... 64 and Paul McCartney Doesn’t Care” The Haunting of the Transgender Archive and the Challenges of Queer History Abram J. Lewis “ My mailbox is a lot emptier now that self-described ‘notorious transsexual,’ rock musician, lottery-winner, lottery squanderer and prolific letter...

... the Erotic Becomes Illicit Struggles over Displaying Queer History at a Mainstream Museum Jill Austin, Jennifer Brier, Jessica Herczeg-­Konecny, and Anne Parsons Bringing sex out of the closet and into the museum has long been a mission of many gay and lesbian historians engaged in public...

...Don Romesburg The GLBT History Museum's 2011 opening in San Francisco's Castro neighborhood was the culmination of over a quarter century of collecting, preserving, and interpreting the Bay Area's queer history. The museum is a project of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender (GLBT) Historical...

...María Elena Martínez This essay analyzes problems related to the colonial archive and queer history through the case of Juana Aguilar, a suspected hermaphrodite who was tried for sodomy in early nineteenth-century Guatemala. These problems include the power dynamics involved in the archiving...

...Steven Maynard Copyright © 1999 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 1999 ”Respect Your Elders, Know Your Past”: History and the Queer Theorists Steven Maynard In the summer of 1991...

...Donna Penn Copyright © 1995 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 1995 Queer: Theorizing Politics and History Donna Perm The arrival of a new moment in our political, social, sexual, theoreti- cal, and cultural lives...

..., the Vanguard Revisited project sought to enlist today's queer homeless youth in documenting the past—indeed, to enter into conversation with that history and to position themselves as part of that lineage. interventions Imagined Conversations and Activist Lineages Public Histories of Queer Homeless...

...Henry Abelove Copyright © 1995 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 1995 The Queering of Lesbian/Gay History Henry Abelove By now the bibliography of books and articles on lesbian and gay history is large...

...Elspeth H. Brown; Sara Davidmann Historian Elspeth H. Brown and photographer Sara Davidmann explore the relationship between the family photograph album, trans ☼ history, and queer archives. Describing their queer archival work, they address topics including ethics; intertwined histories of racism...

...João Florêncio; Ben Miller Abstract Despite being a widely consumed genre of visual culture, pornography remains a touchy subject in contemporary queer historiography. Queer archives overflow with it, but queer histories don’t. Historically associated with low culture and distrusted by value...

... the clerical closet and its insistence on the political act of making stories about sex public. Queering this archive also challenges the normative politics of queer history, prompting historians to ask what it would mean to take up the conjunction of these two sites, sexual abuse and Catholicism, as queer...

...Ashkan Sepahvand; Meg Slater; Annette F. Timm; Jeanne Vaccaro; Heike Bauer; Katie Sutton Abstract In this roundtable, four curators of exhibitions showcasing sexual archives and histories—with a particular focus on queer and trans experiences—were asked to reflect on their experiences working...

...Anjali Arondekar; Ann Cvetkovich; Christina B. Hanhardt; Regina Kunzel; Tavia Nyong'o; Juana María Rodríguez; Susan Stryker; Daniel Marshall; Kevin P. Murphy; Zeb Tortorici “Queering Archives: A Roundtable Discussion” provides a reflection on histories of queer archives studies, while marking out...

... to the courage, suffering, humor, intelligence, and enormous variety of local queer culture. The article investigates how the exhibition, as a queer archive, embraced a critical history of sexuality and gender in the present moment, as well as acknowledging absent voices and narratives, which have been...

... including the emergence and emotional function of queer archives, the influence of the geographic setting of an archive, efforts to control history, and the continuing politics of grassroots archives. queer archival generations Archival Justice An Interview with Ben Power Alwin K. J. Rawson...

.... 121 122   Radical History Review objects of queer life — its vestments, runoff, and documentation — are on constant view. West Hollywood is a living archive, shaped by queer history and brandishing a polymorphous visual presence. Moreover, the visual qualities of the queer, as a lived...

..., and queerly so. © 2015 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 2015 Vaginal Davis queer archives queer art history embodiment performing the archive on being in the archive Queer Archives, Queer Movements The Visual and Bodily Archives of Vaginal Davis Robert Summers...

... of the Stonewall legacy suggests that queer public history has vital importance beyond the academy, and that an under- standing of history informs current debates on sexual politics and identities. In fact, as Lisa Duggan and others have argued, queer his- tory, often neglected by mainstream historians...

... of study for historians of homosexuality, and if so in what way? And what does finding Harry Thaw do to lesbian/gay history? His presence as a sexual outlaw, neither precisely straight nor precisely gay, tests the parameters of lesbian/gay history and even, perhaps, "queer" histo- ry...

... and for the practice of history more general- ly. While a growing body of sophisticated work in lesbian and gay history documents the existence of sexual communities and traces the production of ”modern” sexual identities, a new field of queer studies foregrounds questions of representation and combines...