Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic

By Richard McKay Canada, HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ, Medicine and the Body, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

How did a single gay man become blamed for causing the North American AIDS epidemic?

“Men Working Together!”: The Queer Masculinity of World War Two Propaganda

By Chris Parkes 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, Public History

“The Art of War” featured a succession of posters featuring depictions of men in suggestive, even erotic, poses.

Toros vs. Mannequins: Carl Corley and Queer Identity in the American South

By Hannah Givens 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, Public History

Even as Carl Corley wrestled with classifications, he created a rare visibility for rural queer people.

Welcome to Fairyland: Queer Miami Before 1940

By Julio Capo 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

“Fairyland” came to represent radically different things to discrete groups of people.

Canada’s First Gay Student Activist Group

By Elspeth Brown Canada, LGBTQ

The University of Toronto might have sacked Jearld Moldenhauer for being out, proud, and vocal, but they were fighting a losing battle.

After Eunuchs: Science, Medicine, and the Transformation of Sex in Modern China

By Howard Chiang Asian Sexualities, LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, Trans

After Eunuchs tells a history of sex change in modern China.

Queer History and the Holocaust

By Anna Hajkova LGBTQ, Modern Europe, Sexual Labour, Sexual Violence

Queer experiences of the Holocaust have been marginalised, ignored and denied.