The Sexual Revolutions of Marilyn Chambers

By Jared Stearns 20th and 21st Century United States

A revealing new biography sheds light on X-rated star Marilyn Chambers’ extraordinary career and explores her status as an unsung gay icon.

Will the Sissy be Triumphant?

By Marlon Ross 20th and 21st Century United States, Author Interviews, LGBTQ, Race and Ethnicity

The concept of sissiness, and the way the epithet is employed, is neither static nor universal.

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

By Ellen S. More 20th and 21st Century United States, Author Interviews, Childhood and Youth

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.

Privilege, Power, and Activism in Gay Rights Politics Since the 1970s

By Jonathan Bell 20th and 21st Century United States, Author Interviews, LGBTQ

Beyond the Politics of the Closet examines the reorientation of LGBT politics from the 1970s to the 1990s.

“The best fighters of each other’s oppressions”: Trans and Non-Trans Solidarity in Lesbian Communities

By Ocean Ouillette 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, Trans

There is a rich, but often overlooked, history of affinity and solidarity between trans and non-trans lesbians.

Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex

By Elizabeth Reis 20th and 21st Century United States, Author Interviews, Medicine and the Body

How have understandings of and approaches to intersex bodies changed from early America to the present day?

Constructing the Pornographic Object of Knowledge

By Whitney Strub 20th and 21st Century United States, Author Interviews, Sexual Labour

Contemporary pornography has become a massive archive of sexual scripts. To some extent pornography has replaced sexology, psychoanalysis and sex manuals as a form of knowledge about sexuality.