The Oral History Society LGBTQ special interest group has shown the important role oral history plays in researching LGBTQ lives.
Recent Posts
The College Roots of Hugh Hefner and Playboy
A college humor magazine, Shaft, documents Hugh Hefner’s first forays into commercializing sex.
The Road to Section 28
Conservatives exploited homophobia to discredit opposition to Section 28, leaving Labour ambivalent to outright opposition.
Making Histories of Bolivian Sexual and Gender Diversity Legible in the Twenty-First Century
In Bolivia, political allegiances and competing priorities have shaped movements for equality for LGBTI Bolivians, and thus, their histories.
Die Bi(e)! Reading Bisexual Women’s History
Female bisexuality generates both particularly intense anger and fetishization that demand greater historical attention.
Rethinking Early Modern Women’s Masturbation
Why is women’s masturbation absent from most studies examining sexual practices of early modern people?
CFP: Transgender Histories
How might historians make sense of trans in past tenses?
