History is made at night

Reading other people's end of year lists is like listening to people talking about their dreams - occasionally interesting but mostly ve...

I saw an online discussion recently about the origins of the term 'gender bender'. Seemingly Jon Savage used it in a 1980 article ab...

In 'And I Dance with Somebody: Queer History in a Japanese Nightclub' ( History Workshop Journal, Autumn 2020 ), Mark Pendleton  ref...

'Drag is about many things . It is about clothes and sex. It subverts the dress codes that tell us what men and women should look li...

Richard Norton's Homosexuality in Eighteenth-Century England: A Sourcebook includes lots of fascinating material, not least in relation...

'Nine men dressed in women's clothing were arrested on New Year's Eve in the discotheque of a Manama, Bahrain, hotel and charged...

"In 1927 the charge of keeping a disorderly house at 25, Fitzroy Square, near Euston Station, was brought after a long period of survei...

I won't be joining the tabloids in gloating over the fate of Boy George, jailed last week for 15 months for 'handcuffing a male esco...

Simon Reynolds kicked off a week of posts about The Sweet with the provocative question 'was there in fact a better British hard rock ...

History of Gay Bars in New York City is a remarkable blog that does just what is says. There is some great material - police raids, mafia c...

"If you went to clubs in those days before the war, you'd have been arrested and put in prison. I know personally a case where a wo...

Under the headline “An extraordinary ball — men dressed as women,” the cutting [from a local East End newspaper of 1879] tells of a dance he...