Privilege, Power, and Activism in Gay Rights Politics Since the 1970s

By Jonathan Bell Author Interviews

Beyond the Politics of the Closet examines the reorientation of LGBT politics from the 1970s to the 1990s.

Outrageous! The Story of Section 28 and Britain’s Battle for LGBT Education

By Paul Baker LGBTQ

Are there parallels between the homophobic 1980s and the present day?

Politicizing Sex in Contemporary Africa: An Interview with Ashley Currier

By Ashley Currier African Sexualities, Author Interviews, Empire and Colonialism, LGBTQ

How elites used politicized homophobia to consolidate their moral and political authority.

The Boys of Fairy Town

By Jim Elledge 20th and 21st Century United States, Author Interviews, LGBTQ

The little-known history of gay life in Chicago during its first century.

Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic

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

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

Same-Sex Marriage in Renaissance Rome

By Katherine Harvey Author Interviews, Early Modern, LGBTQ

Same-sex couples in the early modern period claimed marriage in their own particular ways.

The Romantic Concept of Psychological Androgyny

By Victoria Russell History of Sexuality

The history of the concept of psychological androgyny both raises and responds to the question “what is the history of sexuality?”