“No One Helped” traces the story of the 1964 rape and murder of Catherine “Kitty” Genovese in New York while challenging the myth of apathy it created. Marcia M. Gallo shows that media coverage of the crime obscured Genovese’s life, including her lesbian relationship, and erroneously blamed indifferent neighbors for her death. Despite such distortions, the Genovese story left a legacy of positive changes to the urban environment.

In this book Dominic Janes reveals how Catholic forms of Christianity played a key role in the evolution of the culture and visual expression of homosexuality and male same-sex desire in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He explores this relationship through the idea of queer martyrdom as a form of closeted queer servitude to Christ.

One of the key works of queer theory is Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s ‘Epistemology of the Closet’. This new book by Dominic Janes represents a visual culture counterpart to Sedgwick’s study and aims, through the use of a series of interdisciplinary case-studies, to explore both the pre-history of the closet since the eighteenth century and its evolution through to the present day.