Breaking news! This is the (draft) cover of my new book. It will be 'out' early next year, with the amazing publisher, Reaktion Books....

(This is a version of a talk I gave at the Recovery Histories Network , led by Dr Ruth Beecher, at Birkbeck , University of London, in May 2025. Please note, this blog includes profanity.)     This is a difficult topic to think about, let alone discuss. In this blog, I explore debates about intergenerational sex between older and younger males from the 1970s onwards, with a focus on the largest U.S. organization supporting such sexual activity, NAMBLA or the North American Ma

(This is the spoken version of the Alan Graham Memorial Lecture, that I gave at the conference ‘We The People’, Irish Association for American Studies, Trinity College Dublin, 25 April 2025. It is not the ‘final’ version, since I will continue to work on it, but gives a taste of my ideas.)     ‘We the People’. The preamble to the Constitution of the United States (1789) declares that ‘We the People of the United States… do ordain and establish this Constitution’. In the Frenc

Why aren’t gay, lesbian, trans, and queer people full citizens in law? This question enraged gay activists in 1990s Britain. The HIV/AIDS...

Between 25 and 40 million people worldwide have died as a result of opportunistic infections arising from AIDS or Acquired...