The Fruits of Rank
September 25
The unholy alliance between well-heeled gay men and the conservative movement.
Samuel Huneke
Samuel Clowes Huneke is associate professor of modern German history at George Mason University and author of States of Liberation: Gay Men between Dictatorship and Democracy in Cold War Germany. His essays have appeared in The Point, Boston Review, and elsewhere.
Hope Sinks
May 13, 2025
The state ramps up its campaign of repression against queer and trans people.
Theory Damaged
June 11, 2024
Is something wrong with queer theorists?
The Pendulum of Queer History
July 6, 2023
The “arc” of queer history is more often a pendulum.
Dangerous as the Plague
June 23, 2022
Anti-gay animus is nothing new.
East Berlin Stories
March 10, 2022
Gay espionage in Cold War Berlin.
The Queer Other
June 24, 2021
The West likes to fancy itself uniquely tolerant of queer people. Murderous violence against trans people may be on the rise in the United States and hate crimes against LGBT individuals in Germany may have increased 36 percent last year, but, we’re assured, it’s really ...
Beyond Gay Imperialism
March 23, 2021
Complicating the “global divide” in LGBTQ protections.