The Oral History Society LGBTQ special interest group has shown the important role oral history plays in researching LGBTQ lives.
Religion and Sexuality
Sex Between the Solitudes: Interracial Sex and Adoption in Montreal’s Postwar Jewish Community
The ways a father’s race shaped the adoptability of children born to Jewish mothers reveals the complex construction of Jewishness in postwar Canada.
The History of Sexuality has a Jewish Problem
I had the pleasure of being a respondent at a conference in honor of Heather White and Anthony Petro’s path breaking publications Reforming Sodom and After the Wrath of God.
Sex and the Devil: An Interview with Laura Stokes
‘The witch is a witch not only because she magically devours, destroys, or rides wolves, but also because she has sex with the devil.’
From Shame to Sin: Sexual Morality in Late Antiquity
With the new religion came new attitudes to sexual behaviour and morality
The Catholic Church and Child Sexual Abuse in Twentieth-Century Ireland
It was their word against the word of the adults, the doers of God’s work on Earth.
Reverend Anna Garlin Spencer and the Rise of “Family Life” in Early Sex Education
Liberal Protestants influenced major shifts—and later divisions—among sex educators.
Recent Posts
Outrageous! The Story of Section 28 and Britain’s Battle for LGBT Education
How to Write the History of Pederasty in the Age of Groomers
Age Difference and Queer Feminism: Bryher, H.D. and Norman Douglas
The Fires of Lust: Sex in the Middle Ages
An Escape from Nazi Vienna: Heinrich Schrefel and Queer Holocaust history