Publications

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London and the Culture of Homosexuality, 1885 - 1914 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003)
A Gay History of Britain: Love and Sex Between Men since the Middle Ages (Greenwood, March 2007). Book editor and author of the introduction and two chapters on the twentieth century: ‘Queer Conflicts’ and ‘From Gay Reform to Gaydar’

Forthcoming:

Queer Domesticities: homosexuality and home life in twentieth century London; single authored book contracted to Palgrave Macmillan for submission summer 2011

In process:

Queer 1950s (Palgrave, forthcoming 2013) edited collection (co-editor Dr Heike Bauer)
Queer in Europe (Continuum, forthcoming 2013) edited collection (co-editor Dr Jennifer Evans)

‘A New City of Friends: London and Homosexuality in the 1890s’, in History Workshop Journal, 56 (autumn 2003), pp.35 – 58
‘Orton in the Archives’, in History Workshop Journal, 66 (Autumn 2008), pp. 163 – 179

‘Families of Choice? George Ives, Queer Lives and the Family’, in Gender and History, 22 (April 2010), pp.1 – 21
‘Gay Times’: Identity, Locality, Memory, and the Brixton Squats in 1970's London’, in Twentieth Century British History (forthcoming, 2012)
‘Domestic Passions: Unpacking the Homes of Charles Ricketts and Charles Shannon’, Journal of British Studies (forthcoming, 2012)

‘“Words Written Without any Stopping”: Derek Jarman’s Written Work’, in Roger Wollen, ed., Derek Jarman: A Portrait, (Thames and Hudson, 1996), pp.105 - 113
‘Sex Lives and Diary Writing: the Journals of George Ives’, in David Amigoni, ed., Life Writing and Victorian Culture (Ashgate, 2006), pp. 195 - 215
‘Law’, in H.G.Cocks and Matt Houlbrook, eds, The Modern History of Sexuality (Palgrave, 2006), pp.64 – 87
‘Wilde Lives: Derek Jarman and the Queer Eighties’, in Joseph Bristow, ed., Oscar Wilde and Modern Culture: The Making of a Legend (Ohio University Press, 2008)
‘Homes fit for homos: Joe Orton and the Domesticated Queer’ for What is Masculinity? Historical Perspectives and Arguments, eds Sean Brady and John Arnold (Palgave Macmillan, 2010)

‘Queer Domesticities’ in Chiara Briganti and Kathy Mezei, eds, The Domestic Space Reader, (Tornonto University Press, 2010)
‘Squatting in History: queer pasts and the cultural turn’, in Sasha Roseneil and Stephen Frosh, eds, Social Research After the Cultural Turn (Palgrave, 2012)

Forthcoming:

‘Oscar Wilde’s London’, in Peter Raby and Kerry Powell, Oscar Wilde in Context (2013)

‘No Clear Roadmap to a Man to Follow’, in Times Higher Education Supplement (29 June 2006)
‘Urban Desires’ (5,000 word review essay) History Workshop Journal , 62 (Autumn 2006), pp.292 – 300
‘Histories of Masculinity’ (5,000 word review essay) The Journal of Contemporary History (Jan 2008; vol. 43) pp. 127 - 135.)
‘Morris Kaplan’s Sodom on the Thames’ in Victorian Review, 34, 1 (2008 )

‘From the Ancient Greeks to Mother Clap our Lives and Loves Have Changed’, Pink Paper, issue 893 (9 February 2006)
‘George Ives’, in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2006)
‘We’re here, we’re queer – our human rights are clear’, in THES (4 May 2007)