“The Art of War” featured a succession of posters featuring depictions of men in suggestive, even erotic, poses.
Tag: masculinity
Desire Work: Ex-Gay and Pentecostal Masculinity in South Africa
Desire Work documents the lives of mostly white, ex-gay Pentecostal men in Cape Town, South Africa.
Macho Tips: The Erotics of the Mexican Body in a Gay Magazine
The Mexican gay magazine Macho Tips (1985-1989) engaged with national ideologies of race and gender.
Queer Fascism and the End of Gay History
Now that the Right is in power in the United States, people are remembering the first openly gay politician, that is, the top Nazi Ernst Röhm.
Touch, Manhood, and the Boundaries of Same-Sex Intimacy in Nineteenth-Century Canada
The 1838 Markland Inquiry historicizes male anxiety about same-sex intimacy and touch in nineteenth-century Canada.
Discovering Sex in the Civil War
Surrounded by death, Civil War soldiers found pleasure and fraternity in sharing erotic pictures and prints.
Sex, Soldiers and the South Pacific
Queer Identities in Australia in the Second World War.
Recent Posts
Working Out: Reflections of gay trade union activism in the 1970s UK
Men of Superior IQ: Connecting Homosexuality to Intelligence in Cold War-Era Canada
Toward an Anti-racist History of Sexuality
Out and about with GLF in London, September 1971
‘Behaviour Which Merits a Horrible and Wretched Death’: Sex, Sin and the Black Death in Medieval England