Gay & Lesbian Studies

Queer Visibility in Post-socialist Cultures explores the public constructions of gay, lesbian and queer identities, as well as ways of thinking abo...

The futures of reproductive justice and LGBTQIA+ liberation are intimately connected. Both movements were born out of the desire to love and build ...

Joyful, wild, gay stories from award winning Martin Goodman. Meet his cast of characters: New York designer Arnold, whose lovely life blossoms fro...

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Presss Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminoso...

The result of five years of practice-based creative research focused on Nicole Garneaus UPRISING project, Performing Revolutionary presents a numbe...

Martin Duberman is a national treasure.Masha Gessen, The New Yorker The past fifty years have seen significant shifts in attitudes toward LGBTQ peo...

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.Amphibious Subjects is an ethnographic study of a community...

This is the first introductory textbook intended for transgender/trans studies at the undergraduate level. The book can also be used for related co...

On the battlefields of World War II, with their fellow soldiers as the only shield between life and death, a generation of American men found thems...

Leo Bersani, known for his provocative interrogations of psychoanalysis, sexuality, and the human body, centers his latest book on a surprisingly s...

In 2001, a collection of open and affirming churches with predominantly African American membership and a Pentecostal style of worship formed a rad...

What would it mean to turn to ugliness rather than turn away from it? Indeed, the idea of ugly often becomes synonymous with non-white, non-male, a...

'everything i do kills you. i don't know if i love you because i have to or because i can't help it i don't know if both of those things are bad.' ...

Every user knows the importance of the @ symbol in internet communication. Though the symbol barely existed in Latin America before the emergence o...

Germany in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries witnessed key developments in LGBT history, including the growth of the world's first ...

This book examines the surge of queer performance produced across Ireland since the first stirrings of the Celtic Tiger in the mid-1990s, up to the...

Feel confident in the ABCs of LGBTQ+ Language is a key path to awareness, acceptance and empowerment. It's central to understanding the world and t...

Nationally representative studies confirm that LGBTQ individuals are at an elevated risk of experiencing intimate partner violence. While many simi...

In Brilliant Imperfection Eli Clare uses memoir, history, and critical analysis to explore curethe deeply held belief that body-minds considered br...

The explosion of cable networks, cinema distributors, and mobile media companies explicitly designed for sexual minorities in the contemporary mome...

What is Fat Activism and why is it important? Charlotte Cooper, a fat activist with around 30 years experience, answers this question by lifting t...