The fortieth-anniversary celebration of Jonathan Ned Katz’s classic document collection Gay American History.
20th and 21st Century United States
The Religious Right and the Politics of Sexuality: An Interview with Neil J. Young
Young upends the widely-believed myths about the political origins and motivations of the Religious Right.
Archives of Desire: Analog Sexting
My grandparents helped pave the way for virtual trysts.
Archives of Desire: Soft-Core Pornography and Activism in the 1960s
The Los Angeles Advocate captured the essence of an important segment of the LGBTQ culture.
How to Study an American Sex Scandal
When does sex become a political weapon?
“I Had the First Orgasm”: Monica Lewinsky & the Politics of Heterosexuality in the 1990s
What happens if we take Monica Lewinsky at her word?
“Sodomy is not Adultery”: The Clinton Sex Scandal as Queer History
Men and women could engage in a range of sex acts, which the courts recognized as sodomy, and still maintain that they had not technically cheated.
Recent Posts
Come to My Cottage: Queer Pleasures and Female Fandom in the Silent Hollywood Era
A Love Letter to Bolts Nightclub
Criminally Queer: The Bolton 7
The Massage Establishments Scandal: Coding and De-coding Sex Work at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Left Out: Boys, Sex, and the Challenge of “Gross Indecency” Records in Irish History