Controlling Sex in Captivity

By Matthias Reiss 20th and 21st Century United States, Author Interviews, LGBTQ, Modern Europe

The book is the first critical study of heterosexual and same-sex activities involving Axis prisoners of war in the United States during World War II.

Growing Up Queer: Kids and the Remaking of LGBTQ Identity

By Mary Robertson 20th and 21st Century United States, Author Interviews, Childhood and Youth, LGBTQ

LGBTQ kids reveal what it’s like to be young and queer today.

The Boys of Fairy Town

By Jim Elledge 20th and 21st Century United States, Author Interviews, LGBTQ

The little-known history of gay life in Chicago during its first century.

Queer Encounters in the Garden

By Christopher Fite 20th and 21st Century United States, Religion and Sexuality

A popular 1912 hymn imagines a close encounter with Christ and reveals the queer possibilities within evangelical Protestant liturgy and devotion.

Contraceptive Diplomacy: Reproductive Politics & Imperial Ambitions in the United States & Japan

By Aiko Takeuchi-Demirci 20th and 21st Century United States, Asian Sexualities, Author Interviews, Empire and Colonialism, Medicine and the Body, Race and Ethnicity

Contraceptive Diplomacy narrates a transnational history of birth control in the context of imperial struggles between the United States and Japan.

“Men Working Together!”: The Queer Masculinity of World War Two Propaganda

By Chris Parkes 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, Public History

“The Art of War” featured a succession of posters featuring depictions of men in suggestive, even erotic, poses.

Toros vs. Mannequins: Carl Corley and Queer Identity in the American South

By Hannah Givens 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, Public History

Even as Carl Corley wrestled with classifications, he created a rare visibility for rural queer people.