Whitney Strub Sometimes the queer stars align right when it’s needed most. Philadelphia has spent the past few decades effectively cultivating an LGBT-friendly reputation, as witnessed in last year’s groundbreaking trans-affirmative city ordinance. But a recent, vicious gaybashing incident in Center City, not to mention Pennsylvania’s unfortunate precedent as the […]
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Sexual Histories, Scholarly Communities: A Dispatch from the John D’Emilio Symposium
Ian Darnell On September 12, the Gender and Women’s Studies Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) held a symposium to honor the career of Professor Emeritus John D’Emilio. Early in the day, Pippa Holloway—once D’Emilio’s research assistant and student—observed that a hallmark of D’Emilio’s work was that he […]
Dispatch from The G-Spot: Gentrification, Transformation and Queer San Francisco
In keeping with our commitment of fostering a public and widespread discussion of the history of sexuality within and outside of the academy, we at Notches are pleased to introduce the first post in our “Dispatches” series. Here, we publish our readers’ critical accounts of the conferences, symposia, workshops and suchlike that […]
History of Sexuality at the American Historical Association Conference
The conference schedule has been posted for the 129th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association (AHA), which takes place January 2-5, 2015 in New York City (register now!). The AHA has a number of wonderful panels on the history of sexuality, which we have listed for our readers below. Are […]
The Politics of Sexuality in Latin America
Bryan Pitts “We aren’t hiding anymore – it’s our rights that we’re fighting for,” exclaimed a participant at a July 2010 pro-same-sex marriage demonstration in Buenos Aires. A few weeks later the Argentine Senate voted to modify the country’s Civil Code to permit same-sex marriage. The landmark vote represented perhaps the […]
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