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
Queer History and the Holocaust
Queer experiences of the Holocaust have been marginalised, ignored and denied.
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.
A Red Hot Cold War
The 1990 Soviet edition of Playboy reveals the persistent tension between the United States and the Soviet Union.
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.
Recent Posts
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
Moral Instruction, Venereal Disease, and Eugenic Manliness during World War I
Following in Vesta’s footsteps! How to name queerness in museums
Reporting Abortions in Post-Conquest New Spain