history and policy

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The Catholic Church and Child Sexual Abuse in Twentieth-Century Ireland

By Averill Earls July 14, 2016 Religion and Sexuality 0 comments

It was their word against the word of the adults, the doers of God’s work on Earth.

Wolfenden, Paederasty and Paedophilia

By Brian Lewis April 14, 2016 Childhood and Youth, LGBTQ, United Kingdom 0 comments

What do the Wolfenden Papers have to say about paederasty and paedophilia?

The Church of England, Sexual Morality & Institutional Decision-making

By Laura Ramsay March 31, 2016 Religion and Sexuality, United Kingdom 6 comments

Homosexual law reform was supported by influential sections of the Church of England.

“The Gay Revolution”: An Interview with Lillian Faderman

By Lauren Gutterman October 13, 2015 Author Interviews, LGBTQ 0 comments

Interview by Lauren Gutterman Lillian Faderman’s The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle (Simon & Schuster, 2015) provides a moving and far-reaching account of the LGBT movement in the United States, from the founding of the homophile movement in the 1950s, to recent struggles for an Employment Non-Discrimination Act […]

Why I Oppose a General Pardon for Historical Convictions for Homosexual Offences

By Justin Bengry August 4, 2015 LGBTQ, United Kingdom 0 comments

Justin Bengry UK Labour Party leadership contender Andy Burnham recently proposed automatic pardons for all men convicted of historical homosexual offences that are no longer crimes. This has been an ongoing conversation in the UK, which in 2013 granted WWII Enigma codebreaker Alan Turing a posthumous royal pardon. The issue reappeared […]

Rainbow Plaques: Mapping York’s LGBT History

By Kit Heyam July 23, 2015 LGBTQ, United Kingdom 0 comments

Kit Heyam There are over 70 plaques in York, marking historically significant places from a Roman fortress (Bootham) to a minuscule street (Whip-ma-whop-ma-gate). While the original “blue plaque” scheme was started by English Heritage, any group may erect a plaque, marking spaces linked to people or events they consider worthy […]

The Obergefell Syllabus: Historicizing Same-Sex Marriage in the United States

By notcheseditor June 27, 2015 Pedagogy, Post-1945 United States 4 comments

On June 26, 2015, the Supreme Court’s Obergefell v. Hodges decision established the constitutional right of same-sex couples to marry in all 50 states. Discussions of the United States national past abounded in the majority opinion and in the dissents. The words “history” / “historical” / “historic” appear in the […]