Family Matters: Queer Households and the Half-Century Struggle for Legal Recognition

By Marie-Amélie George 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

Family Matters offers a new way of understanding how beleaguered minority groups may be able to secure meaningful legal change.

(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.

“The best fighters of each other’s oppressions”: Trans and Non-Trans Solidarity in Lesbian Communities

By Ocean Ouillette 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, Trans

There is a rich, but often overlooked, history of affinity and solidarity between trans and non-trans lesbians.

A Secret Between Gentlemen

By Peter Jordaan LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, United Kingdom

Rediscovering an early twentieth-century sex scandal.

Lovers in Leicester: A Twentieth-Century Gay Couple

By Jo Somerset LGBTQ, United Kingdom

Jo Somerset reads between the lines to decipher a gay couple’s secret life in Leicester during the twentieth century.

Lady Chatterley’s Lover: A Queer Case

By Gareth Smith LGBTQ, United Kingdom

The Chatterley trial hinged on the disavowing or defending of ‘deviant’ sexual acts within the novel, making it a distinctly queer case.

Before AIDS: Gay Health Politics in the 1970s

By Katie Batza 20th and 21st Century United States, HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ, Medicine and the Body, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

This book traces the emergence of a vibrant and multi-faceted national gay medical infrastructure during the 1970s.