“The Gay Revolution”: An Interview with Lillian Faderman

By Lauren Gutterman 20th and 21st Century United States, Author Interviews, LGBTQ

The Gay Revolution provides a moving account of the LGBT movement in the United States.

“This is Your Pasty”: The Performance of Queer Domesticity in Small-Town Wisconsin

By Christopher Hommerding Food and Sexuality, LGBTQ

Two queer men elevated the simple pasty to a luxurious, gourmet meal.

Out in the Union: An Interview with Miriam Frank

By Miriam Frank 20th and 21st Century United States, Author Interviews, LGBTQ

Out in the Union (Temple University Press, 2014) by Miriam Frank tells the continuous story of queer American workers from the mid-1960s through 2013.

The Obergefell Syllabus: Historicizing Same-Sex Marriage in the United States

By notcheseditor 20th and 21st Century United States, Pedagogy

These books and articles form an extensive syllabus with which to teach students about Obergefell v. Hodges.

Disciplining Black Bodies: Racial Stereotypes of Cleanliness and Sexuality

By Victoria Wolcott 20th and 21st Century United States, Medicine and the Body, Race and Ethnicity

The importance of highlighting the full humanity of historical actors whose voices are largely silent in the archive.

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.

Rethinking Bussing in the 1970s: The Sexual Politics of School Integration in the United States

By Gillian Frank 20th and 21st Century United States, Childhood and Youth, Race and Ethnicity

In the United States, racial divisions have long been sexualized.