Tag: homonormativity

Deviant Domesticities: Reflections on the Queerness of Home

By notcheseditor November 6, 2014 Dispatches, Post-1945 United States 0 comments

Stephen Vider Can the home be queered, or has the home been queer all along? This was the question I posed last month as the organizer of The Queerness of Home: Intimacy, Normativity, Domesticity. The symposium, hosted by the Yale Research Initiative on the History of Sexualities, brought together three […]

India’s Section 377: India, Britain and the ongoing legacies of imperialism

By Onni Gust February 26, 2014 LGBTQ 0 comments

Onni Gust On 11th November, 2013, the Indian Supreme Court upheld section 377 of the Indian Penal code, which declares “carnal intercourse against the order of nature against any man, woman or animal” to be a crime. The ruling came as a shock to LGBT rights activists. In 2009, following […]