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July-August 2025
Features From Current Issue

Features

‘We have seen dark times before.’

An Interview by Colin Carman with Jennifer Finney Boylan, the author of Cleavage.

Essays

Nine Lessons from Weimar Germany

By Mathias Foit: The Nazi Movement can teach us a lot about social progress and queer history. Here are nine lessons from the Weimar era that may be applicable to our own time.

Essays

Queer Life in Postwar Germany

What emerges when one examines queer life in postwar Germany is a climate in which political, legal, and social freedoms periodically increased and then shrank back.

Essays

The Lavender Scare and Its Echoes

By Ronald O. Valdiserri: Will the current moral panic over gender identity and transgender rights follow a trajectory similar to that of the Lavender Scare of the 1950s?
Blog
1. August 14, 2025 The Paradox of “Tolerant” LGBT Communities
2. August 1, 2025 A View of Queer History through Photography
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