The Shape of Sex reveals how and why efforts to define “the human” so often hinged on ideas about nonbinary sex.
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The Closet and the Cul-de-Sac The Politics of Sexual Privacy in Northern California
Not just a story of polarization between Gay Liberation and the Religious Right, this is also a story of a consensus over the value of protecting straight privilege.
The Ambivalence of Gay Liberation: Male Homosexual Politics in 1970s West Germany
Gay liberation was never only about pride.
Queering Romantic Engagement in the Postal Age: A Rhetorical Education
On the everyday rhetorical ingenuity of queer romantic letter-writing practices in the nineteenth-century United States.
The Shapes of Fancy: Reading for Queer Desire in Early Modern Literature
The Shapes of Fancy stages an impassioned defense of the inherently desirous nature of reading.
Queer as Cop: Gay Patrol Units and the White Fantasy of Safety
In 1970s United States gay patrol units rallied around their whiteness to produce a sense of safety.
Campaigning for Lesbian and Gay Rights in Ireland, 1981-1993
For GLEN, Ireland’s Gay and Lesbian Equality Network, it was all about making equality a reality in people’s everyday lives.