Historically, fostering and adoption of adults could prove a useful way for men to provide legal and financial cover for a partner.
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The Victorian with a Secret
One man’s private collection of Victorian pornography is now an important historical source.
‘Promoting homosexuality’, 1987-2017
We must find creative ways to disrupt complacency and convey the complexities of sexuality and gender identity.
Troubling Terms: The Label Problem in Transgender History
Does the question of language get to the heart of trans history as a field?
Responses to the Medicalization of Transsexualism
Many in the trans community feared the power that a psychiatric diagnosis lends professionals over trans lives.
Of Gods & Emperors: Trans Experiences in Ancient Rome
Ancient Romans’ transgressive gender performances were reserved only for fiction and fantasy, spirituality and the state.
The Colonial Conundrum of Transsexuality in South Africa
In the mid-1970s, South African parliamentarians legalized sex reassignment surgery based on understandings of transsexualism from Jan Morris’s Conundrum.
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The Bars Are Ours: Histories and Cultures of Gay Bars in America, 1960 and After
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In a Rapture of Distress: Women’s Sexuality and Modern India
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Family Matters: Queer Households and the Half-Century Struggle for Legal Recognition
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Slapping Leather: Queer Cowfolx at the Gay Rodeo
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A Queer New York: Geographies of Lesbians, Dykes, and Queers