The Borders of AIDS: Race, Quarantine, and Resistance

By Karma Chavez Author Interviews 0 comments

The Borders of AIDS tells a story about how powerful people used AIDS as an opportunity to enact bans and quarantines and how ordinary people resisted.

Queer Nuns: Religion, Activism, and Serious Parody

By Melissa Wilcox Author Interviews, LGBTQ, Religion and Sexuality 0 comments

Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence are an unaffiliated, non-celibate order of queer, activist nuns.

Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic

By Richard McKay Author Interviews, Canada, HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ, Medicine and the Body 1 comment

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

The Art and Politics of the Dick Pic

By GVGK Tang 20th and 21st Century United States, Medicine and the Body, Public History 0 comments

What do safer sex campaigns and their histories tell us about how erotic masculinities are crafted amid crisis?

The Road to Section 28

By Colin Clews LGBTQ, United Kingdom 0 comments

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

AIDS, Sexuality and American Religion: An Interview With Anthony Petro

By Anthony Petro 20th and 21st Century United States, Author Interviews, HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ, Medicine and the Body, Religion and Sexuality 0 comments

Religious responses to the emergence of AIDS in the United States in the 1980s and 90s.

Jeffrey Weeks reflects on "Sexual Politics in the Era of Reagan and Thatcher"

By Jeffrey Weeks LGBTQ, United Kingdom 0 comments

I can’t help thinking about the importance of having an open, exploratory, but consistent political and intellectual project.