The Yellow Star and the Pink Triangle: Judaism and Gay Rights in the 1970s

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

The struggle over gay rights evolved within the context of Dade County’s large and politically active Jewish community.

Heterosexuality in America: Fifty Years and Counting

By Marc Stein 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ

Let’s also mark the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of Drum.

Rethinking Bussing in the 1970s: The Sexual Politics of School Integration in the United States

By Gillian Frank 20th and 21st Century United States, Childhood and Youth, Race and Ethnicity

In the United States, racial divisions have long been sexualized.

Stranger Danger and the Sexual Revolution

By Gillian Frank 20th and 21st Century United States, Childhood and Youth, Sexual Violence

The sexual content of stranger danger films grew more sexually explicit over time.

Individual Freedom as Misappropriation: Race, Sexuality and the Use of Civil Rights History

By Adam Shapiro 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, Race and Ethnicity

The argument that individual rights is the natural legacy of civil rights has long been a staple of American conservatism.

Disputing ‘Gay Jim Crow’: Rhetorical Appropriation in LGBT Politics

By T.J. Tallie 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, Race and Ethnicity

‘Gay Jim Crow’ invests in false equivalence by appropriating continued struggles of people of color in the United States.

The Gay Jim Crow – The legal history behind "religious freedom" to discriminate

By Adam Shapiro 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, Race and Ethnicity

Are Arizona and other states using ‘religious freedom’ to create the ‘Gay Jim Crow’?