Esther Newton’s Butch Career

By Esther Newton LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

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, LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

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, LGBTQ, Modern Europe, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

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 Canada, HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ, Medicine and the Body, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

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

A Portrait of Jane Crow: An Interview with Rosalind Rosenberg

By Alexie Glover 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, Race and Ethnicity

Rosalind Rosenberg describes Pauli Murray’s struggles with her gender identity and demonstrates that Murray was truly a person ahead of her time.

“So Complicated”: The Sexual Politics of U.S. Health Care Reform

By Beatrix Hoffman 20th and 21st Century United States

An examination of the historic beliefs and current thinking underpinning the Republican desire to repeal Obamacare.

American Child Brides and the Dangers of Underage Sex

By Nicholas Syrett Childhood and Youth

Revisiting an earlier generation of reformers exposes that marriage was not a magical cure-all.