AIDS, Sexuality and American Religion: An Interview With Anthony Petro

By Anthony Petro 20th and 21st Century United States, HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ, Medicine and the Body, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, Religion and Sexuality

Religious responses to the emergence of AIDS in the United States in the 1980s and 90s.

“The Gay Revolution”: An Interview with Lillian Faderman

By Lauren Gutterman 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

The Gay Revolution provides a moving account of the LGBT movement in the United States.

“What can I do to be normal?” Queer Female Desire in Letters to Dr. Alfred Kinsey

By Amanda Littauer 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, Medicine and the Body

Many postwar Americans were obsessed with sexual normality but their stories reveal queer possibilities.

Archives of Desire: A Lavender Reading of J. Edgar Hoover

By Christopher Elias 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ

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

By Erica Ryan 20th and 21st Century United States, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

1920s conservatism foreshadowed the New Right’s use of sex & gender as an organizing tool.

Out in the Union: An Interview with Miriam Frank

By Miriam Frank 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

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

By Heather Munro Prescott 20th and 21st Century United States, Medicine and the Body, Religion and Sexuality

Liberal clergy helped build a broad popular consensus in favor of birth control, at least for married couples, during the late 1950s and 1960s.