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Urning: Queer Identity in the German Nineteenth Century

By Douglas Pretsell NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

Douglas Pretsell Urning is a biography of the earliest recognisably modern sexual identity. The urning identity was, in fact, the dominant male same-sex sexual identity in the German speaking world between 1864 and 1897 but was subsequently eclipsed by terminologies such as homosexual, gay, or queer. NOTCHES: What drew you […]

(Safe) Sex, Leather and Zines: Lisbon’s GayClub and early HIV/AIDS information activism

By Joana Matias HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ, Modern Europe

A discrete Portuguese members’ club GayClub, through its publication Órbita Gay Macho, promoted safe sex, curated news from abroad, and warned against media hysteria around HIV/AIDS.

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.

The ‘Chosen Family’ Dinner: A non-normative insight into queer homemaking

By Barney Pau LGBTQ

At the bookshop Libreria a table is set for dinner, but unusually the books are complemented by plates painted with plump juicy peaches and bowls drawn with cocks.

“Beyond the Law”: The Politics Ending the Death Penalty for Sodomy in Britain

By Charles Upchurch LGBTQ, United Kingdom

Beyond the Law focuses on the multiple ways various groups of individuals in the early nineteenth century understood what sodomy was, and what constituted an ethical response to it.