Douglas Pretsell Urning is a biography of the earliest recognisably modern sexual identity. The urning identity was, in fact, the dominant male same-sex sexual identity in the German speaking world between 1864 and 1897 but was subsequently eclipsed by terminologies such as homosexual, gay, or queer. NOTCHES: What drew you […]
Tag: queer history
(Safe) Sex, Leather and Zines: Lisbon’s GayClub and early HIV/AIDS information activism
Joana Matias Tradition says that when the first Portuguese celebrity rumored to have contracted HIV, queer pop icon António Variações, passed in 1984, the fear of contagion was by then so entrenched that the authorities ordered his coffin be sealed. But gay men fortunate enough to get their hands on […]
Privilege, Power, and Activism in Gay Rights Politics Since the 1970s
Beyond the Politics of the Closet examines the reorientation of LGBT politics from the 1970s to the 1990s.
The ‘Chosen Family’ Dinner: A non-normative insight into queer homemaking
At the bookshop Libreria a table is set for dinner, but unusually the books are complemented by plates painted with plump juicy peaches and bowls drawn with cocks.
“Beyond the Law”: The Politics Ending the Death Penalty for Sodomy in Britain
Beyond the Law focuses on the multiple ways various groups of individuals in the early nineteenth century understood what sodomy was, and what constituted an ethical response to it.
Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender
What can we learn from historic stories of gender non-conformity?
Female Husbands: A Trans History
Long before people identified as transgender or lesbian, there were female husbands and the women who loved them.
