Individual Freedom as Misappropriation: Race, Sexuality and the Use of Civil Rights History

By Adam Shapiro March 10, 2014 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, Race and Ethnicity 7 comments

The argument that individual rights is the natural legacy of civil rights has long been a staple of American conservatism.

Disputing ‘Gay Jim Crow’: Rhetorical Appropriation in LGBT Politics

By T.J. Tallie March 6, 2014 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, Race and Ethnicity 0 comments

‘Gay Jim Crow’ invests in false equivalence by appropriating continued struggles of people of color in the United States.

The Gay Jim Crow – The legal history behind "religious freedom" to discriminate

By Adam Shapiro February 27, 2014 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, Race and Ethnicity 20 comments

Are Arizona and other states using ‘religious freedom’ to create the ‘Gay Jim Crow’?

India’s Section 377: India, Britain and the ongoing legacies of imperialism

By Onni Gust February 26, 2014 Empire and Colonialism, LGBTQ 0 comments

The legacy of imperial Victorian sexual mores continue to haunt the lives of gay people in India and large parts of former British colonies.

"The buggers are legal now, what more are they after?" A trade union moment

By Bob Cant February 24, 2014 LGBTQ, United Kingdom 0 comments

CHE was not the only organisation to be engaging with the question of being gay – or openly gay – in the workplace.

Making the Polish Stonewall

By Lukasz Szulc February 21, 2014 LGBTQ, Modern Europe 0 comments

In 1985, the ‘Hyacinth’ operation did not trigger any riots or mass protests, but did result in a greater mobilization of LGBT activists in Poland.

‘Dinnae Meddle!’*: Scotland and the Historiography of Homosexual Law Reform

By Jeff Meek February 19, 2014 LGBTQ, United Kingdom 5 comments

Scotland was not included in the 1967 Sexual Offences Act.