Anatomy’s queer working images, or My queer eye for the anatomical guy

By Michael Sappol NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

Queer Anatomies is about perverse desire and pleasure in anatomy. Queers queering anatomy.

The Italian Invert: A Gay Man’s Intimate Confessions To Emile Zola

By Michael Rosenfeld LGBTQ, Modern Europe, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

A very queer tale, The Italian Invert is one man’s story of love affairs, sexual adventures, and the pursuit of happiness at the end of the nineteenth century.

“Homosexual Hearers” and Queer Musicality in Xavier Mayne’s The Intersexes (1909)

By Kristin Franseen LGBTQ

In The Intersexes (ca 1909), Edward Prime-Stevenson used gossip to support his queer readings of 19th-century symphonic music.

Squirming in the Dark: Playful Occupations for Sex Workers in the 1870 Census

By Holly Marquess Archives of Desire, Sexual Labour

Uncovering the playful occupations listed for sex workers in the 1870 census.