Sean Brady - From Sodomy Laws to Same-Sex Marriage: International Perspectives Since 1789

From Sodomy Laws to
Same-Sex Marriage

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Fighting Proud: The Untold Story of the Gay Men Who Served in Two World Wars, Stephen Bourne

Controlling Sex in Captivity: POWs and Sexual Desire in the United States during the Second World War, Matthias Reiss

Forthcoming:

Writing Queer History, Matt Cook

The International LGBT Rights Movement: A History, Laura A. Belmonte

From Sodomy Laws to
Same-Sex Marriage

International Perspectives since 1789

Edited by
Sean Brady and
Mark Seymour

The editors wish to acknowledge the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology at Birkbeck College, University of London, and the University of Otago for funding, and Birkbeck College, University of London, for providing space for the conference on which this volume is based. We thank Dr. Mark Stocker, Curator Historical International Art, Te Papa Museum of New Zealand, for suggesting the cover image, and the Gluck Estate for generous permission to reproduce Glucks 1937 painting, Medallion, on the cover.

Robert Aldrich is Professor of European History at the University of Sydney. A prolific author across a wide range of themes, his books on homosexuality include Cultural Encounters and Homoeroticism in Sri Lanka (Routledge, 2014), Gay Life Stories (Thames and Hudson, 2012), Colonialism and Homosexuality (Routledge, 2003), and The Seduction of the Mediterranean (Routledge, 1993).

Sean Brady is Lecturer in History at Birkbeck, University of London, with research interests in Irish and British masculinity and sexuality. His monograph, Masculinity and Male Homosexuality in Britain, 18611913, was published in 2005 by Palgrave (paperback 2009). He has coedited Ireland and Masculinities in History (Palgrave, 2019), The Palgrave Handbook of Masculinity and Political Culture in Europe (2018), John Addington Symonds and Homosexuality (Palgrave, 2012), and What Is Masculinity? Historical Dynamics from Antiquity to the Contemporary World (Palgrave, 2011).

Ben Bethell recently submitted his PhD on the star class, contamination, and classification in English convict prisons before 1930, at Birkbeck, University of London.

Kate Davison is a PhD candidate in History at the University of Melbourne. Her research is on constructions of the homosexual during the Cold War.

Mark Finnane is Professor of History at Griffith University, where he directs the Prosecution Project, a historical database of criminal prosecutions in Australian higher courts in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He has published widely on the history of criminal justice, policing, punishment, and criminal law in both Australia and Ireland.

Benno Gammerl is Lecturer in History at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is researching the interplay between migratory dynamics and sexual attitudes and practices in Europe from the late nineteenth century and he published Subjects, Citizens and Others: Administering Ethnic Heterogeneity in the British and Habsburg Empires, 18671918, with Berghahn in 2018.

Marcia Gallo is Associate Professor of History at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Her research lies in the areas of feminism, progressive queer politics, and oral history methodology, and she has written two monographs: Different Daughters: A History of the Daughters of Bilitis and the Rise of the Lesbian Rights Movements (Carroll & Graf, 2006) and No One Helped: Kitty Genovese, New York City, and the Myth of Urban Apathy (Cornell, 2015).

Yuri Guaiana is on the executive board of ILGA-Europe and holds a PhD in contemporary history from the University of Milan. An activist as well as a scholar, he has published a range of essays and articles, as well as an edited collection titled Dal cuore delle coppie al cuore del diritto (Viterbo: Stampa Alternativa, 2011).

Magally Allegre Henderson holds a PhD in Latin American History from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She teaches at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, where she also holds an administrative appointment as Officer for Research Advancement and Gender Equality.

Geoffroy Huard has a PhD in contemporary Spanish History from the University of Cdiz in cotutelle with the University of Amiens. He is a lecturer in history at the Universit de Cergy-Pontoise, where he researches the repression of homosexuality under Franco. He is the author of Los antisociales. Historia de la homosexualidad en Barcelona y Pars, 19451975 (Marcial Pons, 2014) and Les gays sous le franquisme. Discours, subcultures et revendications Barcelone, 19391977 (Orbis Tertius, 2016).

Dominic Janes is Professor of History at the University of Keele. His research field is visual culture, with particular interest in histories of gender, sexuality, and religion. Recent book publications include Oscar Wilde Prefigured: Queer Fashioning and British Caricature, 17501900 (Chicago, 2016), Picturing the Closet: Male Secrecy and Homosexual Visibility in Britain (Oxford, 2015), and Visions of Queer Martyrdom from John Henry Newman to Derek Jarman (Chicago, 2015).

Rebecca Jennings is Lecturer in History at University College London, which she joined in 2018 after a research fellowship at Macquarie University, Sydney. Her research focuses on twentieth-century British and Australian lesbian history, and she is the author of Tomboys and Bachelor Girls: A Lesbian History of Post-War Britain (2007); A Lesbian History of Britain: Love and Sex between Women since 1500 (2007); and Unnamed Desires: A Sydney Lesbian History (2015).

The Hon. Michael Kirby AC CMG was Justice of the High Court of Australia (19962009); President of the International Commission of Jurists (19958); Chair of the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (201314); and is Co-Chair of the International Bar Associations Human Rights Institute (2018). Kirby lives in Sydney with his partner Johan van Vloten, whom he married in February 2019, on the fiftieth anniversary of their first meeting.

Patrick McDonagh submitted his PhD thesis exploring the history of gay and lesbian activism in the Republic of Ireland, 19731993, to the European University Institute in late 2018.

Daniel Monk is Professor of Law at Birkbeck, University of London, where his research explores a wide range of issues relating to families, children, education, and sexuality. As well as a wide range of articles and chapters, he cowrote The Family, Law and Society (6th edition, Oxford, 2008) and coedited From Civil Partnership to Same-Sex Marriage, 20042014 (Routledge, 2015).

Bryant (Tip) Ragan is Professor of History at Colorado College, where he teaches the history of Europe from the Renaissance to the French Revolution. He has coedited Homosexuality in Early Modern France: A Documentary Collection (Oxford, 2001) and Homosexuality in Modern France (Oxford, 1996).

Mark Seymour is Associate Professor of History at the University of Otago, New Zealand. A historian of modern Italy, he has published Debating Divorce in Italy (Palgrave, 2006), and coedited Politica ed emozioni (2102), on the relationship between politics and emotions in Italy, as well as a range of scholarly articles and chapters. He is coeditor of the journal