This book traces the emergence of a vibrant and multi-faceted national gay medical infrastructure during the 1970s.
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Canada’s First Gay Student Activist Group
The University of Toronto might have sacked Jearld Moldenhauer for being out, proud, and vocal, but they were fighting a losing battle.
Searching for Sex Crimes in Rural Nebraska
Trips to courthouses across Nebraska raised important questions about how to conduct research on sexual violence in rural spaces.
Queer Fascism and the End of Gay History
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
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
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
In Bolivia, political allegiances and competing priorities have shaped movements for equality for LGBTI Bolivians, and thus, their histories.
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