Queer Fascism and the End of Gay History

By Laurie Marhoefer LGBTQ

Now that the Right is in power in the United States, people are remembering the first openly gay politician, that is, the top Nazi Ernst Röhm.

Porno Chic and the Sex Wars: A Roundtable on the Politics of Sexual Representations in the 1970s – Part 3

By notcheseditor 20th and 21st Century United States

1970s pornography included far more than Deep Throat (1972).

Tongzhi: “Queer” Identity Politics in Hong Kong Before and After the Handover

By GVGK Tang Asian Sexualities, Empire and Colonialism, LGBTQ

Chinese ‘tongzhi’ renounce Western LGBT politic and reclaim an indigenous “queer” identity.

Queering Hippolytus: Asexuality and Ancient Greece

By Chris Mowat Ancient World

Using the Greek myth of Hippolytus to do a little modern myth-busting about asexuality.

Do I have to have sex with my spouse? Two medieval answers

By Maroula Perisanidi Medieval

What role did sex play in medieval marriages, and did spouses owe each other a ‘marital debt’?

Queer History in the Divided City: A New Approach to Digital Mapping

By Ian Darnell 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, Public History

St. Louis’s queer geography complicates patterns of racial polarization.

‘Deviant and over-sexed’ or ‘respectful and vanilla’: Intimate stories from Australian Lesbians

By Rebecca Jennings Antipodean sexualities, LGBTQ

Oral histories with Australian lesbians demonstrate a complex mix of intimate practices and behaviours.