Tag: LGBTQ history

How Work Has Shaped the LGBTQ Community—A Review of “Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America”

.Reading time 21 minutes.

Canaday, Margot. Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2023. Reviewed by Ryan Reft When George Chauncey published Gay New York in the early 1990s, it fundamentally shifted the historical field and, eventually, the public’s understanding of gay life at the turn of the twentieth century. Building on work […]

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Member of the Week: Julio Capó Jr.

.Reading time 15 minutes.

Julio Capó, Jr. Associate Professor of History and Deputy Director of the Wolfsonian Public Humanities Lab Florida International University @juliocapojr Describe your current research. What about it drew your interest? Thanks for asking! I’m currently revising my second monograph, which is based on my dissertation research (and which, incidentally, won the Urban Historian Association’s Best […]

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