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.

After Eunuchs: Science, Medicine, and the Transformation of Sex in Modern China

By Howard Chiang Asian Sexualities, LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, Trans

After Eunuchs tells a history of sex change in modern China.

Desire Work: Ex-Gay and Pentecostal Masculinity in South Africa

By Melissa Hackman African Sexualities, LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, Religion and Sexuality

Desire Work documents the lives of mostly white, ex-gay Pentecostal men in Cape Town, South Africa.

Queer Comrades: Gay Identity and Tongzhi Activism in Postsocialist China

By Hongwei Bao Asian Sexualities, LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

Qay identity and queer activism in contemporary China from a queer Marxist perspective.

Steel Closets: Voices of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Steelworkers

By Anne Balay 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

If scholars look for what we think of as gay people, we’ll miss many of the queer pleasures and possibilities that exist.

Sex, Time and Place: Queer Histories of London, c.1850 to the Present

By Simon Avery LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, United Kingdom

How do we ‘do’ queer history and how might it be constituted in multi- and interdisciplinary terms?