Syphilis Onstage: Eugène Brieux’s Damaged Goods

By Alicia Corts Medicine and the Body

Brieux’s plot featured a main character wrestling with the physical and social ramifications of syphilis.

Reforming Sodom: Protestants and the Rise of Gay Rights

By Heather White 20th and 21st Century United States, Author Interviews, LGBTQ, Religion and Sexuality

The forgotten history of liberal Protestants’ role on both sides of debates over orthodoxy & sexual identity.

Archives of Desire: Analog Sexting

By Josh Adair 20th and 21st Century United States

My grandparents helped pave the way for virtual trysts.

Archives of Desire: Soft-Core Pornography and Activism in the 1960s

By Helis Sikk 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ

The Los Angeles Advocate captured the essence of an important segment of the LGBTQ culture.

Martin Luther King Jr. and the History of Sexuality

By Gillian Frank 20th and 21st Century United States, Race and Ethnicity

What sources would you use to place Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. within the history of sexuality?

Through the Eyes of the Establishment: Student Sexuality and the Dean of Women’s Office at Purdue University

By Donna Drucker 20th and 21st Century United States, Medicine and the Body

In the early 1960s, Purdue created an atmosphere that increased female students’ freedom, but only provided piecemeal sex education and counseling.

A Christmas Abortion

By Gillian Frank 20th and 21st Century United States, Medicine and the Body

On Christmas Eve 1955, Jacqueline Smith died from an illegal abortion at her boyfriend Thomas G. Daniel’s apartment.