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.

Reforming Sodom: Protestants and the Rise of Gay Rights

By Heather White 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, Religion and Sexuality

The forgotten history of liberal Protestants’ role on both sides of debates over orthodoxy & sexual identity.

Would you mind if Neil Bartlett asked you a few personal questions about sex?

By Ania Ostrowska LGBTQ, Public History, United Kingdom

The Wellcome Collection’s ‘Institute of Sexology’ was the first major event of its kind in the UK.

“The Church Fathers Really Squirmed”: Contesting Heteronorms in motive Magazine, 1962-1972

By Anna Clutterbuck-Cook LGBTQ

motive opened up a space within which a departure from heteronormative values became possible