On Thursday afternoon, August 12, 1982, Amber Hollibaugh called Dorothy Allison to finalize cat-sitting arrangements for Alice B. Toklas, the cat.
Recent Posts
Working Out: Reflections of gay trade union activism in the 1970s UK
Coming out at work was challenging enough but it was often overlooked in the early gay liberation movement.
Toward an Anti-racist History of Sexuality
NOTCHES’ commitment in working toward an anti-racist history of sexuality.
Out and about with GLF in London, September 1971
There’s a real buzz about GLF and I want to be part of it.
‘Behaviour Which Merits a Horrible and Wretched Death’: Sex, Sin and the Black Death in Medieval England
Medieval people feared that the Black Death was a punishment for sin, and hoped that abstaining from sex could save them.
Moral Instruction, Venereal Disease, and Eugenic Manliness during World War I
Sexual health and the preservation of eugenically valuable British servicemen.
Reporting Abortions in Post-Conquest New Spain
A sixteenth-century scribe recorded the sexual and reproductive behaviour of indigenous women in colonial Mexico.
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Un-Roman Sex: Gender, Sexuality, and Lovemaking in the Roman Provinces and Frontiers
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Sex, Law and the Politics of Age: Child Marriage in India, 1891-1937
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Esther Newton’s Butch Career
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Politicizing Sex in Contemporary Africa: An Interview with Ashley Currier
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Queer China: Lesbian and Gay Literature and Visual Culture
