With the new religion came new attitudes to sexual behaviour and morality
NOTCHES on the Bookshelf
Bad Girls: A Student Interview with Amanda Littauer
How young women and girls in the 1940s and 1950s pursued new sexual freedoms.
Sex, Soldiers and the South Pacific
Queer Identities in Australia in the Second World War.
J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI, and the “Sex Deviates” Program
The Bureau was driven by “an overarching and intense fear and loathing of gays.”
The Forgotten History of Gay Liberation: An Interview With Jim Downs
I wanted to explain that the 1970s was much more than a decade about sex.
Reforming Sodom: Protestants and the Rise of Gay Rights
The forgotten history of liberal Protestants’ role on both sides of debates over orthodoxy & sexual identity.
The Religious Right and the Politics of Sexuality: An Interview with Neil J. Young
Young upends the widely-believed myths about the political origins and motivations of the Religious Right.