Tag: marriage

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.

The Curious Connections between Marriage Equality and HIV/AIDS

By Michael Bronski June 14, 2016 LGBTQ, Post-1945 United States 0 comments

HIV/AIDS and the marriage equality have been the two events that have most affected LGBT lives.

Archives of Desire: Analog Sexting

By Josh Adair May 3, 2016 Archives of Desire 1 comment

My grandparents helped pave the way for virtual trysts.

“Sodomy is not Adultery”: The Clinton Sex Scandal as Queer History

By Alison Lefkovitz April 7, 2016 Post-1945 United States 1 comment

Alison Lefkovitz In 1998, the ABC newsmagazine Nightline fretted that the Clinton scandal with Monica Lewinsky would “come down to the question of whether oral sex does or does not constitute adultery.” President Bill Clinton, supposedly, had told Lewinsky that oral sex could not be adultery. He had told Gennifer […]

Catholicism, Contraception, and The History of Sexuality

By David Geiringer February 23, 2016 Medicine and Sexuality, Religion and Sexuality 0 comments

The Commission had the potential to challenge the very nature of Catholic epistemology.

Inventing the Family Farm: Towards a History of Rural Heterosexuality

By Gabriel Rosenberg February 18, 2016 Post-1945 United States 1 comment

Gabriel N. Rosenberg In the postwar United States, the state’s project of preserving the family farm was yoked to its project of making the modern American family. The family farm enjoys an uncanny amount of deference in modern American political culture in part because it is an unusually potent sexual symbol: […]

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 […]