The Road to Section 28

By Colin Clews LGBTQ, United Kingdom

Conservatives exploited homophobia to discredit opposition to Section 28, leaving Labour ambivalent to outright opposition.

Die Bi(e)! Reading Bisexual Women’s History

By Lauren Gutterman LGBTQ

Female bisexuality generates both particularly intense anger and fetishization that demand greater historical attention.

A Portrait of Jane Crow: An Interview with Rosalind Rosenberg

By Alexie Glover 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, Race and Ethnicity

Rosalind Rosenberg describes Pauli Murray’s struggles with her gender identity and demonstrates that Murray was truly a person ahead of her time.

Too Hot and Horny for the Centers for Disease Control

By Dan Royles LGBTQ, Race and Ethnicity

Conservative resistance to government funding for AIDS education was racialized and sexualized.

Not Straight, Not White: A Student Interview with Kevin Mumford

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

An interview with author Kevin Mumford about his new book detailing the lives of black gay men from the Civil Rights Movement to the AIDS crisis

‘After Stonewall’ and Gay and Lesbian Liberation in Western Canada

By Valerie Korinek Canada, LGBTQ

‘After Stonewall’ was one of the most vocal regional gay periodicals in Canada to challenge a national gay activist platform.

‘No One Helped’: Marcia Gallo on the murder of Kitty Genovese

By Lauren Gutterman 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, Sexual Violence

As “inner cities” are being deployed as symbols of unchecked violent crime and social disintegration, the history Gallo traces is vital.