This book traces the struggle to control sex in public and argues that it was the very effort to police the city that created new opportunities for women who sold sex and men who sought sex with other men. Placing public sex at the center of urban history, Ross shows how those who used public spaces played a central role in defining the way the city was understood.

This is the first book to examine the histories of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people who served in the Australian armed forces in the post-Second World War era. It uses four life stories to chart the changing experiences of LGBT service members, from times of tolerance, witch-hunts, abuse, through to the present-day when the Australian Defence Force advocates policies of inclusion.

Women have been at the forefront of the modern religious right since its emergence in the 1970s. This book examines the careers of six prominent conservative evangelical women over the past fifty years. Their stories act as microcosms for the movement as a whole, including its complicated relationship with sexuality; from Marabel Morgan’s spicy (but firmly heterosexual) sex advice, to Anita Bryant’s anti-gay-rights campaign, to Tammy Faye Bakker’s surprising second act as a queer icon.

A tribute to the cultural power of twentieth century lesbian literature, this time-travel mystery is set at a haunted Library of Congress. Ghostly lesbian authors begin to reach out to a scholarly intern, begging her for help in saving their works from being shredding or digitized out of circulation.

This book traces the ways that suburbanization reshaped the history of sexuality from World War II to the late 1970s.  Focusing on the San Francisco Bay Area, it follows the outward migration of white, married couples with children to the Peninsula and South Bay and the growth of LGBT communities in San Francisco.  During the sexual revolution, many suburbanites distanced themselves from what they saw as the extremes of the religious right and gay liberation.

The Routledge History of Queer America presents the first comprehensive synthesis of the rapidly developing field of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer US history. It features 28 chapters on essential subjects and themes from colonial times through the present, gathering field authorities to define the ways in which sexual and gender diversity have contributed to the dynamics of American society, culture and nation.

In Washington and New York during the 1980s and ’90s, gay black men banded together, using creative expression as a tool to challenge the widespread views that marked them as unworthy of grief. At once a corrective to the predominantly white male accounts of the AIDS crisis and an openhearted depiction of the possibilities of black gay life, Evidence of Being above all insists on the primacy of community over loneliness, and hope over despair.

The book studies the creation of a two-sex model of human sexuality based on different genitalia within Spain, reflecting the enlightened quest to promote social reproduction and stability. Drawing on primary sources such as medical treatises and legal literature, this study traces the lives of individuals whose ambiguous sex and gender made them examples for physicians, legislators and educators for how nature, family upbringing, education, and the social environment shaped an individual’s sex.

Escoffier explores sexual revolution as an historical process rather than a single event and he identifies the formative role of LGBT struggles within it, and how LGBT agency and queer vernacular knowledge were essential elements in establishing the conditions for radical change. Although every new success enabled a normalizing form of domination, the exercise of democratic action helped to increase the benefits of community and the freedom of sexual perversity.

Providing a vivid look at the producers and consumers of physique magazines, Buying Gay explores the connections―and tensions―between the gay market and the gay movement. It chronicles a network of photographers, artists, book club owners, and pen-pal club organizers that fostered community while challenging Post Office surveillance, paving the way for open expression of homoerotic desire. It argues that gay commerce was not a byproduct of the movement but a catalyst to it.