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Seamen and Sex in Salem: The Puritans and Queer Desire

Thursday, November 5, 2026 at 12:15 PM to 1:30 PM

Where

MassArt, DMC, D110
621 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115 (Fenway)

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Lecture

While we don’t often associate queer desire with the uptight Puritans who colonized Massachusetts in the 17th century, one doesn’t need to search far and wide to find examples of same-sex intimacy in colonial New England. What can these stories tell us about the social construction of desire, sex, a

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