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

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

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,

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

Josyane Savigneau | Marguerite Yourcenar | Marguerite Yourcenar was born Marguerite de Crayencour in Brussels in 1903. She lost her mother at birth, her native Belgium at the age of six, and wa