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Lithograph titled "Kiss Me Quick" showing a man and a woman kissing. The woman has her hands on the hats of two children.

Sexual Revolution: Event or Process?

The most important dimension of the sexual revolution of the '60s and '70s was the increased freedom of sexual speech.

by Jeffrey Escoffier, Christopher Mitchell via NOTCHES on October 11, 2018

Drawing of a drag ball in the Civil War.

Drag Balls of the Civil War

Queerness has always existed — even on the Civil War battlefield.

by Levi Hastings, Dorian Alexander via The Nib on October 5, 2018

Brett Kavanaugh Goes to the Movies

A film scholar reflects on the image of masculinity depicted in "Grease 2," released the same summer of Kavanaugh's alleged assault.

by Marsha Gordon via The Conversation on October 2, 2018

Joan Mitchell, Helen Frankenthaler, and Grace Hartigan

How New York’s Postwar Female Painters Battled for Recognition

The women of the historic Ninth Street Show had a will of iron and an intense need for their talent to be expressed, no matter the cost.

by Claudia Roth Pierpont via The New Yorker on October 1, 2018

Teen ‘Boys Will Be Boys’: A Brief History

The concept of adolescence is a recent invention — and it has been applied unevenly to children from different backgrounds.

by Ashwini Tambe via The Conversation on September 27, 2018

Victorian-Era Orgasms and the Crisis of Peer Review

A favorite anecdote about the origins of the vibrator is probably a myth.

by Robinson Meyer, Ashley Fetters via The Atlantic on September 6, 2018

What Can We Learn From Utopians of the Past?

Four nineteenth-century authors offered blueprints for a better world—but their progressive visions had a dark side.

by Adam Gopnik via The New Yorker on July 30, 2018

Photographs of Oscar Wilde and Walt Whitman.

When Wilde Met Whitman

As he told a friend years later, "the kiss of Walt Whitman is still on my lips."

by Michèle Mendelssohn via Literary Hub on July 16, 2018

Movie poster for "American Gigolo," showing a man in a suit looking to the right, with his shadow on the wall behind him

Armani in America

Looking back on "American Gigolo," a love story about a wardrobe.

by Haley Mlotek via Lapham’s Quarterly on July 3, 2018

Working, Out

Homophobia at a CrossFit is a good time to remember that gym culture wouldn’t exist without queer people.

by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela via Slate on June 20, 2018

Women’s Liberation, Beauty Contests, and the 1920s: Swimsuit Edition

The swimsuit that's controversial now for its sexist overtones was once controversial for its suggestions of women’s liberation.

by Laura Prieto via Nursing Clio on June 19, 2018

The American Revolution’s Greatest Leader Was Openly Gay

“Baron Von Steuben” was responsible for whipping the U.S. military into shape when things were looking bleakest.

by Josh Trujillo, Levi Hastings via The Nib on June 1, 2018

Remembering Philip Roth

Philip Roth's work could only have been written by someone who came of age during the peak of postwar liberalism.

by Laura Tanenbaum via Jacobin on May 26, 2018

Still of Molly Ringwald and Emilio Estevez from The Breakfast Club.

What About “The Breakfast Club”?

Revisiting the movies of my youth in the age of #MeToo.

by Molly Ringwald via The New Yorker on April 6, 2018

North Street, Boston, in 1894.

Secrets of a Brothel Privy

An archaeologist reconstructs the daily lives of 19th-century sex workers in Boston.

by Anna Goldfield via Sapiens on March 6, 2018

An Investigation Into the History of the 'Ditz' Voice

How pitch, tonality, and celebrity imitation have portrayed cluelessness.

by Jody Amable via Atlas Obscura on March 1, 2018

Bohemian Tragedy

The rise, fall, and afterlife of George Sterling’s California arts colony.

by Joy Lanzendorfer via Poetry Foundation on February 26, 2018

‘Eight Loving Arms and All Those Suckers.’

How Angels in America put Roy Cohn into the definitive story of AIDS.

by Dan Kois, Isaac Butler via Vulture on February 7, 2018

Want to Hear a Dirty Joke? Get a Woman to Tell It

The Courage and Comic Genius of Groundbreaking Female Stand-Ups

by Eileen Pollack via Literary Hub on January 4, 2018

In Memory of Otis Redding and His Revolution

The legacy of the talented singer, songwriter, and producer who died at age twenty-six.

by Jonathan Gould via The New Yorker on December 10, 2017

The Story Behind California's Unprecedented Textbooks

California Is adopting LGBT-Inclusive history textbooks. It's the latest chapter in a centuries-long fight.

by Katy Steinmetz via TIME on November 14, 2017

How John Wayne Became a Hollow Masculine Icon

The actor’s persona was inextricable from the toxic culture of Cold War machismo.

by Stephen Metcalf via The Atlantic on November 9, 2017

Civil War Soldiers’ Wet Dreams

Looking for traces of sexual fantasy in soldiers' letters home.

by Dillon Carroll via Nursing Clio on November 1, 2017

The Dramatically Different World of ’70s Dating Ads

Before Tinder, there was “Singles News.”

by Natasha Frost via Atlas Obscura on October 27, 2017

Old New York, Seen Through a Cab Driver’s Windshield

The people Joseph Rodriguez saw through the windshield in the 1970s and 80s.

by Joseph Rodriguez via Intelligencer on October 27, 2017

Jane Addams’s Crusade Against Victorian “Dancing Girls”

Jane Addams, a leading Victorian-era reformer, believed dance halls were “one of the great pitfalls of the city.”

by Erin Blakemore via JSTOR Daily on October 11, 2017

A Brief History of Sex on the Internet

An excerpt from "The Naughty Nineties: The Triumph of the American Libido."

by David Friend via Wired on September 15, 2017

Our Trouble with Sex: A Christian Story?

"Sex and the Constitution: Sex, Religion, and Law from America’s Origins to the Twenty-First Century" by Geoffrey R. Stone.

by Annette Gordon-Reed via New York Review of Books on August 17, 2017

Lizzie Borden.

Why We’re So Obsessed With Lizzie Borden’s 40 Whacks

Lizzie Borden’s father and stepmother were brutally murdered, possibly by Lizzie herself, in August 1892. Why are we still dissecting the crime?

by Erin Blakemore, Ann Schofield via JSTOR Daily on August 4, 2017

The Women and Girls of Telegraph Ave

The women of Telegraph Avenue whose stories remain untold.

by Madeline Appel, Sally Littlefield via The Berkeley Revolution on July 7, 2017

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