Seth Stein LeJacq

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Seth Stein LeJacq is a historian of medicine, gender, and sexuality. He also specializes in naval history in the age of sail. He holds a PhD from the Johns Hopkins University and is a Lecturing Fellow at Duke University. He is completing a book on the British Royal Navy’s war on sex between males.

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“o what happiness it wood be for me to see you once more”: A Mother’s Letter, a Royal Navy Sodomy Hanging, and the Tragic in Queer History

By Seth Stein LeJacq • June 23, 2022

Content warning: Sexual violence and rape; sexual abuse of minors; state violence against queer people. Late in 1800, Britain’s Royal Navy hanged two sailors for having sex together. Just days before the new year, readers of the Hampshire Chronicle learned that “Monday morning John Hubbard and George Hynes, two seamen belonging to the St. George,… Read more →