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

“A Poison to the Race”: Women, Foreigners and VD in Modern Japan

By Aiko Takeuchi-Demirci October 18, 2016 Asian Sexualities 0 comments

Japanese “AIDS panics” characterized women as the carriers of foreign-born sexual diseases.