Tag: history and policy

The Archbishop’s Argument: Anglicanism, Homosexuality, and Colonial Complexities

By T.J. Tallie April 22, 2014 LGBTQ, Religion and Sexuality 0 comments

T.J. Tallie In a call to LBC Radio on 4 April 2014, Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, warned against the Anglican Church’s embrace of same-sex marriage for fear of inciting anti-Christian violence in African countries. Welby made reference explicitly to an attack that occurred in Nigeria; he described seeing […]

Male Order: Tom of Finland and the Queer Iconography of Postage Stamps

By Justin Bengry April 14, 2014 LGBTQ, Modern Europe 7 comments

Justin Bengry On April 13, 2014, Itella Posti Oy, the Finnish postal service, announced the release in September of what are possibly the most openly erotic postage stamps to appear anywhere in mainstream circulation. The series of three stamps commemorate the work of Touko Laaksonen (1920-1991), better known as Tom […]

Disputing ‘Gay Jim Crow’: Rhetorical Appropriation in LGBT Politics

By T.J. Tallie March 6, 2014 LGBTQ, Post-1945 United States 0 comments

T.J. Tallie This week, Notches contributor Adam Shapiro posted a detailed article investigating Arizona’s controversial attempted ‘religious freedom’ bill, SB1062 (the bill has since been vetoed by Arizona Governor Jan Brewer). The article did great work in critically engaging the paradoxical potential for the bill to allow legal discrimination of […]

The Gay Jim Crow – The legal history behind "religious freedom" to discriminate

By Adam Shapiro February 27, 2014 LGBTQ, Post-1945 United States 0 comments

Adam Shapiro Several US states, most notably Arizona have considered legislation to ensure the “religious freedom” of individuals and businesses who wish to exclude customers on the basis of their sexual orientation. These bills don’t really signal a new change in the cultural or legal understanding of sexuality and sexual orientation in […]

‘Dinnae Meddle!’*: Scotland and the Historiography of Homosexual Law Reform

By Jeff Meek February 19, 2014 LGBTQ, United Kingdom 0 comments

Jeff Meek A curious, or perhaps irksome, aspect of ‘British’ approaches to the history of sexuality is that they tend to neglect the variation of experience within the United Kingdom. I’ve lost count the number of times I’ve read, or watched, or marked, pieces offering a summary of developments for […]

What should LGBT History Month say about Empire?

By Onni Gust February 10, 2014 LGBTQ, United Kingdom 0 comments

Onni Gust Robert Baden-Powell, Cecil Rhodes and Lawrence of Arabia have three things in common: 1) They are all white and male- assigned; 2) They are all suspected to have harbored homosexual desires, and, in the case of Rhodes, to have had a male lover and partner; 3) They all […]

Hyperbole and horror: hijras and the British imperial state in India

By Onni Gust January 6, 2014 LGBTQ 8 comments

Onni Gust Nineteenth-century British travel writers and colonial officials rarely passed on the opportunity to prefix some derogatory hyperbole to the word ‘eunuch.’ Frequently they offered extensive defamation, referring to eunuchs as “the vilest and most polluted beings” and commenting on the “revolting” practices that they imagined, but could rarely […]