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We’ve talked before about how the ancient Chinese story about the bitten peach became a euphemism for homosexual love, but it isn’t the only ancient Chinese story about an emperor and another guy falling in love that has essentially been trimmed down to a short coded phrase — in this case “the passion of the cut sleeve.” I know, I know, it sounds like it’s about an enthusiastic but inept tailor. It’s not — it’s about Emperor Ai of Han.
Catholic Church Left Red-Faced As It Emerges Priests Share Apartment Block with Europe’s Largest Gay Sauna It is already reeling from claims Pope Benedict XVI resigned because of a gay cabal in the Vatican. Now, as the College of Cardinals prepares to elect his successor later today, the scandal-hit Catholic Church […]
Note: “1951” “Davis & J.C.” Photograph1951121 x 83 mm Taken when male partnerships were often illegal, the photos here are from the collection of a married couple, Hugh Nini and Neal Treadwell, who over the past 20 years have meticulously accumulated over 2,800 photographs of men in love. The couple […]
Hijras occupy a special place in Hinduism. But their relationship to modern Mumbai, where transgender people are legally recognized, remains fraught MUMBAI, India — When Lord Rama was exiled from Ayodhya and his entire kingdom began to follow him into the forest, he told his disciples: “Men and women, please […]
A lot of people are saying this year’s midterm election is the most crucial of our lifetime. It may well be, given the need to elect officials who will fight Donald Trump’s loathsome agenda. But another midterm election, 40 years ago, was one of the most crucial as well, at […]
Robert Colvile reports on one of the great forgotten stories of neuroscience For the first hour, they just talked. He was nervous; he’d never done this before. She was understanding, reassuring: let’s just lie down on the bed together, she said, and see what happens. Soon, events took their course: […]
In 1942, the exposure of a Brooklyn townhouse where wealthy men had sex with members of the armed services led to an anti-gay witch-hunt and heated political scandal. n the early part of the 20th century, brothels were commonplace in many neighborhoods in New York City, but in 1942 an inconspicuous two-story […]
Decades before gay marriage became legal anywhere in the US, same-sex couples were committing themselves to each other in front of friends and loved ones. Few records of these ceremonies existed – until now, writes Jonathan Berr In 1957, a man dropped off a roll of film at a pharmacy […]
It was a frontier in more ways than one by Sabrina Imbler From 1900 to 1922, Harry Allen was one of the most notorious men in the Pacific Northwest. The West was still wide and wild then, a place where people went to find their fortunes, escape the law, or […]
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Hindu mythologies and epics are some of the most complex pieces of literature that exist in this genre. Whether you believe in the tales or consider them folklores, one thing is undeniable. They represent, to a large extent, certain aspects of the world’s socio-cultural-political backcloth that have remained constant over […]
Hong Kong – Gays Under Colonial Rule and A Murder Most Foul When its last Governor Christopher Patten sailed out of Hong Kong harbour at the stroke of midnight on 30 June 1997, the curtain all but fell on centuries of the British Empire. It was perhaps appropriate that Patten […]
Singapore – Cruisy and Free but within Limits Singapore is a multi-cultural society with majority Chinese population. It had developed economically as a British colony, part of what were termed the Straits Settlements – a tripartite trading centre along with Malacca and Penang. As the British withdrew from their Empire, […]
Thailand – How Long Can Its Gay Tourism Appeal Last? Thailand is a land of contrasts, nowhere more obvious than when it comes to sex Centuries ago it was the custom for men and woman to walk about almost totally nude apart from a small covering around the genitals. As […]
China – Gay Emperors, Cut Sleeves and Jesuit Priests For those Portuguese Catholic missionaries who set up shop in Macau, China was always the prize. Its population was closing in on 200 million – vastly more than all of Europe’s 70 million. But why Macau? It was just a tiny […]
Today we start a series of ten articles examining the relationship between homosexuality and the forces of history that have shaped the way various Asian countries now regard sexual relationships between men Japan – Rampant Amputations and The Rising Sun Sex! Yes, we all think about it. My problem is […]
by Lewis Corner A Kickstarter fundraiser has been launched to bring back Physique Pictorial The classic magazine – which was first launched in 1951 by gay pioneer Bob Mizer – is widely recognised as one of the first homoerotic publications made available of newsstands. It came at a time […]
Peter Tatchell Human rights campaigner; director, Peter Tatchell Foundation Way back in the early 1970s, I was a member of the newly-formed Gay Liberation Front (GLF). It was Britain’s first freedom movement of openly lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people. In those days, queers were invisible. Nearly everyone was […]
by Beril Eski, Ufuk Kâhya Amsterdam is hailed internationally as one of the gay capitals of the world. After Queens Day, Gay Pride day is the biggest celebration in the city. The idea that homosexuality is accepted in Dutch society, and especially Amsterdam, is an idea that many in this […]
Benjamin Cohen PinkNews publisher Benjamin Cohen reflects on the persecution of gay people by the Nazis as Britain marks Holocaust Memorial Day If I was alive 75-year-ago and living in Berlin and not London, my outlook would not have been looking good and not just because I’m […]
Jeremy Willard DailyXtra Imagine the courage it must have taken to pick up a copy of Summer in Sodom from the local dime store in the 1960s Beginning in the late 1940s, books with gay subject matter (and often suggestive titles and cover art) sauntered for the first time onto […]
by Richard G. Mann Encyclopedia Copyright © 2015, glbtq, Inc. Entry Copyright © 2002, glbtq, Inc. Reprinted from http://www.glbtq.com In the decades prior to Stonewall, homophobia was as prevalent in the art establishment as in other facets of American society. Most gay artists were closeted, and they seldom visualized gay […]
Link to Part 1 Problems and Possibilities Historians have long sensed that same-sex prostitution and queer identity were intertwined. In 1979, when the history of sexuality was still in its infancy, historian Jeffery Weeks wrote a short article that tentatively explored the relationship between “male prostitution” and the emergence […]