Queer Fascism and the End of Gay History

By Laurie Marhoefer June 19, 2018 LGBTQ 0 comments

Now that the Right is in power in the United States, people are remembering the first openly gay politician, that is, the top Nazi Ernst Röhm.

Tongzhi: “Queer” Identity Politics in Hong Kong Before and After the Handover

By GVGK Tang May 29, 2018 Asian Sexualities, LGBTQ 0 comments

Six months before the end of British rule, Chinese ‘tongzhi’ gathered in Hong Kong, renounced Western LGBT politics, and instead reclaimed an indigenous “queer” identity.

The Colonial Conundrum of Transsexuality in South Africa

By B Camminga November 7, 2017 Trans 0 comments

In the mid-1970s, South African parliamentarians legalized sex reassignment surgery based on understandings of transsexualism from Jan Morris’s Conundrum.

Making Histories of Bolivian Sexual and Gender Diversity Legible in the Twenty-First Century

By Nell Haynes September 19, 2017 Latin American Sexualities 0 comments

In Bolivia, political allegiances and competing priorities have shaped movements for equality for LGBTI Bolivians, and thus, their histories.

Source Alert: The FBI’s “Sex Deviates” Files

By Rachel Hope Cleves April 17, 2017 20th Century United States 0 comments

Surviving records from the FBI’s “Sex Deviates” files are now available online.

The Way Out: Sebastian Buckle on Homosexuality in Modern Britain

By Sebastian Buckle November 24, 2016 Author Interviews 0 comments

Public discourse on homosexuality through the images, ideas, and judgements made about queer lives.

American Child Brides and the Dangers of Underage Sex

By Nicholas Syrett October 25, 2016 Childhood and Youth 1 comment

Revisiting an earlier generation of reformers exposes that marriage was not a magical cure-all.