The archive and the closet: same-sex desire and GDR military service in Stefan Wolter's autobiographical writing by Smith, T

“…Wolter scrutinizes his documents of military service and highlights their inadequacy as evidence of his same-sex relationship, drawing attention to traces of his anxieties about revealing once closeted desires. …”

Narratives of love: emotional morality in five Mamluk-era treatises on love by Lawrence, JR

“…By zoning in on the particular contour of moral questions that arise within the same-sex relationship, we begin to see how the compilers understand love to be inflected by its personal circumstances. …”

Queer in the prison?: what does it mean to be 'out' inside? by Harris, M

“…Examining how prisoners construct and communicate gender and sexuality, this thesis demonstrates that being in prison can lead to shifts in identity through encountering different labels and entering same-sex relationships for the first time. The nature of romantic and/or sexual relationships, and staff responses to them, are explored in depth. …”

The conception and formation of families among non-heterosexual women (lalas) in urban China by Lo, PY

“…It sheds new light on the complex interplay between structure and agency in lalas’ experiences of family formation, including those of pursuing motherhood, in a context where same-sex relationships remain stigmatized. Based on in-depth interviews with 35 lala-identified women, this study reveals lalas’ pursuit of agency in redefining who can be related to whom in their family-building processes and shows how and under what circumstances their strategies for forming female-led families reinforce or subvert established norms of gender, sexuality, and family. …”

Review of the Institute of Registered Partnerships as a way of expanding the opportunities of participants in civil legal relations by Savchenko, VO

“…It was concluded that the adoption of current gender-neutral legislation in Ukraine should expand the ways of exercising freedom of will by participants in civil legal relations and abolish discriminatory norms that limit people’s rights due to their unwillingness to enter into marriage, same-sex relationships or self-identification outside of the genders ‘man’ and ‘woman’. …”