Jennifer Evans has guest edited a special issue of the Oxford UK journal German History on “Queering German History.” Included in the September 2016 issue are articles from medieval Europe through to the 21st century. Themes include Carolingian notions of honour and brotherhood, homoeroticism in 18th century patriotism, psychoanalysis and sexology, the 1970s gay rights movement and transnational queer magazine publishing.
This special issue, the first of its kind in her discipline, is not just about writing gay and lesbian lives back into history. As Evans says in her introductory essay “Why Queer German History?” queer methodologies are useful for all historians. “A queered history … emphasizes overlap, contingency, ambiguity and complexity. It asks us to linger over our own assumptions—individual as well as societal—to interrogate the role they play in the past we seek out, discover and recreate in our writing.”
The issue may be found here: http://gh.oxfordjournals.org/content/current
