Filth, Flamboyance and Fun in Gay Slang Polari

By Lee Campbell Queer Philologies

Polari is the language of survival—a play on words, a political act.

Screening Gay Characters with Disabilities

By Petra Anders LGBTQ

Two contemporary films challenge traditional combinations of disability and sexuality in cinema.

Porno Chic and the Sex Wars: A Roundtable on the Politics of Sexual Representations in the 1970s – Part 2

By Gillian Frank 20th and 21st Century United States

What can pornography’s history tell us about its basic appeal?

CFP: Histories of “Smut,” “Porn” and “Obscenity”

By notcheseditor CFP

How do we historicize the production, consumption and circulation of sexual images and texts?

Digital Witnesses: The Parker-Hulme Murder Case and the Teaching of Crime and Sexual Deviance

By Samantha Caslin Antipodean sexualities, Pedagogy

The Parker-Hulme murder gripped the town of Christchurch, New Zealand in the summer of 1954.