Many postwar Americans were obsessed with sexual normality but their stories reveal queer possibilities.
20th and 21st Century United States
Archives of Desire: A Lavender Reading of J. Edgar Hoover
Collier’s made one of the earliest print references to the sexuality of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover.
Red War on the Family: An Interview with Erica Ryan
1920s conservatism foreshadowed the New Right’s use of sex & gender as an organizing tool.
Out in the Union: An Interview with Miriam Frank
Out in the Union (Temple University Press, 2014) by Miriam Frank tells the continuous story of queer American workers from the mid-1960s through 2013.
The Sacred Precincts of Marital Bedrooms: Religion and the Making of Griswold
Liberal clergy helped build a broad popular consensus in favor of birth control, at least for married couples, during the late 1950s and 1960s.
The Conservative Roots of the Reproductive Rights Revolution
Griswold v Connecticut; Eisenstadt v Baird; Roe v Wade: these cases are the building blocks of reproductive freedom in the United States.
The Obergefell Syllabus: Historicizing Same-Sex Marriage in the United States
These books and articles form an extensive syllabus with which to teach students about Obergefell v. Hodges.