Rosalind Rosenberg describes Pauli Murray’s struggles with her gender identity and demonstrates that Murray was truly a person ahead of her time.
Race and Ethnicity
Too Hot and Horny for the Centers for Disease Control
Conservative resistance to government funding for AIDS education was racialized and sexualized.
Not Straight, Not White: A Student Interview with Kevin Mumford
An interview with author Kevin Mumford about his new book detailing the lives of black gay men from the Civil Rights Movement to the AIDS crisis
Sex Between the Solitudes: Interracial Sex and Adoption in Montreal’s Postwar Jewish Community
The ways a father’s race shaped the adoptability of children born to Jewish mothers reveals the complex construction of Jewishness in postwar Canada.
Postwar Sex Education and the Roots of White Male Sexual Entitlement
White men remain relatively impervious to charges of sexual aggression, perhaps as a result of mid-century sex education.
Abortion Under Apartheid
During apartheid (1948-1990), abortion was often used as a political tool.
More Than Loving: Race, Sexuality & Public Memory in the Movement for Marriage Equality
Discussion of Obergefell compared activism for marriage equality with efforts to secure equal rights.