Sex, Time and Place extensively widens the scope of what we might mean by 'queer London studies'. Incorporating multidisciplinary perspectives - including social history, cultural geography, visual culture, literary representation, ethnography and social studies - this collection asks new questions, widens debates and opens new subject terrain. Featuring essays from an international range of established scholars and emergent voices, the collection is a timely contribution to this growing field. Its essays cover topics such as activist and radical communities and groups, AIDS and the city, art and literature, digital archives and technology, drag and performativity, lesbian Londons, notions of bohemianism and deviancy, sex reform and research and queer Black history. Going further than the existing literature on Queer London which focuses principally on the experiences of white gay men in a limited time frame, Sex, Time and Place reflects the current state of this growing and important field of study. It will be of great value to scholars, students and general readers who have an interest in queer history, London studies, cultural geography, visual cultures and literary criticism.

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsList of ContributorsSection 1: Framing Queer London1. Structuring and Interpreting Queer Spaces of LondonSimon Avery (University of Westminster, UK)2. Queer Temporalities, Queer LondonsKatherine M. Graham (University of Westminster, UK)3. Mapping This VolumeSimon Avery (University of Westminster, UK) and Katherine M. Graham (University of Westminster, UK)Section 2: Exploring Queer London4. London, AIDS and the 1980sMatt Cook (Birkbeck, University of London, UK)5. Bigot Geography: Queering Geopolitics in BrixtonEmma Spruce (London School of Economics, UK)6. Representations of Queer London in the Fiction of Sarah WatersPaulina Palmer (Warwick University, UK)7. Are Drag Kings Still Too Queer for London? From the Nineteenth-Century Impersonator to the Drag King of TodayKayte Stokoe (Warwick University, UK)8. Claude McKay: Queering Spaces of Black Radicalism in Interwar LondonGemma Romain (University College London, UK) and Caroline Bressey (University College London, UK)9. The British Society of the Study of Sex Psychology: 'Advocating the Cultural of Unnatural and Criminal Practices'?Leslie A. Hall (University College London, UK)10. Cannibal London: Racial Discourses, Pornography and Male-Male Desire in Late-Victorian BritainSilvia Antosa (University of Enna "Kore", Italy)11. 'Famous for the paint she put on her face': London's Painted Poofs and the Self-Fashioning of Francis BaconDominic Janes (Keele University, UK)12. Mingling with the Ungodly: Simeon Solomon in Queer Victorian LondonCarolyn Conroy (Indepent Scholar, UK)13. Alan Hollinghurst's Fictional Ways of Queering LondonBart Eeckhout (University of Antwerp, Belgium)14. Sink Street: The Sapphic World of Pre-Chinatown SohoAnne Witchard (University of Westminster, UK)15. Chasing Community: From Old Compton Street to the Online World of GrindrMarco Venturi (University College London, UK)16. Being 'There': Contemporary London, Facebook and Queer Historical FeelingSam McBean (Queen Mary University of London, UK)BibliographyIndex