Privilege, Power, and Activism in Gay Rights Politics Since the 1970s

By Jonathan Bell 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

Beyond the Politics of the Closet examines the reorientation of LGBT politics from the 1970s to the 1990s.

Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender

By Kit Heyam NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, Trans

What can we learn from historic stories of gender non-conformity?

The Borders of AIDS: Race, Quarantine, and Resistance

By Karma Chavez HIV/AIDS, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

The Borders of AIDS tells a story about how powerful people used AIDS as an opportunity to enact bans and quarantines and how ordinary people resisted.

Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography

By Alicia Spencer-Hall and Blake Gutt Medieval, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, Trans

Why is medieval hagiography an important source for trans and genderqueer history?

United Queerdom: From the Legends of the Gay Liberation Front to the Queers of Tomorrow

By Dan Glass LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, United Kingdom

United Queerdom is a toolkit of case studies, strategies, philosophies, methodologies and tactics for LGBTQIA+ liberation in the spirit of the original aims of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF).

The Correspondence of Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, 1846-1894

By Douglas Pretsell LGBTQ, Modern Europe, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

The first critical edition of the complete correspondence of Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, a founding figure in the history of sexuality.

Campaigning for Lesbian and Gay Rights in Ireland, 1981-1993

By Bob Cant LGBTQ, Modern Europe

For GLEN, Ireland’s Gay and Lesbian Equality Network, it was all about making equality a reality in people’s everyday lives.