Are there parallels between the homophobic 1980s and the present day?
Tag: LGBT
Politicizing Sex in Contemporary Africa: An Interview with Ashley Currier
How elites used politicized homophobia to consolidate their moral and political authority.
The Boys of Fairy Town
The little-known history of gay life in Chicago during its first century.
Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic
How did a single gay man become blamed for causing the North American AIDS epidemic?
Same-Sex Marriage in Renaissance Rome
Same-sex couples in the early modern period claimed marriage in their own particular ways.
The Romantic Concept of Psychological Androgyny
The history of the concept of psychological androgyny both raises and responds to the question “what is the history of sexuality?”
Histories of Sexuality and the Carceral State-Part 3
Mass incarceration cannot be understood without looking through the lenses of gender and sexuality.
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