Does gay public sex help end violent conflict? Perhaps, or at least it makes for a good start.
Tag: twentieth century
Contextualising Taboo: Leigh Bowery and the Media
Leigh Bowery’s nightclub Taboo is mythologised as London’s most decadent nightclub of the 1980s.
“Information Pleases”: Dictionaries and Trans History
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
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
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
Family Matters offers a new way of understanding how beleaguered minority groups may be able to secure meaningful legal change.
(Safe) Sex, Leather and Zines: Lisbon’s GayClub and early HIV/AIDS information activism
Joana Matias Tradition says that when the first Portuguese celebrity rumored to have contracted HIV, queer pop icon António Variações, passed in 1984, the fear of contagion was by then so entrenched that the authorities ordered his coffin be sealed. But gay men fortunate enough to get their hands on […]
