Two queer men elevated the simple pasty to a luxurious, gourmet meal.
LGBTQ
“What can I do to be normal?” Queer Female Desire in Letters to Dr. Alfred Kinsey
Many postwar Americans were obsessed with sexual normality but their stories reveal queer possibilities.
Why I Oppose a General Pardon for Historical Convictions for Homosexual Offences
Why a general pardon is good politics but bad history.
Archives of Desire: A Lavender Reading of J. Edgar Hoover
Collier’s made one of the earliest print references to the sexuality of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover.
Queers, Homosexuals, and Activists in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain?
evidence of identity and political activism built around a positive interpretation of same-sex desire in the 1820s.
Rainbow Plaques: Mapping York’s LGBT History
York’s Alternative History explores the histories of York which don’t make the guidebooks.
John Rykener Revisited: Transvestite Male Prostitute or Biting Political Satire?
The Rykener case gives voice to dissent in the form of political satire.
