Why was the eighteenth-century closet associated with illicit and transgressive sexuality?
Author Interviews
German, Jew, Muslim, Gay: The Life and Times of Hugo Marcus
German, Jew, Muslim, Gay illuminates the complexities of twentieth-century Europe’s religious, sexual, and cultural politics.
Intimate Investments in Drag King Cultures: The Rise and Fall of a Lesbian Social Scene
This is a story about the life of a scene at a particular historical and geographic juncture as seen through the eyes of those who brought it into being—and then mourned its passing.
The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance
The Shape of Sex reveals how and why efforts to define “the human” so often hinged on ideas about nonbinary sex.
The Closet and the Cul-de-Sac The Politics of Sexual Privacy in Northern California
Not just a story of polarization between Gay Liberation and the Religious Right, this is also a story of a consensus over the value of protecting straight privilege.
The Ambivalence of Gay Liberation: Male Homosexual Politics in 1970s West Germany
Gay liberation was never only about pride.
Queering Romantic Engagement in the Postal Age: A Rhetorical Education
On the everyday rhetorical ingenuity of queer romantic letter-writing practices in the nineteenth-century United States.