What sources would you use to place Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. within the history of sexuality?
Author: Gillian Frank
David Bowie (1947-2016) and the History of Sexuality
David Bowie’s sexual identity and its public performance were versatile, challenging and complex.
A Christmas Abortion
On Christmas Eve 1955, Jacqueline Smith died from an illegal abortion at her boyfriend Thomas G. Daniel’s apartment.
Stalling Civil Rights: Conservative Sexual Thought has been in the Toilet Since the 1940s
The conservative idea that civil rights protections sexually endanger women and children in public bathrooms is not new.
Doing It With Food: Cooking and the History of Sexuality
Evangelicals actively connected their appetite for culinary and sexual variety to desires for marital intimacy and stability.
Straight After Death: Misremembering the Queer Life and Times of Rod McKuen
In the end, silences in the historical record may tell us as much about poor journalistic research as they tell us about antigay bias.
Radical Relations: An Interview with Daniel W. Rivers
The first history of lesbian and gay parents and their children in the United States.