“Homosexual Hearers” and Queer Musicality in Xavier Mayne’s The Intersexes (1909)

By Kristin Franseen LGBTQ 0 comments

In The Intersexes (ca 1909), Edward Prime-Stevenson used gossip to support his queer readings of 19th-century symphonic music.

Adventurer: The Life and Times of Giacomo Casanova

By Leo Damrosch Author Interviews 0 comments

Everyone has heard of Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798), but who was the man behind the myth?

How to Write the History of Pederasty in the Age of Groomers

By Rachel Hope Cleves Childhood and Youth 0 comments

Rachel Hope Cleves closes out the symposium on her book Unspeakable: A Life Beyond Sexual Morality.

An Interview with Historian Rictor Norton

By Stephen Brogan Author Interviews, Early Modern, LGBTQ 2 comments

NOTCHES caught up with historian Rictor Norton to discuss his views on interpreting historical homosexuality and the future of LGBTQ studies.

Age Difference and Queer Feminism: Bryher, H.D. and Norman Douglas

By Jana Funke Childhood and Youth 0 comments

Jana Funke shows us how Rachel Hope Cleves’ Unspeakable: A Life Beyond Sexual Morality offers a framework for understanding the erotics of age in queer and trans relationships.

Radical Relationships: The Civil War-Era Correspondence of Mathilde Franziska Anneke

By Alison Efford Author Interviews, Early America, LGBTQ 0 comments

The lives, letters, and “romantic friendship” shared between two women during the nineteenth century.

Gothic Architecture and Sexuality in the Circle of Horace Walpole

By Matthew Reeve Author Interviews, LGBTQ, United Kingdom 0 comments

Aesthetic preferences of Horace Walpole’s coterie cannot be understood independently from their own sexual preferences.