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Martin Duberman has seen the long arc of history. The 93-year-old historian, writer, and activist protested the Vietnam War in the '60s, watched Sylvia Rivera speak in the '70s, and [...]

EDITOR'S NOTE: What follows is excerpted from a longer piece that will soon appear in The Line of Dissent, a collection of the author's essays published in this magazine over [...]

IN HIS RECENT, RICH BOOK Love's Next Meeting: The Forgotten History of Homosexuality and the Left in American Culture (2021), Aaron S. Lecklider summarized its subject in a single line: [...]

EDITOR'S NOTE: In the last issue, Part 1 of this essay discussed the collaboration of renowned sex researcher Alfred Kinsey and the budding sexologist C.A. Tripp, starting in the late [...]

BY 1974, I had grown increasingly absorbed in the new scholarly field of the history of sexual behavior and had been making periodic research trips looking for buried source materials [...]

This IS A SALES PITCH. It's also a rescue mission--of a book and a person. The book is Lily Briscoe: A Self-Portrait', the person is its author, Mary Meigs (1917-2002). [...]

NINETEEN TWENTY-SIX proved a banner year for Joe Carstairs--yes, she called herself Joe, not Jo--marking her try as a champion speedboat racer and winning the Duke of York trophy, then [...]

It's a strange experience to have someone you've admired at a distance just happen to knock on your door. As fantasy and reality collide, disorientation is inescapable--and in all likelihood, [...]

BORN IN 1917 into an upper-middle class Manhattan family that was largely traditional in their habits and opinions, Barbara Deming--destined to become a leading lesbian-feminist writer and activist of the [...]