LGBTQ+ Historians & Social Scientists
All practitioners of LGBTQ+ history, social science, political science, and more are welcome to join this starter pack!
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@heatherhaleyphd.bsky.social
@ericbmarcus.bsky.social
Journalist. Storyteller. Founder & host @makinggayhistory.bsky.social. Co-producer of Those Who Were There: Voices from the Holocaust podcast. Anti-fascist proud gay Jew since 1958.🏳️🌈
@susanstryker.bsky.social
Trans Studies||Historian||Filmmaker||Settler on Ramaytush Ohlone Land||When Monsters Speak: A Susan Stryker Reader @dukepress.bsky.social||susanstryker.net||Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford University
@thomaswillett.bsky.social
✨Doctoral Researcher | Writing queer experiences 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️| Co-Founder & Executive Director @EqualityAmplified.org.uk | Global Content Manager | All views are my own ✨
@drmehmetyavuz.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @ K-State | PhD @umanitoba.bsky.social | Peace and Conflict Studies | Balkans | Middle East | Queer Studies | Transitional Justice |Activism| 🇧🇦🇨🇾🇹🇷🏳️🌈🧿| Opinions are my own| 📍Manhattan, KS
@karstenschubert.net
Associate Fellow in Political Theory at Humboldt University Berlin. NEW BOOK: Lob der Identitätspolitik, C.H.Beck, http://www.lobderidentitaetspolitik.de
@lynncabrams.bsky.social
Feminist, gardener, knitter, cyclist. Professor of Modern History Uni of Glasgow, gender history, oral history, textiles esp knit
@aiross.bsky.social
Associate Professor of History at Loyola University Maryland. History of Sexuality, Modern Europe, Feminist and Queer Studies. http://www.andrewisraelross.com 🏳️🌈
@shahinnazar.bsky.social
Researcher of the far right, media, conspiracies, race and gender. Also ecofascism. PhD and open source investigations @ Utrecht University. Personal account. 🏳️🌈🏳️ He/him
@bobbyhuen.bsky.social
Founder of BH Conflict Resolution Services (BHCRS.com) Anchor at Queer News Tonight 🏳️🌈 (https://youtube.com/@QNewsTonight) Writer, Consultant, Mediator. https://linktr.ee/bobbyhuen Terminally online, endlessly curious, highly opinionated.
@markoconnellstudio.bsky.social
Professor at Seneca Polytechnic in Toronto. Research areas: fashion history; Queer history; visual culture; transglobal commodities that shaped colonial societies, and fashion tech. Publications: markoconnellstudio.com https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1027-9338
@remueh.bsky.social
| researcher | history and present of armed conflict, gender, sexuality, rape and other forms of sexual violence | WWII Europe and Asia, Holocaust | CRSV GSBV VAW | author of "Sex and the Nazi Soldier" | co-founder https://warandgender.net
@simonjlock.bsky.social
writer - researcher - nerd | professor of science, politics and culture at UCL | queer STS | social justice and science | co-dir. research centre for gender and sexual diversity | he/they | views my own | 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🍉
@sjvigneault.bsky.social
PhD candidate @camhistory.bsky.social | Intimacy between French colonised soldiers/workers and Europeans in France & Germany (1914-1950) Co-convenor of Ambivalent Archives (CRASSH) https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/sara-jane-vigneault
@ecpritchard.bsky.social
Queering justice and human rights • LGBTIAQ storytelling • currently found phd-ing, playing with comms for humanitarian organisations, and probably drinking a cup of tea 🏳️🌈 she/they• #TransRightsAreHumanRights
@queeratlast.bsky.social
Two pals. One museum artefact. Millennia of queer history unlocked before your very ears 🏳️🌈 Podcast episodes released fortnightly ✨ linktr.ee/queeratlast Got any feedback/questions/suggestions for episode topics? Drop us an email: queeratlast@outlook.com!
@tigslater.bsky.social
Queer, trans, disability studies,sociology, education stuff. Currently working on a project about preventing harassment of people doing LGBT+ research: Tinyurl.com/LGBTImpact
@ayloncohen.bsky.social
teaching feminist political theory at Oxford University & writing a history of manhood democracy through the lens sodomy
@bariscaylimessina.com
Assoc Professor / Editor-in-Chief, International Social Science Journal (Wiley)/Editor of Temple Studies in Criminalization, History & Society Book Series (Temple Univ Press) A gay man 🏳️🌈 Trans ally www.bariscaylimessina.com #Sociology #History #Criminology
@queerdrew.bsky.social
Critical Human Geographer 🎓 Madonna and Apple TV+ fanatic ✌🏻 Scottish based in Dublin 🌍 Can be found somewhere with Rhys 👬🏳️🌈 he/him
@shelbyjudge.bsky.social
Lecturer, Derby Uni • researches feminist myth retellings and, mostly unrelatedly, Incels; teaches english literature & media • good at book recs • she/her 🏳️🌈
@ankahajkova.bsky.social
Holocaust, Jewish, feminist, and queer history. She/her. Author of The Last Ghetto
@bentrott.bsky.social
Political theory/philosophy. Social movements. Queer Studies. Nobody’s thoughts are their own. “Queer Studies: Schlüsseltexte” co-editor (with @mikelaufenberg.bsky.social). https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/queer-studies-t-9783518299081
@ryanthoreson.bsky.social
Law prof at Cincinnati, teaching int’l law, law and sexuality, con law & torts. 26.2 x 24. ⚖️ 🏳️🌈 🏃
@sjvider.bsky.social
Associate Professor of History at Bryn Mawr College, author of The Queerness of Home, stephenvider.com
@historyunerased.bsky.social
Putting LGBTQ History In Its Rightful Place- The Classroom https://linktr.ee/historyunerased
@annaoleszczuk.bsky.social
researcher | translator | geek | she/they 🏳️🌈🍉 sf | fantasy | comics | gender and queer theory | intersectional feminism currently in: Poland
@frischplan.bsky.social
Urban planning + design prof, writes and thinks about cities, community development, LGBTQ communities, the environment, Kansas City MO, Col. Co, NY (New Lebanon), housing, synth-pop, Quaker (PVMM, IYM-c), non-violence, bicycles. 🏳️🌈 views are my own.
@renjender.bsky.social
Queer writer-performer/producer making a film, writing at NY Times, NPR, Village Voice and Slate. 2021 National Critics Institute Fellow. *Deeply* petty. Gmail: njender Insta: renjender. https://renjender.contently.com
@citoyenneclaire.bsky.social
Head of History at a Sixth Form and a PhD student at UCL's Institute of Education, researching the representation of LGBTQ+ history in the KS5 curriculum. She/Her claireholliss.wordpress.com
@bxlla.bsky.social
📍Minneapolis, MN, USA - Marine & Global Political Scientist University of Hawai`i at Hilo Alumni - She/They Multiracial Multilingual (L)GBTQ Adoptee I took Barbie as an inspiration for career check lists. Next up: Politician?
@mlewincampos.bsky.social
Independent ethnomusicologist and historian of music: romantic composers; Latinx folk; political/human rights/queerness activism in modern pop. Proud native. Poet. AskHistorians mod & podcast host. They/she 🏳️🌈
@paulmorganbentley.bsky.social
Head of Investigations at The Times in London and author. Occasional undercover reporter. 2X winner of the Cudlipp Award for investigative reporting. Dad (with husband, Robin) to two very jumpy boys (one poodle, one human) 🏳️🌈
@michellelkahn.bsky.social
Historian of far-right extremism, writing a book about German & American neo-Nazis | Also: migration, racism, & sexuality in Europe/global | Author of Foreign in Two Homelands (2024) | University of Richmond | Ask me about fascism & my 3 cats
@loganscasey.bsky.social
Director of Policy Research at @mapresearch.bsky.social Movement Advancement Project (MAP). Political Science PhD, UMich '16. Go Blue! St. Louis born and raised. I’ve probably got a spreadsheet for that.🌈🏳️⚧️📈📊📉
@davidmurph115.bsky.social
PhD candidate at Lancaster University researching queer British response to queerphobia in Uganda, and notions of international queer solidarity. He/Him 🏳️🌈 https://linktr.ee/davidmurph115
@hbouvard.bsky.social
Maître de conférences/Associate Professor. Université Paris Cité. Sexual minorities, social movements, political careers, in France and in the United States. Latest book: https://www.septentrion.com/fr/livre/?GCOI=27574100589030
@leeannthill.bsky.social
Interdisciplinary art-based research on gender, hum/an/imal relations, veganism, body, disability, bisexuality. Artist, art therapist, t1diabetes, ADHD+SPCD. I ❤️ peanut butter, reading history & Gritty. SJ/Philly, from East TX. 🩷💜💙
@ehlastigirl.bsky.social
Professor of being too disabled to be a professor anymore. Previously, Prof. Disability Studies, Gender Studies, English at UW-Madison. Author Hypermobilities (poems), Fantasies of Identification (NYU Press), #criptime #EDS
@drmitchtravis.bsky.social
Associate Professor. Housed in @lsjleeds.bsky.social at University of Leeds. Former Socio-Legal Studies Association trustee. Intersex Justice and Jurisprudential Futures. All views my own (he/him)
@thediegogarcia.bsky.social
Leverhulme Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham ✨ | Founder & Host of the Queer(y)ing Asylum Symposium & Podcast 🎙️ | Exploring the intersections of LGBTIQ+ asylum, faith, and health across borders 🌍 | Indonesia 🇮🇩 | Free 🇵🇸
@tanyaserisier.bsky.social
Feminist academic working on sexual politics. Current project on public survivors. Member and activist Birkbeck UCU. Also cross stitches.
@kevinguyan.bsky.social
RAINBOW TRAP AVAILABLE TO PREORDER NOW 🌈 Author of Queer Data 📊 Researching LGBTQ data at the University of Edinburgh 🌍 he/him/his linktr.ee/kevinguyan
@jgarciaiglesias.bsky.social
Sociologist of sexual health. Chancellor's Fellow at University of Edinburgh. 🇪🇸🏳️🌈🏴 he/him
@historydavis.bsky.social
Author of FIERCE DESIRES: A NEW HISTORY OF SEX AND SEXUALITY IN AMERICA, publisher of the Carnal Knowledge newsletter, and co-host of This Is Probably a Really Weird Question, a podcast about sexual health and history.
@mfrederickm.bsky.social
I research gay things for fun and not-gay things for work || Chicago || 🏳️🌈 He/Him
@lgbtqeditors.bsky.social
Are you an LGBTQIA+ editor? Join us to chat, mentor/be mentored, and network! Founded by @VeeWhite. Social media coordinator: Victoria Krouse. Important Links: https://linktr.ee/lgbtqeditors
@manwithoutatan.bsky.social
historian | pet shop boys fanatic | australian in germany | very bisexual | constantly podcasting | "oh, dr. bodie!" per jordan gray | they/them | latest book: “the pet shop boys and the political”
@sexhistorian.bsky.social
Historian of health, welfare, childhood & sexuality. Expertise in public health education, HIV/AIDS, activism, gender, queer health, & emotions. Researching the health history of fuel poverty in North East England @ Northumbria University They/them
@grahn.bsky.social
Associate Professor in political science at Uppsala University & @uppgap.bsky.social. Gender, sexuality, political behavior, segregation.🇸🇪🏳️🌈 Associate editor @respol.bsky.social Web: michalgrahn.com
@laurah.bsky.social
Film Studies prof curious about all things cinematic, trans, queer, feminist. Director of @transmediaportl.bsky.social. Author: Girls Will Be Boys (2016). she/her (white cis queer)
@pollyhember.bsky.social
Researching modernism, queer networks, literature and silent cinema 📚🎞️ writing about the POOL group 🌊 teaching poetry, modernist lit and film at Royal Holloway. She/her.
@magmidd.bsky.social
They/them. Manchester, England. Freelance designer of playful learning experiences. Museums - Exhibit Design - Social Justice - Queer Possibility - Power of Play - Children's Museums margaretmiddleton.com
@artblake.bsky.social
academic. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈. historian of 🇺🇸but writing about trans/queer 1970s 🇬🇧. settler in Dish with One Spoon territory. 🇬🇧 working in 🇨🇦.
@bec1926.bsky.social
Archaeologist, historian and writer. Anne Neville: Queen and Wife of Richard III published July 2024. Edward Seymour and his wives tbp 2025.
@jbartashius.bsky.social
phd global studies. ecr. religion & film/gender/migration. pubs on stranger things/lady bird/fight club. bylines: @japantimes@kyotojournal@civilbeat @religiondispatches@deepkyoto https://independent.academia.edu/JBartashius
@karolinakrasuska.bsky.social
Prof., University of Warsaw | transnational literature, gender/queer theory | “Soviet-Born: Afterlives of Migration in Jewish American Fiction” (Rutgers UP, 2024)| 🐈⬛owner | she/her
@lesbischel.bsky.social
Team: "Zwischen Unsichtbarkeit, Repression & lesbischer Emanzipation – Frauenliebende* Frauen im deutschen Südwesten 1945 bis 1980" #lesbengeschichte #HERstory
@sebboo.bsky.social
Historian (Berlin/Flensburg) 🏳️🌈 First book: global / German / queer history, memory studies. Present project: history of European hiking associations. He/Him. Grufti 🦦 Nerd & 🩰. Born in Montréal / Tiohtià:ke
@professormeredith.bsky.social
Historian, writer, and podcaster blending humor and insight. Host of Bitchy History, where irreverence meets historical deep dives. Author of a forthcoming book exploring 1950s media and its impact on American politics and culture.
@shsalter.bsky.social
Writing & teaching histories of sexuality, racialization, and editorship. w/ editorshipstudies.org, as editor of American Periodicals, at Emory U. [all opinions = my own] Also: dogs dogs dogs
@aspencerhall.bsky.social
Writer. Researcher. Editor. Genderqueer femme. Crip. She/they. // medieval lit / media / gender / disability / pop culture // https://linktr.ee/aspencerhall
@iamdylanlewis.bsky.social
¶PhD in C17-18 book history & bibliography ¶Anglo-German print & typography ¶queer media history ¶video game, arthouse cinema, & public transit enjoyer ¶Librarian-in-training ¶ 🇺🇸🇩🇪🏳️🌈 He/Him 📍Texan in DC https://linktr.ee/iamdylanlewis
@emilygwen.bsky.social
28. Non-binary lesbian. Designed that one lesbian flag. She/they. Australian.
@kmarino1.bsky.social
Historian | https://nyupress.org/9781479825196/votes-for-college-women/ | https://twitter.com/K_Marino1 | https://sacredheart.academia.edu/KellyMarino
@adrianlehne.bsky.social
Historian | History Education | History of HIV/AIDS and Sexualities in the FGR and GDR | at FU Berlin
@elengebretsen.bsky.social
Professor, University of Stavanger. Feminism, Anthropology, Queer Studies. Feminist Activism in the Post-2010s Sinosphere (2024). Transforming Identities in Cont. Europe (2023). Anti-Gender Politics & Queer Theory (2022). Queer Women in Urban China (2014)
@zaviernunn.bsky.social
Historian of the forbidden present. Fellow @ Columbia University. Incoming Assistant Professor @ Northwestern University. RIP the mullet.
@notabattlechick.bsky.social
Purple-haired civil servant. Public Diplomacy person. Historian. Author. Educator. Leader. Tar Heel. COVID Long-hauler. Doodler. Procedural-drama obsessed smart lady. Cat servant. 2x speed audiobook aficionado. Occasional trouble maker. All views my own.
@annalisamartin.bsky.social
Historian of gender, labour, sexuality and welfare in modern Germany Postdoc @ Univ of Glasgow
@eichnercarolyn.bsky.social
Historian 19th c. France & empire; gender, race, & sexuality; social movements; Paris Commune; names.
@georgesevers.bsky.social
Historian of sexual health, sexual violence and HIV/AIDS. Postdoc at the Geneva Graduate Institute in Switzerland. Honorary Research Fellow of the School of Historical Studies at Birkbeck, University of London. Usually found reading or swimming.
@emilybjack.bsky.social
PhD Candidate, Cornell Government / Texan & Virginian / I study reproductive politics, social movements, and gender in Latin America and the US. (she/her)
@pepinneff.bsky.social
A/Professor of Public Policy. Focus on: Agenda-setting, inequality, and emotions - including LGBTQ+ politics and human-shark interactions. Let's talk more about poverty. Opinions are my own. (they/them): https://linktr.ee/chris.pepin
@aflor017.github.io
Political science LGBTQ politics Assoc Prof @American University Distinguished Visiting Scholar @Williams Institute Associate Editor at PRQ https://www.american.edu/spa/faculty/aflores.cfm https://aflor017.github.io
@lauriem.bsky.social
Queer & trans historian & Weimar Republic & Nazi State. TRANS BERLIN coming 2027. U. of Washington, Seattle. #BLM 🏳️⚧️ Prince & the Revolution. he/they. Other book, on love & Li Shiu Tong! & bad boyfriend Hrschfld
@charlielynch.bsky.social
Social Historian | Glasgow, Irish Adjacent | Humanist | Writes about sex, religion, queer lives, moral panics.
@engelmal.bsky.social
Chancellor's Fellow at Uni of Edinburgh (STIS & CBSS) Author of 'Mapping AIDS' (CUP), co-author of 'Sulphuric Utopias' (MIT) PI at the Epidemy Lab (ERC): http://epidemy.org
@massimoprearo.bsky.social
Researcher in Political Science @UniVerona | PhD @EHESS_fr | #LGBT+ politics & anti-gender mobilizations | Emma Goldman Award 2022
@schuneke.bsky.social
Historian of Queerness, Democracy, Dictatorship • Words in LARB, TNR, Baffler • represented by Inkwell Management • 🏳️🌈
@tomsmithgerman.bsky.social
Lecturer, writer, mostly German and queer stuff, some radio, lots of music 🎶 he/him 🍉
@christopherewing.bsky.social
Queer historian at Purdue University working on sex/tourism, race, crime in Germany, the US, and lots of other places. Author of The Color of Desire (Cornell 2023). he/him.
@schlockvalue.bsky.social
Queer film historian and programmer | ASK ANY BUDDY | elizabethpurchell.com
@nturavrgcistory.bsky.social
Transgender Museum Professional Bridging the Gap Between Trans Studies and Museum Studies https://linktr.ee/notyouraveragecistory She/Her
@ervinmalakaj.bsky.social
media studies, 19c literary studies, film studies, queer studies, German studies; post also in Bosnian/German; plant dad and dog mom; vegan but not annoying about it; writing a memoir 🏳️🌈 https://www.ervinmalakaj.com
@paisleycurrah.com
My speciality: government decisions on sex classification. Member Institute for Advanced Study. Wrote Sex is as Sex Does: Governing Transgender Identity. Dad, dog companion, kayaker. n+1, Boston Review, New York Review, Yale Review www.paisleycurrah.com
@wendylrouse.bsky.social
Professor, Historian, Author of Queer History of the Suffrage Movement & Her Own Hero: Origins of Women's Self-Defense, History Teacher Prep, #LGBTQHistory 🏳️🌈🗃️ WendyLRouse.com
@jennifervevans.bsky.social
historian | digital curator | Humboldtian | professor | currently writing Full Frontal: A New History of the Sexual Revolution for Stanford Univ Press/Redwood Press latest book: Queer Art of History: Queer Kinship After Fascism (Duke UP, 2023)
@evanpsullivan.bsky.social
PhD | Assistant Prof of History at SUNY ADK | Historian of disability, gender, & war | book: Constructing Disability after the Great War | Father, husband, & cat dad | posts are my own
@rachelcleves.bsky.social
Hungry historian. Novelist. Vancouver Island dweller. I post a lot about old books I'm reading, and sometimes new ones. Also art and nature shots. I avoid posting about politics because what the fuck's the point. You know what I think.
@cccamac.bsky.social
Director of the John J. Wilcox, Jr. Archives at William Way LGBT Community Center. Coloradan in Philly. Pie baker. (He/him/his)
@jendeaderick.bsky.social
DED-er-ick. Author SHE THE PEOPLE, a history of women’s citizenship in the US. Writer on gender, economics, boobs for Dame, NBER, NYT. May or may not be notable. Substack: https://jendeaderick.substack.com Other stuff: https://linktr.ee/jendeaderick
@turnbulldugarte.com
Political scientist 🇿🇦🏳️🌈 Associate Editor POQ, EJPG, and R&P he/him Far-right, social identities, & electoral behaviour Writing a book on LGBTQ voters for PUP 🏳️🌈🗳️ http://turnbulldugarte.com/ #ihadablackdog https://youtu.be/XiCrniLQGYc?si=q-gQTNXfScmgtl4k
@kmkaempf.bsky.social
Sexualitätsgeschichte, Pädophiliediskurse, Queer Theory, feminist STS. #LWithTheT
@amyjay401.bsky.social
Historian of War, Gender, and the Modern U.S. Author of Rough Draft: Cold War Military Manpower Policy and the Origins of Vietnam-Era Draft Resistance. Working on a book on the effects of peace activism on the US military. Former high school teacher.