German, Jew, Muslim, Gay: The Life and Times of Hugo Marcus

By Marc David Baer History of Sexuality, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, Religion and Sexuality

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

By Kerryn Drysdale LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

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

By Leah DeVun LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, Trans

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

By Clayton Howard 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

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

By Craig Griffiths LGBTQ, Modern Europe, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

Gay liberation was never only about pride.

Queering Romantic Engagement in the Postal Age: A Rhetorical Education

By Pamela VanHaitsma LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

On the everyday rhetorical ingenuity of queer romantic letter-writing practices in the nineteenth-century United States.

Licentious Worlds: Sex and Exploitation in Global Empires

By Julie Peakman Empire and Colonialism, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

A history of sexual attitudes and behaviour through five hundred years of empire-building around the world.