Representing Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality at the Movies America on Film: Representing Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality in the Movies, 2nd Edition is a lively introduction to issues of diversity as represented within the American cinema. Provides a comprehensive overview of the industrial,...

Shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2018. Nominated for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2018. Long listed for the Branford Boase Award 2018. In three years I will be able to vote and I will still have less power than I did at the...

How LGBT Athletes are Claiming Their Rightful Place in Sports Outsports co-founder Cyd Zeigler tells the story of how sport has been radically transformed for LGBT athletes in the past four years. When Cyd Zeigler started writing about LGBT sports issues in 1999, no...

Working for Sexual Rights Worldwide The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) was founded in 1990 as the first NGO devoted to advancing LGBT human rights worldwide. How, this book asks, is that mission translated into practice? What do transnational LGBT human...

A Story of American Ideas and African LGBT Lives 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 human rights are gay rights," but still today there is little consensus...

How indolent practices in Latinx LGBTQ culture challenge capitalist imperatives to be productive. Revolting Indolence makes a case for laziness as an aesthetic-political strategy for countering the oppressive logics of cisheteronormative racial capitalism. Focusing on ways in which queer and trans Latinx people demonstrate...

In this sharp manifesto, veteran author and activist, Jude Doyle, reunites feminist and trans politics through a common that all people deserve full control over their own bodies…When Jude Doyle began his transition in the summer of 2020, he had a very public career...

Pioneering human rights campaigner, patriot, romantic, traitor, LGBTQ+ martyr: this is the story of Roger Casement, one of the 20th century’s most complex and compelling figures. 'A book of met­iculous sensitivity and research' TELEGRAPH, 'Extraordinary' THE TIMES, 'Superbly written, genuinely exciting' ANDREW ROBERTS, 'Outstanding'...

'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...

In the first major biography of Baldwin in more than a decade, Bill V. Mullen celebrates the personal and political life of the great African-American writer who changed the face of Western politics and culture. As a lifelong anti-imperialist, black queer advocate, and feminist,...

Pioneering human rights campaigner, patriot, romantic, traitor, LGBTQ+ martyr: this is the story of Roger Casement, one of the 20th century’s most complex and compelling figures. 'A book of met­iculous sensitivity and research' TELEGRAPH, 'Extraordinary' THE TIMES, 'Superbly written, genuinely exciting' ANDREW ROBERTS, 'Outstanding'...

In Queer Companions Omar Kasmani theorizes saintly intimacy and the construction of queer social relations at Pakistan’s most important site of Sufi pilgrimage. Conjoining queer theory and the anthropology of Islam, Kasmani outlines the felt and enfleshed ways in which saintly affections bind individuals,...

The Pet Shop Boys came of age at a time of deep socio-political tension. From the rise of sexual politics and awareness to Thatcherite neoliberalism and the Cold War, this book explores the cultural and political impact of the band and offers a fascinating...

A landmark study of the history of male-male sex in early modern Europe, including the European colonies and the Ottoman world. Until quite recently, the history of male-male sexual relations was a taboo topic. But when historians eventually explored the archives of Florence, Venice...

The radical, joyful follow-up to the Goldsmiths Prize-winning Sterling Karat Gold. This is the story of Corey Fah, a writer on the cusp of a windfall, courtesy of the Social Evils prize committee, for whom the actual gong - and with it the prize...

Dynamics of Illegalization, Detention, and Deportation More than a quarter of a million LGBTQ-identified migrants in the United States lack documentation and constantly risk detention and deportation. LGBTQ migrants around the world endure similarly precarious situations. Eithne Luibheid's and Karma R. Chavez's edited collection provides...

The Path to Social and Legal Recognition A compelling examination of the social and legal experiences of lesbian, bisexual, and queer stepparent families. Lesbian, bisexual, and queer families formed after the dissolution of a marriage face a range of obstacles. In Queer Stepfamilies, Katie...

From Oppression to Liberation in Psychedelic Medicine As psychedelic-assisted therapy gains traction in popular culture and through policy reforms, Queering From Oppression to Liberation in Psychedelic Medicine aims to foster accessibility and diversity in psychedelic science, practice, and discourse.  By addressing and dismantling sexist,...

A Memoir of Growing Up and Getting On A moving and inspiring hymn to the ups and downs of life - to love, to adversity and above all courage.' - Michael Cashman 'Compulsive reading: Wes's story is inspiring, surprising and full of compassion'. - Jess...

Connecting Queer Stories, Spaces and SexualitiesImagining Latinx Intimacies addresses the ways that artists and writers resist the social forces of colonialism, displacement, and oppression through crafting incisive and inspiring responses to the problems that queer Latinx peoples encounter in both daily lives and representation...

Spaces of Injury and Paths of Desire Whether engaged in same-sex desire or gender nonconformity, black queer individuals live with being perceived as a threat while simultaneously being subjected to the threat of physical, psychological, and socioeconomical injury. Attending to and challenging threats has...

Race, Reproductive Justice, and Lesbian Motherhood Argues that significant barriers to family-making exist for lesbian mothers of color in the United States One might be tempted, in the afterglow of Obergefell v. Hodges, to believe that the battle has been won, that gays and...

The Life of the Historical in Queer Studies The contributors to Turning Archival trace the rise of "the archive" as an object of historical desire and study within queer studies and examine how it fosters historical imagination and knowledge. Highlighting the growing significance of the...

Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures By bringing queer theory to bear on ideas of diaspora, Gayatri Gopinath produces both a more compelling queer theory and a more nuanced understanding of diaspora. Focusing on queer female diasporic subjectivity, Gopinath develops a theory of...

Queer Theory and Marxism in the Age of the Beijing Consensus In recent years, queer theory appears to have made a materialist turn away from questions of representation and performativity to those of dispossession, precarity, and the differential distribution of life chances. Despite this shift,...

Winner of an English PEN Award 2021 In this sharp intervention, authors Luci Cavallero and Veronica Gago defiantly develop a feminist understanding of debt, showing its impact on women and members of the LGBTQ+ community and examining the relationship between debt and social reproduction....

Non-Heterosexual Lives and the State in Czechoslovakia, 1948-1989In the repressive context of East European Communist regimes, how did young girls and boys come to realize their sexuality? What did they do with that self-awareness--and later on, as adults, what strategies did they employ in...

'Stunning... Built like a thriller, moving, wise and illuminated on every page with love' -Joanne Harris. When Carolyn Hays's child made clear to the family that they were all wrong, he was not a boy, but, in fact, a girl, the Hays shifted pronouns, adopted...

Art and Underground Culture in New YorkQueer people have always flocked to New York seeking freedom, forging close-knit groups for support and inspiration. Gay Gotham brings to life the countercultural artistic communities that sprang up over the last hundred years, a creative class whose...

Dehumanism and Decolonial Entanglements Challenges a core, fraught dimension of geopolitical, cultural, and scholarly endeavor: the drive toward mastery over the self and others. Drawing on postcolonial theory, queer theory, new materialism, and animal studies, the author traces how pervasive the concept of mastery...