The Calendar of Loss: Dagmawi Woubshet on Race, Sexuality, and Mourning in the Early Era of AIDS

By Dan Royles 20th and 21st Century United States, African Sexualities, HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ, Medicine and the Body, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, Race and Ethnicity

The politics of mourning in the early years of the AIDS epidemic both in the United States and Ethiopia.

Rape and Manhood in Nineteenth-Century Caucasus

By Kristin Collins-Breyfogle Asian Sexualities, Sexual Violence

An 1852 rape case reveals that colonization was an uneven process.

Operation Hyacinth and Poland’s Pink Files

By Lukasz Szulc LGBTQ, Modern Europe

The aim of the operation was to detain, interrogate, and register both actual and alleged homosexuals.

The Rejected: Homophile Activists in the Spotlight

By Andrew Lester 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ

The Rejected was a groundbreaking representation of gays in the American media.

Truly Ugandan: Martyrs, Pope Francis, and the Question of Sexuality

By T.J. Tallie African Sexualities, Empire and Colonialism, Religion and Sexuality

Francis obscured both the colonial Christian and queer sexual contexts of the executions.

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.

Found in Translation: How Sexual Debates Developed Across the Modern World

By Dr Heike Bauer Medicine and the Body

Sexual science emerged contemporaneously in Europe, Asia, Peru, and the Middle East.