A Love Letter to Bolts Nightclub

By Stephen Brogan Gay nightlife, LGBTQ, United Kingdom

Bolts was one of the most vibrant LGBTQ nightclubs in 1980s London, renowned for its Hi-NRG music and its weekly shows that were at the vanguard of gay culture.

The Borders of AIDS: Race, Quarantine, and Resistance

By Karma Chavez HIV/AIDS, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

The Borders of AIDS tells a story about how powerful people used AIDS as an opportunity to enact bans and quarantines and how ordinary people resisted.

Queer Nuns: Religion, Activism, and Serious Parody

By Melissa Wilcox LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, Religion and Sexuality

Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence are an unaffiliated, non-celibate order of queer, activist nuns.

Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic

By Richard McKay Canada, HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ, Medicine and the Body, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

How did a single gay man become blamed for causing the North American AIDS epidemic?

The Art and Politics of the Dick Pic

By GVGK Tang 20th and 21st Century United States, Medicine and the Body, Public History

What do safer sex campaigns and their histories tell us about how erotic masculinities are crafted amid crisis?

The Road to Section 28

By Colin Clews LGBTQ, United Kingdom

Conservatives exploited homophobia to discredit opposition to Section 28, leaving Labour ambivalent to outright opposition.

AIDS, Sexuality and American Religion: An Interview With Anthony Petro

By Anthony Petro 20th and 21st Century United States, HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ, Medicine and the Body, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, Religion and Sexuality

Religious responses to the emergence of AIDS in the United States in the 1980s and 90s.