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Since the publication of Vito Russo's seminal study The Celluloid Closet in 1981, much has been written about the representation of queer characters on screen. Until now, however, relatively little attention has been paid to how queer sexualities were p...

A tidal wave of panic surrounded homosexuality and AIDS in the 1980s and early '90s, the period commonly called 'The AIDS Crisis'. With the advent of antiretroviral drugs in the mid '90s, however, the meaning of an HIV diagnosis radically changed. These...

Gay pornography, online and onscreen, is a controversial and significantly under-researched area of cultural production. In the first book of its kind, Gay Pornography: Representations of Sexuality and Masculinity explores the iconography, themes and id...

In a lecture delivered before the University of Oxford's Anglo-French Society in 1936, Gertrude Stein described romance as 'the outside thing, that . . . is always a thing to be felt inside.' Hannah Roche takes Stein's definition as a principle for the...

Aan de hand van persoonlijke verhalen van transseksuelen worden definities van gender opnieuw bekeken.

Sociaalhistorische analyse van homosociale relaties tussen mannen en homofobie in Engelse literatuur. Die relaties variëren van 'male bonding', mentorschap en rivaliteit tot homoseksuele liefde.

Autobiografie van de Iraanse danseres.

Studie over het lesbische als spookgestalte in de westerse literatuur, geschiedenis en cultuur sinds 1750 a.d.h.v. het werk van Defoe en Diderot, Virginia Woolf, Djuna Barnes, Henry James, Anne Lister, Syliva Townsend Warner en Janet Flanner en vrouwen...