How British Colonialism Left a Legacy of Homophobia Around the World

For over 90 percent of those surveyed, “anti-homosexual accurately describes present-day Christians.”[1]

Over and over again, however, the British found it possible to justify such brutal war crimes with the quasi-religious reasoning that they were somehow handing out God’s justice on men who were not men, but were instead more like devils. In the eyes of Victorian Evangelicals, mass murder was no longer mass murder, but instead had become divine veng

achievements of gay lobbying efforts—a chain of triumph, in Galloway's terms—created order in a messy and capacious world of public sexual encounters,

Let’s not lose sight of this final point: we know what those colonial leaders were thinking. We have volumes of their public writings and private correspondence. English abolitionism wasn’t a primary concern of anyone’s. It wasn’t a secondary or even a tertiary concern.

(The INS paid the PHS no mind; the old definition continued to be used until the US Congress passed the Immigration Act of 1990.)

How do you map the US Supreme Court’s 2003 ruling that struck down the last of the laws criminalizing gay and lesbian sex? The conventional narrative would have it that the power rests in the hands of the nine robed ones; a more radical model would mention the gay Texas couple who chose to turn their lives inside out over many years to press the la