The Calendar of Loss: Dagmawi Woubshet on Race, Sexuality, and Mourning in the Early Era of AIDS

By Dan Royles 20th and 21st Century United States, African Sexualities, HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ, Medicine and the Body, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, Race and Ethnicity

The politics of mourning in the early years of the AIDS epidemic both in the United States and Ethiopia.

Gay Politics and Police Politics in the American City

By Christopher Agee 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ

Postwar law enforcement leaders rarely prepared patrol officers for policing of gay and lesbian people.

Gay Rights and Religion: A Notches Special Issue

By Gillian Frank LGBTQ, Religion and Sexuality

Historians should not assume that religious institutions have always been hostile to gay rights.

Operation Hyacinth and Poland’s Pink Files

By Lukasz Szulc LGBTQ, Modern Europe

The aim of the operation was to detain, interrogate, and register both actual and alleged homosexuals.

“Arresting Dress”: A Student Interview with Clare Sears

By Rachel Hope Cleves LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, Pedagogy, Trans

Clare Sears’ Arresting Dress examines the effects of San Francisco’s 1863 cross-dressing ordinance.

David Bowie (1947-2016) and the History of Sexuality

By Gillian Frank LGBTQ

David Bowie’s sexual identity and its public performance were versatile, challenging and complex.

The Rejected: Homophile Activists in the Spotlight

By Andrew Lester 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ

The Rejected was a groundbreaking representation of gays in the American media.