Ancient Romans’ transgressive gender performances were reserved only for fiction and fantasy, spirituality and the state.
Tag: ancient sexuality
Evidence for Trans Lives in Sumer
In the cradle of human civilisation, individuals were living lives outside of the gender binary.
Egyptology, sexual science and modern gender identity
How does Egyptology figure into our contemporary debates about gender identity?
From Shame to Sin: Sexual Morality in Late Antiquity
With the new religion came new attitudes to sexual behaviour and morality
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Working Out: Reflections of gay trade union activism in the 1970s UK
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Toward an Anti-racist History of Sexuality
Out and about with GLF in London, September 1971
‘Behaviour Which Merits a Horrible and Wretched Death’: Sex, Sin and the Black Death in Medieval England