Slapping Leather: Queer Cowfolx at the Gay Rodeo

By Elyssa Ford Author Interviews

Slapping Leather traces gay rodeo as a space where queer people have been able to both embrace and challenge the idealized masculinity associated with the iconic cowboy of the American West.

Vulnerable Constitutions: Queerness, Disability, and the Remaking of American Manhood

By Cynthia Barounis Author Interviews, LGBTQ, Medicine and the Body

The rise of sexual science, in addition to creating new forms of stigma, also provided the imaginative resources for articulating new modes of resistance.

Before AIDS: Gay Health Politics in the 1970s

By Katie Batza 20th and 21st Century United States, Author Interviews, HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ, Medicine and the Body

This book traces the emergence of a vibrant and multi-faceted national gay medical infrastructure during the 1970s.

Too Hot and Horny for the Centers for Disease Control

By Dan Royles LGBTQ, Race and Ethnicity

Conservative resistance to government funding for AIDS education was racialized and sexualized.

Local Sexual Cultures and the Response to HIV/AIDS Along the Uganda-Tanzania Border

By Shane Doyle African Sexualities, HIV/AIDS

Is it helpful to conceive of one African epidemic, with one set of universal causes? And how is the history of HIV understood within African communities?

Church Ladies for Choice: Queer Responses to Anti-Abortion Politics in the 1990s

By Tamar Carroll LGBTQ

The Church Ladies for Choice highlight the queer and feminist coalition against anti-abortion activists and the Religious Right.

Out of the Closet, Into the Archives: Researching Sexual Histories

By Jaime Cantrell LGBTQ

Can an archive offer “proof” that historians often seek out?