Queer Fascism and the End of Gay History

By Laurie Marhoefer LGBTQ 1 comment

Now that the Right is in power in the United States, people are remembering the first openly gay politician, that is, the top Nazi Ernst Röhm.

Tongzhi: “Queer” Identity Politics in Hong Kong Before and After the Handover

By GVGK Tang Asian Sexualities, Empire and Colonialism, LGBTQ 0 comments

Chinese ‘tongzhi’ renounce Western LGBT politic and reclaim an indigenous “queer” identity.

The Colonial Conundrum of Transsexuality in South Africa

By B Camminga Empire and Colonialism, Trans 1 comment

In the mid-1970s, South African parliamentarians legalized sex reassignment surgery based on understandings of transsexualism from Jan Morris’s Conundrum.

Making Histories of Bolivian Sexual and Gender Diversity Legible in the Twenty-First Century

By Nell Haynes Latin American Sexualities 0 comments

In Bolivia, political allegiances and competing priorities have shaped movements for equality for LGBTI Bolivians, and thus, their histories.

Source Alert: The FBI’s “Sex Deviates” Files

By Rachel Hope Cleves 20th and 21st Century United States 0 comments

Surviving records from the FBI’s “Sex Deviates” files are now available online.

The Way Out: Sebastian Buckle on Homosexuality in Modern Britain

By Sebastian Buckle Author Interviews, LGBTQ, United Kingdom 0 comments

Public discourse on homosexuality through the images, ideas & judgements made about queer lives.

American Child Brides and the Dangers of Underage Sex

By Nicholas Syrett Childhood and Youth 1 comment

Revisiting an earlier generation of reformers exposes that marriage was not a magical cure-all.