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Series of Articles

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

Article series

🇷🇺 LGBT History of Russia

General history

  1. Homosexuality in Ancient and Medieval Russia
  2. The Homosexuality of Russian Tsars Vasily III and Ivan IV the Terrible”
  3. Peter the Great’s Sexuality: Wives, Mistresses, Men, and His Connection to Menshikov
  4. Homosexuality in the 18th-Century Russian Empire — Europe-Imported Homophobic Laws and How They Were Enforced
  5. Russian Empress Anna Leopoldovna and the Maid of Honour Juliana: Possibly the First Documented Lesbian Relationship in Russian History

Folklore

  1. A Cross-Dressing Epic Hero: the Russian Folk Epic of Mikhaylo Potyk, Where He Disguises Himself as a Woman
  2. Uncensored Russian Folklore: Highlights from Afanasyev’s “Russian Secret Tales”
  3. Maslenitsa Effigy: The “Man in Women’s Clothes” of Russia’s Pre-Lent Carnival

Biographies

  1. Grigory Teplov and the Sodomy Case in 18th-Century Russia
  2. Russian Poet Ivan Dmitriev, Boy Favourites, and Same-Sex Desire in the Fables 'The Two Doves' and 'The Two Friends'
  3. The Diary of the Moscow Bisexual Merchant Pyotr Medvedev in the 1860s
  4. Sergei Romanov: A Homosexual Member of the Imperial Family
  5. The Possible Homosexuality of Grand Duke Nikolai Mikhailovich of the Romanov Family
  6. Andrey Avinoff: A Russian Émigré Artist, Gay Man, and Scientist
Article series

🙏 Queer Theology of Christianity

Introduction

  1. What Is Queer Theology

Old Testament texts

  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
  3. A Queer Theological Reading of Leviticus 18:22: “Do Not Lie With A Man As With A Woman”
Article series

🦴 Prehistoric LGBT History

  1. Homosexuality Among Neanderthals
  2. A Prehistoric Double Phallus From the Enfer Gorge
  3. The First Homoerotic Image in History — The Addaura Cave Rock Engravings
  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
Article series

🏺 LGBT History of Ancient Egypt

  1. A Queer Lexicon of Ancient Egypt
  2. Divine Homosexuality in the Ancient Egyptian Myth of Horus and Seth
  3. Khnumhotep and Niankhkhnum: The First Same-Sex Couple in History
  4. A Homoerotic Plot in Ancient Egyptian Literature: Pharaoh Pepi II Neferkare and General Sasenet
  5. Idet and Ruiu: Lesbian Lovers in Ancient Egypt?
  6. A Possible Same-Sex Intercourse Scene from Ancient Egypt — An Erotic Ostracon
  7. Goddess Nephthys — a lesbian?
Article series

🇨🇳 LGBT History of China

  1. How Duke Xian of Jin Sent a Beautiful Youth to Another Ruler to Weaken His Court and Conquer
  2. “The Bitten Peach”: Duke Ling of Wei and Mizi Xia as One of the Earliest Same-Sex Court Tales in Chinese History
Article series

🇹🇷 LGBT History of Turkey

  1. The Homosexuality Of Sultan Mehmed II
  2. Homoerotic Themes in Taşlıcalı Yahya Bey’s Ottoman Poem “Shah and the Beggar”
  3. Was Atatürk Gay or Bisexual?