Stories
- Article
Can our sexual desires be transformed?
In the 1950s, many psychiatrists thought that homosexuality could be reformed. One found that it couldn’t – and his discoveries led to a change in the law.
- Article
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.
- Article
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.
- Article
Getting around the rules of sex education
What should we and shouldn’t we teach our teens about sex, inside and outside of the classroom?
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Sexual Deviation General. Male homosexuality
Date: 1987-1994Reference: PP/ROS/E/1/12Part of: The Archive of Ismond Rosen (1924-1996)- Pictures
Male model posing nude on rock.
Date: [between 1970 and 1990?]Reference: 3289240iPart of: The James Gardiner Collection.- Ephemera
Lance Publications Ltd : London's hard core male mail order company / Lance Publications Ltd.
Date: 1992- Ephemera
Sohoboyz : working with male and transgender sex workers to promote their sexual health, rights and positive choices / Sohoboyz.
Date: [2009?]- Ephemera
Sohoboyz survey : if you are male or transgender, within the last year: have you sold sex? ... / Sohoboyz ; Terrence Higgins Trust.
Date: 2009