This study supplements the idea of the inscription of sodomitical acts into a homosexual label at the end of the nineteenth century by teasing out the ways in which men who desired sex with men in Britain had expressed such interests through parody, clothing, and deportment since the mid-eighteenth century.

Included in The Complete Works of Pat Parker are Parker’s masterwork, Movement in Black, as well as Jonestown & other madness. Parker’s prose writing is collected in The Complete Works along with two unpublished plays and a number of previously uncollected poems.

Lavender and Red recounts the history of queer radicals who saw sexual liberation as intertwined with solidarity against imperialism, racism, and war. Hobson examines the gay and lesbian left in the San Francisco Bay Area from the height of the 1960s through the depths of the AIDS epidemic and end of the Cold War.