Archives of Desire: A Lavender Reading of J. Edgar Hoover

By Christopher Elias 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ

Collier’s made one of the earliest print references to the sexuality of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover.

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?

Franca Viola says ‘No’: Gender violence, consent, and the law in 1960s Italy

By Niamh Cullen Modern Europe, Sexual Violence

Franca Viola’s abduction and rape was a watershed in improving the status of women in Italian society.

Redefining Rape: Estelle Freedman on the History of Sexual Violence

By Natalia Petrzela 20th and 21st Century United States, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, Sexual Violence

Redefining Rape charts the complex and shifting meaning of sexual violence in the United States.

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.

Eugenics and Intersex: The consequences of defining "normal" bodies

By Katelyn Dykerman Medicine and the Body

Decisions to limit life based on social or cultural biases contain dangerous eugenic possibilities.

Queer Domesticities: Matt Cook on Home Life, Family and Community in London

By Justin Bengry LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, United Kingdom

Matt Cook explores queer men’s experiences of home and homemaking in the metropolis.