Homosexuality on the Small Screen: Television and Gay Identity in Britain

By Sebastian Buckle LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, United Kingdom

Homosexuality on the Small Screen examines the history of television and its role in exploring gay lives and constructing ideas around sexual identity.

The Politics of Love in Myanmar

By Lynette Chua Asian Sexualities, LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

An intimate account of a group of LGBT activists before, during, and after Myanmar’s post-2011 political transition.

Queer Nuns: Religion, Activism, and Serious Parody

By Melissa Wilcox LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, Religion and Sexuality

Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence are an unaffiliated, non-celibate order of queer, activist nuns.

Joke Swiebel: A Lifetime of Dutch Gay Activism

By Joke Swiebel LGBTQ, Modern Europe

Joke Swiebel looked back on the last fifty years since the January 1969 Dutch demonstration that started the modern-day gay rights movement.

Seeking Rights from the Left: Gender, Sexuality and the Latin American Pink Tide

By Elisabeth Jay Friedman Latin American Sexualities, LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

How, when, and why left-leaning Latin American governments responded to the demands of feminist, women’s, and LGBT movements.

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.