The World and Other Unpublished Works of Radclyffe Hall

By Jana Funke LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, United Kingdom

New archival materials that broaden and complicate our understanding of Radclyffe Hall.

Queering the Redneck Riviera

By Jerry Watkins 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

This book explores relationships between sexuality, postwar capitalism, and conservative morality in the last half of the 20th century.

The Fraternity of the Estranged: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908

By Brian Anderson LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, United Kingdom

An untold history of the early fight for homosexual rights in England.

Carnal Knowledge: Regulating Sex in England, 1470-1600

By Katherine Harvey Early Modern, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, United Kingdom

Sexual behaviour was strictly regulated in late medieval and Tudor England.

A Portrait of Jane Crow: An Interview with Rosalind Rosenberg

By Alexie Glover 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, Race and Ethnicity

Rosalind Rosenberg describes Pauli Murray’s struggles with her gender identity and demonstrates that Murray was truly a person ahead of her time.

Not Straight, Not White: A Student Interview with Kevin Mumford

By Rachel Hope Cleves 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, Race and Ethnicity

An interview with author Kevin Mumford about his new book detailing the lives of black gay men from the Civil Rights Movement to the AIDS crisis

‘No One Helped’: Marcia Gallo on the murder of Kitty Genovese

By Lauren Gutterman 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, Sexual Violence

As “inner cities” are being deployed as symbols of unchecked violent crime and social disintegration, the history Gallo traces is vital.