Queen and Country: Emma Vickers on Same-Sex Desire in the British Armed Forces

By Emma Vickers LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, United Kingdom

What is the history of same-sex love and desire in the British Armed Forces?

Abortion Under Apartheid

By Nicole Bourbonnais African Sexualities, Medicine and the Body, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, Race and Ethnicity

During apartheid (1948-1990), abortion was often used as a political tool.

From Shame to Sin: Sexual Morality in Late Antiquity

By Katherine Harvey Ancient World, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, Religion and Sexuality

With the new religion came new attitudes to sexual behaviour and morality

Bad Girls: A Student Interview with Amanda Littauer

By Amanda Littauer 20th and 21st Century United States, Childhood and Youth, LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

How young women and girls in the 1940s and 1950s pursued new sexual freedoms.

Sex, Soldiers and the South Pacific

By Yorick Smaal Antipodean sexualities, LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

Queer Identities in Australia in the Second World War.

J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI, and the “Sex Deviates” Program

By Christopher Elias 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

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

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

I wanted to explain that the 1970s was much more than a decade about sex.