In May 1988, when Marc Stein was working as the coordinating editor of Gay Community News in Boston, Massachusetts, he interviewed Jeffrey Weeks, the influential British sociologist and historian.
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Teaching Queer History
LGBT history is at the forefront of American educational reform and an integral part of teaching practices for educators at all levels from grade school to grad school.
The Other Half Has Never Been Told: AIDS and African-American History
AIDS in black America is not only the result of poverty and inequality, but also reinforces racial inequities by constraining black opportunity.
Sex and the Single Man in Late Medieval England
What constituted socially-acceptable premarital sex for young men in the late middle ages?
Beyond the Binary: Trans* History in Early America
Trans history and non-binary perspectives to the study of pre-Civil War America.
Heterosexuality and Americanization: "Social Education" for Immigrant Youth in the 1920s
An “American Style” marriage, reformers believed, was one solution to the problem of unassimilated immigrants.
Bestiality in a Time of Smallpox
At the turn of the 19th century, opponents of Edward Jenner’s method for preventing smallpox likened vaccination to bestiality.
