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History from the Witness Stand: An Interview with George Chauncey

By Rachel Hope Cleves June 23, 2016 LGBTQ, Post-1945 United States 0 comments

George Chauncey has testified as an expert witness in more than thirty cases dealing with gay rights.

Christmas Isn’t for Queers

By Lauren Gutterman December 10, 2015 LGBTQ, Post-1945 United States 4 comments

Lauren Gutterman For most of us, envisioning Christmas in postwar America brings to mind tinsel-covered trees, girls and boys in matching pajamas, dads in Santa Claus beards, images drawn from old family photographs or the likes of It’s a Wonderful Life. Absent from these familial and familiar cultural memories are […]

Digital Witnesses: The Parker-Hulme Murder Case and the Teaching of Crime and Sexual Deviance

By notcheseditor September 10, 2015 Digital Humanities 0 comments

The Parker-Hulme murder gripped the town of Christchurch, New Zealand in the summer of 1954.

“What can I do to be normal?” Queer Female Desire in Letters to Dr. Alfred Kinsey

By Amanda Littauer August 20, 2015 LGBTQ, Post-1945 United States 0 comments

Amanda Littauer In 1949, a year after the publication of Dr. Alfred Kinsey’s notorious Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, a young African American woman from the Bronx sent Kinsey a private letter lamenting the “queer control” she seemed to have over other women. These women, she explained, would literally […]

Oral Histories and Alternative Archives: Disrupting the Boundaries of Queer Identities, Cultures, and Politics

By Dan Royles April 30, 2015 Dispatches, LGBTQ 0 comments

Dan Royles As historians, how does the past speak to us, and when it does, how do we listen? These were the questions broached by the papers in the final session of the CLGBTH‘s conference-within-a-conference at the American Historical Association’s annual meeting. This session combined papers from the panels “Pragmatism and […]

Radical Relations: An Interview with Daniel W. Rivers

By Gillian Frank January 27, 2015 Author Interviews, Childhood and Youth 0 comments

Interview by Gillian Frank In keeping with Notches’ commitment to fostering a public and widespread discussion of the history of sexuality within and outside of the academy, we are introducing a regular feature that we are calling “Author Interviews.” Here, we publish critical conversations with authors of recent publications on the history 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 […]