Welcome to the class blog and information pages for Purdue University’s Study Abroad course, “Sex, History, and the Cities.”

Thirteen undergraduate students, led by Professor Yvonne Pitts and Lowell Kane, Director of the LGBTQ Center, will explore gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender history and culture from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries in New York City, Berlin, Germany, and Paris, France. These cities have a rich history of vibrant sexual subcultures and simultaneously have been the sites of some of the most violent repressions of LGBTQ people.

Our course integrates service learning and social justice work. Keep coming back to see where our adventures take us!