Tag: politics

Umutoni: Why Histories of African Homosexualities Matter

By sarahewatkins January 13, 2015 African Sexualities, LGBTQ 0 comments

Same-sex loving and desiring people have long existed in Africa, and will continue to do so.

365 Notches: (re)marks on our 1st anniversary

By notcheseditor January 6, 2015 History of Sexuality 0 comments

It’s hard to believe that we are celebrating one year of Notches! On 6 January 2014, with the support of the Raphael Samuel History Centre, we launched a new blog with the goal of getting folks inside and outside the academy to think critically about histories of sex and sexuality across […]

Uncovering Cleveland Street: Sexuality, Surveillance and late-Victorian Scandal

By Katie Hindmarch-Watson December 2, 2014 LGBTQ, Sexual Labour, United Kingdom 0 comments

Katie Hindmarch-Watson In the summer of 1889 a 15-year-old London telegraph boy named Charles Swinscow had a monumental encounter with his inspector. Charles had eighteen shillings in his pockets, more than twice his weekly salary. Postal Constable Luke Hanks, after discovering this suspicious amount, extracted a statement from Charles that […]

Ian Paisley (1926-2014) and the ‘Save Ulster From Sodomy!’ Campaign

By Sean Brady September 16, 2014 LGBTQ, United Kingdom 3 comments

Sean Brady The death of Rev. Ian Paisley has been occasion for reflection upon the United Kingdom’s most firebrand, and certainly one of the most memorable and divisive, political figures in modern times. Paisley rightly will be remembered for his hardline and extreme unionist stance throughout his political and religious […]

Born This Way? Sexual Science and the Invention of a Political Strategy

By Jana Funke July 15, 2014 LGBTQ 0 comments

Jana Funke Gay politics today tend to be premised on the ‘born this way’ argument, the idea that being gay is not a matter of choice or preference, but rather an innate, natural and biologically conditioned fact of life. If homosexuality is something we are born with and therefore not something we choose […]

Thatcher and Homosexuality: Waiting for Section 28

By Bob Cant June 17, 2014 Editors Picks, LGBTQ 1 comment

There was an exquisite cruelty about the way her remarks were directed towards the opposition Labour Party.

The Queer Caribbean: Conflicting Uses of the Colonial Past

By Agnes Arnold-Forster May 29, 2014 Latin American Sexualities, LGBTQ 2 comments

Agnes Arnold-Forster In 1991, the Progressive Liberal Party government amended the Bahamas’ Sexual Offences Act, decriminalising “buggery” and other same-sex sexual acts in private. Over twenty years later the Bahamas still remains ahead of the majority of its Caribbean neighbours. Male-male sexual activity continues to be illegal in eleven Caribbean nations. […]