Books & ideas

Pits and Perverts

Marc Lenormand — 2025-01-16T07:30:00Z

The encounter between British miners and gay and lesbian activists during the strikes of 1984-85 was explored in the celebrated film Pride. A historian looks back at this memorable period and reveals the continuities between the two movements.

LGBT: Chinese and Online

Tao Hong & Lucas Monteil — 2018-10-11T07:00:00Z

After surfacing in the 1990s, the LGBT movement has continued to take hold in China, despite the new Chinese leadership's increasing hostility towards independent non-governmental organisations. This relative success is partly due to an innovative use of the Internet by the movement's actors.

White Evangelicals for Trump

Jessamin Birdsall — 2016-11-03T08:00:00Z

How have Evangelicals come to put their faith in Trump? Interviewing the inhabitants of a small Midwestern town, Jessamin Birdsall shows that their support for the Republican nominee is the product of an ideological compromise that has its roots in their fear of two different groups: Muslims and LGBT activists.