Sexuality, Secrecy, and Local Government in Early Twentieth-Century Edendale, South Africa

By Marc Epprecht African Sexualities, Empire and Colonialism

Class shame hinging upon perceived sexual immorality is an often overlooked element of anti-colonial/apartheid politics in South Africa.

Remembrance of Things Past: A Novelist Reflects on the Politics of Intergenerational Sex

By Sarah Schulman 20th and 21st Century United States

Sarah Schulman on changing attitudes towards intergenerational sex within the queer community.

Femme Histories Roundtable – Part II

By Lauren Gutterman LGBTQ

How can the experiences of feminine lesbians or queer women change our understanding of the history of sexuality?

Disembodied Desire

By Josh Adair Medicine and the Body

For Victorians, the hand served as an acceptable object of fixation upon which to leer and project meaning and fantasy.

Femme Histories Roundtable – Part I

By Lauren Gutterman LGBTQ

To what extent has female masculinity shaped lesbian and/or queer women’s histories?

Local Sexual Cultures and the Response to HIV/AIDS Along the Uganda-Tanzania Border

By Shane Doyle African Sexualities, HIV/AIDS

Is it helpful to conceive of one African epidemic, with one set of universal causes? And how is the history of HIV understood within African communities?

Flight Attendant Unions Make the Economy Work for Queer Families

By Ryan Murphy 20th and 21st Century United States

Flight attendant unions have been hotbeds of feminist and LGBTQ activism for fifty years.