Male Order: Tom of Finland and the Queer Iconography of Postage Stamps

By Justin Bengry LGBTQ, Modern Europe

How do postage stamps contribute to a public history of queer lives and sexualities?

Individual Freedom as Misappropriation: Race, Sexuality and the Use of Civil Rights History

By Adam Shapiro 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, Race and Ethnicity

The argument that individual rights is the natural legacy of civil rights has long been a staple of American conservatism.

Disputing ‘Gay Jim Crow’: Rhetorical Appropriation in LGBT Politics

By T.J. Tallie 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, Race and Ethnicity

‘Gay Jim Crow’ invests in false equivalence by appropriating continued struggles of people of color in the United States.

"The buggers are legal now, what more are they after?" A trade union moment

By Bob Cant LGBTQ, United Kingdom

CHE was not the only organisation to be engaging with the question of being gay – or openly gay – in the workplace.

Sinead and Miley: A History Lesson

By Julia Laite Sexual Labour, United Kingdom

Blurred lines between the protection and the control of women’s sexuality in the past and in the present,

Immigration, sexuality and ‘British’ identity: contrasts and continuities

By Simon Jenkins Race and Ethnicity, United Kingdom

Sexuality was a dominant aspect in concerns over migrants following the First World War.