Sexual failure is a significant factor that can influence how leaders are remembered after they have left power, but it may also affect their ability to lead effectively while in office. It is...
In medieval Europe, queer individuals faced significant social marginalization due to their non-normative sexuality and gender identities. Historical reconstructions of their lives reveal the...
Transgender people have been present throughout history, but their experiences were often hidden from public view due to societal norms that dictated strict gender roles. Historical research has...
Historical Research Can Reconstruct Queer Social Networks
Historical research can be used to understand and analyze queer social networks from various perspectives. While there may be limited...
Pre-20th century queer life was shrouded in secrecy, marginalized, criminalized, and denied legitimacy. As such, there is limited evidence available to reconstruct how people lived their lives beyond...
How does cinema depict queerness? This question has been discussed extensively in the past few decades because movies have been able to show different aspects of life that are usually not available...
Historians have begun to look more closely at queer lives before the twentieth century, but how far can this approach go in overcoming the limitations of archival bias and heteronormative historical...
How can fragmented archival sources be critically analyzed to reconstruct historical queer identities?
Archives are collections of documents that provide insights into how people lived in the...
The study of ancient sexuality is a relatively new field that emerged in academia during the late twentieth century. Prior to this, most scholars tended to assume that human sexual behavior was...
The ancient world was a time when people explored their sexuality in different ways than today, including same-sex relationships. These partnerships were more common in some cultures than others, and...