Lesbianism and the Criminal Law: Three Centuries of Legal Regulation in England and Wales

By Caroline Derry June 29, 2021 Author Interviews 2 comments

A socio-legal history of lesbianism and the criminal law from the eighteenth century to the present.

Source Alert: The FBI’s “Sex Deviates” Files

By Rachel Hope Cleves April 17, 2017 20th and 21st Century United States 0 comments

Surviving records from the FBI’s “Sex Deviates” files are now available online.

History from the Witness Stand: An Interview with George Chauncey

By Rachel Hope Cleves June 23, 2016 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ 0 comments

George Chauncey has testified as an expert witness in more than thirty cases dealing with gay rights.

Christmas Isn’t for Queers

By Lauren Gutterman December 10, 2015 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ 4 comments

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

By Samantha Caslin September 10, 2015 Antipodean sexualities, Pedagogy 0 comments

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

By Amanda Littauer August 20, 2015 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, Medicine and the Body 0 comments

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

By Dan Royles April 30, 2015 LGBTQ 0 comments

As historians, how does the past speak to us, and when it does, how do we listen?