Privilege, Power, and Activism in Gay Rights Politics Since the 1970s

By Jonathan Bell Author Interviews 0 comments

Beyond the Politics of the Closet examines the reorientation of LGBT politics from the 1970s to the 1990s.

Her Neighbor’s Wife: A History of Lesbian Desire within Marriage

By Lauren Gutterman 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ 0 comments

Her Neighbor’s Wife traces the stories of hundreds of women who struggled to balance marriage and same-sex desire in the postwar United States.

Queering Romantic Engagement in the Postal Age: A Rhetorical Education

By Pamela VanHaitsma Author Interviews, LGBTQ 0 comments

On the everyday rhetorical ingenuity of queer romantic letter-writing practices in the nineteenth-century United States.

The Rape of Rufus? Sexual Violence against Enslaved Men

By Thomas Foster Author Interviews, Early America, Race and Ethnicity, Sexual Violence 0 comments

Rethinking Rufus argues that enslaved black men were sexually violated by both white men and white women.

Esther Newton’s Butch Career

By Esther Newton Author Interviews, LGBTQ 0 comments

I love reading and writing stories but, until my memoir, most have been about other people.

The Gay Marriage Generation: How the LGBTQ Movement Transformed American Culture

By Peter Hart-Brinson 20th and 21st Century United States, Author Interviews, LGBTQ 1 comment

Generational change in the imagination of sexuality caused an unprecedented shift in public opinion about same-sex marriage in the U.S.

Controlling Sex in Captivity

By Matthias Reiss 20th and 21st Century United States, Author Interviews, LGBTQ, Modern Europe 0 comments

The book is the first critical study of heterosexual and same-sex activities involving Axis prisoners of war in the United States during World War II.