Gay & Lesbian Studies

After a chance meeting aboard the ocean liner Paris in 1924, Harvard University scholar and activist F. O. Matthiessen and artist Russell Cheney fe...

After a chance meeting aboard the ocean liner Paris in 1924, Harvard University scholar and activist F. O. Matthiessen and artist Russell Cheney fe...

Espinoza's book stands out as a beacon for future queer writers, thinkers, and activists. Reading these accounts, I felt myself drawn into a past b...

This illustrated compendium celebrates LGBTQIA+ history and culture, written by and according to culture icon Justin Elizabeth Sayre! Based on Sayr...

Uncovered is the only memoir to tell of a gay woman leaving the hasidic fold. Told in understated, crystalline prose, Leah Lax begins her story as ...

In August 1989, Jane Rule novelist, essayist, and the first widely recognized public lesbian in North America summed up the first eight years of ...

This work combines autobiographical sources, personal interviews, and questions for reflection to explore issues relevant to everyones sexual orien...

Recent victories for LGBT rights have gone faster than most people imagined possible. Yet the accompanying rise of gay 'normality' has been perplex...

Though less of a household name than his contemporaries in early twentieth century Paris, Jewish homosexual poet Max Jacob was Pablo Picassos initi...

Theatre of the Ridiculous is a significant movement that highlighted the radical possibilities inherent in camp. Much of contemporary theatre ow...

Queer women of color have historically been underrepresented or excluded completely in fiction and comics. When present, they are depicted as le...

How could novels like Uncle Toms Cabin change the hearts and minds of thousands of mid-nineteenth-century readers, yet make so many modern readers ...