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Lesbian Histories and Futures: A Dispatch From “Gay American History @ 40”

By Rachel Hope Cleves May 18, 2016 Dispatches 5 comments

Rachel Hope Cleves The fortieth-anniversary celebration of Jonathan Ned Katz’s classic document collection Gay American History convened Wednesday evening, May 4, at John Jay College in New York City, with a panel on lesbian history. Cheryl Clarke presided over comments by Caroll Smith-Rosenberg and Claire Potter to an audience that […]

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 […]

History of Sexuality at the 2016 European Social Science History Conference

By notcheseditor March 6, 2016 Dispatches 0 comments

The Eleventh European Social Science History conference (ESSHC) takes place from March 30 to April 2, 2016, in Valencia, Spain. This year’s conference includes a number of exciting panels and events devoted to exploring the history of gender and sexuality across time and space, which we have listed for our readers […]

Sex, Disease, and Fertility in History

By notcheseditor January 28, 2016 Dispatches, Medicine and Sexuality 0 comments

Boyd Brogan If you’re looking for evidence about bodies in history, it doesn’t get harder than skeletons. Opening this three-day conference at the University of Cambridge on the historical relationship between sexually-transmitted infections (STIs) and fertility, bioarchaeologist Charlotte Roberts argued that it is human remains, not documents, that constitute the primary record […]

Histories of Sexualities in Central and Eastern Europe

By Lukasz Szulc November 24, 2015 Dispatches, LGBTQ 0 comments

Łukasz Szulc Historical studies of sexualities in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) remain scarce. Researchers from the region, as well as other parts of the world, however, are increasingly uncovering both the regional commonalities and local specificities of how diverse sexualities were lived, policed and represented in CEE, the area stretching from Austria […]

History of Sexuality at the 2016 American Historical Association Conference

By notcheseditor October 29, 2015 Dispatches 1 comment

The 130th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association (AHA) takes place January 7-10, 2016, in Atlanta, Georgia. The theme for this year’s conference, “Global Migrations: Empires, Nations, and Neighbors,” opens the meeting to a number of exciting panels and events devoted to exploring the history of sexuality across time […]

Religious and Reproductive Politics in the United States since WWII

By notcheseditor June 23, 2015 Dispatches, Post-1945 United States, Religion and Sexuality 0 comments

Rebecca L. Davis The fiftieth anniversary of the 1965 Griswold v. Connecticut Supreme Court decision, which struck down state laws that banned married people’s use of contraceptives, arrives in the midst of fraught contests across the United States over women’s access to reproductive healthcare. From last year’s Burwell v. Hobby […]