Coming out at work was challenging enough but it was often overlooked in the early gay liberation movement.
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Men of Superior IQ: Connecting Homosexuality to Intelligence in Cold War-Era Canada
The construction of male homosexuals as intelligent was connected to broader cultural anxieties about same-sex attracted men in Cold War-era Canada.
Esther Newton’s Butch Career
I love reading and writing stories but, until my memoir, most have been about other people.
Politicizing Sex in Contemporary Africa: An Interview with Ashley Currier
How elites used politicized homophobia to consolidate their moral and political authority.
Out and about with GLF in London, September 1971
There’s a real buzz about GLF and I want to be part of it.
Queer China: Lesbian and Gay Literature and Visual Culture
Queer China reveals a vibrant picture of queer communities and cultures since their inception in post-Mao China.
Following in Vesta’s footsteps! How to name queerness in museums
Vesta Tilley is a complicated figure in respect of queerness as Museums Sheffield has uncovered.
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Of Polymaths and Pederasts: Reflections on Rachel Hope Cleves’s <i>Unspeakable</i>
Raúl Luis Suarez’s Smile and The Ruthless Archive
The Shapes of Fancy: Reading for Queer Desire in Early Modern Literature
Queer as Cop: Gay Patrol Units and the White Fantasy of Safety
Campaigning for Lesbian and Gay Rights in Ireland, 1981-1993