Race, Sexuality and Identity in Britain and Jamaica: The Biography of Patrick Nelson, 1916-1963

By Gemma Romain Author Interviews

Patrick Nelson: queer black Jamaican man, queer black migrant in interwar London, WWII serviceman, POW and witness to Jamaican histories of colonialism and decolonization.

“Homosexual Hearers” and Queer Musicality in Xavier Mayne’s The Intersexes (1909)

By Kristin Franseen LGBTQ

In The Intersexes (ca 1909), Edward Prime-Stevenson used gossip to support his queer readings of 19th-century symphonic music.

Adventurer: The Life and Times of Giacomo Casanova

By Leo Damrosch Author Interviews

Everyone has heard of Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798), but who was the man behind the myth?

Teenagers: The Rise of Youth Culture in New Zealand

By Chris Brickell Antipodean sexualities, Author Interviews

New Zealand’s teenagers embraced romantic and sexual possibilities, and their lives tell of wider social attitudes to morality and respectability