The New York Times Bestseller - Revised and Expanded"[An] earth-shaking exposé of clerical corruption" - National Catholic ReporterThe arrival of Frédéric Martel’s In the Closet of the Vatican, published worldwide in eight languages, sent shockwaves through the religious and secular world. The book’s revelations...

PRE-ORDER NOW - 4th March 2027 The Stonewall riots were a turning point in queer history, sparking the foundation of the modern Gay Liberation Movement. This book explores LGBTQ+ representation in film through 100 features and shorts released in or before 1969, in the...

PRE-ORDER NOW - 23rd March 2027 Hilton Als grew up in a corner of Brooklyn scarred by riots, racial segregation and sexual prejudice. As a young teenager, he began to glimpse possibility in the different cultures and ways of being he encountered through high...

PRE-ORDER NOW - 9th March 2027 This book demonstrates, in part through a history of emotions, how assumptions and prejudices about queer lives were challenged throughout the decade through the deceptively prosaic medium of television. Passion and disgust neatly outline the contours of the...

A sweeping look at the history of the artist collective whose graphic poster designs helped define the visual culture of AIDS activismGran Fury (1988–95) was a New York–based activist artist collective that emerged from ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), an organization founded...

How the Closing of Gay Bars Sparked a Revolution It’s closing time for an alarming number of gay bars in cities around the globe - but it’s definitely not the last dance.  In this exhilarating journey into underground parties, pulsating with life and limitless...

In Curating Deviance, Marc Francis scavenges film history for signs of vibrant, wayward life in the film programming of US art house and repertory cinemas between 1968 and 1989. Francis examines how creative and savvy programmers screened films by the likes of John Waters,...

PRE-ORDER NOW - 22nd April 2027 A compelling blend of memoir, travelogue and investigation, Walking Shadow sheds new light on the past while Doran himself emerges from the darkness of loss. After the death from cancer of his husband, Antony Sher, Greg Doran stepped...

A compelling blend of memoir, travelogue and investigation, Walking Shadow sheds new light on the past while Doran himself emerges from the darkness of loss. After the death from cancer of his husband, Antony Sher, Greg Doran stepped down from his role as artistic...

Queer history didn't start with Stonewall. This book explores how LGBTQ people have always been a part of our national identity, contributing to the country and culture for over 400 years.It is crucial for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer youth to know their...

In Queer Marxism in Two Chinas Petrus Liu rethinks the relationship between Marxism and queer cultures in mainland China and Taiwan. Whereas many scholars assume the emergence of queer cultures in China signals the end of Marxism and demonstrates China's political and economic evolution,...

James VI & I, the namesake of the King James Version of the Bible, had a series of notorious male favourites. No one denies that these relationships were amorous, but were they sexual? Michael B. Young merges political history with recent scholarship in the...

A richly illustrated reflection on a century of Black queer art and culture featuring seven essays from leading scholars. The word ecstasy derives from the Greek ekstasis, meaning to put out of place. It passed into English through the Old French extasie, which roughly translates as...

PRE-ORDER NOW - 18th February 2027 My friends will respect me, I hope, just as much under my jacket as under my dress... So take me for a man or a woman as you wish. By the age of thirty, the novelist who had...

PRE-ORDER NOW - 26th March 2027 A provocative new history of the elitist roots of contemporary transgender culture and politics. It is often thought that transgender identity is a stable category that encompasses a culturally and politically unified group. In Transgender Liberalism, acclaimed scholar...

PRE-ORDER NOW - 3rd November 2026 Famously rejected in Toronto, Fortune and Men’s Eyes, John Herbert’s autobiographical prison drama based on his incarceration for “gross indecency,” became an off-Broadway hit when it premiered in New York City in 1967. Less than twenty years later,...

PRE-ORDER NOW - 27th October 2026 Martin Luther King Jr.'s idea of "the beloved community" focused on the hoped-for new relationship between the oppressor and the oppressed after the success of a nonviolent movement. But the vision excluded, and sometimes still excludes, LGBTQIA people...

Desire, eroticism, playing with gender – these qualities in the works of queer artists are not regarded here as external to the creative process, but rather as foundational. By approaching the art through a perspective of queer aesthetics, the aim is to discover the...

Transatlantic knowledge of the queer underground punk scene that ultimately became queercore developed through the spirit of DIY resistance that guided earlier feminist artists as queer musicians pushed back against the homophobia and sexism that remained pervasive in hardcore punk. Queercore officially got its...

CELEBRATE the LGTBQ community with this FABULOUS, POCKET-SIZED guide to PRIDE. What began as a protest for gay rights following the Stonewall riots of 1969 in New York has grown to become a global celebration of LGBTQ culture. In the 50-odd years since the...

PRE-ORDER NOW - 26th March 2027 From the 1940s to the 1970s, homosexual men in Italy began to express themselves authentically after years of silence under Fascist repression. In Scandalous Practices, Alessio Ponzio deftly recounts the socio-cultural shifts that occurred for queer Italians during...

PRE-ORDER NOW - 1st September 2026 - TBC Making Gay History recounts John D’Emilio’s career as a public historian, activist, and academic. Tracing his involvement in developing LGBTQ history from the 1970s to the 1990s, D’Emilio paints a queer history both personal and national...

Since the end of the nineteenth century, the Korean people have faced successive waves of foreign domination, authoritarian regimes, forced dispersal, and divided development. Throughout these turbulent times, “queer” Koreans were ignored, minimized, and erased in narratives of their modern nation, East Asia, and...

Belfastmen reconstructs the everyday experiences of queer men in a region infamous for its recent history of intolerance, violence, and religious homophobia to show how queer lives before the gay rights movement were not only possible but also rich, exciting, and fulfilling. Irish churches...

First published in 1985, Between Men was a decisive intervention in gender studies, a book that all but singlehandedly dislodged a tradition of literary critique that suppressed queer subjects and subjectivities. With stunning foresight and conceptual power, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's work opened not only...

'Miraculous. The Light of Day reclaims a forgotten hero . . . I couldn't put it down' - Will Tosh'Sir, we are homosexuals . . .'So began the letter penned by Roger Butler and sent to several British newspaper editors - some of whom were so...

The smell of leather. The flash of a harness. The snap of a latex glove. Welcome to the radical, vibrant world of sexual fetishists. In 21st century commodity culture, we are all intimately involved with objects: we covet a Birkin bag; we keep trainers...

The defining book on the iconic noughties-era of pop culture in London as told by DJ Jodie Harsh, who saw, did and survived it all.Jodie Harsh arrived in London aged fifteen in 2001, heading straight off the train from Canterbury to her first club...

Who are the Queer figures, past and present, who have made, and continue to make, Welsh history?  Discover the diverse array of LGBTQ+ figures influencing Wales – and the world – in an exploration of the household names and hidden icons who have shaped their fields and driven forward Queer representation.   From Jan Morris...

Michel Foucault’s seminal The History of Sexuality (1976–1984) has since its publication provided a context for the emergence of critical historical studies of sexuality. This collection reassesses the state of the historiography on sexuality a field in which the German case has been traditionally...