The ‘Intermediate Sex’: A lost chapter in British queer history

Gender and sexuality are different things. At least, they are at the moment. The way we define our sexual selves does not, generally, dictate the way we define our gendered selves — or vice versa — and this is partly a result of the emphasis that early gay liberation campaigns put on the ‘normality’ of homosexuals in their day-to-day presentation (i.e. in line with their assigned…