ALT Front cover from the Third Sex reading group reading pack, featuring an image of Vesta Tilley. Orange text on a decorate pink background. Text reads: Third Sex Reading Group Recovering QUEER Victorians "[The] Victorian period is a key moment in the history of sexuality; the era in which the modern terminologies we use to structure the ways we think and talk about sexuality were invented." Holly Furneaux, Victorian Sexualities', Literature Compass 8/10 (2011): 767-775 p. 769 “The nineteenth-century homosexual became a personage, a past, a case history, and a childhood, in addition to being a type of life, a life form, and a morphology, with an indiscreet anatomy and possibly a mysterious physiology. [… ] The sodomite had been a temporary aberration; the homosexual was now a species." Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality: Volume 1: An Introduction, New York: Pantheon Books, 1978, p. 43