Joke Swiebel looked back on the last fifty years since the January 1969 Dutch demonstration that started the modern-day gay rights movement.
Modern Europe
Screening Swedish Sex in the United States, Language of Love (1969)
Whether Language of Love is pornographic or educational may still be up for debate, but the film was at the forefront of this conversation.
Using Memes to Extinguish Sexism in Poland
The feminist memes by Polish artist, Marta Frej, feature women of all ages engaging in ordinary everyday tasks. But don’t be fooled, the messages included in the memes are powerful and revolutionary.
Was Homosexuality Illegal in Communist Europe?
Despite the strong political, economic and military alliance between Eastern Bloc countries, they did not adopt a uniform position towards homosexuality.
The Baroness: Imagining Madness, Marriage, and Murder in Nineteenth-Century Paris
The Baroness dramatized the relationship of disability to French citizenship and masculinity in the nineteenth century.
Johanna Elberskirchen: Sexual Radical and Woman of Her Time
Elberskirchen sounds to us today like an extraordinary voice. Yet what is striking is that she was rather ordinary.
Italian Sexualities Uncovered
Havelock Ellis explained that it had been Italian sexological works that had first prompted his interest in sexology.
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