In the mid-1970s, South African parliamentarians legalized sex reassignment surgery based on understandings of transsexualism from Jan Morris’s Conundrum.
Tag: twentieth century
Making Histories of Bolivian Sexual and Gender Diversity Legible in the Twenty-First Century
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
Surviving records from the FBI’s “Sex Deviates” files are now available online.
The Way Out: Sebastian Buckle on Homosexuality in Modern Britain
Public discourse on homosexuality through the images, ideas, and judgements made about queer lives.
American Child Brides and the Dangers of Underage Sex
Revisiting an earlier generation of reformers exposes that marriage was not a magical cure-all.
Out of the Closet, Into the Archives: Researching Sexual Histories
Can an archive offer “proof” that historians often seek out?
“A Poison to the Race”: Women, Foreigners and VD in Modern Japan
Japanese “AIDS panics” characterized women as the carriers of foreign-born sexual diseases.
