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

By Brendan Hamilton October 12, 2021 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 June 17, 2021 Author Interviews 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 December 13, 2018 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 June 22, 2017 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 April 7, 2016 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.

Queering de Sade

By Gert Hekma November 27, 2014 LGBTQ 0 comments

The “divine marquis” influenced literature, philosophy, and artistic and social movements such as Surrealism, Situationism, and Provo.

‘In the manner of a woman’: John/Eleanor Rykener and the Inessentiality of Gender

By Kim Racon April 1, 2014 LGBTQ, Medieval 4 comments

John/ Eleanor Rykener’s confession reveals the complexity of queer lives in medieval England.