Peek in the Stacks

The ancestors call: “Divas to the Dance Floor, Please!” The siren song of the dance floor beckons Queer Brown bodies to our Church, our sacred space, our Home…to dance, to make community, to hunt or be hunted…yet an unknown presence is making itself known in the bathhouses, the back rooms, and the sex clubs...  

Special Collections & Archives houses a limited edition of Frankenstein that was published in 1984 by Barry Moser’s Pennyroyal Press. With only 350 copies ever printed, this version of Frankenstein is quarter bound with leather and features Barry Moser’s vivid woodcuts alongside Shelley’s original 1818 text. Included with the book is a portfolio....

Catholics get queer in the 1970s and 80s by spreading the message that religion has always been a queer thing. The Catholic church had its official position of not supporting ministries to the LGBTQ community (at the time, the "gay community") and affirming that sexuality is only properly expressed within the sacrament of marriage between a man and a woman. Yet, the archives reveal that Catholics also organized...

None But Lucifer by H. L. Gold and L. Sprague de Camp is a Faustian satire set in New York City during the Great Depression. It was published in the pulp fantasy magazine Unknown in September 1939. The story of None But Lucifer focuses on William Hale, a businessman who discovers that Earth is Hell and Lucifer is ruling it. Hale devises a plan to confront Lucifer in order to make a deal for power and immortality.