20th and 21st Century United States

By Jim Elledge 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

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

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

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.

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.

By Julio Capo 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

“Fairyland” came to represent radically different things to discrete groups of people.

By Anne Balay 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

If scholars look for what we think of as gay people, we’ll miss many of the queer pleasures and possibilities that exist.