evidence of identity and political activism built around a positive interpretation of same-sex desire in the 1820s.
Recent Posts
Rainbow Plaques: Mapping York’s LGBT History
York’s Alternative History explores the histories of York which don’t make the guidebooks.
John Rykener Revisited: Transvestite Male Prostitute or Biting Political Satire?
The Rykener case gives voice to dissent in the form of political satire.
Assistant Editor Positions at Notches
NOTCHES is seeking 2-3 graduate student assistant editors.
The Sacred Precincts of Marital Bedrooms: Religion and the Making of Griswold
Liberal clergy helped build a broad popular consensus in favor of birth control, at least for married couples, during the late 1950s and 1960s.
The Conservative Roots of the Reproductive Rights Revolution
Griswold v Connecticut; Eisenstadt v Baird; Roe v Wade: these cases are the building blocks of reproductive freedom in the United States.
The Obergefell Syllabus: Historicizing Same-Sex Marriage in the United States
These books and articles form an extensive syllabus with which to teach students about Obergefell v. Hodges.
