Vladimir Nabokov and the First Attempt to Decriminalize Same-Sex Relationships in Russia
How a Russian liberal and the father of the great writer tried to abolish discriminatory legislation
Biography
The Same-Sex Attraction of 15th-Century Turkish Official and Poet Ahmed Pasha to a Sultan's Page
How a scandal at the court of Mehmed II destroyed the career of an Ottoman Empire vizier.
Aleksey Apukhtin: Homosexual, Poet, and Friend of Tchaikovsky
Also the author of popular romances and poems that do not indicate the addressee's gender.
Saint Moses the Hungarian – One of the First Queer Figures in Russian History?
The life of a monk who rejected marriage, was castrated, and became a saint, and how Rozanov, Slavists, and other scholars read it.
The Possible Homosexuality of Grand Duke Nikolai Mikhailovich of the Romanov Family
A Caucasian childhood, scholarship, liberalism, and involvement in the murder of Rasputin against a life without marriage or children.
Was Atatürk Gay or Bisexual?
What memoirs, biographies, and British intelligence reports say about the sexuality of Turkey's founder.
Andrey Avinoff: A Russian Émigré Artist, Gay Man, and Scientist
How Orthodox Christianity, butterflies, a scientific career, and male eroticism came together.
Russian Poet Ivan Dmitriev, Young Favourites, and Same-Sex Desire in the Fables 'The Two Doves' and 'The Two Friends'
A friend of Karamzin and Derzhavin, minister of justice, and a fable writer whose “friendship” turns into male love.
The Homosexuality of Sultan Mehmed II
Sources on the possible same-sex relationships of the Ottoman sultan who conquered Constantinople.
Sergei Romanov: A Homosexual Member of the Imperial Family
His homosexuality, childless “white marriage,” service in Moscow, and death.
The Story of Syrian General Suheil al-Hasan, Nicknamed 'The Tiger'
And his young lovers.
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?
The Execution of the Siamese Gay Prince Rakronnaret (Kraison): Power and a Charge of Treason
The earliest known episode in Thailand's LGBT history.
The Diary of Pyotr Medvedev, a Bisexual Moscow Merchant, 1854–1863
Poor relations with his wife, admiration for young men, onanism with friends, and political views.
Russian Empress Anna Leopoldovna and the Maid of Honour Juliana: Possibly the First Documented Lesbian Relationship in Russian History
"... she spends most of her time in the apartments of her favourite, Mengden."
The Homosexuality of Russian Tsars Vasily III and Ivan IV the Terrible
And who Fyodor Basmanov was.
Grigory Teplov and the Sodomy Case in 18th-Century Russia
Nine serfs accuse their master of rape.