Queer China: Lesbian and Gay Literature and Visual Culture

By Hongwei Bao Asian Sexualities, LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

Queer China reveals a vibrant picture of queer communities and cultures since their inception in post-Mao China.

Following in Vesta’s footsteps! How to name queerness in museums

By Chris Mowat LGBTQ, Public History

Vesta Tilley is a complicated figure in respect of queerness as Museums Sheffield has uncovered.

Coming Out of Communism: The Emergence of LGBT Activism in Eastern Europe

By Conor O'Dwyer LGBTQ, Modern Europe, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

Conor O’Dwyer describes the rapidly evolving politics of LGBT activism in postcommunist Europe.

Public City/Public Sex: Homosexuality, Prostitution, and Urban Culture Nineteenth-Century Paris

By Andrew Ross LGBTQ, Modern Europe, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, Sexual Labour

Women who sold sex and men who sought sex with other men shaped the emergence of modern Paris.

The Gay Marriage Generation: How the LGBTQ Movement Transformed American Culture

By Peter Hart-Brinson 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

Generational change in the imagination of sexuality caused an unprecedented shift in public opinion about same-sex marriage in the U.S.

Sisterhood and Unity: Lesbian Activism in the (Post-)Yugoslav Space

By Bojan Bilić LGBTQ, Modern Europe, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

Sisterhood and Unity explores the history and politics of lesbian activism in the (post-)Yugoslav space.

Before AIDS: Gay Health Politics in the 1970s

By Katie Batza 20th and 21st Century United States, HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ, Medicine and the Body, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

This book traces the emergence of a vibrant and multi-faceted national gay medical infrastructure during the 1970s.