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

By Marie-Amélie George Author Interviews

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

Searching for Sex Crimes in Rural Nebraska

By Brian Trump 20th and 21st Century United States, Sexual Violence

Trips to courthouses across Nebraska raised important questions about how to conduct research on sexual violence in rural spaces.

Queer History in the Divided City: A New Approach to Digital Mapping

By Ian Darnell 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, Public History

St. Louis’s queer geography complicates patterns of racial polarization.

Troubling Terms: The Label Problem in Transgender History

By Emily Skidmore Trans

Does the question of language get to the heart of trans history as a field?

Source Alert: The FBI’s “Sex Deviates” Files

By Rachel Hope Cleves 20th and 21st Century United States

Surviving records from the FBI’s “Sex Deviates” files are now available online.

Archives of Desire: Debbie Does Death

By Josh Adair 20th and 21st Century United States

Even in death a Republican-appointed judge wanted to be remembered for his stance against pornography.

J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI, and the “Sex Deviates” Program

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

The Bureau was driven by “an overarching and intense fear and loathing of gays.”