Tag: LGBTQ

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.

More Than Loving: Race, Sexuality & Public Memory in the Movement for Marriage Equality

By Jennifer Jones June 16, 2016 Post-1945 United States 0 comments

Discussion of Obergefell compared activism for marriage equality with efforts to secure equal rights.

Dispatch from Fireball in Newark: The Ballroom Scene and Legendary Houses

By notcheseditor May 12, 2016 Dispatches 0 comments

Kristyn Scorsone, Naomi Extra, and Keishla Rivera * Fireball is a fast and furious DIY event. The structure of the ball is such that anyone can turn up announced and walk any category. The order rarely follows the program. As a result it is not possible to identify the participants […]

The New Polish Government and ‘Gender Ideology’

By Lukasz Szulc April 28, 2016 Modern Europe, Religion and Sexuality 1 comment

The crusade against ‘gender ideology’ started with a letter by the Bishops’ Conference of Poland.

AIDS, Sexuality and American Religion: An Interview With Anthony Petro

By Anthony Petro October 27, 2015 Author Interviews 0 comments

Interview by Lynne Gerber and Gillian Frank Anthony Petro’s After the Wrath of God (Oxford, 2015) is one of the first academic books to recount and analyze the broad range of religious responses to the emergence of AIDS in the United States in the 1980s and 90s. Moving the conversation […]

Seeing Sodomy: An Interview with Robert Mills

By notcheseditor July 2, 2015 Author Interviews 0 comments

Interview by Rachel Moss Seeing Sodomy in the Middle Ages explores the variety of strategies developed by medieval artists and writers to render sodomy visible. The author Robert Mills argues that we need to take account of the role played by translation—whether visual, verbal or cultural—in endowing sodomy with a […]

Beyond the Binary: Trans* History in Early America

By Rachel Hope Cleves January 29, 2015 Dispatches, Early America 2 comments

Notches Dispatches are submissions from our readers that offer critical accounts of conferences, symposia, and workshops in the history of sexuality. This post by Rachel Hope Cleves is the first of a series of Dispatches from panels on the history of sexuality at the 2015 meeting of the American Historical Association. […]