Joana Matias Tradition says that when the first Portuguese celebrity rumored to have contracted HIV, queer pop icon António Variações, passed in 1984, the fear of contagion was by then so entrenched that the authorities ordered his coffin be sealed. But gay men fortunate enough to get their hands on […]
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Privilege, Power, and Activism in Gay Rights Politics Since the 1970s
Beyond the Politics of the Closet examines the reorientation of LGBT politics from the 1970s to the 1990s.
Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender
What can we learn from historic stories of gender non-conformity?
The Borders of AIDS: Race, Quarantine, and Resistance
The Borders of AIDS tells a story about how powerful people used AIDS as an opportunity to enact bans and quarantines and how ordinary people resisted.
Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography
Why is medieval hagiography an important source for trans and genderqueer history?
United Queerdom: From the Legends of the Gay Liberation Front to the Queers of Tomorrow
United Queerdom is a toolkit of case studies, strategies, philosophies, methodologies and tactics for LGBTQIA+ liberation in the spirit of the original aims of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF).
The Correspondence of Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, 1846-1894
The first critical edition of the complete correspondence of Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, a founding figure in the history of sexuality.