Tag: gay rights movement

Scale – Spectacle – Spectatorship: Space as a Category of Queer Analysis

By notcheseditor March 5, 2015 Dispatches, LGBTQ 0 comments

Andrea Rottmann “Making an Exhibition of Ourselves: Desiring Bodies, Practices and Histories” was the title of a panel sponsored by the Committee for LGBT History at this year’s American Historical Association’s Annual Meeting in New York. One of thirteen panels dedicated to “Promiscuous Interdisciplinarity,” the issues that participants debated ranged […]

Jeffrey Weeks reflects on "Sexual Politics in the Era of Reagan and Thatcher"

By notcheseditor February 12, 2015 LGBTQ, United Kingdom 0 comments

Jeffrey Weeks Editor’s note: In this special guest post, Jeffrey Weeks reflects on his 1988 interview with Marc Stein, which appeared in its entirety for the first time on NOTCHES as “Sexual Politics in the Era of Reagan and Thatcher.” Framing this 1988 interview were two important political contexts: Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government had passed Section […]

Sexual Politics in the Era of Reagan and Thatcher: Marc Stein in Conversation with Jeffrey Weeks

By Marc Stein February 10, 2015 LGBTQ, United Kingdom 0 comments

Interview by Marc Stein In May 1988, when I was working as the coordinating editor of Gay Community News in Boston, Massachusetts, I interviewed Jeffrey Weeks, the influential British sociologist and historian who had written Coming Out: Homosexual Politics in Britain from the Nineteenth Century to the Present (1977), Sex, Politics, […]

365 Notches: (re)marks on our 1st anniversary

By notcheseditor January 6, 2015 History of Sexuality 0 comments

It’s hard to believe that we are celebrating one year of Notches! On 6 January 2014, with the support of the Raphael Samuel History Centre, we launched a new blog with the goal of getting folks inside and outside the academy to think critically about histories of sex and sexuality across […]

Challenging Heterosexism: The Haringey Experiment, 1986-1987

By Bob Cant December 9, 2014 LGBTQ, United Kingdom 0 comments

Bob Cant Who is going to take responsibility for researching the sexual politics of Haringey in the 1980s? Haringey is a multicultural North London borough with a population of around a quarter of a million, and major economic contrasts between different localities; it includes Broadwater Farm estate, which was the scene of […]

Mainline Protestants and the Struggle for Same-Sex Marriage

By Heather White October 14, 2014 LGBTQ, Religion and Sexuality 1 comment

Heather White Four days ago, a federal judge struck down North Carolina’s same-sex marriage ban. This ruling heralded a legal victory for the United Church of Christ, a Protestant denomination, which had sued the state for the right to marry same-sex couples. Since 2005, the UCC has affirmed its support for “equal marriage rights […]

Before Grindr, or, The Dangers of the "Gay Bachelor"

By Justin Bengry October 7, 2014 LGBTQ, United Kingdom 0 comments

Justin Bengry In June 1967, opposition Conservative UK parliamentarians encountered a new and threatening queer danger. They feared that the Sexual Offences Bill then before them — a measure that would partially decriminalize male homosexual acts — might appear to sanction, and even promote, homosexual activity. Conservative MP Sir Cyril Osborne therefore proposed an amendment […]