‘Promoting homosexuality’, 1987-2017

By Bob Cant LGBTQ, United Kingdom

We must find creative ways to disrupt complacency and convey the complexities of sexuality and gender identity.

Was Homosexuality Illegal in Communist Europe?

By Lukasz Szulc LGBTQ, Modern Europe

Despite the strong political, economic and military alliance between Eastern Bloc countries, they did not adopt a uniform position towards homosexuality.

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.

Too Hot and Horny for the Centers for Disease Control

By Dan Royles LGBTQ, Race and Ethnicity

Conservative resistance to government funding for AIDS education was racialized and sexualized.

Not Straight, Not White: A Student Interview with Kevin Mumford

By Rachel Hope Cleves 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, Race and Ethnicity

An interview with author Kevin Mumford about his new book detailing the lives of black gay men from the Civil Rights Movement to the AIDS crisis

“A Poison to the Race”: Women, Foreigners and VD in Modern Japan

By Aiko Takeuchi-Demirci Asian Sexualities

Japanese “AIDS panics” characterized women as the carriers of foreign-born sexual diseases.

Phyllis Schlafly and the Making of Grassroots Conservative Sexual Politics

By Stacie Taranto 20th and 21st Century United States

Phyllis Schlafly stood at the epicenter of conservative sexual politics.