Aleksandr Aleksandrov (1783-1866) was a Russian-Ukrainian hero of the Napoleonic wars and a celebrated trans author.
Modern Europe
Translation as empowerment: toward a grammaticalization of the non-binary in Spanish
How to translate genderqueer language if linguistic authorities acknowledge neither queer-gendered language nor the people it would represent?
Pubic Politics in Homosexual Action Groups in 1970s West Germany
How should a leftist style their pubic hair?
(Safe) Sex, Leather and Zines: Lisbon’s GayClub and early HIV/AIDS information activism
Joana Matias Tradition says that when the first Portuguese celebrity rumored to have contracted HIV, queer pop icon António Variações, passed in 1984, the fear of contagion was by then so entrenched that the authorities ordered his coffin be sealed. But gay men fortunate enough to get their hands on […]
Love for Sale: Representing Prostitution in Imperial Russia
How was prostitution represented in Imperial Russia?
Abortion and Contraception in Modern Greece, 1830-1967
Abortion and contraception before the Pill: the case of Modern Greece.
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.
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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