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DOCUMENT Citation Only Jade W. Luiz.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Deviations: Archaeologies of Sexuality Beyond the Heteronormative", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Sex work occupied a liminal space in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century heteronormative American culture. Sex workers were often perceived as outsiders within the “polite” society of their own communities. In the mining town of Central City, Colorado, there is historical evidence that further restrictions...