The Politics of Love in Myanmar

By Lynette Chua Asian Sexualities, LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

An intimate account of a group of LGBT activists before, during, and after Myanmar’s post-2011 political transition.

Itch, Clap, Pox: Venereal Disease in the Eighteenth-Century Imagination

By Noelle Gallagher Early Modern, Medicine and the Body, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, United Kingdom

How venereal disease was represented in eighteenth-century British literature and art.

Queer Nuns: Religion, Activism, and Serious Parody

By Melissa Wilcox LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, Religion and Sexuality

Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence are an unaffiliated, non-celibate order of queer, activist nuns.

Obscene Pedagogies: Transgressive Talk and Sexual Education in Late Medieval Britain

By Carissa Harris Medieval, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, Pedagogy, Sexual Violence

Obscenity is useful as a tool for teaching about sex and consent in the Middle Ages, and today.

Seeking Rights from the Left: Gender, Sexuality and the Latin American Pink Tide

By Elisabeth Jay Friedman Latin American Sexualities, LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

How, when, and why left-leaning Latin American governments responded to the demands of feminist, women’s, and LGBT movements.

Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic

By Richard McKay Canada, HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ, Medicine and the Body, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

How did a single gay man become blamed for causing the North American AIDS epidemic?

Welcome to Fairyland: Queer Miami Before 1940

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.