Archives of Desire: Happiness of Womanhood Newsletter, 1977

By Neil Young 20th and 21st Century United States

Fears of changing sexual mores shaped HOW’s women’s worldview and mobilized their politics.

Classroom Wars and Sexual Politics: An Interview with Natalia Mehlman Petrzela

By Natalia Petrzela 20th and 21st Century United States, Author Interviews, Childhood and Youth, Race and Ethnicity

The schoolhouse has long been a crucible in the construction and contestation of “family values.”

Doing It With Food: Cooking and the History of Sexuality

By Gillian Frank 20th and 21st Century United States, Food and Sexuality

Evangelicals actively connected their appetite for culinary and sexual variety to desires for marital intimacy and stability.

Organized Labor, Gay Liberation and the Battle Against the Religious Right, 1977-1994

By Miriam Frank 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, Religion and Sexuality

What common cause could bring organized labor together with gay liberation in the United States?

Redefining Rape: Estelle Freedman on the History of Sexual Violence

By Natalia Petrzela 20th and 21st Century United States, Author Interviews, Sexual Violence

Redefining Rape charts the complex and shifting meaning of sexual violence in the United States.

Scale – Spectacle – Spectatorship: Space as a Category of Queer Analysis

By Andrea Rottmann 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, Public History

Archives, exhibitions and historical sites operate as spaces through which ideas about LGBTQ identity can be renegotiated.

Straight After Death: Misremembering the Queer Life and Times of Rod McKuen

By Gillian Frank 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ

In the end, silences in the historical record may tell us as much about poor journalistic research as they tell us about antigay bias.