Although best known as a 1980s tabloid slur, the term ‘gender bender’ refers to a thriving androgynous youth tribe devoted to alternative music, clothes and nightlife.
Recent Posts
Come to My Cottage: Queer Pleasures and Female Fandom in the Silent Hollywood Era
A century before Heated Rivalry (2025), female moviegoers enjoyed producing queer readings of silent Hollywood stars.
A Love Letter to Bolts Nightclub
Bolts was one of the most vibrant LGBTQ nightclubs in 1980s London, renowned for its Hi-NRG music and its weekly shows that were at the vanguard of gay culture.
Criminally Queer: The Bolton 7
Criminally Queer: The Bolton 7 looks back at one of the most shocking miscarriages of justice in recent British LGBTQ+ history
The Massage Establishments Scandal: Coding and De-coding Sex Work at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
The late-Victorian massage parlour and its promotions became a site of moralistic concern, but could its ambiguous intentions be de-coded?
Two More Weeks: The Brutality Behind Brazil’s Reproductive Politics
Cesarean or sin: the politics of saving the fetus in Brazil.
“Dolled up to the nines to go to a flippin’ public toilet!”: Cruising in Belfast During the Troubles
Does gay public sex help end violent conflict? Perhaps, or at least it makes for a good start.
