Licentious Worlds: Sex and Exploitation in Global Empires

By Julie Peakman March 18, 2021 Author Interviews 0 comments

A history of sexual attitudes and behaviour through five hundred years of empire-building around the world.

Histories of the Transgender Child

By Julian Gill-Peterson May 30, 2019 Author Interviews, Childhood and Youth, LGBTQ, Trans 0 comments

Challenging the idea that today’s trans kids are a brand new generation.

Contraceptive Diplomacy: Reproductive Politics & Imperial Ambitions in the United States & Japan

By Aiko Takeuchi-Demirci May 2, 2019 20th and 21st Century United States, Asian Sexualities, Author Interviews, Empire and Colonialism, Medicine and the Body, Race and Ethnicity 0 comments

Contraceptive Diplomacy narrates a transnational history of birth control in the context of imperial struggles between the United States and Japan.

Desire Work: Ex-Gay and Pentecostal Masculinity in South Africa

By Melissa Hackman January 19, 2019 African Sexualities, Author Interviews, LGBTQ, Religion and Sexuality 0 comments

Desire Work documents the lives of mostly white, ex-gay Pentecostal men in Cape Town, South Africa.

Sex, Time and Place: Queer Histories of London, c.1850 to the Present

By Simon Avery December 15, 2018 Author Interviews, LGBTQ, United Kingdom 0 comments

How do we ‘do’ queer history and how might it be constituted in multi- and interdisciplinary terms?

Tongzhi: “Queer” Identity Politics in Hong Kong Before and After the Handover

By GVGK Tang May 29, 2018 Asian Sexualities, Empire and Colonialism, LGBTQ 0 comments

Chinese ‘tongzhi’ renounce Western LGBT politic and reclaim an indigenous “queer” identity.

Not Straight, Not White: A Student Interview with Kevin Mumford

By Rachel Hope Cleves May 25, 2017 20th and 21st Century United States, Author Interviews, LGBTQ, Race and Ethnicity 1 comment

An interview with author Kevin Mumford about his new book detailing the lives of black gay men from the Civil Rights Movement to the AIDS crisis