Conor O’Dwyer describes the rapidly evolving politics of LGBT activism in postcommunist Europe.
Modern Europe
Public City/Public Sex: Homosexuality, Prostitution, and Urban Culture Nineteenth-Century Paris
Women who sold sex and men who sought sex with other men shaped the emergence of modern Paris.
Sisterhood and Unity: Lesbian Activism in the (Post-)Yugoslav Space
Sisterhood and Unity explores the history and politics of lesbian activism in the (post-)Yugoslav space.
Alternative Histories of the Self: a Cultural History of Sexualities and Secrets
Five unique historical figures who developed a sense of self that reconciled their sexual nonconformity with their ethical standards.
Controlling Sex in Captivity
The book is the first critical study of heterosexual and same-sex activities involving Axis prisoners of war in the United States during World War II.
Joke Swiebel: A Lifetime of Dutch Gay Activism
Joke Swiebel looked back on the last fifty years since the January 1969 Dutch demonstration that started the modern-day gay rights movement.
Queer History and the Holocaust
Queer experiences of the Holocaust have been marginalised, ignored and denied.
Recent Posts
Working Out: Reflections of gay trade union activism in the 1970s UK
Men of Superior IQ: Connecting Homosexuality to Intelligence in Cold War-Era Canada
Toward an Anti-racist History of Sexuality
Out and about with GLF in London, September 1971
‘Behaviour Which Merits a Horrible and Wretched Death’: Sex, Sin and the Black Death in Medieval England