Culture
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30Friday essay: my brush with Susan Sontag and other tales from the gay ‘golden age’
The years between the gay liberation movement at the beginning of the 1970s and the onset of AIDS a decade later are...
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30How the Nazis destroyed the first gay rights movement
In 2017, Germany’s Cabinet approved a bill that would expunge the convictions of tens of thousands of German men for “homosexual acts” under that...
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32Out on the screen: 50 years of queer cinema in Britain
When the British parliament passed the Sexual Offences Act of 1967 – which stated that: “a homosexual act in private shall not be an...
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19From gay Nazis to ‘we’re here, we’re queer’: A century of arguing about gay pride
This month, hundreds of thousands of people around the world will join gay pride marches in cities big and small. In many...
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33Noted works: After Homosexual
Dennis Altman was a young, articulate activist and out gay man when Homosexual: Oppression and Liberation, the book for which he is probably best...
