In a Rapture of Distress: Women’s Sexuality and Modern India

By Amrita Narayanan Author Interviews

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

By Marie-Amélie George Author Interviews

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

By Elyssa Ford Author Interviews

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

By Jen Jack Gieseking Author Interviews

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?

By Marlon Ross Author Interviews

The concept of sissiness, and the way the epithet is employed, is neither static nor universal.

The Transformation of American Sex Education: Mary Calderone and the Fight for Sexual Health

By Ellen S. More Author Interviews

How sex education was turned into a flashpoint of the culture wars, a stalking horse for the newly emergent extreme right wing from the late 1960s to the present.

The Italian Invert: A Gay Man’s Intimate Confessions To Emile Zola

By Michael Rosenfeld Author Interviews

A very queer tale, The Italian Invert is one man’s story of love affairs, sexual adventures, and the pursuit of happiness at the end of the nineteenth century.