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‘Boys’ love’ literature depicts an idealized version of gay male sex. Ed Gottschalk/Wikimedia Commons

July 30, 2025

China’s arrests of boys’ love authors does not equate to a ‘gay erotica’ crackdown

Michel Hockx, University of Notre Dame

The popular genre depicts gay male sex, but it is written by heterosexual women for heterosexual women.

Photographer Sally Mann poses with her dog in 2004. Michael Williamson/The Washington Post via Getty Images

January 24, 2025

Seizure of Sally Mann’s photographs in Texas revives old debates about obscenity and freedom of expression

Amy Werbel, Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT)

A historian of artistic censorship sees chilling similarities to 19th-century anti-obscenity crusades.

Protesters against a bill restricting drag shows march from a rally outside of the Tennessee Capitol in Nashville on Feb. 14, 2023. AP Photo/Jonathan Mattise

March 7, 2023

Why Tennessee’s law limiting drag performances likely violates the First Amendment

Mark Satta, Wayne State University

Free speech protections in federal law likely mean a new Tennessee law restricting or banning some drag shows will be found unconstitutional, says a First Amendment scholar.

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Mark Satta
Associate Professor of Philosophy and Law, Wayne State University; Institute for Humane Studies
Amy Werbel
Professor of the History of Art, Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT)
Michel Hockx
Director of the Liu Institute for Asia & Asian Studies in the Keough School of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame

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