“The Gay Revolution”: An Interview with Lillian Faderman

By Lauren Gutterman 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

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

Rainbow Plaques: Mapping York’s LGBT History

By Kit Heyam LGBTQ, United Kingdom

York’s Alternative History explores the histories of York which don’t make the guidebooks.

The Conservative Roots of the Reproductive Rights Revolution

By Beth Bailey 20th and 21st Century United States, Medicine and the Body

Griswold v Connecticut; Eisenstadt v Baird; Roe v Wade: these cases are the building blocks of reproductive freedom in the United States.

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.

“The State Does Not Belong in the Uterus of the Nation”

By Shannon Stettner Canada, Medicine and the Body

The Abortion Caravan authorized women to speak publicly about their experiences under Canada’s restrictive abortion laws.

Health, Reproduction, and Sex: Growing a Field for Latin Americanists

By Raul Necochea Latin American Sexualities, Medicine and the Body

The politicization of women’s bodies is anything but new, and to understand current manifestations, we must look to the past.

Scale – Spectacle – Spectatorship: Space as a Category of Queer Analysis

By Andrea Rottmann 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, Public History

Archives, exhibitions and historical sites operate as spaces through which ideas about LGBTQ identity can be renegotiated.