USA on Uránia

“Queer in a Legal Sense” — a book by José A. de la Garza Valenzuela on Chicanx literature and US citizenship

Sat, 18 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0400

“Queer in a Legal Sense” is a monograph by American researcher José A. de la Garza Valenzuela about the connection between US immigration law and literature, published in English by the University of Texas Press. In the context of the long history of disputes over border control and racial politics in North America, the book demonstrates how legal documents shaped the history of regulating sexuality and migration.

“The Fight of Our Lives” — a book by David Levithan and Gabriel Duckels about the HIV crisis in the US

Sat, 18 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0400

“The Fight of Our Lives: AIDS in America” is a book by American authors David Levithan and Gabriel Duckels about the history of the HIV epidemic in the United States, published in English by Knopf. In the context of the history of LGBT activism in the US, the book recounts how the government’s neglect of the epidemic in the 1980s and 1990s forced the community to fight on its own for its rights, access to treatment, and public attention.

The Future President’s Secret Operation: How Franklin Roosevelt Spent a Million Dollars on a Hunt for Gay Men in the Navy

Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:00:00 +0300

In 1919 the United States Navy launched a covert operation at its base in Newport, Rhode Island, aimed at sailors suspected of same-sex relations.

Two Republican Politicians from Georgia and Their Old Photographs in Women’s Clothing

Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:00:00 +0300

In the spring of 2026, U.S. outlets published school photographs of two Georgia Republicans – Representatives Buddy Carter and Mike Collins.

Support for LGBT Rights in the US: PRRI's 2025 50-State Survey

Fri, 20 Mar 2026 12:00:00 +0000

The Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) is an independent American nonprofit research center that studies the intersection of religion, culture, and politics. As part of its 2025 American Values Atlas, the institute surveyed more than 22,000 American adults and produced an analysis of support for LGBT rights across all 50 states. The survey was conducted online from February 28 to December 8, 2025. The margin of error at the national level is ±0.87 percentage points at a 95% confidence level.

Homoeroticism of the Victorian Era: Male Intimacy in Photographs from the 1850s–1890s from the Herbert Mitchell Collection

Thu, 01 Jan 2026 22:45:37 +0700

The photographs below are mostly amateur studio portraits from the second half of the 19th century, roughly from the 1850s to the 1890s. In them, men pose in close physical contact: embracing, holding hands, placing a hand on a shoulder or on a knee.

The Story of the 2016 “Twinks for Trump” Photo Shoot

Thu, 10 Jul 2025 09:30:32 +0700

In 2016, at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, a photo project titled \u201CTwinks for Trump\u201D was presented. It was a series of photographs featuring young, slim, and often shirtless gay men wearing baseball caps that read \u201CMake America Great Again.\u201D