Joke Swiebel: A Lifetime of Dutch Gay Activism

By Joke Swiebel LGBTQ, Modern Europe

Joke Swiebel looked back on the last fifty years since the January 1969 Dutch demonstration that started the modern-day gay rights movement.

Same-Sex Marriage in Renaissance Rome

By Katherine Harvey Author Interviews, Early Modern, LGBTQ

Same-sex couples in the early modern period claimed marriage in their own particular ways.

“The Gay Revolution”: An Interview with Lillian Faderman

By Lauren Gutterman 20th and 21st Century United States, Author Interviews, LGBTQ

The Gay Revolution provides a moving account of the LGBT movement in the United States.

Mainline Protestants and the Struggle for Same-Sex Marriage

By Heather White LGBTQ, Religion and Sexuality

Mainline Protestants’ policy decisions on same-sex marriage come out of a long history of religious debates over same-sex sexuality.

Individual Freedom as Misappropriation: Race, Sexuality and the Use of Civil Rights History

By Adam Shapiro 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, Race and Ethnicity

The argument that individual rights is the natural legacy of civil rights has long been a staple of American conservatism.