Patrick Nelson: queer black Jamaican man, queer black migrant in interwar London, WWII serviceman, POW and witness to Jamaican histories of colonialism and decolonization.
Author Interviews
The Bars Are Ours: Histories and Cultures of Gay Bars in America, 1960 and After
The Bars Are Ours is the first nationwide history of gay bars in America during the period of gay liberation and after.
In a Rapture of Distress: Women’s Sexuality and Modern India
How do we think about sexual freedom in a way that is capacious enough to include countries that have not had a sexual revolution?
Family Matters: Queer Households and the Half-Century Struggle for Legal Recognition
Family Matters offers a new way of understanding how beleaguered minority groups may be able to secure meaningful legal change.
Slapping Leather: Queer Cowfolx at the Gay Rodeo
Slapping Leather traces gay rodeo as a space where queer people have been able to both embrace and challenge the idealized masculinity associated with the iconic cowboy of the American West.
A Queer New York: Geographies of Lesbians, Dykes, and Queers
A Queer New York traces the gentrification of and by lesbian and queer people from the early days of the AIDS crisis to the last season of The L Word.
Will the Sissy be Triumphant?
The concept of sissiness, and the way the epithet is employed, is neither static nor universal.
