Contraceptive Diplomacy: Reproductive Politics & Imperial Ambitions in the United States & Japan

By Aiko Takeuchi-Demirci 20th and 21st Century United States, Asian Sexualities, Author Interviews, Empire and Colonialism, Medicine and the Body, Race and Ethnicity

Contraceptive Diplomacy narrates a transnational history of birth control in the context of imperial struggles between the United States and Japan.

Macho Tips: The Erotics of the Mexican Body in a Gay Magazine

By Juan Carlos Mezo Gonzalez Latin American Sexualities, LGBTQ, Race and Ethnicity

The Mexican gay magazine Macho Tips (1985-1989) engaged with national ideologies of race and gender.

A Portrait of Jane Crow: An Interview with Rosalind Rosenberg

By Alexie Glover 20th and 21st Century United States, Author Interviews, LGBTQ, Race and Ethnicity

Rosalind Rosenberg describes Pauli Murray’s struggles with her gender identity and demonstrates that Murray was truly a person ahead of her time.

Too Hot and Horny for the Centers for Disease Control

By Dan Royles LGBTQ, Race and Ethnicity

Conservative resistance to government funding for AIDS education was racialized and sexualized.

Not Straight, Not White: A Student Interview with Kevin Mumford

By Rachel Hope Cleves 20th and 21st Century United States, Author Interviews, LGBTQ, Race and Ethnicity

An interview with author Kevin Mumford about his new book detailing the lives of black gay men from the Civil Rights Movement to the AIDS crisis

Sex Between the Solitudes: Interracial Sex and Adoption in Montreal’s Postwar Jewish Community

By Andrea Eidinger Canada, Race and Ethnicity, Religion and Sexuality

The ways a father’s race shaped the adoptability of children born to Jewish mothers reveals the complex construction of Jewishness in postwar Canada.

Postwar Sex Education and the Roots of White Male Sexual Entitlement

By Susan Freeman 20th and 21st Century United States, Race and Ethnicity, Sexual Violence

White men remain relatively impervious to charges of sexual aggression, perhaps as a result of mid-century sex education.