Tag: twentieth century

A Second Valentine’s Day: Japan’s ‘White Day’

By Michael Facius March 13, 2014 Asian Sexualities 2 comments

On Valentine’s Day, women give presents to men, while on White Day, men return the favor.

Individual Freedom as Misappropriation: Race, Sexuality and the Use of Civil Rights History

By Adam Shapiro March 10, 2014 LGBTQ, Post-1945 United States 7 comments

Adam Shapiro T.J. Tallie’s post on this blog last week does an excellent job describing the problems with historical appropriation – especially of the ongoing struggles for African-American civil rights in the United States. He rightly points out that the phrase “Gay Jim Crow” implies an equivalence between America’s long […]

‘Dinnae Meddle!’*: Scotland and the Historiography of Homosexual Law Reform

By Jeff Meek February 19, 2014 LGBTQ, United Kingdom 0 comments

Jeff Meek A curious, or perhaps irksome, aspect of ‘British’ approaches to the history of sexuality is that they tend to neglect the variation of experience within the United Kingdom. I’ve lost count the number of times I’ve read, or watched, or marked, pieces offering a summary of developments for […]

Valentine’s as Prostitution, Marriage as a Trade: Commerce, Sex, History (and a recipe)

By Julia Laite February 14, 2014 Sexual Labour 2 comments

Julia Laite The only thing that I like about Valentine’s Day is the fact that it comes along with my family’s tradition of making a chocolate torte that is basically nothing but butter, eggs, ground almonds, and sugar, which I eat for breakfast.[1] Growing up in Canada, Valentine’s was a […]

Glad To Be Gay in Scarborough (1980)

By Bob Cant February 12, 2014 LGBTQ, United Kingdom 1 comment

Bob Cant Collaboration between the procedurally correct trade union movement and the playful street theatre of the gay liberation movement was never going to be easy. My own trade union, National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education (NATFHE) provides a case study of events typical of trade unions […]

"Call me Kuchu": history, homophobia and the burden of the past

By Onni Gust February 7, 2014 African Sexualities, LGBTQ 5 comments

Sunday 26th January 2014 marked three years since the murder of David Kato.

A Bit of Casual Sex Up North: And What it Could Mean to the History of Sexuality

By Helen Smith February 5, 2014 LGBTQ, United Kingdom 9 comments

Helen Smith In 2009 when I made the decision to come back to academia and start a PhD, I had it all planned out how it would go. I was freshly inspired by my umpteenth re-read of the brilliant Queer London and was determined to try and do something similar […]