
Peter the Great’s Sexuality: Wives, Mistresses, Men, and His Relationship with Menshikov
Was Russia’s first emperor bisexual? Or did he love only women?

Same-sex relationships and how they were viewed from Kievan Rus to Peter the Great.

Was Russia’s first emperor bisexual? Or did he love only women?

And who Fyodor Basmanov was.

"... she spends most of her time in the apartments of her favourite, Mengden."

From Peter the Great to Alexander I.

Same-sex relationships and how they were viewed from Kievan Rus to Peter the Great.

It was all a translation error. The original text refers to a mythological people from the Quran.

The life of a monk who rejected marriage, was castrated, and became a saint, and how Rozanov, Slavists, and other scholars read it.

A Caucasian childhood, scholarship, liberalism, and involvement in the murder of Rasputin against a life without marriage or children.

A friend of Karamzin and Derzhavin, minister of justice, and a fable writer whose “friendship” turns into male love.

How Orthodox Christianity, butterflies, a scientific career, and male eroticism came together.

His homosexuality, childless “white marriage,” service in Moscow, and death.

Poor relations with his wife, admiration for young men, onanism with friends, and political views.

Nine serfs accuse their master of rape.

“Sowing Dicks,” “The Fool,” and “The Soldier and the Priest.”

Why does the hero put on “women’s clothing”?

A cross-dressed Maslenitsa figure described in early twentieth-century Russian folklore materials.

Why this is really about banning male incest rather than same-sex relationships.

A full, detailed queer-theological analysis of the theory that Adam was androgynous.

A queer-theological text about the genderlessness of the Christian God.

How queer theory changes the reading of Scripture, tradition, and the religious experience of LGBT people.

Acrobats, a ritual dance, or same-sex intercourse?

An ancient burial discovered in Prague in which a man was buried according to a female funerary rite.

Is it possible? Indirect scientific evidence suggests yes.

What exactly is carved into the rock, how it is dated, and why this interpretation remains disputed.

And Its Purpose – Magic, a Symbol of Power, or a Dildo?

Exploring Ancient Egyptian terms for same-sex practices.

"...how beautiful your buttocks are, how strong! Spread your legs," Seth said to Horus.

Or Just Twins? A Detailed Investigation.

And their secret nighttime meetings.

Kinship or partnership — what the titles and the pose suggest.

What the sources say about the Ancient Egyptian goddess of the night.

Two men, or a man and a woman?

What memoirs, biographies, and British intelligence reports say about the sexuality of Turkey's founder.

Sources on the possible same-sex relationships of the Ottoman sultan who conquered Constantinople.

A rare example of 16th-century Turkish literature in which a man falls in love with another man.

How a Legalist parable about favoritism turned into a metaphor for same-sex love.

A historical episode about diplomacy through a favorite at the court in Ancient China.

A gallery of portraits in which men embrace and hold hands.

Data from all 50 states on anti-discrimination protections, same-sex marriage, and transgender rights.

Lucian Wintrich, homoerotic aesthetics, and the dispute over whether the project was propaganda or trolling.

Herodotus, Plato, Plutarch, Xenophon, Aeschylus, Athenaeus, and others.

How it became possible, what Islamic law says, and the statistics on surgeries.

According to documented cases, between 100 and 241 executions; some estimates put the figure as high as 6,000.

An anonymous early 19th-century Iranian painting in which a beauty and a beardless youth are nearly indistinguishable.


