Tag: Conservatism

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 […]

Classroom Wars and Sexual Politics: An Interview with Natalia Mehlman Petrzela

Interview by Robert Self The schoolhouse has long been a crucible in the construction and contestation of “family values.” In Classroom Wars: Language, Sex and the Making of Modern Political Culture (Oxford, 2015), Natalia Mehlman Petrzela focuses on battles over sex education and bilingual education in order to chart how Californians […]

Organized Labor, Gay Liberation and the Battle Against the Religious Right, 1977-1994

By notcheseditor March 17, 2015 LGBTQ, Post-1945 United States 6 comments

Miriam Frank What common cause could bring organized labor together with gay liberation in the United States? When gay rights became a referendum question in municipal or statewide elections, unions’ strategic and direct participation or their indifference mattered profoundly for the fortunes of gay rights. Beginning in 1972, dozens of cities […]

Gender, Sex and Sexuality in 20th-Century British History: Some new directions

By Ben Mechen April 28, 2014 Dispatches, United Kingdom 1 comment

Ben Mechen and Kevin Guyan On Tuesday 8th April 2014, thirteen speakers and twenty delegates, from PhD students to professors, gathered for a one-day symposium at University College London called ‘New Directions: Gender, Sex and Sexuality in 20th Century British History‘. Across twelve papers and one keynote address, tackling everything […]

Individual Freedom as Misappropriation: Race, Sexuality and the Use of Civil Rights History

By Adam Shapiro March 10, 2014 LGBTQ, Post-1945 United States 7 comments

Adam Shapiro T.J. Tallie’s post on this blog last week does an excellent job describing the problems with historical appropriation – especially of the ongoing struggles for African-American civil rights in the United States. He rightly points out that the phrase “Gay Jim Crow” implies an equivalence between America’s long […]