This is a collection of article series united by a common theme: from antiquity and folklore to individuals and case studies on the history of LGBT in various cultures.

🇷🇺 LGBT History of Russia

Key plots of Russian history, literature, and everyday life: from medieval notions to the imperial 18th–19th centuries, including biographical cases and testimonies from sources.

1. Homosexuality in Ancient and Medieval Russia
2. A Cross-Dressing Epic Hero: the Russian Folk Epic of Mikhaylo Potyk, Where He Disguises Himself as a Woman
3. The Homosexuality of Russian Tsars: Vasily III and Ivan IV “the Terrible
4. Uncensored Russian Folklore: Highlights from Afanasyev’s “Russian Secret Tales
5. Homosexuality in the 18th-Century Russian Empire — Europe-Imported Homophobic Laws and How They Were Enforced
6. Peter the Great’s Sexuality: Wives, Mistresses, Men, and His Connection to Menshikov
7. Russian Empress Anna Leopoldovna and the Maid of Honour Juliana: Possibly the First Documented Lesbian Relationship in Russian History
8. Grigory Teplov and the Sodomy Case in 18th-Century Russia
9. Russian Poet Ivan Dmitriev, Boy Favourites, and Same-Sex Desire His the Fables ‘The Two Doves’ and ‘The Two Friends’
10. The Diary of the Moscow Bisexual Merchant Pyotr Medvedev in the 1860s
11. Sergei Romanov: A Homosexual Member of the Imperial Family

🙏 Queer Theology of the Old Testament

This series explores questions related to the understanding of divine gender and gender issues in the Old Testament through the lens of queer theology. It includes discussions on how biblical texts can be interpreted in the context of LGBT themes and how theological views on these issues have evolved.

1. What Gender Is God in the Old Testament?
2. Adam Before Eve: Male or Androgynous? Theological Debates From the Church Fathers to the Present Day

🦴 Prehistoric LGBT History

Traces of sexuality and homoeroticism in prehistoric cultures: archaeology, images, and interpretations of the earliest materials.

1. Homosexuality Among Neanderthals
2. The First Homoerotic Image in History — The Addaura Cave Rock Engravings
3. A Prehistoric Double Phallus From the Enfer Gorge
4. A Homosexual Scene in Norway’s Prehistoric Art: The Bardal Petroglyphs
5. A 4,600-Year-Old Burial of a “Third-Gender” Person: What We Know and What Is Disputed

🏺 LGBT History of Ancient Egypt

Myths, texts, and images from Ancient Egypt where homoerotic themes emerge — from divine conflicts to intimate scenes and legendary couples. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/j0EfOEYu5PI

1. Divine Homosexuality in the Ancient Egyptian Myth of Horus and Seth
2. Khnumhotep and Niankhkhnum: The First Same-Sex Couple in History
3. A Homoerotic Plot in Ancient Egyptian Literature: Pharaoh Pepi II Neferkare and General Sasenet
4. A Possible Scene of Same-Sex Intercourse from Ancient Egypt — The Love Ostracon
5. A Queer Lexicon of Ancient Egypt

🇹🇷 LGBT History of Turkey

Ottoman and Turkish perspective: from homoerotic poetics to contemporary discussions surrounding figures of national history.

1. Homoerotic Themes in Taşlıcalı Yahya Bey’s Ottoman Poem “Shah and the Beggar”
2. Was Atatürk Gay or Bisexual?