Unraveling the Crisis of Masculinity in the University of Oregon’s Keith Stimely Collection on Revisionist History and Neo-Fascist Movements

This proposed paper explores a crisis of masculinity and heteronormativity in the University of Oregon’s Keith Stimely Collection on revisionist history and neo-fascist movements from the former chief editor for the *Journal of Historical Review* (JHR) which promoted revisionist historiography, most notably Holocaust denial. This critical discursive analysis highlights one of the more unexpected parts of the story Stimely’s archive tells us about American and European far-right political movements and networks in the 1970s and '80s which disseminated their ideas under the guise of scholarly discourse -- how a crisis of masculinity fueled inter- and intra-group hostilities at the Institute of Historical Review (IHR) after fellow organization leaders discovered that one of IHR founders was involved in gay porn. In doing so, I consider the historical spread of far-right fears involving sodomy, ‘gay infiltration,’ and/or ‘takeover’ during the outbreak of the AIDS epidemic through the means of late-stage print propaganda.