Public City/Public Sex: Homosexuality, Prostitution, and Urban Culture Nineteenth-Century Paris

By Andrew Ross Author Interviews, LGBTQ, Modern Europe, Sexual Labour

Women who sold sex and men who sought sex with other men shaped the emergence of modern Paris.

Porno Chic and the Sex Wars: A Roundtable on the Politics of Sexual Representations in the 1970s – Part 2

By Gillian Frank 20th and 21st Century United States

What can pornography’s history tell us about its basic appeal?

Walking Tour: Gentrification and Queer Erasure in Roanoke, Virginia

By Rachel Barton 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, Public History

Public history takes on queer erasure and gentrification in Roanoke, Virginia.

Local Sexual Cultures and the Response to HIV/AIDS Along the Uganda-Tanzania Border

By Shane Doyle African Sexualities, HIV/AIDS

Is it helpful to conceive of one African epidemic, with one set of universal causes? And how is the history of HIV understood within African communities?

Gay Politics and Police Politics in the American City

By Christopher Agee 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ

Postwar law enforcement leaders rarely prepared patrol officers for policing of gay and lesbian people.

Sex & Food in the Nineteenth-Century American Metropolis

By Robert Gamble Early America, Food and Sexuality

Scandal erupted in a Philadelphia marketplace one Saturday morning in August 1839.