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Brian Donovan's Respectability on Trial: Sex Crimes in NYC, 1900-18

Brian Donovan's Respectability on Trial: Sex Crimes in NYC, 1900-18

Brian Donovan's Respectability on Trial: Sex Crimes in NYC, 1900-18

By Hugh Ryan

Reviews, Gender & SexualityGuest UserAugust 29, 2017Comment

Before Stonewall

Before Stonewall

Before Stonewall

By Katie Uva

Queens, Gender & SexualityGuest UserJune 20, 2017Comment

The Daniel Dromm Collection at the La Guardia and Wagner Archives and the Queens LGBTQ Rights Movement

The Daniel Dromm Collection at the La Guardia and Wagner Archives and the Queens LGBTQ Rights Movement

The Daniel Dromm Collection at the La Guardia and Wagner Archives and the Queens LGBTQ Rights Movement

By Stephen Petrus

Gender & Sexuality, QueensGuest UserJune 7, 2017Comment

Inventing, and Policing, the Homosexual in Early 20th c. NYC

Inventing, and Policing, the Homosexual in Early 20th c. NYC

Inventing, and Policing, the Homosexual in Early 20th c. NYC

By Hugh Ryan

Gender & Sexuality, Crime & PolicingGuest UserApril 4, 2017Comment

Ernestine Rose in New York City

Ernestine Rose in New York City

Ernestine Rose in New York City

By Bonnie S. Anderson

Gender & SexualityGuest UserFebruary 16, 2017Comment

“Selling Service” and “Venting Your Spleen”: Anti-Vice Policing in WWII NYC

“Selling Service” and “Venting Your Spleen”: Anti-Vice Policing in WWII NYC

“Selling Service” and “Venting Your Spleen”: Anti-Vice Policing in WWII NYC

By Emily Brooks

Crime & Policing, Gender & SexualityGuest UserNovember 16, 2016Comment

“Invaders”: Black Ladies of the ILGWU and the Emergence of the Early Civil Rights Movement in New York City

“Invaders”: Black Ladies of the ILGWU and the Emergence of the Early Civil Rights Movement in New York City

“Invaders”: Black Ladies of the ILGWU and the Emergence of the Early Civil Rights Movement in New York City

By Janette Gayle

Business & Labor, Gender & SexualityGuest UserOctober 19, 2016Comment

Witnessing "The Witness"

Witnessing "The Witness"

Witnessing "The Witness"

By Marcia M. Gallo

Crime & Policing, Gender & SexualityGuest UserSeptember 29, 2016Comment

Shirley Chisholm’s Brooklyn: Building a Multiracial Coalition in a Divisive Time

Shirley Chisholm’s Brooklyn: Building a Multiracial Coalition in a Divisive Time

Shirley Chisholm’s Brooklyn: Building a Multiracial Coalition in a Divisive Time

By Jason Sokol

Brooklyn, Politics, Race & Ethnicity, Gender & SexualityGuest UserSeptember 13, 2016Comment

Sensibility and the Road: The Journal of Madame Knight and the Cultural Refinement of Eighteenth-Century New York

Sensibility and the Road: The Journal of Madame Knight and the Cultural Refinement of Eighteenth-Century New York

Sensibility and the Road: The Journal of Madame Knight and the Cultural Refinement of Eighteenth-Century New York

By Melissa Antonucci

British Era, Gender & Sexuality, TransportationGuest UserMay 18, 2016Comment