An Interview with Historian Rictor Norton

By Stephen Brogan Author Interviews, Early Modern, LGBTQ

NOTCHES caught up with historian Rictor Norton to discuss his views on interpreting historical homosexuality and the future of LGBTQ studies.

Queer History and the Holocaust

By Anna Hajkova LGBTQ, Modern Europe, Sexual Labour, Sexual Violence

Queer experiences of the Holocaust have been marginalised, ignored and denied.

Sexual Revolution: Event or Process?

By Christopher Mitchell 20th and 21st Century United States

The most important dimension of the sexual revolution of the ’60s and ’70s was the increased freedom of sexual speech.

Queer Fascism and the End of Gay History

By Laurie Marhoefer LGBTQ

Now that the Right is in power in the United States, people are remembering the first openly gay politician, that is, the top Nazi Ernst Röhm.

The History of Sexuality has a Jewish Problem

By Gillian Frank Religion and Sexuality

I had the pleasure of being a respondent at a conference in honor of Heather White and Anthony Petro’s path breaking publications Reforming Sodom and After the Wrath of God.

The Boswell Legacy: Revisiting John Boswell’s Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality

By Katherine Harvey Medieval

Three historians explore the legacy of John Boswell’s landmark text.

Linked in Orgasm? Revisiting John Boswell’s Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality

By Robert Mills Medieval

Robert Mills reflects on the impact of Boswell’s work on his own gay and scholarly identities.