The Massage Establishments Scandal: Coding and De-coding Sex Work at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

By Jessica Gregory Sexual Labour

The late-Victorian massage parlour and its promotions became a site of moralistic concern, but could its ambiguous intentions be de-coded?

“Dolled up to the nines to go to a flippin’ public toilet!”: Cruising in Belfast During the Troubles

By Niall Herron LGBTQ, Modern Europe

Does gay public sex help end violent conflict? Perhaps, or at least it makes for a good start.

Contextualising Taboo: Leigh Bowery and the Media

By Stephen Brogan LGBTQ, United Kingdom

Leigh Bowery’s nightclub Taboo is mythologised as London’s most decadent nightclub of the 1980s.

“Information Pleases”: Dictionaries and Trans History

By Joseph Gamble Queer Philologies, Trans

Dictionaries—in their contested and flawed glory—can teach us much about the multiplicity of gendered and sexual possibilities of history.

A Polymorphous Activist: Mario Mieli

By Maria De Capua Queer Philologies

Activist Mario Mieli plays with language and vocabulary as a stylistic and political tool promoting queer and revolutionary ideas.

Dismantling Borders: (Un)Naming the Queer Diasporic Algérienne

By Alyssa Ollivier-Tabukashvili Queer Philologies

In Garçon Manqué [Tomboy], Nina Bouraoui explores nation, culture, gender identity and queer desire.

Family Matters: Queer Households and the Half-Century Struggle for Legal Recognition

By Marie-Amélie George NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

Family Matters offers a new way of understanding how beleaguered minority groups may be able to secure meaningful legal change.