Sex, Soldiers and the South Pacific

By Yorick Smaal Antipodean sexualities, LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

Queer Identities in Australia in the Second World War.

‘Every time I see a cock I go funny’: what regional studies bring to histories of sexuality

By Helen Smith LGBTQ, United Kingdom

When sexual desire was not attached to notions of sexual identity.

History from the Witness Stand: An Interview with George Chauncey

By Rachel Hope Cleves 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ

George Chauncey has testified as an expert witness in more than thirty cases dealing with gay rights.

J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI, and the “Sex Deviates” Program

By Christopher Elias 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

The Bureau was driven by “an overarching and intense fear and loathing of gays.”

The Curious Connections between Marriage Equality and HIV/AIDS

By Michael Bronski 20th and 21st Century United States, HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ

HIV/AIDS and the marriage equality have been the two events that have most affected LGBT lives.

Queer Terminology: LGBTQ Histories and the Semantics of Sexuality

By Claire Hayward LGBTQ, Pedagogy

How do we find, describe and contextualise histories of same-sex love and gender identity?

The Forgotten History of Gay Liberation: An Interview With Jim Downs

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

I wanted to explain that the 1970s was much more than a decade about sex.