Gay & Lesbian Studies

Meet the LGBTQ+ dealmakers, trailblazers, and glass-ceiling breakers in business, politics, and beyond.The people who are creating national public ...

An ethnography and media analysis of LGBT+ activism in São Paulo during Brazil’s conservative turn from 2010 to 2018. For decades, LGBT+ activists ...

In 2009 Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill became a top global news story. Two years later Hillary Clinton declared “Gay rights are human rights and ...

In recent years, queer theory appears to have made a materialist turn away from questions of representation and performativity to those of disposse...

We are survivors. We were subjected to dehumanizing practices by people who sought our erasure.We believe telling our stories is both powerful and ...

'Profound and vulnerable. An essential gift for all of us that relate' - Anne MauroWhat do we mean when we say 'relationship'?How do we separate ou...

An oral history and critical genealogy of “accountability,” the complex abolitionist concept that pushes us to ask: just what do we mean by “commun...

'GAVE ME SERIOUS WRITER ENVY' KIRSTY LOGAN'ONE OF MY FAVOURITE STORYTELLERS' KIRAN MILLWOOD HARGRAVE'AN INCREDIBLE AND UNIQUE IMAGINATION' IRISH TI...

* NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A 2025 STONEWALL BOOK AWARD HONOREE * From an award-winning journalist comes a vivid and moving portrait of eight trans and...

Exploring the archetypal representation of the straight girl with the queer guy in film and television culture from 1948 to the present day, Straig...

After the Second World War, a newly affluent United States reached for its own gourmet culture, one at ease with the French international style of ...

After the Second World War, a newly affluent United States reached for its own gourmet culture, one at ease with the French international style of ...

A heart-breaking and hilarious memoir about the author’s fight to be true to themself WINNER OF THE POLARI FIRST ...

This introductory volume studies the challenges faced by the transgender community in India. It traces the history of the representation of the com...

This challenging new study examines gender and sexuality in relation to the ‘roving colonialism’ of sport mega-events. Built around four case studi...

This book focuses on queering texts with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and/or transgender (LGBT) themes in collaboration with students - young to young a...

The Transgender Studies Reader Remix assembles 50 previously published articles to orient students and scholars alike to current directions in the ...

Setting out best practices and professional guidance for creating LGBT+ inclusive workplaces, this approachable and easy to follow book guides curr...

First published in 1987, this book encompasses a broad range interdisciplinary research into homosexuality — displaying a full spectrum of points o...

This edited collection explores the deeper contexts and consequences surrounding the murder of Matthew Shepard. This young gay man was brutally bea...

This book reflects on 'the political' in queer theory and politics by revisiting two of its key categories: hegemony and heteronormativity. It expl...

The Sexual/Political engages with contemporary political issues in sexuality through a survey of modern philosophy, psychoanalytic thought, 20th-ce...

Running from 1990 to 1999, the annual OutWrite conference played a pivotal role in shaping LGBTQ literary culture in the United States and its emer...

Exploring scholarship, research, practice and activism on gender, feminist and queer studies, this edited collection examines, analyses and critiqu...

Queer Looks is a collection of writing by video artists, filmmakers, and critics which explores the recent explosion of lesbian and gay independent...

Queer Inclusion in Teacher Education explores the challenges and promises of building queer inclusive pedagogy and curriculum into teacher educatio...

How is sexuality studied methodologically? How are we innovating, methodologically, in the study of sexuality? What impact, if any, has the increas...