Dr. Brian D. Lewis
Dr. Brian D. Lewis, McGill University. Dr. Lewis is an historian of modern Britain whose current SSHRC-funded project is an investigation into (homo)sexuality and criminality in Britain using Ives - a pioneer of "gay rights" - as his focus.
George Cecil Ives (1867-1950) was a scion of the English gentry, a sexologist and a criminologist who founded a clandestine “gay rights” organization, the Order of Chaeronea, in the 1890s. More significantly for the historian, he wrote a massive diary, observing and chronicling a sexual revolution: the period when new categories of sexual and gendered identity crystallized in a complex interplay between emerging sexological science and queer subjects. This paper aims to capture the Ivesian bricolage, in context, during this time of momentous change.
The lecture is sponsored by DRAGEN Lab and the University of Waterloo History Department.
Thursday, May 1, 2025, noon.
DRAGEN Lab, SJ1, St. Jerome's University/University of Waterloo.
George Cecil Ives
