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 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.

Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic

By Richard McKay Author Interviews, Canada, HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ, Medicine and the Body 1 comment

How did a single gay man become blamed for causing the North American AIDS epidemic?