Straight After Death: Misremembering the Queer Life and Times of Rod McKuen

By Gillian Frank 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ

In the end, silences in the historical record may tell us as much about poor journalistic research as they tell us about antigay bias.

365 Notches: (re)marks on our 1st anniversary

By notcheseditor History of Sexuality

It’s hard to believe that we are celebrating one year of Notches! On 6 January 2014,

Lines of Dissent at London Metropolitan Archives: Finding and Creating LGBTQ Histories

By Claire Hayward LGBTQ, United Kingdom

The 12th LGBTQ History and Archives Conference at LMA chose queer inheritance as its theme.

Something New, Something Old: LGBT Voices before Stonewall

By Donna Knaff 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ

ONE, Inc., was “one of three major ‘homophile’ organizations of the 1950s and 1960s.”

Queer Sex in the Archives: “Canonizing Homophile Sexual Respectability"

By Whitney Strub 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ

Sometimes the queer stars align right when it’s needed most.

Jack the Ripper: Case Never Closed

By Julia Laite Sexual Labour, United Kingdom

Why does Jack the Ripper generate so much popular interest?

Stranger Danger and the Sexual Revolution

By Gillian Frank 20th and 21st Century United States, Childhood and Youth, Sexual Violence

The sexual content of stranger danger films grew more sexually explicit over time.