Raúl Luis Suarez’s Smile and The Ruthless Archive

By Patricio Simonetto March 9, 2021 Latin American Sexualities, Trans 0 comments

As historians know, the archive is ruthless in preserving categories over time.

“Men Working Together!”: The Queer Masculinity of World War Two Propaganda

By Chris Parkes March 5, 2019 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, Public History 0 comments

“The Art of War” featured a succession of posters featuring depictions of men in suggestive, even erotic, poses.

Desire Work: Ex-Gay and Pentecostal Masculinity in South Africa

By Melissa Hackman January 19, 2019 African Sexualities, Author Interviews, LGBTQ, Religion and Sexuality 0 comments

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

By Juan Carlos Mezo Gonzalez September 18, 2018 Latin American Sexualities, LGBTQ, Race and Ethnicity 0 comments

The Mexican gay magazine Macho Tips (1985-1989) engaged with national ideologies of race and gender.

Queer Fascism and the End of Gay History

By Laurie Marhoefer June 19, 2018 LGBTQ 0 comments

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

By Jarett Henderson June 1, 2017 Canada 1 comment

The 1838 Markland Inquiry historicizes male anxiety about same-sex intimacy and touch in nineteenth-century Canada.

Discovering Sex in the Civil War

By Judith Giesberg March 28, 2017 Early America 0 comments

Surrounded by death, Civil War soldiers found pleasure and fraternity in sharing erotic pictures and prints.