Same-sex intimacy aboard a US Navy gunboat during the American Civil War.
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United Queerdom: From the Legends of the Gay Liberation Front to the Queers of Tomorrow
United Queerdom is a toolkit of case studies, strategies, philosophies, methodologies and tactics for LGBTQIA+ liberation in the spirit of the original aims of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF).
Southerners: Archiving Queer Southern Diaspora in New York City
The Southerners collection opens a window onto extended kinship networks and self-described “surrogate family” in the queer Southern diaspora.
Vulnerable Constitutions: Queerness, Disability, and the Remaking of American Manhood
The rise of sexual science, in addition to creating new forms of stigma, also provided the imaginative resources for articulating new modes of resistance.
The Correspondence of Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, 1846-1894
The first critical edition of the complete correspondence of Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, a founding figure in the history of sexuality.
Lovers in Leicester: A Twentieth-Century Gay Couple
Jo Somerset reads between the lines to decipher a gay couple’s secret life in Leicester during the twentieth century.
Lesbianism and the Criminal Law: Three Centuries of Legal Regulation in England and Wales
A socio-legal history of lesbianism and the criminal law from the eighteenth century to the present.
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Contextualising Taboo: Leigh Bowery and the Media
Aleksandr Aleksandrov: New Sources in Nineteenth-Century Russian Trans Life-Writing
“Information Pleases”: Dictionaries and Trans History
Translation as empowerment: toward a grammaticalization of the non-binary in Spanish
The rediscovery of a homoerotic poem by Torquato Tasso: Ganimede rapito