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The Earliest Laws in History Against Same-Sex Relations — Assyria in the Twelfth Century BCE The Possible Homosexuality of Grand Duke Nikolai Mikhailovich of the Romanov Family Male Same-Sex Intercourse in Iran After the Islamic Revolution: Criminal Law and Prosecution Statistics How Duke Xian of Jin Sent a Beautiful Youth to Another Ruler to Weaken His Court and Conquer “The Bitten Peach”: Duke Ling of Wei and Mizi Xia as One of the Earliest Same-Sex Court Tales in Chinese History Homoeroticism of the Victorian Era: Male Intimacy in Photographs from the 1850s–1890s from the Herbert Mitchell Collection Idet and Ruiu: Lesbian Lovers in Ancient Egypt? Maslenitsa Effigy: The “Man in Women’s Clothes” of Russia’s Pre-Lent Carnival A Queer Theological Reading of Leviticus 18:22: “Do Not Lie With A Man As With A Woman” A 4,600-Year-Old Burial of a “Third-Gender” Person: What We Know and What Is Disputed A Queer Lexicon of Ancient Egypt A Prehistoric Double Phallus From the Enfer Gorge Was Atatürk Gay or Bisexual? Andrey Avinoff: A Russian Émigré Artist, Gay Man, and Scientist Russian Poet Ivan Dmitriev, Boy Favourites, and Same-Sex Desire His the Fables 'The Two Doves' and 'The Two Friends' Homoerotic Themes in Taşlıcalı Yahya Bey’s Ottoman Poem “Shah and the Beggar” The Homosexuality Of Sultan Mehmed II Homosexuality Among Neanderthals Sergei Romanov: A Homosexual Member of the Imperial Family Adam Before Eve: Male or Androgynous? Theological Debates From the Church Fathers to the Present Day Divine Homosexuality in the Ancient Egyptian Myth of Horus and Seth The Story of the 2016 “Twinks for Trump” Photo Shoot The Story of Syrian General Suhayl al-Hasan, Nicknamed “The Tiger” Goddess Nephthys — a lesbian? Khnumhotep and Niankhkhnum: The First Same-Sex Couple in History What Gender Is God in the Old Testament? A Homoerotic Plot in Ancient Egyptian Literature: Pharaoh Pepi II Neferkare and General Sasenet Why German Gay Men Vote for the Alternative for Germany A Homosexual Scene in Norway’s Prehistoric Art: The Bardal Petroglyphs Peter the Great’s Sexuality: Wives, Mistresses, Men, and His Connection to Menshikov The Gay Romance Option in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2: Are Same-Sex Relationships Possible in 15th-Century Bohemia? Reviewing the Historical Record The Execution of the Siamese Gay Prince Rakronnaret (Mom Kraison): Power and a Charge of Treason Did Swedes Really Take Sick Leave for Homosexuality to Protest or Get Out of Work? The First Homoerotic Image in History — The Addaura Cave Rock Engravings A Possible Same-Sex Intercourse Scene from Ancient Egypt — An Erotic Ostracon The Story and Controversy Around the LGBT Military Unit TQILA During the War Against ISIS in Syria The Diary of the Moscow Bisexual Merchant Pyotr Medvedev in the 1860s Russian Empress Anna Leopoldovna and the Maid of Honour Juliana: Possibly the First Documented Lesbian Relationship in Russian History Homosexuality in the 18th-Century Russian Empire — Europe-Imported Homophobic Laws and How They Were Enforced What Is Queer Theology The Homosexuality of Russian Tsars Vasily III and Ivan IV the Terrible” Grigory Teplov and the Sodomy Case in 18th-Century Russia Uncensored Russian Folklore: Highlights from Afanasyev’s “Russian Secret Tales” Homosexuality in Ancient and Medieval Russia What Is the History of Sexuality? A Cross-Dressing Epic Hero: the Russian Folk Epic of Mikhaylo Potyk, Where He Disguises Himself as a Woman