When sexual desire was not attached to notions of sexual identity.
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History from the Witness Stand: An Interview with George Chauncey
George Chauncey has testified as an expert witness in more than thirty cases dealing with gay rights.
The Curious Connections between Marriage Equality and HIV/AIDS
HIV/AIDS and the marriage equality have been the two events that have most affected LGBT lives.
Queer Terminology: LGBTQ Histories and the Semantics of Sexuality
Claire Hayward In Room 53 of the British Museum in London sits a small silver goblet that dates from about 15 BC – AD 15. The Warren Cup depicts ‘two male couples making love’. The descriptive panel underneath the cup tells us that one side shows an erastes and an […]
“The Church Fathers Really Squirmed”: Contesting Heteronorms in motive Magazine, 1962-1972
Anna J. Clutterbuck-Cook In early 1972, the final two issues of motive magazine (1941-1972) appeared in print. The “lesbian/feminist” issue and “Gay Men’s Liberation and last issue” of motive were prepared by two editorial collectives under the umbrella of MOTIVE, Inc. Many of the collective members were veterans of the […]
Archives of Desire: Soft-Core Pornography and Activism in the 1960s
The Los Angeles Advocate captured the essence of an important segment of the LGBTQ culture.
Wolfenden, Paederasty and Paedophilia
What do the Wolfenden Papers have to say about paederasty and paedophilia?
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