How to Write the History of Pederasty in the Age of Groomers

By Rachel Hope Cleves May 10, 2022 Childhood and Youth 0 comments

Rachel Hope Cleves closes out the symposium on her book Unspeakable: A Life Beyond Sexual Morality.

The Fires of Lust: Sex in the Middle Ages

By Katherine Harvey February 24, 2022 Medieval 0 comments

By exploring their sex lives, The Fires of Lust brings ordinary medieval people to life.

An Escape from Nazi Vienna: Heinrich Schrefel and Queer Holocaust history

By Anna Hajkova January 27, 2022 LGBTQ 1 comment

Heinrich Schrefels life offers a queer counterpoint to the majority of Holocaust and Austrian Jewish histories.

Introducing Queer Pasts: A New Digital History Platform

By Marc Stein December 17, 2021 LGBTQ, Public History 0 comments

Queer Pasts is a new digital history platform that will present topical exhibits featuring historical essays and primary sources.

David Levison and the Heterosexual Revolution in Scotland

By Charlie Lynch November 23, 2021 Religion and Sexuality, United Kingdom 0 comments

In a diatribe delivered to the Church of Scotland’s General Assembly in 1974, Leon David Levision preached that sex without love was ‘mutual exploitation and despoliation.’

‘Longer than a big man’s thigh’: The Perfect Penis in Medieval Europe

By Katherine Harvey October 26, 2021 Medieval 1 comment

What did medieval people think about penises?

“Like Man and Wife:” A Same-sex Relationship Aboard the USS Pinola

By Brendan Hamilton October 12, 2021 LGBTQ 0 comments

Same-sex intimacy aboard a US Navy gunboat during the American Civil War.