Tag: NotRated

West, Natasha | Just Married? | When uptight British bookshop owner Emily Bartlett goes to Las Vegas to get over a humiliating breakup, she’s expecting to make a few mistakes. But wh

Whitehead, Jaye Cee | The Nuptial Deal | Since the 1990s, gay and lesbian civil rights organizations have increasingly focused on the right of same-sex couples to marry, which represents a ma

Ronica Black | Snow Angel | Maggie Douglas enjoys her reclusive life in the mountains. She writes her books, loves her dog, and enjoys the spoils of living at the base of the San

John D’Emilio | Queer Legacies | There is no single archive of gay life in Chicago. But since 1981, the Gerbert-Hart Library and Archives has been collecting records of lesbian, gay,

David B. Myers | Did God Die on the Way to Houston? | James Friedman, a retired philosophy professor living in Houston, receives an invitation from a woman, identifying herself only as Shekhinah, who clai

Peter Lewis Allen | The Wages of Sin | Near the end of the century, a new and terrifying disease arrives suddenly from a distant continent. Infecting people through sex, it storms from coun

Anita Kurimay | Queer Budapest, 1873-1961 | By the dawn of the twentieth century, Budapest was a burgeoning cosmopolitan metropolis. Known at the time as the “Pearl of the Danube,” it boasted so

Dianne Dugaw | Warrior Women And Popular Balladry, 1650-1850 | This interdisciplinary study uncovers a fascination with women cross dressers in the popular literature of early modern Britain, in a wide range of te

Simon Goldhill | A Very Queer Family Indeed | “We can begin with a kiss, though this will not turn out to be a love story, at least not a love story of anything like the usual kind.” So begins A

Kathleen E. Hull | Same-Sex Marriage | Fierce and often ugly battles are being waged, especially in the United States, over who is allowed to marry, what marriage signifies, and where marri