Transnational LGBTQ+ Networks in Europe and the Americas

Laura A. Belmonte is Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences at Virginia Tech, USA. A specialist in the history of U.S. foreign relations, she is the author of The International LGBT Movement (Bloomsbury, 2021).Peter Edelberg is Teaching Associate Professor of History at University of Copenhagen, Denmark.Víctor M. Macías-González is Professor of History and Race, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Faculty Fellow for Diversity and Inclusion in the College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, USA.

• List of imagesIntroduction to Transnational LGBTQ+ Networks in Europe, the Americas, and the Pacific: Collaboration, Intervention and Activism Since 1920, Laura A. Belmonte, Peter Edelberg, and Víctor M. Macías-González (Virginia Tech, USA, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and The University of Wisconsin, La Crosse, USA)Part I: Print Culture and the Transmittal and Movement of Homophile and Homosexual Liberation1. Italy and the “Homophile International:” The Transnational Activism of Bernardino del Boca in the 1950s, Alessio Ponzio (MacEwan University, Canada)2. Transnational Homophile Publications in Mexico, 1950s-1960s: Readers, Translators, and Publishers, Víctor M. Macías-González (The University of Wisconsin, La Crosse, USA)3. Homophile Travel: Cold War Citizenship, and the Queer Eurocentric Imagination, David S. Churchill (University of Manitoba, Canada)4. “I am for sale for 500 kroner:” Race and Power in Danish Homoerotica, 1969-75, Andrew DJ Shield (Leiden University, Netherlands)Part II: Development of Second Wave Activist Organizations5. Letting the Skeletons Come Out: Gendered and Other Frictions in Transnational Organizing for Gay and Lesbian Rights, 1970-1980, Pia Laskar (Stockholm University, Sweden)6. “Global Sisterhood is a Myth:” Forging Transnational Lesbian Networks at the 1986 ILIS Conference in Geneva, Switzerland, Hannah Leffingwell (The New School, USA)7. Linking Transnationalism, Regionalism, and a Politics of “Intercultural” Solidarity in Dutch Lesbian Archival Practices, 1970s-1990s, Noah Littel (Maastricht University, Netherlands), Noah Littel (Leiden University, Netherlands)8. Moving Beyond Methodological Nationalism: Transnationalizing the Historiography of Danish LGBTQ+ Activism, Peter Edelberg (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)9. Transnational AIDS Activism and the Collaboration between Homosexual Rights Organizations in Scandinavia, 1981-1994, Jacob Preene (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)10. Thinking Globally, Acting Locally: Australian Trans Activists and Transnational Inspirations before the Internet, Noah Riseman (Australian Catholic University) and Julie Peters (Columbia University, USA)Part III: Communities of Activism over the Twentieth Century11. Forensic Channels: Transnational Connections in the Postwar Concern with Homosexuality in Western Europe, Wannes Dupont (University of Edinburgh, UK)12. Political, Ethical, and Methodological Concerns in the Digital Humanities: Personal Reflections on the Robert Roth Papers and Transnational Queer Networks, Javier Fernández Galeano (Universitat de València) and Santiago Joaquín Insausti (Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento, Argentina)13. Martina Navratilova: A Study in Transnational Sport, Celebrity, and Advocacy, Laura A. Belmonte (Virginia Tech, USA)14. Queer Connections Between Estonia and Finland: Activism, Everyday Interaction, Leather Brotherhood, and Lesbian sisterhood, 1980s and 1990s, Rebeka Põldsam (University of Tartu, Estonia), Riikka Taavetti (University of Turku, Finland) and Andreas Kalkun (Estonian Literary Museum, Tartu, Estonia)15. It’s not Best in the West: Warsaw Homoerots in Search of a Safe Haven across 1930s Europe. A Case Study of Interwar Queer Transnational Networks, Kamil Karczewski (European University Institute, Italy)