1961-Date: 1998