Following in Vesta’s footsteps! How to name queerness in museums

By Chris Mowat LGBTQ, Public History

Vesta Tilley is a complicated figure in respect of queerness as Museums Sheffield has uncovered.

The Art and Politics of the Dick Pic

By GVGK Tang 20th and 21st Century United States, Medicine and the Body, Public History

What do safer sex campaigns and their histories tell us about how erotic masculinities are crafted amid crisis?

Queer History in the Divided City: A New Approach to Digital Mapping

By Ian Darnell 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, Public History

St. Louis’s queer geography complicates patterns of racial polarization.

Walking Tour: Gentrification and Queer Erasure in Roanoke, Virginia

By Rachel Barton 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, Public History

Public history takes on queer erasure and gentrification in Roanoke, Virginia.

Egyptology, sexual science and modern gender identity

By Jennifer Grove Ancient World, LGBTQ

How does Egyptology figure into our contemporary debates about gender identity?

CFP: Topics in Public History and the History of Sexuality

By Natalie Sherif CFP, History of Sexuality

How do public historians engage with histories of sexuality?

Would you mind if Neil Bartlett asked you a few personal questions about sex?

By Ania Ostrowska LGBTQ, Public History, United Kingdom

The Wellcome Collection’s ‘Institute of Sexology’ was the first major event of its kind in the UK.