Your LGBT history is now being deleted on eBay

eBay’s new rules threaten the circulation of archival materials like Drummer, a magazine that covered gay leather culture. (Photo: Via The New Yorker)

One day almost twenty years ago, the historian Vi Johnson won an eBay auction for a numbered first edition of “Sex Life in England Illustrated,” by Iwan Bloch, an early sexologist. (Among Bloch’s bona fides: he located and published the…