Trans Cinema: Making Communities, Identities, and Worlds

By Laura Horak NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

An exciting introduction to cinema by the trans creators who are innovating filmmaking to imagine a more inclusive world.

Privilege, Power, and Activism in Gay Rights Politics Since the 1970s

By Jonathan Bell 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

Beyond the Politics of the Closet examines the reorientation of LGBT politics from the 1970s to the 1990s.

Outrageous! The Story of Section 28 and Britain’s Battle for LGBT Education

By Paul Baker LGBTQ

Are there parallels between the homophobic 1980s and the present day?

Politicizing Sex in Contemporary Africa: An Interview with Ashley Currier

By Ashley Currier African Sexualities, Empire and Colonialism, LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

How elites used politicized homophobia to consolidate their moral and political authority.

The Boys of Fairy Town

By Jim Elledge 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

The little-known history of gay life in Chicago during its first century.

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?

Same-Sex Marriage in Renaissance Rome

By Katherine Harvey Early Modern, LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

Same-sex couples in the early modern period claimed marriage in their own particular ways.