Archives of Desire: Happiness of Womanhood Newsletter, 1977

By Neil Young 20th and 21st Century United States

Fears of changing sexual mores shaped HOW’s women’s worldview and mobilized their politics.

Oral Histories and Alternative Archives: Disrupting the Boundaries of Queer Identities, Cultures, and Politics

By Dan Royles LGBTQ

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

"The Gay Bulge" or Can We Study Medieval Sexuality Through Puns?

By Tom O'Donnell LGBTQ, Medieval

Perhaps sometimes a ‘gay bulge’ is just a gae bolga.

Doing It With Food: Cooking and the History of Sexuality

By Gillian Frank 20th and 21st Century United States, Food and Sexuality

Evangelicals actively connected their appetite for culinary and sexual variety to desires for marital intimacy and stability.

Scale – Spectacle – Spectatorship: Space as a Category of Queer Analysis

By Andrea Rottmann 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, Public History

Archives, exhibitions and historical sites operate as spaces through which ideas about LGBTQ identity can be renegotiated.

Straight After Death: Misremembering the Queer Life and Times of Rod McKuen

By Gillian Frank 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ

In the end, silences in the historical record may tell us as much about poor journalistic research as they tell us about antigay bias.

Beyond the Binary: Trans* History in Early America

By Rachel Hope Cleves Early America, Trans

Trans history and non-binary perspectives to the study of pre-Civil War America.