Oral history faces the challenge of bridging the divide between the observer and the observed.
United Kingdom
“The Unreasonable Indulgence of That Appetite”: Cancer as a Venereal Disease in the Nineteenth Century
Cancer was a venereal disease to be considered alongside syphilis and gonorrhoea.
Coming Oot! A Fabulous Gay History of Scotland
On 30 November 2015 the BBC aired a documentary entitled, Coming Oot! A Fabulous History of Gay Scotland.
Homophile Priests, LGBT Rights, and Scottish Churches, 1967-1986
From its inception in 1969, the Scottish Minorities Group (SMG) saw amicable relations with Scottish churches as imperative.
Revisiting Love’s ‘Golden Age’
Love has a history, but that its history is not quite what we thought it was.
Why I Oppose a General Pardon for Historical Convictions for Homosexual Offences
Why a general pardon is good politics but bad history.
Queers, Homosexuals, and Activists in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain?
evidence of identity and political activism built around a positive interpretation of same-sex desire in the 1820s.