“Beyond the Law”: The Politics Ending the Death Penalty for Sodomy in Britain

By Charles Upchurch LGBTQ, United Kingdom 0 comments

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.

The International LGBT Rights Movement: A History

By Laura Belmonte Author Interviews, LGBTQ 0 comments

A brief and compelling history of the international lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights movement.

“Like Man and Wife:” A Same-sex Relationship Aboard the USS Pinola

By Brendan Hamilton LGBTQ 0 comments

Same-sex intimacy aboard a US Navy gunboat during the American Civil War.

Plausible Crime Stories: The Legal History of Sexual Offences in Mandate Palestine

By Orna Alyagon-Darr Author Interviews, Empire and Colonialism, LGBTQ, Sexual Violence 0 comments

This first study of the legal history of sex offences in Mandate Palestine pioneers a new socio-cultural perspective on evidence: plausibility.

Rears and Vices: The Austens and Naval Sodomy

By Seth LeJacq LGBTQ, United Kingdom 1 comment

Jane Austen’s brothers sat in judgement over navy men accused of sodomy.

Searching for Sodom: Homoeroticism and the Protestant Tradition in England 1550-1850

By Harry Cocks Early Modern 0 comments

The story of Sodom provided a context for discussions of homoerotic behavior.

“Sodomy is not Adultery”: The Clinton Sex Scandal as Queer History

By Alison Lefkovitz 20th and 21st Century United States 1 comment

Men and women could engage in a range of sex acts, which the courts recognized as sodomy, and still maintain that they had not technically cheated.