Both anti-discrimination and pro-gay activists appeal to features of a pre-colonial past.
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Finding the lesbian premodern: Does it take one to know one?
How can we find out about female same-sex experiences and intimacy in the middle ages?
Conchita’s Europe: Eurovision, homonationalism and the politics of sexuality
Conchita seems to have turned attention in Poland once again to discourses on national identity, morality and gender & sexuality-related topics.
“Cow protection or Gay protection?” LGBT rights, “Hindu” tradition and the Indian elections
Gender and sexuality has had an important role in recent public debates in India.
Queer round the edges: Mary Stewart’s post-war middlebrow fiction (cont’d)
In Stewart’s world homosexuality in any form brings a touch of exoticism and sophistication to proceedings.
Queer round the edges: Mary Stewart’s post-war middlebrow fiction
I can’t help but apply a queer lens to everything I read.
The Archbishop’s Argument: Anglicanism, Homosexuality, and Colonial Complexities
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.