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Recent Posts
“The Unreasonable Indulgence of That Appetite”: Cancer as a Venereal Disease in the Nineteenth Century
Cancer was a venereal disease to be considered alongside syphilis and gonorrhoea.
Moral Panic and Syphilis in Jamaica
Venereal diseases became a means through which colonial elites and moral reformers condemned, surveilled, and made medical interventions against the Jamaican masses.
Gay Politics and Police Politics in the American City
Postwar law enforcement leaders rarely prepared patrol officers for policing of gay and lesbian people.
Catholicism, Contraception, and The History of Sexuality
The Commission had the potential to challenge the very nature of Catholic epistemology.
Inventing the Family Farm: Towards a History of Rural Heterosexuality
In the postwar United States, the state’s project of preserving the family farm was yoked to its project of making the modern American family.
Gay Rights and Religion: A Notches Special Issue
Historians should not assume that religious institutions have always been hostile to gay rights.
