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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.

🇷🇺 LGBT History of Russia

General history

  1. The Story of a Medieval Arabic Source in Which the Women of the 'Rus' Were Called the World's First Lesbians
  2. Homosexuality in Ancient and Medieval Russia
  3. The Homosexuality of Russian Tsars Vasily III and Ivan IV the Terrible
  4. Homosexuality in the 18th-Century Russian Empire – Homophobic Laws Borrowed From Europe and How They Were Enforced
  5. Ruler Anna Leopoldovna and the Maid of Honour Juliana: Possibly the First Documented Lesbian Relationship in Russian History
  6. Peter the Great’s Sexuality: Wives, Mistresses, Men, and His Relationship with Menshikov
  7. A History of Kissing Between Men in Russia
  8. Polmuzhichye and Razmuzhichye in the Russian North: A History of Female Masculinity
  9. The 1916 Corruption Case of a Secret Society of Gay Officials Who Wore a Golden Winged Penis Badge

Folklore

  1. LGBT Chastushkas from 20th-Century Collections
  2. The Cross-Dressing Bogatyr: A Russian Bylina About Mikhailo Potyk, Who Disguises Himself as a Woman
  3. Uncensored Russian Folklore: Highlights from Afanasyev’s “Russian Secret Tales”
  4. Muzhik-Maslenitsa: A Maslenitsa Figure of a Man Dressed as a Woman

Biographies

  1. Grigory Teplov and the Sodomy Case in 18th-Century Russia
  2. Alexander Golitsyn: A Homosexual Man at the Head of Church and Education in the Russian Empire
  3. The Diary of Pyotr Medvedev, a Bisexual Moscow Merchant, 1854–1863
  4. Sergei Alexandrovich Romanov: A Homosexual Member of the Imperial Family
  5. Ivan Dmitriev, Young Favourites, and Same-Sex Desire in the Fables 'The Two Doves' and 'The Two Friends'
  6. Andrey Avinoff: A Russian Émigré Artist, Gay Man, and Scientist
  7. The Possible Homosexuality of Grand Duke Nikolai Mikhailovich of the Romanov Family
  8. Saint Moses the Hungarian – One of the First Queer Figures in Russian History?
  9. Aleksey Apukhtin: Homosexual, Poet, and Friend of Tchaikovsky
  10. Vladimir Lamsdorf: A Homosexual at the Head of the Russian Foreign Ministry under Nicholas II

🇺🇸 LGBT History of the USA

  1. Homoeroticism of the Victorian Era: Male Intimacy in Photographs from the 1850s–1890s in the Herbert Mitchell Collection
  2. The Future President’s Secret Operation: How Franklin Roosevelt Spent a Million Dollars on a Hunt for Gay Men in the Navy
  3. The History of Mandatory Nude Swimming for Men in the US
  4. The Story of the 2016 “Twinks for Trump” Photo Shoot

🌍 LGBT History of Africa

  1. History of Male Homosexuality in Senegal

🏺 LGBT History of Ancient Rome and the Etruscans

  1. Two Scenes of Sex Between Men in the Etruscan Tomb of the Chariots

🙏 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”
  4. Female Images of God in the Old Testament

🦴 Prehistoric LGBT History

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

🏺 LGBT History of Ancient Egypt

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

🏛️ LGBT History of Mesopotamia

  1. The Earliest Laws in History Against Same-Sex Relations – Assyria in the Twelfth Century BCE

🇨🇳 LGBT History of China

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

🇮🇷 LGBT History of Iran

  1. Male Same-Sex Intercourse in Iran After the Islamic Revolution: Criminal Law and Prosecution Statistics
  2. Sex Reassignment in the Islamic Republic of Iran: A Comprehensive Overview
  3. The Hermitage's 'Amorous Couple': An Iranian Painting with Gender Ambiguity
  4. What the Ancient Greeks Wrote About Homosexuality in Persia – and How Much of It Is True

🇹🇷 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?
  4. The Same-Sex Attraction of 15th-Century Turkish Official and Poet Ahmed Pasha to a Sultan's Page
  5. Three Ottoman Homosexual Miniatures from the Manuscript of Atâyî's Poems