Gay & Lesbian Studies

Why LGBTQ+ people must resist the seduction of dignity In 2015, when the Supreme Court declared that gay and lesbian couples were entitled to the e...

2022 International Latino Book Award Finalist for Best LGBTQ Studies Book Within a trans-embodied framework, this anthology identifies transmovimie...

How do we represent the experience of being a gender and sexual outlaw? In Queer Forms, Ramzi Fawaz explores how the central values of 1970s movem...

Queer Lives across the Wall examines the everyday lives of queer Berliners between 1945 and 1970, tracing private and public queer life from the en...

In Sexuality and the Rise of China Travis S. K. Kong examines the changing meanings of same-sex identities, communities, and cultures for young Chi...

In Sexuality and the Rise of China Travis S. K. Kong examines the changing meanings of same-sex identities, communities, and cultures for young Chi...

Recent critically and commercially acclaimed Latin American films such as XXY, Contracorriente, and Plan B create an affective and bodily connectio...

Despite recent progress in civil rights for sexual and gender minorities (SGM), ensuring SGM youth experience fairness, justice, inclusion, safety,...

Drag embodies the queer possibility that exists within each of usthe infinite ways in which gender, good taste, and art can be lived. Sasha VelourT...

This casebook offers professors and students a doctrinally comprehensive, theoretically ambitious, and up-to-date exploration of the treatment of s...

SHORTLISTED FOR 2024 LGBTQ NON-FICTION LAMMY AWARDThe coming out process for LGBTQIA+ adolescents can be a terrifying moment, not only for themselv...

A sweeping historical and political account of how our present-day policy debates around citizenship and equality came to be The landmark Supreme C...

Love Offers No Safety: Nigerias Queer Men Speak is a raw and powerful collection of 25 first-person narratives that explore the diverse experience ...

The period from the 1970s to the present day has produced an extraordinarily rich and diverse body of Caribbean writing that has been widely acclai...

This Companion provides a guide to queer inquiry in literary and cultural studies. The essays represent new and emerging areas, including transgend...

Queer Commoditiesis the first book-length analysis of same-sexuality and consumer capitalism in contemporary US fiction. Moving beyond the critical...

These innovative essays take a comparative approach to queer studies while simultaneously queering the field of comparative literature, strengtheni...

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL CHRISTOPHER BLAND PRIZE 2023**SHORTLISTED FOR THE POLARI FIRST BOOK PRIZE 2023*'I read the book in one go. I laughed and ...

In high school, studious Hitsuji had a secret crush on one of his guy friends--a friendly delinquent named Hatoyama - but never confessed. Years la...

Sex, or the Unbearable is a dialogue between Lauren Berlant and Lee Edelman, two of our leading theorists of sexuality, politics, and culture. In j...

Founded in the summer of 1972 by a few friends as a modest celebration, the Southern Decadence festival has since grown into one of New Orleans's l...

Jewish Bodylore: Feminist and Queer Ethnographies of Folk Practices explores the Jewish body and its symbology as a space for identity communicatio...

Exploring forms of desire unaccounted for in previous histories of sexuality What can the Renaissance tell us at our present moment about who and w...