The Transformation of American Sex Education: Mary Calderone and the Fight for Sexual Health

By Ellen S. More Author Interviews

How sex education was turned into a flashpoint of the culture wars, a stalking horse for the newly emergent extreme right wing from the late 1960s to the present.

The Italian Invert: A Gay Man’s Intimate Confessions To Emile Zola

By Michael Rosenfeld Author Interviews

A very queer tale, The Italian Invert is one man’s story of love affairs, sexual adventures, and the pursuit of happiness at the end of the nineteenth century.

“Homosexual Hearers” and Queer Musicality in Xavier Mayne’s The Intersexes (1909)

By Kristin Franseen LGBTQ

In The Intersexes (ca 1909), Edward Prime-Stevenson used gossip to support his queer readings of 19th-century symphonic music.

Adventurer: The Life and Times of Giacomo Casanova

By Leo Damrosch Author Interviews

Everyone has heard of Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798), but who was the man behind the myth?

How to Write the History of Pederasty in the Age of Groomers

By Rachel Hope Cleves Childhood and Youth

Rachel Hope Cleves closes out the symposium on her book Unspeakable: A Life Beyond Sexual Morality.

An Interview with Historian Rictor Norton

By Stephen Brogan Author Interviews, Early Modern, LGBTQ

NOTCHES caught up with historian Rictor Norton to discuss his views on interpreting historical homosexuality and the future of LGBTQ studies.

Age Difference and Queer Feminism: Bryher, H.D. and Norman Douglas

By Jana Funke Childhood and Youth

Jana Funke shows us how Rachel Hope Cleves’ Unspeakable: A Life Beyond Sexual Morality offers a framework for understanding the erotics of age in queer and trans relationships.