The Boys of Fairy Town

By Jim Elledge 20th and 21st Century United States, Author Interviews, LGBTQ

The little-known history of gay life in Chicago during its first century.

Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic

By Richard McKay Author Interviews, Canada, HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ, Medicine and the Body

How did a single gay man become blamed for causing the North American AIDS epidemic?

Queer History and the Holocaust

By Anna Hajkova LGBTQ, Modern Europe, Sexual Labour, Sexual Violence

Queer experiences of the Holocaust have been marginalised, ignored and denied.

The Road to Section 28

By Colin Clews LGBTQ, United Kingdom

Conservatives exploited homophobia to discredit opposition to Section 28, leaving Labour ambivalent to outright opposition.

‘Every time I see a cock I go funny’: what regional studies bring to histories of sexuality

By Helen Smith LGBTQ, United Kingdom

When sexual desire was not attached to notions of sexual identity.

More Than Loving: Race, Sexuality & Public Memory in the Movement for Marriage Equality

By Jennifer Jones 20th and 21st Century United States, Race and Ethnicity

Discussion of Obergefell compared activism for marriage equality with efforts to secure equal rights.

The Forgotten History of Gay Liberation: An Interview With Jim Downs

By Rachel Hope Cleves 20th and 21st Century United States, Author Interviews, LGBTQ

I wanted to explain that the 1970s was much more than a decade about sex.