"Coming Out" in the Classroom: When the Personal is Pedagogical

By Justin Bengry June 10, 2014 Pedagogy 15 comments

What impact would explicitly identifying my sexuality have on teaching, learning, discussions and the overall atmosphere of the classroom?

(Sexual) Labour Day

By Julia Laite April 30, 2014 Sexual Labour, United Kingdom 3 comments

Researching prostitution makes Julia Laite more of a labour historian than a historian of sexuality.

The Archbishop’s Argument: Anglicanism, Homosexuality, and Colonial Complexities

By T.J. Tallie April 22, 2014 Empire and Colonialism, LGBTQ, Religion and Sexuality 0 comments

It is a curious and powerful discursive move to link the murder of hundreds of people in Nigeria to the vaguely described suffering of British queer people.

Male Order: Tom of Finland and the Queer Iconography of Postage Stamps

By Justin Bengry April 14, 2014 LGBTQ, Modern Europe 8 comments

How do postage stamps contribute to a public history of queer lives and sexualities?

Disputing ‘Gay Jim Crow’: Rhetorical Appropriation in LGBT Politics

By T.J. Tallie March 6, 2014 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, Race and Ethnicity 0 comments

‘Gay Jim Crow’ invests in false equivalence by appropriating continued struggles of people of color in the United States.

The Gay Jim Crow – The legal history behind "religious freedom" to discriminate

By Adam Shapiro February 27, 2014 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, Race and Ethnicity 20 comments

Are Arizona and other states using ‘religious freedom’ to create the ‘Gay Jim Crow’?

‘Dinnae Meddle!’*: Scotland and the Historiography of Homosexual Law Reform

By Jeff Meek February 19, 2014 LGBTQ, United Kingdom 5 comments

Scotland was not included in the 1967 Sexual Offences Act.