African American History

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Resisting the Virus of Prejudice: Sex Workers Fight the AIDS Panic

By Mindy Chateauvert July 7, 2016 Medicine and Sexuality 0 comments

Sex workers, working as peer researchers, mapped the epidemiology of HIV in 1985.

Histories of Sexuality and the Carceral State—Part 2

By Regina Kunzel July 5, 2016 Post-1945 United States 0 comments

How do race, gender, and sexuality intersect in order to shape policing and imprisonment?

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 […]

Martin Luther King Jr. and the History of Sexuality

By Gillian Frank January 18, 2016 Post-1945 United States 1 comment

Gillian Frank Today is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in the United States. To reflect upon Dr. King’s life, legacy and influence, NOTCHES offers some primary sources with which to begin thinking about King’s place in the history of sexuality. Even as historians are increasingly reckoning with King’s complicated private life, King’s views on […]

Stalling Civil Rights: Conservative Sexual Thought has been in the Toilet Since the 1940s

By Gillian Frank November 9, 2015 Childhood and Youth, Post-1945 United States 1 comment

Gillian Frank Houston’s Proposition 1 bathroom ordinance. What does it mean to you? Any man at any time could enter a woman’s bathroom simply by claiming to be a woman that day. No one is exempt. Even registered sex offenders could follow women or young girls into the bathroom and […]

The Other Half Has Never Been Told: AIDS and African-American History

By Dan Royles February 5, 2015 LGBTQ, Post-1945 United States 3 comments

Dan Royles Black inequality—inaugurated under slavery and maintained by protean forms of white supremacy—has been central to American society, through to the present day. But where does AIDS fit into this story? From the beginning of the recognized epidemic in the United States, communities of color—and African Americans in particular—have […]