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

By Jeffrey Weeks LGBTQ, United Kingdom

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

Sexual Politics in the Era of Reagan and Thatcher: Marc Stein in Conversation with Jeffrey Weeks

By Marc Stein LGBTQ, United Kingdom

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.

Umutoni: Why Histories of African Homosexualities Matter

By Sarah Watkins African Sexualities, LGBTQ

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

By Katie Hindmarch-Watson LGBTQ, Sexual Labour, United Kingdom

Cleveland Street is an acknowledged milestone of London’s sexual past.

Sex, race and censorship in Cuba: Historicising the P.M. affair

By Carrie Hamilton Latin American Sexualities, Race and Ethnicity, Sexual Labour

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

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.

Sexual Pleasure, AIDS, and Gay Politics

By Dan Royles 20th and 21st Century United States, HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ

In the early days of the AIDS epidemic gay men struggled to reconcile 1970s sexual openness with the growing danger of a deadly disease.