The Archbishop’s Argument: Anglicanism, Homosexuality, and Colonial Complexities

By T.J. Tallie April 22, 2014 Empire and Colonialism, LGBTQ, Religion and Sexuality 0 comments

It is a curious and powerful discursive move to link the murder of hundreds of people in Nigeria to the vaguely described suffering of British queer people.

Male Order: Tom of Finland and the Queer Iconography of Postage Stamps

By Justin Bengry April 14, 2014 LGBTQ, Modern Europe 8 comments

How do postage stamps contribute to a public history of queer lives and sexualities?

‘In the manner of a woman’: John/Eleanor Rykener and the Inessentiality of Gender

By Kim Racon April 1, 2014 LGBTQ, Medieval 4 comments

John/ Eleanor Rykener’s confession reveals the complexity of queer lives in medieval England.

What will .GAY stand for?

By Lukasz Szulc March 25, 2014 LGBTQ, Modern Europe 1 comment

The new domains will identify websites as LGBTQ even at the basic level of internet structure, an important step forward for queering the internet.

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’?