LGBT Victorians: sexuality and gender in the nineteenth-century archives LGBT Victorians: sexuality and gender in the nineteenth-century archives , by Simon Joyce, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2022, xi + 284 pp., £75.00 (hardback), ISBN-13: 978-0-192-858399

Abstract

and duties of domestic citizenship will certainly continue to form a focus of LGBTQ organising in the years to come, not merely around privacy law and same-sex marriage but also, Vider urges, in terms of housing justice that secures supportive homes for youth, low-income, precariously housed and elderly. The Queerness of Home concludes that today’s movements should neither embrace narrow normative frameworks of domestic citizenship rooted in monogamous married couples nor reject the domestic as a sphere of political engagement, but should instead ‘continue to question and expand its limits’ (227). This is a more subtle than polemical call to action, perhaps, but one with a degree of nuance that does justice to the textured social history of queer intimate life that this book lovingly depicts.