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.
Author Interviews
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.
The Transformation of American Sex Education: Mary Calderone and the Fight for Sexual Health
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
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.
Governing Gender and Sexuality in Colonial India
For many colonial officials, Hijras were not only a danger to ‘public morals’, but also a threat to colonial political authority.
Black Trans Feminism
Rethinking blackness, transness, and black feminism in a more radical, and freeing, way.