In May 1988, when Marc Stein was working as the coordinating editor of Gay Community News in Boston, Massachusetts, he interviewed Jeffrey Weeks, the influential British sociologist and historian.
Tag: homosexuality
Umutoni: Why Histories of African Homosexualities Matter
Same-sex loving and desiring people have long existed in Africa, and will continue to do so.
Uncovering Cleveland Street: Sexuality, Surveillance and late-Victorian Scandal
Cleveland Street is an acknowledged milestone of London’s sexual past.
Sex, race and censorship in Cuba: Historicising the P.M. affair
A short experimental film has gone down in history as the catalyst for one of the early crises of the Cuban Revolution.
Mainline Protestants and the Struggle for Same-Sex Marriage
Mainline Protestants’ policy decisions on same-sex marriage come out of a long history of religious debates over same-sex sexuality.
Sexual Pleasure, AIDS, and Gay Politics
In the early days of the AIDS epidemic gay men struggled to reconcile 1970s sexual openness with the growing danger of a deadly disease.
Born This Way? Sexual Science and the Invention of a Political Strategy
The ‘born this way’ argument has also been subjected to substantial criticism.
