Her Neighbor’s Wife: A History of Lesbian Desire within Marriage

By Lauren Gutterman 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ

Her Neighbor’s Wife traces the stories of hundreds of women who struggled to balance marriage and same-sex desire in the postwar United States.

Gothic Architecture and Sexuality in the Circle of Horace Walpole

By Matthew Reeve Author Interviews, LGBTQ, United Kingdom

Aesthetic preferences of Horace Walpole’s coterie cannot be understood independently from their own sexual preferences.

Plausible Crime Stories: The Legal History of Sexual Offences in Mandate Palestine

By Orna Alyagon-Darr Author Interviews, Empire and Colonialism, LGBTQ, Sexual Violence

This first study of the legal history of sex offences in Mandate Palestine pioneers a new socio-cultural perspective on evidence: plausibility.

Tabernacles of Clay: Sexuality and Gender in Modern Mormonism

By Taylor G. Petrey 20th and 21st Century United States, Author Interviews, LGBTQ, Religion and Sexuality

Tabernacles of Clay sets Mormonism in the broader history of sexuality in modernity by documenting and theorizing the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, religion, and social change.

Queer Studies: Beyond Binaries

By Bruce Henderson Author Interviews, LGBTQ, Pedagogy

Queer Studies: Beyond Binaries is designed as an introductory textbook for undergraduate courses in this rapidly growing field.

The Glamour Boys: The Secret Story of the Rebels who Fought for Britain to Defeat Hitler

By Chris Bryant LGBTQ, United Kingdom

NOTCHES sits down with Chris Bryant as he discusses his new book The Glamour Boys with Richard Grayson.

The Closet: The Eighteenth-Century Architecture of Intimacy

By Danielle Bobker Author Interviews, LGBTQ

Why was the eighteenth-century closet associated with illicit and transgressive sexuality?