Evidence for Trans Lives in Sumer

By Cheryl Morgan Ancient World

In the cradle of human civilisation, individuals were living lives outside of the gender binary.

Walking Tour: Gentrification and Queer Erasure in Roanoke, Virginia

By Rachel Barton 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, Public History

Public history takes on queer erasure and gentrification in Roanoke, Virginia.

The Baroness: Imagining Madness, Marriage, and Murder in Nineteenth-Century Paris

By Jessie Hewitt Modern Europe

The Baroness dramatized the relationship of disability to French citizenship and masculinity in the nineteenth century.

Source Alert: The FBI’s “Sex Deviates” Files

By Rachel Hope Cleves 20th and 21st Century United States

Surviving records from the FBI’s “Sex Deviates” files are now available online.

Denounced: How Modernizing Mexico Criminalized Infanticide and Abortion

By Nora Jaffary Latin American Sexualities

In Mexico, colonial courts maintained relative silence about abortion and infanticide. Things changed in 1871.

Egyptology, sexual science and modern gender identity

By Jennifer Grove Ancient World, LGBTQ

How does Egyptology figure into our contemporary debates about gender identity?

The History of Sexuality has a Jewish Problem

By Gillian Frank Religion and Sexuality

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.