Drawing on a rich array of source materials including previously unseen oral histories, ‘Curing queers’ examines the plight of men who were institutionalised in British mental hospitals to receive ‘treatment’ for homosexuality and transvestism, and the perceptions and actions of the men and women who nursed them. It makes a significant and substantial contribution to the history of sexuality and the history of nursing, bringing together two sub-disciplines that combine only infrequently.