Tag: methodology

"The Gay Bulge" or Can We Study Medieval Sexuality Through Puns?

By Tom O'Donnell April 21, 2015 LGBTQ, Medieval 0 comments

Perhaps sometimes a ‘gay bulge’ is just a gae bolga.

Doing It With Food: Cooking and the History of Sexuality

Gillian Frank Romantic dinners for lovers are one of the sweet pleasures of life, and if you don’t initiate one, who will? Remember the thrill of that special dinner before you were married? … A late intimate dinner for two beside a crackling fire, or on the back porch amid […]

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 […]

Straight After Death: Misremembering the Queer Life and Times of Rod McKuen

By Gillian Frank February 19, 2015 Music and Sexuality, Post-1945 United States 4 comments

Gillian Frank When the singer and poet Rod McKuen died on January 29th at the age of 81, major publications including the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post paid tribute to his numerous accomplishments. For many readers, these obituaries functioned as the final word on McKuen’s legacy; so what does it mean that the mainstream press […]

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. […]

Queer Sex in the Archives: “Canonizing Homophile Sexual Respectability"

By notcheseditor October 23, 2014 Dispatches, LGBTQ, Post-1945 United States 0 comments

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 […]

Sexual Histories, Scholarly Communities: A Dispatch from the John D’Emilio Symposium

By notcheseditor October 16, 2014 Dispatches, LGBTQ 0 comments

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 […]