Christmas Isn’t for Queers

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

Christmas experiences of those stuck outside the quintessential white, middle-class, nuclear family.

Dr. Spock and the History of Sexuality

By Janet Golden 20th and 21st Century United States, Childhood and Youth

Serendipitously, on June 26, 2015, I found several letters to Spock regarding homosexuality.

“What can I do to be normal?” Queer Female Desire in Letters to Dr. Alfred Kinsey

By Amanda Littauer 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, Medicine and the Body

Many postwar Americans were obsessed with sexual normality but their stories reveal queer possibilities.

Interracialintimacies.org: An Online Interactive Archives and Teaching Tool

By Elise Chenier Asian Sexualities, Canada, Pedagogy, Race and Ethnicity

Mavis’ family photo album opened a door on a life of interracial intimacy.

Reading the History of Sexuality Collectively in the Digital Age

By Charles Upchurch Pedagogy

Using digital technology to replace traditional pedagogical methods with “collective reads”.

Archives of Desire: James Huneker “Nosophilia: A Nordau Heroine”

By Nicolette Gable History of Sexuality

Discussions of “deviant” sexuality were visible and vibrant within artistic and literary communities.

Archives of Desire: A Lavender Reading of J. Edgar Hoover

By Christopher Elias 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ

Collier’s made one of the earliest print references to the sexuality of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover.