Was the Homosexual Made White? Race, Empire, and Analogy in Gay and Trans Thought in Twentieth‐Century Germany

Forum Introduction: Rethinking the Gendered History of Sexology

“…In particular, we might think here of the often colour-blind focus on questions of 'human rights' that have infused debates around same-sex marriage, while questions of queer migration or the experiences of queers of colour have frequently fallen beneath the radar of both scholarly inquiry and political activism. 24 Together, the articles collected in this forum demonstrate how attending to gender -as an object of research and as a category of analysis, often intersecting with other identity markers -enriches the historiography of sexology. They not only open up new areas of inquiry, but also challenge settled assumptions in the field.…”