What were the consequences of illegitimacy in the long eighteenth century?
Author Interviews
Adventurer: The Life and Times of Giacomo Casanova
Leo Damrosch Everyone has heard of Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798), but who was the man behind the myth? Drawing on seldom used materials, including the original French and Italian primary sources, and probing deeply into the psychology, self-conceptions, and self-deceptions of one of the world’s most famous con men and seducers, […]
A Secret Between Gentlemen
Rediscovering an early twentieth-century sex scandal.
Between Byzantine Men
What role did same-sex desire play in tenth-century Byzantium?
Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender
What can we learn from historic stories of gender non-conformity?
Information Activism: A Queer History of Lesbian Media Technologies
How do lesbian feminists use information to build movements and worlds?
Female Husbands: A Trans History
Long before people identified as transgender or lesbian, there were female husbands and the women who loved them.