Tag: United States history

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 […]

“The Gay Revolution”: An Interview with Lillian Faderman

By Lauren Gutterman October 13, 2015 Author Interviews, LGBTQ 0 comments

Interview by Lauren Gutterman Lillian Faderman’s The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle (Simon & Schuster, 2015) provides a moving and far-reaching account of the LGBT movement in the United States, from the founding of the homophile movement in the 1950s, to recent struggles for an Employment Non-Discrimination Act […]

“This is Your Pasty”: The Performance of Queer Domesticity in Small-Town Wisconsin

By notcheseditor October 8, 2015 Food and Sexuality, LGBTQ 1 comment

Two queer men elevated the simple pasty to a luxurious, gourmet meal.

Out in the Union: An Interview with Miriam Frank

By notcheseditor July 14, 2015 Author Interviews, LGBTQ 0 comments

Interview by Katherine Turk Out in the Union (Temple University Press, 2014) by Miriam Frank tells the continuous story of queer American workers from the mid-1960s through 2013. This book chronicles the evolution of labor politics with queer activism and identity formation, showing how unions began affirming the rights of lesbian, gay, […]

The Obergefell Syllabus: Historicizing Same-Sex Marriage in the United States

By notcheseditor June 27, 2015 Pedagogy, Post-1945 United States 4 comments

On June 26, 2015, the Supreme Court’s Obergefell v. Hodges decision established the constitutional right of same-sex couples to marry in all 50 states. Discussions of the United States national past abounded in the majority opinion and in the dissents. The words “history” / “historical” / “historic” appear in the […]

Disciplining Black Bodies: Racial Stereotypes of Cleanliness and Sexuality

By notcheseditor June 8, 2015 Dispatches 1 comment

Victoria M. Wolcott There was a fascinating question raised during the comment period of the panel “Sex, Fitness, and Self-Control: Racial Hierarchies in U.S. Public Health Histories (1890-1995)” during the 2015 Organization of American Historians conference in St. Louis. An audience member asked the panelists why they used the term […]

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. […]