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2026 25

  1. Fractal Repair: Queer Histories of Modern Jamaica
  2. Queer Belonging in the New Mexico Desert
  3. Gay Print Culture: A History of Gay Magazines in Mexico, Canada, and the United States
  4. When We Ruled: The Rise and Fall of Twelve African Queens and Warriors
  5. Ali in Biskra: Sex Tourism, Algeria 1895
  6. Julian Eltinge, America’s Greatest Female Impersonator
  7. Queer Crafts: LGBTQ+ Identity, Politics, and Cultural Expression
  8. On the Origins of Queer Islamophobia in Germany: from Sex Tourism to Queer Fascism in The Color of Desire
  9. The Roots of the Global Culture Wars over Birth Control
  10. Coloring into Existence: Queer of Color Worldmaking in Children’s Literature
  11. NOTCHES Vacancy: Social Media Editor
  12. The Log Books: Voices of Queer Britain from the Switchboard Helpline
  13. The Lion, the Witch, and the Closet? Friendship and Queer Desire in the Life of C. S. Lewis
  14. What Franco’s Archives Accidentally Preserved About Queer Life in Spain
  15. Tasty Tim and the Gender Benders who made Pop History
  16. Come to My Cottage: Queer Pleasures and Female Fandom in the Silent Hollywood Era
  17. Trans Cinema: Making Communities, Identities, and Worlds
  18. A Queer Theory of the State
  19. Sex Work in Contemporary Russia
  20. Looking through the Speculum
  21. Anatomy’s queer working images, or My queer eye for the anatomical guy
  22. A Love Letter to Bolts Nightclub
  23. Criminally Queer: The Bolton 7
  24. Sexuality in Modern German History
  25. The Massage Establishments Scandal: Coding and De-coding Sex Work at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

2025 12

  1. Left Out: Boys, Sex, and the Challenge of “Gross Indecency” Records in Irish History
  2. Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures
  3. Two More Weeks: The Brutality Behind Brazil’s Reproductive Politics
  4. Illicit Monogamy: Inside a Fundamentalist Mormon Community
  5. Drag: A British History
  6. “Dolled up to the nines to go to a flippin’ public toilet!”: Cruising in Belfast During the Troubles
  7. Urning: Queer Identity in the German Nineteenth Century
  8. The Sex Lives of Historic Houses
  9. What can we Learn from Germany’s Early Queer History?
  10. “Would You Let Yourself In?” Reflections on Marc Vaultier’s Mirror
  11. The Sexual Revolutions of Marilyn Chambers
  12. The Two Faces of Taboo

2024 20

  1. Contextualising Taboo: Leigh Bowery and the Media
  2. Aleksandr Aleksandrov: New Sources in Nineteenth-Century Russian Trans Life-Writing
  3. Race, Sexuality and Identity in Britain and Jamaica: The Biography of Patrick Nelson, 1916-1963
  4. The Bars Are Ours: Histories and Cultures of Gay Bars in America, 1960 and After
  5. “Information Pleases”: Dictionaries and Trans History
  6. Translation as empowerment: toward a grammaticalization of the non-binary in Spanish
  7. The rediscovery of a homoerotic poem by Torquato Tasso: Ganimede rapito
  8. A Polymorphous Activist: Mario Mieli
  9. Dismantling Borders: (Un)Naming the Queer Diasporic Algérienne
  10. Filth, Flamboyance and Fun in Gay Slang Polari
  11. The Languages of Queer History
  12. In a Rapture of Distress: Women’s Sexuality and Modern India
  13. Family Matters: Queer Households and the Half-Century Struggle for Legal Recognition
  14. Slapping Leather: Queer Cowfolx at the Gay Rodeo
  15. A Queer New York: Geographies of Lesbians, Dykes, and Queers
  16. Pubic Politics in Homosexual Action Groups in 1970s West Germany
  17. NOTCHES Vacancy: Apply for Layout Editor position (Deadline 1 March 2024)
  18. Will the Sissy be Triumphant?
  19. The Transformation of American Sex Education: Mary Calderone and the Fight for Sexual Health
  20. The Italian Invert: A Gay Man’s Intimate Confessions To Emile Zola

2023 9

  1. Governing Gender and Sexuality in Colonial India
  2. (Safe) Sex, Leather and Zines: Lisbon’s GayClub and early HIV/AIDS information activism
  3. Black Trans Feminism
  4. Foucault’s Lectures on Sexuality
  5. Privilege, Power, and Activism in Gay Rights Politics Since the 1970s
  6. Reproduction in Transition: Fertility Technology in the Lives of Sexual and Gender Minorities
  7. The ‘Chosen Family’ Dinner: A non-normative insight into queer homemaking
  8. “Homosexual Hearers” and Queer Musicality in Xavier Mayne’s The Intersexes (1909)
  9. Squirming in the Dark: Playful Occupations for Sex Workers in the 1870 Census

2022 25

  1. NOTCHES Vacancies: Apply for Social Media Editor and Layout Editor positions
  2. “The best fighters of each other’s oppressions”: Trans and Non-Trans Solidarity in Lesbian Communities
  3. “Beyond the Law”: The Politics Ending the Death Penalty for Sodomy in Britain
  4. Illegitimacy, Family and Stigma in England, 1660-1834
  5. Adventurer: The Life and Times of Giacomo Casanova
  6. Outrageous! The Story of Section 28 and Britain’s Battle for LGBT Education
  7. A Secret Between Gentlemen
  8. Between Byzantine Men
  9. Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender
  10. Information Activism: A Queer History of Lesbian Media Technologies
  11. Female Husbands: A Trans History
  12. Serpent in the Garden: Amish Sexuality in a Changing World
  13. Love for Sale: Representing Prostitution in Imperial Russia
  14. The Borders of AIDS: Race, Quarantine, and Resistance
  15. The International LGBT Rights Movement: A History
  16. How to Write the History of Pederasty in the Age of Groomers
  17. An Interview with Historian Rictor Norton
  18. Age Difference and Queer Feminism: Bryher, H.D. and Norman Douglas
  19. Interrogating Our White Supremacist Present: A Roundtable on Global Histories of Racial Supremacy and Reproductive Control – Part 2
  20. Interrogating Our White Supremacist Present: A Roundtable on Global Histories of Racial Supremacy and Reproductive Control – Part 1
  21. Wolfenden’s Women: Prostitution in Post-war Britain
  22. Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex
  23. The Fires of Lust: Sex in the Middle Ages
  24. Intimate Interventions: Global Histories of Sexuality and Colonialism
  25. An Escape from Nazi Vienna: Heinrich Schrefel and Queer Holocaust history

2021 48

  1. Introducing Queer Pasts: A New Digital History Platform
  2. Freaking in Interwar Britain
  3. The Chastity Plot
  4. David Levison and the Heterosexual Revolution in Scotland
  5. Radical Relationships: The Civil War-Era Correspondence of Mathilde Franziska Anneke
  6. ‘Longer than a big man’s thigh’: The Perfect Penis in Medieval Europe
  7. Abortion and Contraception in Modern Greece, 1830-1967
  8. “Like Man and Wife:” A Same-sex Relationship Aboard the USS Pinola
  9. Divine, Demonic and Disordered: Women without Men in Song Dynasty China
  10. Prostitution and Subjectivity in Late Medieval Germany
  11. Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography
  12. Constructing the Pornographic Object of Knowledge
  13. United Queerdom: From the Legends of the Gay Liberation Front to the Queers of Tomorrow
  14. Southerners: Archiving Queer Southern Diaspora in New York City
  15. Vulnerable Constitutions: Queerness, Disability, and the Remaking of American Manhood
  16. Illegitimacy in Medieval Scotland, 1100-1500
  17. The Correspondence of Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, 1846-1894
  18. Sexual Politics and Feminist Science: Women Sexologists in Germany, 1900-1933
  19. The People’s Porn: A History of Handmade Pornography in America
  20. Lovers in Leicester: A Twentieth-Century Gay Couple
  21. Lesbianism and the Criminal Law: Three Centuries of Legal Regulation in England and Wales
  22. Her Neighbor’s Wife: A History of Lesbian Desire within Marriage
  23. Gothic Architecture and Sexuality in the Circle of Horace Walpole
  24. Plausible Crime Stories: The Legal History of Sexual Offences in Mandate Palestine
  25. Tabernacles of Clay: Sexuality and Gender in Modern Mormonism
  26. Transtopia in the Sinophone Pacific
  27. ‘Cao Cao loved him’: Same-sex love at the end of the Han dynasty
  28. Queer Studies: Beyond Binaries
  29. The Glamour Boys: The Secret Story of the Rebels who Fought for Britain to Defeat Hitler
  30. Unspeakable Practices Under the Capri Sun
  31. The Queer Case of Catherine/Giovanni Vizzani
  32. The Closet: The Eighteenth-Century Architecture of Intimacy
  33. German, Jew, Muslim, Gay: The Life and Times of Hugo Marcus
  34. Intimate Investments in Drag King Cultures: The Rise and Fall of a Lesbian Social Scene
  35. The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance
  36. Of Polymaths and Pederasts: Reflections on Rachel Hope Cleves’s Unspeakable
  37. The Closet and the Cul-de-Sac The Politics of Sexual Privacy in Northern California
  38. The Ambivalence of Gay Liberation: Male Homosexual Politics in 1970s West Germany
  39. Queering Romantic Engagement in the Postal Age: A Rhetorical Education
  40. Licentious Worlds: Sex and Exploitation in Global Empires
  41. Raúl Luis Suarez’s Smile and The Ruthless Archive
  42. In Search of Sexual Health: Diagnosing and Treating Syphilis in Hot Springs, Arkansas
  43. Contraception: A Concise History
  44. The Shapes of Fancy: Reading for Queer Desire in Early Modern Literature
  45. Queer as Cop: Gay Patrol Units and the White Fantasy of Safety
  46. Campaigning for Lesbian and Gay Rights in Ireland, 1981-1993
  47. Lady Chatterley’s Lover: A Queer Case
  48. Loving Animals: On Bestiality, Zoophilia, and Post-Human Love

2020 25

  1. ‘An Equality of Injustice’: The Sex Buyers’ Bill and Lessons from History
  2. In the Service of White Supremacy: Immigration and Reproductive Violence
  3. Trans America: A Counter-History
  4. The Corrupter of Boys: Sodomy, Scandal and the Medieval Clergy
  5. The Rape of Rufus? Sexual Violence against Enslaved Men
  6. The Reputation of Edward II
  7. Protective Practices: A History of the London Rubber Company and the Condom Business
  8. Un-Roman Sex: Gender, Sexuality, and Lovemaking in the Roman Provinces and Frontiers
  9. Sex, Law and the Politics of Age: Child Marriage in India, 1891-1937
  10. Lesbian Networks of (Cat) Care During the Sex Wars
  11. Working Out: Reflections of gay trade union activism in the 1970s UK
  12. Men of Superior IQ: Connecting Homosexuality to Intelligence in Cold War-Era Canada
  13. Toward an Anti-racist History of Sexuality
  14. Esther Newton’s Butch Career
  15. Politicizing Sex in Contemporary Africa: An Interview with Ashley Currier
  16. Out and about with GLF in London, September 1971
  17. Queer China: Lesbian and Gay Literature and Visual Culture
  18. The Brothel of Pompeii
  19. ‘Behaviour Which Merits a Horrible and Wretched Death’: Sex, Sin and the Black Death in Medieval England
  20. The Beauty and the Terror
  21. Moral Instruction, Venereal Disease, and Eugenic Manliness during World War I
  22. Teenagers: The Rise of Youth Culture in New Zealand
  23. Following in Vesta’s footsteps! How to name queerness in museums
  24. Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Social Thought
  25. Reporting Abortions in Post-Conquest New Spain

2019 45

  1. Three’s a Crowd?: Navigating a Love Triangle in Enlightenment France
  2. Coming Out of Communism: The Emergence of LGBT Activism in Eastern Europe
  3. Public City/Public Sex: Homosexuality, Prostitution, and Urban Culture Nineteenth-Century Paris
  4. ‘She rose in the Morning of a contrary Sex’: Stories from Early Modern Wonder Books
  5. “Clinical Demonstration by Two Expert Intellectuals”: Robert Latou Dickinson’s Representations of Sexual Intercourse
  6. Gay penguins, medieval heretics, and the place of animals in the history of sexuality
  7. The Gay Marriage Generation: How the LGBTQ Movement Transformed American Culture
  8. Sisterhood and Unity: Lesbian Activism in the (Post-)Yugoslav Space
  9. The Female World of Love and Larceny
  10. Before AIDS: Gay Health Politics in the 1970s
  11. Queering Kansas City Jazz
  12. Beyond the Binary: Science, History, and the Radical Possibilities of Sex and Gender
  13. Sensual Excess: Queer Femininity and Brown Jouissance
  14. Love, Sex, and Desire in Modern Egypt: Navigating the Margins of Respectability
  15. Alternative Histories of the Self: a Cultural History of Sexualities and Secrets
  16. Sex in the Archives: Writing American Sexual Histories
  17. Controlling Sex in Captivity
  18. Growing Up Queer: Kids and the Remaking of LGBTQ Identity
  19. Dardanella and Peter: What does Microhistory offer to the History of Sexuality?
  20. Virgin Whore
  21. Histories of the Transgender Child
  22. Medicine, the Penal System and Sexual Crimes in England, 1919-1960s
  23. Gender, Power and Sexual Abuse in the Pacific
  24. The Boys of Fairy Town
  25. Queer Encounters in the Garden
  26. Contraceptive Diplomacy: Reproductive Politics & Imperial Ambitions in the United States & Japan
  27. Homosexuality on the Small Screen: Television and Gay Identity in Britain
  28. The Politics of Love in Myanmar
  29. Homosensuality and the early modern Anglo-Ottoman encounter
  30. Itch, Clap, Pox: Venereal Disease in the Eighteenth-Century Imagination
  31. Queer Nuns: Religion, Activism, and Serious Parody
  32. Joke Swiebel: A Lifetime of Dutch Gay Activism
  33. Obscene Pedagogies: Transgressive Talk and Sexual Education in Late Medieval Britain
  34. Seeking Rights from the Left: Gender, Sexuality and the Latin American Pink Tide
  35. Some Like It Hot: Sex and the Sauna in Early Modern Sweden
  36. Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic
  37. “Men Working Together!”: The Queer Masculinity of World War Two Propaganda
  38. Toros vs. Mannequins: Carl Corley and Queer Identity in the American South
  39. Welcome to Fairyland: Queer Miami Before 1940
  40. Canada’s First Gay Student Activist Group
  41. After Eunuchs: Science, Medicine, and the Transformation of Sex in Modern China
  42. Queer History and the Holocaust
  43. Desire Work: Ex-Gay and Pentecostal Masculinity in South Africa
  44. ‘Good on the Romans!’ Museum Visitors Reflecting on Cultural Attitudes to Sex
  45. Queer Comrades: Gay Identity and Tongzhi Activism in Postsocialist China

2018 32

  1. Steel Closets: Voices of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Steelworkers
  2. Sex, Time and Place: Queer Histories of London, c.1850 to the Present
  3. Rears and Vices: The Austens and Naval Sodomy
  4. “Well Known as Miss Betty Cooper”: Gender Expression in 18th-Century Boston
  5. Screening Swedish Sex in the United States, Language of Love (1969)
  6. Transnational Homosexuals in Communist Poland: Cross-Border Flows in Gay and Lesbian Magazines
  7. Lust on Trial: Censorship and the Rise of American Obscenity in the Age of Anthony Comstock
  8. Sexual Revolution: Event or Process?
  9. Anticipating Sin in Medieval Society
  10. Prairie Fairies: A History of Queer Communities and People in Western Canada, 1930-1985
  11. “Party Games” and “Pulling Train”: Understanding the Brett Kavanaugh Gang Rape Allegation
  12. Macho Tips: The Erotics of the Mexican Body in a Gay Magazine
  13. A Red Hot Cold War
  14. Searching for Sex Crimes in Rural Nebraska
  15. ‘This isn’t so boring if you can get an outside climax’: Dr Joan Malleson and sexual counselling in Britain
  16. The World and Other Unpublished Works of Radclyffe Hall
  17. Like a Virgin? The Medieval Origins of a Modern Debate
  18. The Art and Politics of the Dick Pic
  19. ‘The first lessons on sex are taught without words’: Sex Education in New Zealand
  20. Queer Fascism and the End of Gay History
  21. Porno Chic and the Sex Wars: A Roundtable on the Politics of Sexual Representations in the 1970s – Part 3
  22. Queering the Redneck Riviera
  23. Tongzhi: “Queer” Identity Politics in Hong Kong Before and After the Handover
  24. The Fraternity of the Estranged: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908
  25. Queering Hippolytus: Asexuality and Ancient Greece
  26. Do I have to have sex with my spouse? Two medieval answers
  27. Queer History in the Divided City: A New Approach to Digital Mapping
  28. ‘Deviant and over-sexed’ or ‘respectful and vanilla’: Intimate stories from Australian Lesbians
  29. Teaching the Early Modern “Penis-Vagina”
  30. Using Memes to Extinguish Sexism in Poland
  31. Screening Gay Characters with Disabilities
  32. Carnal Knowledge: Regulating Sex in England, 1470-1600

2017 65

  1. Telling Abortion Stories
  2. Adult Adoption and Intergenerational Same-Sex Relationships
  3. The Victorian with a Secret
  4. ‘Promoting homosexuality’, 1987-2017
  5. Troubling Terms: The Label Problem in Transgender History
  6. Responses to the Medicalization of Transsexualism
  7. Of Gods & Emperors: Trans Experiences in Ancient Rome
  8. The Colonial Conundrum of Transsexuality in South Africa
  9. Inventing Incest in Early Medieval Europe
  10. Was Homosexuality Illegal in Communist Europe?
  11. Metoo
  12. Coming Out in the Trade Union Movement
  13. CFP: Histories of Sexual Violence
  14. The place of religion in LGBTQ lives
  15. The College Roots of Hugh Hefner and Playboy
  16. The Road to Section 28
  17. Making Histories of Bolivian Sexual and Gender Diversity Legible in the Twenty-First Century
  18. Die Bi(e)! Reading Bisexual Women’s History
  19. Rethinking Early Modern Women’s Masturbation
  20. A Portrait of Jane Crow: An Interview with Rosalind Rosenberg
  21. CFP: Transgender Histories
  22. Pleasing and Teasing: Bourgeois Sexuality in the Age of Commerce
  23. Searching for Sodom: Homoeroticism and the Protestant Tradition in England 1550-1850
  24. Porno Chic and the Sex Wars: A Roundtable on the Politics of Sexual Representations in the 1970s – Part 2
  25. Too Hot and Horny for the Centers for Disease Control
  26. The Legal Invention of Lesbian Sexuality in Canada
  27. Collecting Riot Grrrl: Sexual Awakening in NYU’s Punk Archive
  28. Touch, Manhood, and the Boundaries of Same-Sex Intimacy in Nineteenth-Century Canada
  29. Dance! Dance! Dance!: Youth Culture and Courtship at Queen’s University, 1910-1930
  30. Not Straight, Not White: A Student Interview with Kevin Mumford
  31. Queering Immigration in the Age of Trump: A Roundtable on Boutilier v. INS
  32. ‘After Stonewall’ and Gay and Lesbian Liberation in Western Canada
  33. Sex Between the Solitudes: Interracial Sex and Adoption in Montreal’s Postwar Jewish Community
  34. ‘No One Helped’: Marcia Gallo on the murder of Kitty Genovese
  35. Evidence for Trans Lives in Sumer
  36. Walking Tour: Gentrification and Queer Erasure in Roanoke, Virginia
  37. The Baroness: Imagining Madness, Marriage, and Murder in Nineteenth-Century Paris
  38. Source Alert: The FBI’s “Sex Deviates” Files
  39. Denounced: How Modernizing Mexico Criminalized Infanticide and Abortion
  40. Egyptology, sexual science and modern gender identity
  41. The History of Sexuality has a Jewish Problem
  42. Morality and Repression in the Making of Cold War Brazil
  43. CFP: Topics in Public History and the History of Sexuality
  44. “So Complicated”: The Sexual Politics of U.S. Health Care Reform
  45. Discovering Sex in the Civil War
  46. Child Sexual Abuse? A View from England in the Later Middle Ages
  47. Beyond the Culture Wars: Homosexual Histories 2016
  48. Sexual Deviance and “Mental Defectiveness” in Eugenics Era California
  49. Johanna Elberskirchen: Sexual Radical and Woman of Her Time
  50. Porno Chic and the Sex Wars: A Roundtable on the Politics of Sexual Representations in the 1970s – Part 1
  51. Sexuality, Secrecy, and Local Government in Early Twentieth-Century Edendale, South Africa
  52. Remembrance of Things Past: A Novelist Reflects on the Politics of Intergenerational Sex
  53. Femme Histories Roundtable – Part II
  54. Disembodied Desire
  55. Femme Histories Roundtable – Part I
  56. More than Masturbatory: An Interview with April Haynes
  57. Local Sexual Cultures and the Response to HIV/AIDS Along the Uganda-Tanzania Border
  58. Flight Attendant Unions Make the Economy Work for Queer Families
  59. CFP: Histories of “Smut,” “Porn” and “Obscenity”
  60. From Child Pledging to Child Abuse: How Girl Marriage Changed in Zimbabwe
  61. A Relationship Revealed
  62. Same-Sex Marriage in Renaissance Rome
  63. Church Ladies for Choice: Queer Responses to Anti-Abortion Politics in the 1990s
  64. CFP: Histories of Sex and Sexuality in Central and Eastern Europe
  65. CFP: Carnal Canucks, Histories of Sexuality in Canada

2016 102

  1. History of Sexuality at the 2017 American Historical Association Meeting
  2. Sex and the Devil: An Interview with Laura Stokes
  3. The Romantic Concept of Psychological Androgyny
  4. Witchcraft Confessions and Sexual Fantasies during the English Civil War
  5. Maleficent Favourites: Seductive Bewitchment at the English Court
  6. The Way Out: Sebastian Buckle on Homosexuality in Modern Britain
  7. Histories of Sexuality and the Carceral State-Part 3
  8. Technological Perspectives on Pregnancy, Birth (Control), and Fertility
  9. Sexualisation of Girlhood During Edwardian Times
  10. The Boswell Legacy: Revisiting John Boswell’s Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality
  11. Linked in Orgasm? Revisiting John Boswell’s Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality
  12. Where are the Women? Revisiting John Boswell’s Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality
  13. ‘The Inevitable Errors of First Explorations’? Revisiting John Boswell’s Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality
  14. Gay Berlin? No, Queer Baden-Württemberg
  15. The Revolutionary Politics of Sexuality in Nicaragua
  16. Sex Education Battleground in Mexico
  17. Meet Our Assistant Editors For 2016-2017
  18. American Child Brides and the Dangers of Underage Sex
  19. Out of the Closet, Into the Archives: Researching Sexual Histories
  20. “A Poison to the Race”: Women, Foreigners and VD in Modern Japan
  21. Postwar Sex Education and the Roots of White Male Sexual Entitlement
  22. ‘The Stimulus of the Flesh’ and Margaret Singleton’s Broken Vow
  23. Queen and Country: Emma Vickers on Same-Sex Desire in the British Armed Forces
  24. Words of Warning for Historians of Sexuality: Indemnity Clauses and Publishing Contracts
  25. Archives of Desire: Debbie Does Death
  26. Italian Sexualities Uncovered
  27. The FBI, Sexual Predators and the Mann Act
  28. An Intimate History of German Soldiers in the First World War
  29. “To Love Without Fear”: Feminist and LGBTQ Mobilizations in Brazil
  30. Abortion Under Apartheid
  31. Phyllis Schlafly and the Making of Grassroots Conservative Sexual Politics
  32. Prison Sex in the Mid-Victorian English Convict System
  33. From Shame to Sin: Sexual Morality in Late Antiquity
  34. History of Sexuality Blog Seeks Assistant Editors
  35. Understanding Zika & the Abortion Debate in Brazil: A View from 1940
  36. Naming & Shaming Women: Reporting on VD Trials During WWI
  37. Bad Girls: A Student Interview with Amanda Littauer
  38. Syphilis Onstage: Eugène Brieux’s Damaged Goods
  39. Sex, Soldiers and the South Pacific
  40. The Catholic Church and Child Sexual Abuse in Twentieth-Century Ireland
  41. Reverend Anna Garlin Spencer and the Rise of “Family Life” in Early Sex Education
  42. Resisting the Virus of Prejudice: Sex Workers Fight the AIDS Panic
  43. Histories of Sexuality and the Carceral State—Part 2
  44. ‘Every time I see a cock I go funny’: what regional studies bring to histories of sexuality
  45. Thinking Medievally: The Sexualisation Debate and Medieval Advice Literature
  46. History from the Witness Stand: An Interview with George Chauncey
  47. J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI, and the “Sex Deviates” Program
  48. More Than Loving: Race, Sexuality & Public Memory in the Movement for Marriage Equality
  49. The Curious Connections between Marriage Equality and HIV/AIDS
  50. Queer Terminology: LGBTQ Histories and the Semantics of Sexuality
  51. The Forgotten History of Gay Liberation: An Interview With Jim Downs
  52. CFP: Histories of Disability and Sexuality
  53. The Pustulent Penis: Searching for STDs in the Centuries before Syphilis
  54. Taking the Venereal Out of Venereal Disease: The 1930s Public Health Campaign against Syphilis and Gonorrhea
  55. Reforming Sodom: Protestants and the Rise of Gay Rights
  56. Would you mind if Neil Bartlett asked you a few personal questions about sex?
  57. “The Church Fathers Really Squirmed”: Contesting Heteronorms in motive Magazine, 1962-1972
  58. Lesbian Histories and Futures: “Gay American History @ 40”
  59. Close Your Eyes and Think of Yorkshire? Working-class Women and Sexuality in Early Twentieth-Century Yorkshire
  60. Fireball in Newark: The Ballroom Scene and Legendary Houses
  61. “A Poison More Deadly”: Defining Obscenity in the West
  62. The Religious Right and the Politics of Sexuality: An Interview with Neil J. Young
  63. Archives of Desire: Analog Sexting
  64. The New Polish Government and ‘Gender Ideology’
  65. Archives of Desire: Soft-Core Pornography and Activism in the 1960s
  66. Sexual Violence Against Children in the 1960s
  67. How to Study an American Sex Scandal
  68. Wolfenden, Paederasty and Paedophilia
  69. “I Had the First Orgasm”: Monica Lewinsky & the Politics of Heterosexuality in the 1990s
  70. “Sodomy is not Adultery”: The Clinton Sex Scandal as Queer History
  71. Sex on the Home Front: Venereal Disease and the Topography of Heterosexuality
  72. The Church of England, Sexual Morality & Institutional Decision-making
  73. Scottish Storytelling Sessions: Queer History, Community and Archives
  74. The Cervical Cap in the Feminist Women’s Health Movement, 1976–1988
  75. Sores, Scorn and Stigma? Suffering Syphilis in Early Modern Germany
  76. Histories of Sexuality and the Carceral State–Part 1
  77. CFP: Histories of Magic and Sexuality
  78. The Calendar of Loss: Dagmawi Woubshet on Race, Sexuality, and Mourning in the Early Era of AIDS
  79. History of Sexuality at the 2016 European Social Science History Conference
  80. Presidential Penis Politics: A Micro-History
  81. “The Unreasonable Indulgence of That Appetite”: Cancer as a Venereal Disease in the Nineteenth Century
  82. Moral Panic and Syphilis in Jamaica
  83. Gay Politics and Police Politics in the American City
  84. Catholicism, Contraception, and The History of Sexuality
  85. Inventing the Family Farm: Towards a History of Rural Heterosexuality
  86. Gay Rights and Religion: A Notches Special Issue
  87. “She was both Poxt and Clapt together”: Confessions of Sexual Secrets in Eighteenth-Century Venereal Cases
  88. The Manly Priest: Celibacy, Masculinity, and Reform in the Medieval Period
  89. Rape and Manhood in Nineteenth-Century Caucasus
  90. Operation Hyacinth and Poland’s Pink Files
  91. CFP: Histories of Music and Sexuality
  92. Sex, Disease, and Fertility in History
  93. CFP: Histories of Sex Education
  94. After Roe: Engaging the Lost History of the Abortion Debate
  95. CFP: Histories Of Sexuality In Antiquity
  96. The Cologne Sexual Assaults in Historical Perspective
  97. Martin Luther King Jr. and the History of Sexuality
  98. Through the Eyes of the Establishment: Student Sexuality and the Dean of Women’s Office at Purdue University
  99. “Arresting Dress”: A Student Interview with Clare Sears
  100. David Bowie (1947-2016) and the History of Sexuality
  101. The Rejected: Homophile Activists in the Spotlight
  102. Truly Ugandan: Martyrs, Pope Francis, and the Question of Sexuality

2015 104

  1. A Christmas Abortion
  2. Christmas Isn’t for Queers
  3. Coming Oot! A Fabulous Gay History of Scotland
  4. Found in Translation: How Sexual Debates Developed Across the Modern World
  5. Hirsute Histories: A Notches Special Issue
  6. Histories of Sexualities in Central and Eastern Europe
  7. Bad for the Soul, Good for the Body: Religion, Medicine and Masturbation in the Middle Ages
  8. Rape & the Sexual Politics of Homosociality: The U.S. Military Occupation of Okinawa
  9. Homophile Priests, LGBT Rights, and Scottish Churches, 1967-1986
  10. Stalling Civil Rights: Conservative Sexual Thought has been in the Toilet Since the 1940s
  11. Dr. Spock and the History of Sexuality
  12. “The Age of Youth in Argentina”: an interview with Valeria Manzano
  13. History of Sexuality at the 2016 American Historical Association Conference
  14. AIDS, Sexuality and American Religion: An Interview With Anthony Petro
  15. From Cod to Codpieces: Benjamin Franklin’s Guide to Food and Sex
  16. CFP: The History of Venereal Disease
  17. Seduction and Power in Revolutionary Bolivia
  18. “The Gay Revolution”: An Interview with Lillian Faderman
  19. “This is Your Pasty”: The Performance of Queer Domesticity in Small-Town Wisconsin
  20. The Hunger of the Finnish Bachelor: Married Men, Desire & Domesticity in 20th Century Finland
  21. Sex & Food in the Nineteenth-Century American Metropolis
  22. Teaching with Tumblr: Building a Digital Archive of Gender, Race & Empire
  23. A Chile is Never Just a Chile: Food & Sex in Mexico Before & After Colonization
  24. Food and Sex Through the Ages
  25. Tempests and Teapots: Sexual Politics and Tea-Drinking in the Early Modern World
  26. Out in the Open: Rural Life, Respectability, and the Nudist Park
  27. Revisiting Love’s ‘Golden Age’
  28. Digital Witnesses: The Parker-Hulme Murder Case and the Teaching of Crime and Sexual Deviance
  29. Women’s Experiences in Fornication and Paternity Suits in Massachusetts, 1740-1800
  30. Race, Class, and Sex Education in Early Twentieth-Century South Africa
  31. Her Virginal Members: Chastity and Sexual Desire in the Middle-Ages
  32. Meet Our New Assistant Editors
  33. “When Sex Threatened the State”: An Interview with Saheed Aderinto
  34. CFP: Histories of Sexuality and Religion
  35. “What can I do to be normal?” Queer Female Desire in Letters to Dr. Alfred Kinsey
  36. Interracialintimacies.org: An Online Interactive Archives and Teaching Tool
  37. Reading the History of Sexuality Collectively in the Digital Age
  38. Archives of Desire: James Huneker “Nosophilia: A Nordau Heroine”
  39. Why I Oppose a General Pardon for Historical Convictions for Homosexual Offences
  40. Archives of Desire: A Lavender Reading of J. Edgar Hoover
  41. Queers, Homosexuals, and Activists in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain?
  42. Rainbow Plaques: Mapping York’s LGBT History
  43. Red War on the Family: An Interview with Erica Ryan
  44. John Rykener Revisited: Transvestite Male Prostitute or Biting Political Satire?
  45. Out in the Union: An Interview with Miriam Frank
  46. Assistant Editor Positions at Notches
  47. The Sacred Precincts of Marital Bedrooms: Religion and the Making of Griswold
  48. The Conservative Roots of the Reproductive Rights Revolution
  49. Seeing Sodomy: An Interview with Robert Mills
  50. Sexuality, Family Planning, and the British Left: An Interview with Stephen Brooke
  51. The Obergefell Syllabus: Historicizing Same-Sex Marriage in the United States
  52. Too Little, Too Late: The Path To Griswold v. Connecticut
  53. Religious and Reproductive Politics in the United States since WWII
  54. What We’ve Been Reading
  55. The Origins of Sex: An Interview With Faramerz Dabhoiwala
  56. CFP: Histories of Asian/Asian American Sexualities
  57. ‘Pray the gay away’: The Catholic Church, Sexology and Sexuality in Italy
  58. CFP: Histories of Sexuality in Latin America
  59. Astrological Birth Control: Fertility Awareness and the Politics of Non-Hormonal Contraception
  60. Disciplining Black Bodies: Racial Stereotypes of Cleanliness and Sexuality
  61. CFP: Histories of African Sexualities
  62. CFP: Sex, Food, and History
  63. The Perfect Corpse: Death, Virginity and the Bishop in Medieval Europe
  64. The Case of the Sultry Mountie, or, We Need to Talk about Cecil
  65. CFP: Digital Humanities and the History of Sexuality
  66. “The State Does Not Belong in the Uterus of the Nation”
  67. Health, Reproduction, and Sex: Growing a Field for Latin Americanists
  68. Archives of Desire: Happiness of Womanhood Newsletter, 1977
  69. A History of Family Planning in Twentieth Century Peru
  70. The Modern Period: Menstruation and the History of Sexuality
  71. Oral Histories and Alternative Archives: Disrupting the Boundaries of Queer Identities, Cultures, and Politics
  72. Classroom Wars and Sexual Politics: An Interview with Natalia Mehlman Petrzela
  73. "The Gay Bulge" or Can We Study Medieval Sexuality Through Puns?
  74. Doing It With Food: Cooking and the History of Sexuality
  75. The Sex Institute on Euston Road
  76. Gender Matters at The Institute of Sexology
  77. Franca Viola says ‘No’: Gender violence, consent, and the law in 1960s Italy
  78. Reading Silences in Histories of Religion and Sexuality
  79. Beyond penetration: rethinking the murder of Edward II
  80. A Sexologist and His Two Archives: An Interview with Erwin J. Haeberle
  81. Organized Labor, Gay Liberation and the Battle Against the Religious Right, 1977-1994
  82. Sex and the American Quest for a Relatable Past
  83. Globalizing the History of Sexology
  84. Redefining Rape: Estelle Freedman on the History of Sexual Violence
  85. Meet Me in St. Louis: History of Sexuality at the 2015 Organization of American Historians Conference
  86. Scale – Spectacle – Spectatorship: Space as a Category of Queer Analysis
  87. Eugenics and Intersex: The consequences of defining "normal" bodies
  88. Queer Domesticities: Matt Cook on Home Life, Family and Community in London
  89. Curating LGBTQ Histories: Queer Season at Sutton House
  90. Introducing Notches’ New Assistant Editors
  91. Straight After Death: Misremembering the Queer Life and Times of Rod McKuen
  92. “In My Bed”: Sexual Violence Over Fifty Years on One College Campus
  93. Jeffrey Weeks reflects on "Sexual Politics in the Era of Reagan and Thatcher"
  94. Sexual Politics in the Era of Reagan and Thatcher: Marc Stein in Conversation with Jeffrey Weeks
  95. Teaching Queer History
  96. The Other Half Has Never Been Told: AIDS and African-American History
  97. Sex and the Single Man in Late Medieval England
  98. Beyond the Binary: Trans* History in Early America
  99. Radical Relations: An Interview with Daniel W. Rivers
  100. Heterosexuality and Americanization: "Social Education" for Immigrant Youth in the 1920s
  101. Bestiality in a Time of Smallpox
  102. The King’s Favourite: Sex, Money and Power in Medieval England
  103. Umutoni: Why Histories of African Homosexualities Matter
  104. 365 Notches: (re)marks on our 1st anniversary

2014 95

  1. Lines of Dissent at London Metropolitan Archives: Finding and Creating LGBTQ Histories
  2. Masters of Sex: Race, Racism and Responses to Masters and Johnson
  3. Intimacy and Globalization in Post-Soviet Cuba
  4. Challenging Heterosexism: The Haringey Experiment, 1986-1987
  5. Carnivalesque #107
  6. Uncovering Cleveland Street: Sexuality, Surveillance and late-Victorian Scandal
  7. Queering de Sade
  8. Believe It: Finding Religion in the History of U.S. Sexuality
  9. Mau Mau, anti-colonialism and "female genital mutilation"
  10. Clitoridectomies: Female Genital Mutilation c.1860-2014
  11. Drunk Canadians in London, November 1916
  12. Deviant Domesticities: Reflections on the Queerness of Home
  13. Sex, race and censorship in Cuba: Historicising the P.M. affair
  14. Something New, Something Old: LGBT Voices before Stonewall
  15. Orthodox Sex: Alfred Kinsey and the Re-Making of Jewish Sexuality
  16. Queer Sex in the Archives: “Canonizing Homophile Sexual Respectability"
  17. Death by Celibacy: Sex, Semen and Male Health in the Middle Ages
  18. Sexual Histories, Scholarly Communities: The John D’Emilio Symposium
  19. Mainline Protestants and the Struggle for Same-Sex Marriage
  20. The G-Spot: Gentrification, Transformation and Queer San Francisco
  21. Before Grindr, or, The Dangers of the "Gay Bachelor"
  22. History of Sexuality at the American Historical Association Conference
  23. The Politics of Sexuality in Latin America
  24. Historians are gossips who tease the dead
  25. Blood Ties: Queer Blood, Donations, and Citizenship
  26. Sexual Curiosities? Aphrodisiacs in early modern England
  27. Ian Paisley (1926-2014) and the ‘Save Ulster From Sodomy!’ Campaign
  28. Notches Back to School Special: Introducing Students to the History of Sexuality
  29. Jack the Ripper: Case Never Closed
  30. Where are animals in the history of sexuality?
  31. Sexual Pleasure, AIDS, and Gay Politics
  32. The Yellow Star and the Pink Triangle: Judaism and Gay Rights in the 1970s
  33. The Bishop’s New Stockings, or The Dangers of Love Magic
  34. "What a Woman Is": Breast Cancer, Sexuality and the Unreconstructed Self
  35. Cunnilingus in the Middle Ages and the Problem of Understanding Past Sex Lives
  36. Heterosexuality in America: Fifty Years and Counting
  37. Born This Way? Sexual Science and the Invention of a Political Strategy
  38. Aesthetic uses of sex in early Japanese Butoh dance
  39. Rethinking Bussing in the 1970s: The Sexual Politics of School Integration in the United States
  40. ‘A Temporary Member’: ‘Hermaphrodites’ and Sexual Identity in Early Modern Russia
  41. Thatcher and Homosexuality: Waiting for Section 28
  42. Stranger Danger and the Sexual Revolution
  43. "Coming Out" in the Classroom: When the Personal is Pedagogical
  44. What was the Ultimate Medieval Aphrodisiac?
  45. Intimate Worlds: Exploring Sexuality Through the Wellcome Collection
  46. The Queer Caribbean: Conflicting Uses of the Colonial Past
  47. Finding the lesbian premodern: Does it take one to know one?
  48. Conchita’s Europe: Eurovision, homonationalism and the politics of sexuality
  49. Hirsute Phoenix: Conchita Wurst, Beards, and the Politics of Sexuality
  50. "Stranger Danger”: the Public Service film and the protection of Child Sexuality
  51. “Cow protection or Gay protection?” LGBT rights, “Hindu” tradition and the Indian elections
  52. Queer round the edges: Mary Stewart’s post-war middlebrow fiction (cont’d)
  53. Queer round the edges: Mary Stewart’s post-war middlebrow fiction
  54. (Sexual) Labour Day
  55. Gender, Sex and Sexuality in 20th-Century British History: Some new directions
  56. Sex in Japan: A global history perspective
  57. The Archbishop’s Argument: Anglicanism, Homosexuality, and Colonial Complexities
  58. Male Order: Tom of Finland and the Queer Iconography of Postage Stamps
  59. The Erotics of Shaving in Victorian Britain
  60. Beards, Real Men, and Poseurs: male sexuality and fashion since around 1900
  61. Sex and the King: Rumours, Reputation and the Problem of Royal Adultery in Medieval England
  62. ‘In the manner of a woman’: John/Eleanor Rykener and the Inessentiality of Gender
  63. Love, Lust and Procreation: Debating Sex in Nineteenth-Century Medicine?
  64. What will .GAY stand for?
  65. The Censorship of Female Pleasure: Cleland, Charlie Countryman, Cunnilingus
  66. The Problematic Priestly Body: Celibacy, Sexuality and the Trials of the Medieval Clergy
  67. A Second Valentine’s Day: Japan’s ‘White Day’
  68. Individual Freedom as Misappropriation: Race, Sexuality and the Use of Civil Rights History
  69. Disputing ‘Gay Jim Crow’: Rhetorical Appropriation in LGBT Politics
  70. The Gay Jim Crow – The legal history behind "religious freedom" to discriminate
  71. India’s Section 377: India, Britain and the ongoing legacies of imperialism
  72. "The buggers are legal now, what more are they after?" A trade union moment
  73. Making the Polish Stonewall
  74. ‘Dinnae Meddle!’*: Scotland and the Historiography of Homosexual Law Reform
  75. Shirley Temple: The Unwitting Coquette
  76. Valentine’s as Prostitution, Marriage as a Trade: Commerce, Sex, History (and a recipe)
  77. What’s Amore? Courtship and marriage in post-war Italy
  78. The Allure of the Castrato
  79. Glad To Be Gay in Scarborough (1980)
  80. What should LGBT History Month say about Empire?
  81. "Call me Kuchu": history, homophobia and the burden of the past
  82. A Bit of Casual Sex Up North: And What it Could Mean to the History of Sexuality
  83. LGBT History Month: Are We Celebrating or Relegating LGBT History?
  84. History of Sexuality and Academic Impact
  85. Ageing and the history of sexuality
  86. Edward Bliss Foote and Alternatives to Monogamy
  87. "A filthy bruitish offence": Child sex abuse and the law in C17th England
  88. Sinead and Miley: A History Lesson
  89. Immigration, sexuality and ‘British’ identity: contrasts and continuities
  90. Between the cracks: on being a historian of sex
  91. Incoherent or Invigorated? The History of Sexuality
  92. Hyperbole and horror: hijras and the British imperial state in India
  93. Out in the unions
  94. Three Wise Men in a Bed: Bedsharing and Sexuality in Medieval Europe
  95. Are Historians of Sexuality Sexier than Other Historians?