Tag: LGBT History

Queers, Homosexuals, and Activists in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain?

By Charles Upchurch July 28, 2015 LGBTQ, United Kingdom Comments are Disabled

Charles Upchurch What does a historian of sexuality do when confronted with something that looks compellingly modern, but decades before it was supposed to exist? Specifically, I mean evidence of identity and political activism built around a positive interpretation of same-sex desire in the 1820s. The evidence, although fragmentary and […]

Out in the Union: An Interview with Miriam Frank

By notcheseditor July 14, 2015 Author Interviews, LGBTQ 0 comments

Interview by Katherine Turk Out in the Union (Temple University Press, 2014) by Miriam Frank tells the continuous story of queer American workers from the mid-1960s through 2013. This book chronicles the evolution of labor politics with queer activism and identity formation, showing how unions began affirming the rights of lesbian, gay, […]

Lines of Dissent at London Metropolitan Archives: Finding and Creating LGBTQ Histories

By Claire Hayward December 18, 2014 Dispatches, LGBTQ Comments are Disabled

Claire Hayward On Saturday 6 December, historians, archivists and activists joined together at London Metropolitan Archives (LMA) to discuss ‘Lines of Dissent’. The 12th LGBTQ History and Archives Conference at LMA chose queer inheritance as its theme this year, which was run in collaboration with the Raphael Samuel History Centre (RSHC). (Disclaimer: […]

Believe It: Finding Religion in the History of U.S. Sexuality

By Gillian Frank November 24, 2014 Pedagogy, Post-1945 United States, Religion and Sexuality 2 comments

Rebecca Davis, Gillian Frank, Bethany Moreton and Heather White For close to a decade, the eminent U.S. historian John D’Emilio has performed an important scholarly service by urging the fields he helped establish—LGBT history and the history of sexuality—to devote more attention to religious themes and actors. In 2004, he addressed the recently […]