Serpent in the Garden: Amish Sexuality in a Changing World

By James Cates Author Interviews, Religion and Sexuality

Amish sexuality through the lens of Queer theory.

The Shapes of Fancy: Reading for Queer Desire in Early Modern Literature

By Christine Varnado Author Interviews, Early Modern, LGBTQ

The Shapes of Fancy stages an impassioned defense of the inherently desirous nature of reading.

Loving Animals: On Bestiality, Zoophilia, and Post-Human Love

By Joanna Bourke Animal Sexuality, Author Interviews

How have commentators talked about sex with animals and what meanings have been attached to ‘bestiality’ or ‘zoophilia’?

Sex, Law and the Politics of Age: Child Marriage in India, 1891-1937

By Ishita Pande Asian Sexualities, Author Interviews, Childhood and Youth

Sex, Law and the Politics of Age: Child Marriage in India, 1891-1937 is a microhistory of a law restraining child marriages passed in colonial India in 1929.

Queer Encounters in the Garden

By Christopher Fite 20th and 21st Century United States, Religion and Sexuality

A popular 1912 hymn imagines a close encounter with Christ and reveals the queer possibilities within evangelical Protestant liturgy and devotion.

Queer Comrades: Gay Identity and Tongzhi Activism in Postsocialist China

By Hongwei Bao Asian Sexualities, Author Interviews, LGBTQ

Qay identity and queer activism in contemporary China from a queer Marxist perspective.