Surviving records from the FBI’s “Sex Deviates” files are now available online.
Tag: lesbianism
History from the Witness Stand: An Interview with George Chauncey
George Chauncey has testified as an expert witness in more than thirty cases dealing with gay rights.
Christmas Isn’t for Queers
Christmas experiences of those stuck outside the quintessential white, middle-class, nuclear family.
Digital Witnesses: The Parker-Hulme Murder Case and the Teaching of Crime and Sexual Deviance
The Parker-Hulme murder gripped the town of Christchurch, New Zealand in the summer of 1954.
“What can I do to be normal?” Queer Female Desire in Letters to Dr. Alfred Kinsey
Many postwar Americans were obsessed with sexual normality but their stories reveal queer possibilities.
Oral Histories and Alternative Archives: Disrupting the Boundaries of Queer Identities, Cultures, and Politics
As historians, how does the past speak to us, and when it does, how do we listen?
Radical Relations: An Interview with Daniel W. Rivers
The first history of lesbian and gay parents and their children in the United States.
Recent Posts
Working Out: Reflections of gay trade union activism in the 1970s UK
Men of Superior IQ: Connecting Homosexuality to Intelligence in Cold War-Era Canada
Toward an Anti-racist History of Sexuality
Out and about with GLF in London, September 1971
‘Behaviour Which Merits a Horrible and Wretched Death’: Sex, Sin and the Black Death in Medieval England