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Around 300 BC, Euclid wrote "The Elements", a major treatise on the geometry of the time, and what would be considered "geometry" for many years after. Arguably "The Elements" is the second most read book of the western world, falling short only to The Bible. In his book, Euclid states five postulates of geometry which he uses as the foundation for all his proofs. It is from these postulates we get the term Euclidean geometry, for in these Euclid strove to define what constitutes "flat-surface" geometry. These postulates are: (1) [It is possible] to draw a straight line from any point to any other; (2) [It is possible] to produce a finite straight line continuously in a straight line; (3) [It is possible] to describe a circle with any centre and distance [radius]; (4) That all right angles are equal to each other; and (5) That, if a straight line falling on two straight lines makes the interior angles on the same side less than two right angles, the two lines, if produced indefinitely, meet on that side on which the angles are less than the two right angles.

Through an analysis of gay protest music (1975) and an educational kit for students (1978), both sponsored by the Campaign for Homosexual Equality in the UK, this paper brings into focus a history of gay rights activists' efforts to marshal popular culture in the development of informal sex education for young people in the second half of the 1970s. Through a reparative critique of prevailing therapeutic research methodologies, and through a theoretical deployment of notions of methodological reconciliation and queer breeding, it makes the case for the importance of historical methods in contemporary sex education research.

“Queering Archives: A Roundtable Discussion” provides a reflection on histories of queer archives studies, while marking out some key directions for the field's future development. As a broad conversation about the career of the queer archival, as both intellectual project and political practice, this discussion focuses on developments and limits within North American queer studies of the archive, which emerges as a central object of analysis and is itself somewhat archived within the terms of the discussion. The roundtable discussion provides a sustained critical engagement with the profile of the queer archive as a site for radical struggles over historical knowledge, offering a renewed sense of the queer archive as a pertinent site for scholarship and politics across an array of orientations and tendencies.

Patterns of Vengeance: Crosscultural Homicide in the North American Fur Trade By John Phillip Reid Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society, Pasadena, Calif., 1999. Bibliography, index. 248 pages. $40.00 cloth. Acommon [...]