Surviving records from the FBI’s “Sex Deviates” files are now available online.
20th and 21st Century United States
“So Complicated”: The Sexual Politics of U.S. Health Care Reform
An examination of the historic beliefs and current thinking underpinning the Republican desire to repeal Obamacare.
Sexual Deviance and “Mental Defectiveness” in Eugenics Era California
The diagnosis of mental defectiveness legitimated the state’s reproductive control of sexually promiscuous and sexually violated girls and women.
Porno Chic and the Sex Wars: A Roundtable on the Politics of Sexual Representations in the 1970s – Part 1
“Porno chic” culture of the 1970s provided an opportunity to embrace—or challenge—the sexual revolution.
Remembrance of Things Past: A Novelist Reflects on the Politics of Intergenerational Sex
Sarah Schulman on changing attitudes towards intergenerational sex within the queer community.
Flight Attendant Unions Make the Economy Work for Queer Families
Flight attendant unions have been hotbeds of feminist and LGBTQ activism for fifty years.
Histories of Sexuality and the Carceral State-Part 3
Mass incarceration cannot be understood without looking through the lenses of gender and sexuality.