[NEWS] Five LGBTQ links: molly houses, trans in Germany, being femme, changing sexuality

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• Atlas Obscura takes a look at the history and culture of the "molly houses", gay bars of 18th century England.


• Atlas Obscura notes how pioneering German sexologist Marcus Hirschfeld managed to acquire limited recognition of the chosen identities of trans people in pre-Nazi Germany.


• These interviews at VICE with five queer people, talking about what "femme" means to them, are interesting.


• VICE's unpacking of the concept of guys who identify as "mostly straight", through an interview with researcher Ritch C. Savin-Williams, is fascinating. This future for traditional concepts of heterosexuality, one of many, seems both new and noteworthy.


• The argument of Jeff Leavell at VICE, that stereotypes of gender should not be used to justify restrictive labels for humans' sexuality, makes perfect sense to me.