Last Thursday, in a celebration at the Tolhuistuin, in Amsterdam, Diego Galdo González was awarded the IHLIA Thesis Prize. Titled Descendants of Sodom: A History of Pleasure in Lima (1950-1982), Galdo González (University of Amsterdam) wrote a...
New IHLIA Research blog: The representation of bisexual women in Dutch lesbian periodicals 1980-1999
On the IHLIA Research website, scholars and students regularly write about LGBTQI research. Read their contributions on our blog. This time a contribution from Mo Cramer. This analysis looks at the representation and visibility of bisexual women in...
How We Behave presents materials from researcher Grant Watson’s expansive archive of interviews about radical life practices, which he has been conducting and collecting for more than ten years. Taking French philosopher Michel Foucault’s notion of...
Maaike Noorman and Tamika Marcos, PhD students at Utrecht University and Maastricht University, are conducting a large-scale study on involvement of people living with HIV and other important key groups in HIV cure research from 2020. There is...
On 31 October we welcome British scholar Richard Dyer, whose writings on stardom, entertainment, and the representation of gender, sexuality and race have made a great impact in film and cultural studies. The Richard Dyer Reader (2023), co-edited...
Fueled by the women’s and the gay liberation movements, as well as the rise of feminist and LGBTQI press, comics and cartoons with lesbian content proliferated in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands from the 1970s till the 1990s. This exhibition...
In 2024, IHLIA LGBTI Heritage will be looking again for the best thesis in the field of LGBTQ+ history in Flanders and the Netherlands. The IHLIA Thesis Prize will be awarded for the second time in March 2024. As of today, everyone can already...
As of today, the exhibition House of Hiv can be seen! And not only at IHLIA itself, but also at six other locations in Amsterdam. On August 22, there will be an exclusive tour of the House of Hiv rooms of IHLIA and The Black Queer Archives. In...
Currently you can see the exhibition Kin. at IHLIA’s, a photo series made by documentary photographer Stacey Yates – alias ‘The Bill Please’. It presents us with an inside look at Amsterdam’s first Drag King House. On this...
Why are LGBTQ+ people more likely to be sexually assaulted, harassed, and abused then cisgender and heterosexual people (Florez)? During this blogpost series, the ways in which LGBTQ+ people are vulnerable to sexual abuse and the impact it has on...