This past spring and summer, I embarked on a container gardening journey. My crops of choice were peppers of all sorts: poblano, habanero, scotch bonnets, and, perhaps most interestingly, fish peppers.

In 1897, Havelock Ellis and John Addington Symonds published Sexual Inversion, among the first scientific books written about LGBTQ+ individuals. Within it, LGBTQ+ experiences were explored through case studies. These were presented as natural expressions of the human..