On Christmas Eve 1955, Jacqueline Smith died from an illegal abortion at her boyfriend Thomas G. Daniel’s apartment.
20th and 21st Century United States
Christmas Isn’t for Queers
Christmas experiences of those stuck outside the quintessential white, middle-class, nuclear family.
Rape & the Sexual Politics of Homosociality: The U.S. Military Occupation of Okinawa
The metaphor of rape has framed understandings of the U.S. military’s occupation of Okinawa.
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.
Dr. Spock and the History of Sexuality
Serendipitously, on June 26, 2015, I found several letters to Spock regarding homosexuality.
AIDS, Sexuality and American Religion: An Interview With Anthony Petro
Religious responses to the emergence of AIDS in the United States in the 1980s and 90s.
“The Gay Revolution”: An Interview with Lillian Faderman
The Gay Revolution provides a moving account of the LGBT movement in the United States.