Reforming Sodom challenges the usual picture of perennial adversaries
with a new narrative about America’s religious and sexual past. With a
focus on mainline Protestants and gay rights activists in the United
States, the book shows liberal Protestants’ profound influences on both
sides of the debates over orthodoxy and sexual identity.

Drawing on a rich array of source materials including previously unseen oral histories, ‘Curing queers’ examines the plight of men who were institutionalised in British mental hospitals to receive ‘treatment’ for homosexuality and transvestism, and the perceptions and actions of the men and women who nursed them. It makes a significant and substantial contribution to the history of sexuality and the history of nursing, bringing together two sub-disciplines that combine only infrequently.

Hoover’s War on Gays surveys the FBI’s obsession with targeting gays, lesbians, and their respective groups from 1937 to 1993.  Dating from 1950-1951, J. Edgar Hoover created a Sex Deviates Program and File to ensure gays were fired from government jobs and beyond and to educate the public about their threat. No one was exempt, from gay rights activists and groups to prominent individuals.