| Sumario: | The article comments on homosexuality. One of the most exciting frontiers to emerge out of the movement for lesbian and gay liberation has been new lesbian/gay history projects in North America, Europe and some parts of the Third World. In many countries grassroots networks of lesbians and gays are piecing together histories. Three major international conferences addressing lesbian/gay history took place in the 1980s. These history movements, with all their limitations, have radically transformed the knowledge and analysis of history, sociology and sexuality. People began to look at history and sexuality in a very different way that challenged dominant traditions of history which presumed heterosexuality to be normal and natural. As in other movements sexism, misogyny and differences between men and women have produced tensions and splits. In other areas as well unitary categories of homosexuality and lesbianism have been shattered by careful explorations of class, race, disability and sexual practice differences within the lesbian and gay communities. Sexual experiences and social regulation are criss-crossed by other social differences.
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