Peek in the Stacks

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.

For two decades, controversial sexologist John Money corresponded with Jan Dailey, a Los Angeles-based freelance sex columnist. Their relationship began in 1979 when Dailey, who lived near LAX, wrote to Money to inquire about the impact of jet noise on sexual health. They corresponded for two decades......

The work of Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018), despite being mostly in the genres of science fiction and fantasy, very much expresses real world concerns. One of these issues is food: who has it and who doesn’t, the environmental impact of its use and production, and, as is fitting for an author who was the child of two anthropologists, the traditions surrounding its consumption.