Published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg

Transnational Queer Histories

Edited by: Bodie A. Ashton and Sabrina Mittermeier

ISSN: 2750-6096

e-ISSN 2750-610X

Overview
Volumes

The series Transnational Queer Histories aims at encouraging queer historical studies, defined at their broadest, to forge new cross-disciplinary paths and pioneer innovative intersectional approaches. It seeks works that deal　with transgender, non-binary, gender nonconforming, and intersex identities, as well as historical bisexuality, pansexuality, asexuality, polyamory, aromanticism, and other aspects of gender and sexuality that fall outside a classically-understood normative identification, and situates them within a critical framework of engagement across race, religion, culture,　class,　society, and other intersections of historical marginalisation.　

The series welcomes both monographs and edited volumes in English and German, and is edited by Sabrina Mittermeier and Bodie Ashton.

Avidsory Board:

Anna Hájková

Jennifer Evans

Tiffany Florvil

Martin Lücke

Onni Gust

Katie Sutton

Samuel Clowes Huneke

Yener Bayramoğlu

Topics

Book 2023

A Badge of Injury

The Pink Triangle as Global Symbol of Memory

Sébastien Tremblay

Volume 2 in this series

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A Badge of Injury is a contribution to both the fields of queer and global history. It analyses gay and lesbian transregional cultural communication networks from the 1970s to the 2000s, focusing on the importance of National Socialism, visual culture, and memory in the queer Atlantic. Provincializing Euro-American queer history, it illustrates how a history of concepts which encompasses the visual offers a greater depth of analysis of the transfer of ideas across regions than texts alone would offer. It also underlines how gay and lesbian history needs to be reframed under a queer lens and understood in a global perspective. Following the journey of the Pink Triangle and its many iterations, A Badge of Injury pinpoints the roles of cultural memory and power in the creation of gay and lesbian transregional narratives of pride or the construction of the historical queer subject. Beyond a success story, the book dives into some of the shortcomings of Euro-American queer history and the power of the negative, writing an emancipatory yet critical story of the era.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111067711
ISBN:: 9783111067711
ISBN:: 9783111068312
ISBN:: 9783111066752
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Modern History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Social History
Subject:: Gender History
Subject:: Global History
Publisher:: De Gruyter Oldenbourg

Book 2023

The Gay Girl in Damascus Hoax

Progressive Orientalism and the Arab Spring

Andrew Orr

Volume 1 in this series

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The Gay Girl in Damascus Hoax explores the vulnerability of educated and politically engaged Westerners to Progressive Orientalism, a form of Orientalism embedded within otherwise egalitarian and anti-imperialist Western thought. Early in the Arab Spring, the Gay Girl in Damascus blog appeared. Its author claimed to be Amina Arraf, a Syrian American lesbian Muslim woman living in Damascus. After the blog’s went viral in April 2011, Western journalists electronically interviewed Amina, magnifying the blog’s claim that the Syrian uprising was an ethnically and religiously pluralist movement anchored in an expansive sense of social solidarity. However, after a post announced that the secret police had kidnapped Amina, journalists and activists belatedly realized that Amina did not exist and Thomas “Tom” MacMaster, a forty-year-old straight white American man and peace activist living and studying medieval history in Scotland was the blog’s true author. MacMaster’s hoax succeeded by melding his and his audience’s shared political and cultural beliefs into a falsified version of the Syrian Revolution that validated their views of themselves as anti-racist and anti-imperialist progressives by erasing real Syrians.

Watch our book talk with the author Andrew Orr here: https://youtu.be/MnaaxlO6Vuw

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111057231
ISBN:: 9783111057231
ISBN:: 9783111056579
ISBN:: 9783111057583
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Contemporary History since 1945
Subject:: Other Topics
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Arab World
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Gender History
Subject:: Digital History
Publisher:: De Gruyter Oldenbourg