Lessons that we can learn from Germany’s early queer movements from the 1890s to 1930s.
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“Would You Let Yourself In?” Reflections on Marc Vaultier’s Mirror
The often-repeated, shady story of how Marc Vaultier turned away people from Taboo’s door turns out to be apocryphal.
The Two Faces of Taboo
Marc Vaultier was the gender-bender doorman who played a central role in the success of Leigh Bowery’s infamous nightclub Taboo
Contextualising Taboo: Leigh Bowery and the Media
Leigh Bowery’s nightclub Taboo is mythologised as London’s most decadent nightclub of the 1980s.
Will the Sissy be Triumphant?
The concept of sissiness, and the way the epithet is employed, is neither static nor universal.
The Italian Invert: A Gay Man’s Intimate Confessions To Emile Zola
A very queer tale, The Italian Invert is one man’s story of love affairs, sexual adventures, and the pursuit of happiness at the end of the nineteenth century.
(Safe) Sex, Leather and Zines: Lisbon’s GayClub and early HIV/AIDS information activism
Joana Matias Tradition says that when the first Portuguese celebrity rumored to have contracted HIV, queer pop icon António Variações, passed in 1984, the fear of contagion was by then so entrenched that the authorities ordered his coffin be sealed. But gay men fortunate enough to get their hands on […]
