Gay & Lesbian Studies

Evidence of Being opens on a grim scene: Washington DC's gay black community in the 1980s, ravaged by AIDS, the crack epidemic, and a series of uns...

Beyond the Heteronorm: Interrogating Critical Alterities in Global Art & Literature explores exclusionary practices inspired by the construct o...

Conversations on the transgender experience may be becoming more commonplace but the topic is still all too often the subject of fierce debate. But...

Sexual Identities and the Media encourages students to examine media as a site of negotiation for how people make sense of their own and others sex...

Shortlisted for the 2018 BAAL Book PrizeThis book is a sociolinguistic ethnography of LGBT Mexicans/Latinxs in Phoenix, Arizona, a major metropolit...

While garnering the attention of professionals across disciplines, from medicine to public health to psychology, and frequently covered as a topic ...

Henry Gerber was the father of American gay liberation. Born in 1892 in Germany, Henry Gerber was expelled from school as a boy and lost several jo...

Singer. Dancer. Movie star. Activist. Queer icon. Afrofuturist. Working class heroine. Time traveler. Prophet. Feminist. Android. Dirty Computer.  ...

This is the first book to dedicate critical attention to the work of influential theater-maker Taylor Mac. Mac is particularly celebrated for the h...

From her world-famous dude ranch in Washington state's Yakima County, Kay Kershaw exerted tremendous influence on conservation efforts in the Pac...

In this important text, Stephen Valocchi brings capitalism back into the study of the gay and lesbian movement. He argues that to understand the co...

Community. Its a word we are used to hearing everywhere from political speeches to fast-food advertisements. But can we really define it? Using her...

Focusing primarily on film and televisual texts from the ten years before and after the millennium, the contributors ask how recent films and telev...

Offering a critical introduction into LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) transnational identity in the media, this book examines perform...

The book brings together for the first time John Addington Symonds' key writings on homosexuality, and the entire correspondence between Symonds an...

This book presents a history of queer erasure in the US public school system, from the 1920s up until today. By focusing on specific events as well...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the co-creator and co-star of the hit series Broad City, a hilarious and poignant collection about love, loss, work...

In Between Banat Mejdulene Bernard Shomali examines homoeroticism and nonnormative sexualities between Arab women in transnational Arab literature,...

Yes Gawd! explores the effects of religious belief and practice on political behavior among the LGBT community, a population long persecuted by rel...

Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner have been partners in life and work for more than 40 years. Over those years they have been comedic pioneers in televis...

Celebrate the LGTBQ community with this small but perfectly formed guide to Pride. What began as a protest for gay rights following the Stonewall ...

This book looks at queer self-representation in contemporary auteur film and experimental video in France. French Queer Cinema addresses the socio-...

2024 Carol Horton Tullis Memorial Prize, Texas State Historical Association The grassroots queer activism and legal challenges that led to a landma...

This book explores the alleged uniqueness of the European experience, and investigates its ties to a long history of LGBT and queer movements in th...

This book explores the alleged uniqueness of the European experience, and investigates its ties to a long history of LGBT and queer movements in th...

Between 2009 and 2014, an anti-homosexuality law circulating in the Ugandan parliament came to be the focus of a global conversation about queer ri...

While drag subcultures have gained mainstream media attention in recent years, the main focus has been on female impersonators. Equally lively, how...

Finding Out, Fourth Edition introduces readers to lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender-queer (LGBTQ) studies. By combining accessible introductory and ...

Can reading make us better citizens? In Crossing borders and queering citizenship, Feghali crafts a sophisticated theoretical framework to theorise...