Historians of Gay & Lesbian history have more recently explored how the normalization of gay and lesbian politics, identity, and culture as white, middle class, and gender conforming has marginalized gender non-conforming people, queer people of color, and poor people as proper modern subjects in the United States by the 1980s. Historians of Trans history, on the other hand, have explored how the normalization and popularization of trans surgery and hormone therapies has inadvertently valorized newly biomedicalized “stealth” or “passing” trans subjects over other forms of gender nonconformity, trans personhood, and belonging. This panel explores these two parallel troubling normalizations by looking to the rising power of mostly white middle class gay moderates in the decades following the gay liberation movement and by looking to the emerging historiographic tendency to view certain “stealth” trans subjects with the same lens. The scholars on this panel will offer case studies and methodological approaches for exploring this history in each of their papers by highlighting who falls in and falls out of such normalizing processes. They will each offer new frames to better apprehend and complicate the rising interest in LGBT history to investigate the history of “homonormativity” and “trans-normativity.” As each scholar shows, the wide array of who does not count as “normal” suggests that the history of sexuality in late 20th century US history is less about the rise of a coherent universal ideas of what constitutes gay, lesbian, and trans “identity” but more about the rise of sexual policing and sexual fungibility.