Southerners: Archiving Queer Southern Diaspora in New York City

By Jerry Watkins 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ

The Southerners collection opens a window onto extended kinship networks and self-described “surrogate family” in the queer Southern diaspora.

The People’s Porn: A History of Handmade Pornography in America

By Lisa Z. Sigel 20th and 21st Century United States, Author Interviews

The People’s Porn provides the first large-scale history of American handmade and homemade pornography.

Her Neighbor’s Wife: A History of Lesbian Desire within Marriage

By Lauren Gutterman 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ

Her Neighbor’s Wife traces the stories of hundreds of women who struggled to balance marriage and same-sex desire in the postwar United States.

Tabernacles of Clay: Sexuality and Gender in Modern Mormonism

By Taylor G. Petrey 20th and 21st Century United States, Author Interviews, LGBTQ, Religion and Sexuality

Tabernacles of Clay sets Mormonism in the broader history of sexuality in modernity by documenting and theorizing the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, religion, and social change.

The Closet and the Cul-de-Sac The Politics of Sexual Privacy in Northern California

By Clayton Howard 20th and 21st Century United States, Author Interviews, LGBTQ

Not just a story of polarization between Gay Liberation and the Religious Right, this is also a story of a consensus over the value of protecting straight privilege.

In the Service of White Supremacy: Immigration and Reproductive Violence

By Lina-Maria Murillo 20th and 21st Century United States, Medicine and the Body, Race and Ethnicity

Reproductive control and violence have been a hallmark of immigration policy in the United States for over a century.

Trans America: A Counter-History

By Barry Reay 20th and 21st Century United States, Author Interviews, LGBTQ, Trans

Despite the prominence of what is now called trans in contemporary culture, there is a shortage of comprehensive trans histories.