... gay bars gay archives methods queer historiography ...

... the potential for social and sexual contacts in bars, but outcomes, rather than intentions, remain speculative. gay bars gay archives methods queer historiography ...

..., and defends only one kind, that is, the dominant Western form of homosexuality. The chapter then focuses on Pim Fortuyn, flamboyant and successful gay politician, and his contradictory sexual desires, vilifying yet desiring Muslims. Reading his desires in light of the cultural archive, the chapter highlights...

... and War Office files, in the papers of London East End Councillor Edith Ramsay, and in the unedited sound recordings of the Hall Carpenter Gay and Lesbian Oral History archive housed at the British Library. Collectively these archival documents destabilize the task of finding the “gay black subject...

... Chapter 4 draws on oral history and archival evidence to tell the stories of two queer migrants who fled abusive homes for San Francisco’s Polk Street in the 1970s and 1980s. The chapter gives an account of Coy Ellison, a young man who reinvented himself on Polk Street as an “illegal Irish...

... Chapter 3 turns to original oral histories and archival research to show how street youth in 1966 responded to social trauma in San Francisco’s Tenderloin by forming the direct-action organization Vanguard. In contrast to current historical accounts, which assess the organization through...

... metronormative gay, immigrant, and nationalist grids of progress and development. Akram Zaatari Allan deSouza queer optic queer archives ...

... Britain, in that his art bears witness to the way the colonial past has imaginatively returned to be reworked in the present, Piper is situated in a postcolonial relation to his archival sources. The chapter explores how his choices led him to the aquatic imagery that aligns his conceptualism not only...