“The Gay Revolution”: An Interview with Lillian Faderman

By Lauren Gutterman 20th and 21st Century United States, Author Interviews, LGBTQ

The Gay Revolution provides a moving account of the LGBT movement in the United States.

“This is Your Pasty”: The Performance of Queer Domesticity in Small-Town Wisconsin

By Christopher Hommerding Food and Sexuality, LGBTQ

Two queer men elevated the simple pasty to a luxurious, gourmet meal.

Out in the Open: Rural Life, Respectability, and the Nudist Park

By Brian Hoffman Medicine and the Body

The American countryside provided an ideal setting for the principles of nudism.

Red War on the Family: An Interview with Erica Ryan

By Erica Ryan 20th and 21st Century United States, Author Interviews

1920s conservatism foreshadowed the New Right’s use of sex & gender as an organizing tool.

Too Little, Too Late: The Path To Griswold v. Connecticut

By Linda Gordon 20th and 21st Century United States, Medicine and the Body

It had taken fifty years to defeat the repressive, prudish and sexist ban on birth control.

Heterosexuality and Americanization: "Social Education" for Immigrant Youth in the 1920s

By Erica Ryan Childhood and Youth

An “American Style” marriage, reformers believed, was one solution to the problem of unassimilated immigrants.