Medieval theologians, like modern activists, used animals to make arguments about human sexuality.
Recent Posts
The Female World of Love and Larceny
Australia’s female prostitute-pickpockets forged strong criminal networks and emotional bonds between the 1860s and the 1920s.
Beyond the Binary: Science, History, and the Radical Possibilities of Sex and Gender
Science has been a crucial resource for those seeking to radically rethink the possibilities of sex, gender, and sexuality.
Dardanella and Peter: What does Microhistory offer to the History of Sexuality?
How is modern microhistory useful for understanding early twentieth-century sexual modernism in Britain?
Queer Encounters in the Garden
A popular 1912 hymn imagines a close encounter with Christ and reveals the queer possibilities within evangelical Protestant liturgy and devotion.
Homosensuality and the early modern Anglo-Ottoman encounter
Sensationalised sexual depravity of the Ottomans was a popular trope in early modern European discourses on the Turks.
Joke Swiebel: A Lifetime of Dutch Gay Activism
Joke Swiebel looked back on the last fifty years since the January 1969 Dutch demonstration that started the modern-day gay rights movement.
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The Closet and the Cul-de-Sac The Politics of Sexual Privacy in Northern California
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The Ambivalence of Gay Liberation: Male Homosexual Politics in 1970s West Germany
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Queering Romantic Engagement in the Postal Age: A Rhetorical Education
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Licentious Worlds: Sex and Exploitation in Global Empires
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In Search of Sexual Health: Diagnosing and Treating Syphilis in Hot Springs, Arkansas