Filth, Flamboyance and Fun in Gay Slang Polari

By Lee Campbell Queer Philologies

Polari is the language of survival—a play on words, a political act.

CFP: Histories of “Smut,” “Porn” and “Obscenity”

By notcheseditor CFP

How do we historicize the production, consumption and circulation of sexual images and texts?

Archives of Desire: A Lavender Reading of J. Edgar Hoover

By Christopher Elias 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ

Collier’s made one of the earliest print references to the sexuality of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover.

The Erotics of Shaving in Victorian Britain

By Justin Bengry Medicine and the Body, United Kingdom

Beardedness in nineteenth-century Britain had definite implications for manliness and sexuality.