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).
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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.
Her Neighbor’s Wife: A History of Lesbian Desire within Marriage
Her Neighbor’s Wife traces the stories of hundreds of women who struggled to balance marriage and same-sex desire in the postwar United States.
Recent Posts
(Safe) sex, leather, and zines: Lisbon’s GayClub and early HIV/AIDS information activism
Reproduction in Transition: Fertility Technology in the Lives of Sexual and Gender Minorities
The ‘Chosen Family’ Dinner: A non-normative insight into queer homemaking
“Homosexual Hearers” and Queer Musicality in Xavier Mayne’s The Intersexes (1909)
Squirming in the Dark: Playful Occupations for Sex Workers in the 1870 Census