British queer history : new approaches and perspectives / edited by Brian Lewis.

Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press : distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

xi, 306 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

"Many of the essays in this collection are extended versions of papers presented at a conference on 'British Queer History' hosted ... at McGill University in October 2010"--Acknowledgements.

Politics and the reporting of sex between men in the 1820s / Charles Upchurch -- Naturalism, labour and homoerotic desire : Henry Scott Tuke / Jongwoo Jeremy Kim -- Bricks and flowes : unconventionality and queerness in Katherine Everett's life writing / Mo Moulton -- "A peculiarly obscure subject" : the missing "case" of the heterosexual / Laura Doan -- "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 Linkof -- Thinking queer : the social and the sexual in interwar Britain / Matt Houlbrook -- "I conformed; I got married. It seemed like a good idea at the time" : domesticity in postwar lesbian oral history / Amy Tooth Murphy -- The homosexual as a social being in Britain, 1945-1968 / Chris Waters -- Mr Grey goes to Washington : the homophile internationalism of Britain's Homosexual Law Reform Society / David Minto -- Films and filming : the making of a queer marketplace in pre-decriminalisation Britain / Justin Bengry -- The cultural politics of gay pornography in 1970s Britain / Paul R. Deslandes.

Includes bibliographical references and index.