Peek in the Stacks

In 1933, Street & Smith acquired Astounding Stories, one of the first pulp magazines to center the genre of science-fiction as its twenty-cent selling point. In the following years “John W. Campbell would join the editorial staff of Astounding Stories in September 1937, replacing F. Orlin Tremaine as editor in 1938 when Tremaine became editorial director.....

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...