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November-December 2020
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Essays

Baron von Steuben’s Secret Heroism

Baron Friedrich Wilhelm Steuben joined the Prussian army when he was seventeen, eventually becoming an aide-de-camp to Frederick the Great, who was also rumored to have had homosexual leanings. (The conversation of Frederick’s inner court circle was peppered with homoerotic banter, and his residence included a Friendship Temple celebrating the homoerotic attachments of Greek antiquity).

Book Review

Interpreting Trans, 19th-century Style

In her new book Before Trans, Rachel Mesch adroitly walks the methodological tightrope of examining historical characters through the lens of transgender analysis, yet accepting their gender originality. Her writing is theoretically savvy without being academically ponderous.

Essays

Drs. Eliot and Dunham to the Rescue

Eliot and Dunham met in 1910 and would remain together “until death did them part” in 1969. It’s impossible to separate their 59-year relationship from the careers they built, even though they decided early on to guard against allowing their scientific careers to interfere with their personal relationship.

Essays

‘Sex Variants’ Were Everywhere

While “sex variant” was Henry’s term, the idea for the book came from Jan Gay, who had conducted 300 interviews with lesbians and gay men.
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