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Articles on Queer history
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Coming out on television in the 1970s was a radical act of protest.
In the 1900s, a growing number of boys aged over 16 were sent to Les Douaires in Normandy. Rumours spread of frequent sexual interactions between detained boys.
Born With Teeth offers a clever exploration of theatrical collaboration and queer desire.
The theatre offered queer Victorian men a space to express their identities, at a time when homosexuality was criminalised.
The VMAs are always an important date in the queer cultural calendar. And the 2024 event, which took place on September 11, was no exception.
Letters from Byron to his best friend Elizabeth reveal the intense emotions of one of his first queer relationships.
It was sometimes thought that men who had sex with men would give birth to monsters.
The ancient evidence suggests Alexander was particularly close with one of his male companions. But how close exactly?
The marking of queer history and contribution is often absent from cities, but efforts are growing to include the stories of underrepresented LGBT communities.
In recent years, TV shows have started to explicitly state a character’s sexuality. But bisexual characters rarely have such moments in film.
Asexuality remains widely misunderstood. Here’s what it means and how this sexuality became a social movement.
A paper trail, both typed and handwritten, documents Cummings’ dogged efforts to secure accommodations and resources for the Windrushers on a time crunch.
A lost album by the late Prince, set for release in 2023, promises to highlight how the pop pioneer played with gender roles.
Sexuality in Ancient Rome was more preoccupied with power dynamics than it was with gender – as an expert in visual cultures of sexuality explains.
New York’s tiny Fire Island, featured in the new rom-com film of the same name, has a long history as a haven for gay people.
Two books on historical gay hate crimes – the murder of George Duncan in Adelaide, 1972, and army officer Warwick Meale in Townsville, 1942 – aim to create positive change by revealing past injustice.
Toronto’s Gay Community Dance Committee funded lesbian and gay liberation organizing in an unkind era that made community work not only difficult, but increasingly necessary.
Camp defies easy categorisation and has come to mean many things over the span of queer history
The emotional centre of British TV series It’s a Sin is a home. But this home looks quite different to the one our leaders might imagine when they issue stay-at-home orders.
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Principal Research Fellow, Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University
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AHRC Funded Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in History, University of Nottingham
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Visiting Music Lecturer, University of York
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Associate Professor, History, Macquarie University
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Lecturer in Classics, University of Tasmania
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Professor of English, University of Surrey
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Senior Lecturer in Media Studies, Swinburne University of Technology
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Lecturer in Film and Creative Writing, University of Birmingham
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Associate Professor of Media Sociology, Lehman College, CUNY
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Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History, University of Portsmouth
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PhD Student, Adelaide University
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Professor of Gender Studies, Chair in Sex Media and Sex Cultures, Linköping University
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Associate Professor in Twentieth-Century American Literature, University of Birmingham
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Honorary Research Fellow, La Trobe University
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Lecturer in Music & Sound Recording, University of York