Michel Otten

ILGA’s State-Sponsored Homophobia report online

Every year, ILGA publishes its State-Sponsored Homophobia report, a world survey of sexual orientation laws. Since its first edition, back in 2006, ILGA’s State-Sponsored Homophobia has been a fundamental resource for those interested in accessing...

Launch of the 2nd wave of the European survey of lgbti

This is the 2nd wave of the European survey of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, intersex, and also non-binary, and other gender non-conforming people. The survey is looking for responses from anyone who considers themselves to be LGBTI, who is aged 15...

Queer History Conference 2019 in San Francisco

The Committee on LGBT History and the GLBT Historical Society present QHC 19, to be held at San Francisco State University from June 16 to 18, 2019. Join historians, educators, and activists to share, discuss, and debate the import of our most...

Shimmering Images

In Shimmering Images Eliza Steinbock traces how cinema offers alternative ways to understand gender transitions through a specific aesthetics of change. Drawing on Barthes’s idea of the “shimmer” and Foucault’s notion of sex as a mirage...