Welcome to Fairyland: Queer Miami Before 1940

By Julio Capo 20th and 21st Century United States, Author Interviews, LGBTQ

“Fairyland” came to represent radically different things to discrete groups of people.

Out of the Closet, Into the Archives: Researching Sexual Histories

By Jaime Cantrell LGBTQ

Can an archive offer “proof” that historians often seek out?

Italian Sexualities Uncovered

By Chiara Beccalossi Modern Europe

Havelock Ellis explained that it had been Italian sexological works that had first prompted his interest in sexology.

Gay Rights and Religion: A Notches Special Issue

By Gillian Frank LGBTQ, Religion and Sexuality

Historians should not assume that religious institutions have always been hostile to gay rights.

Found in Translation: How Sexual Debates Developed Across the Modern World

By Dr Heike Bauer Medicine and the Body

Sexual science emerged contemporaneously in Europe, Asia, Peru, and the Middle East.

Food and Sex Through the Ages

By Rachel Hope Cleves Food and Sexuality

Expressing interest in both the history of food and the history of sexuality still has the power to raise eyebrows.

Aesthetic uses of sex in early Japanese Butoh dance

By Michael Facius Asian Sexualities

Artistic networks and discourses spanned cultural centers from Tokyo to Paris and New York.