Lauren Gutterman

‘No One Helped’: Marcia Gallo on the murder of Kitty Genovese

By Lauren Gutterman May 4, 2017 Author Interviews 0 comments

As “inner cities” are being deployed as symbols of unchecked violent crime and social disintegration, the history Gallo traces is vital.

Femme Histories Roundtable – Part II

By Lauren Gutterman February 23, 2017 LGBTQ 1 comment

How can the experiences of feminine lesbians or queer women change our understanding of the history of sexuality?

Femme Histories Roundtable – Part I

By Lauren Gutterman February 16, 2017 LGBTQ 0 comments

To what extent has female masculinity shaped lesbian and/or queer women’s histories?

Christmas Isn’t for Queers

By Lauren Gutterman December 10, 2015 LGBTQ, Post-1945 United States 4 comments

Lauren Gutterman For most of us, envisioning Christmas in postwar America brings to mind tinsel-covered trees, girls and boys in matching pajamas, dads in Santa Claus beards, images drawn from old family photographs or the likes of It’s a Wonderful Life. Absent from these familial and familiar cultural memories are […]

“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 […]