The follow-up to the groundbreaking Black Queer Studies, the edited collection No Tea, No Shade brings together nineteen essays from the next generation of scholars, activists, and community leaders doing work on black gender and sexuality. Building on the foundations laid by the earlier...

Communists in Closets: Queering the History 1930s-1990s explores the history of gay, lesbian and non-heterosexual people in the Communist Party in the United States. The Communist Party banned LGBT people from membership beginning in 1938 when it cast them off as degenerates. It persisted in...

A guide to the gender health gap revolution'Crucial reading for us all 'Stylist 'Remarkable, impressive and important' Maisie Hill, author of Period Power. 'Validates for women that their experiences are not all in their heads' Dr Sarah E. Hill, author of How the Pill...

Tenth Anniversary Expanded Edition Ten years on, Jasbir K. Puar's pathbreaking Terrorist Assemblages remains one of the most influential queer theory texts and continues to reverberate across multiple political landscapes, activist projects, and scholarly pursuits. Puar argues that configurations of sexuality, race, gender, nation,...

A wide-ranging study on the reasons why queer individuals migrate to Europe and the socio-political frameworks they navigate.  Europe is a popular destination for LGBTQ people seeking to escape discrimination and persecution. Yet, while European institutions have done much to promote the legal equality...

Black Queer Women and the Politics of Partying in Chicago In Feels Right Kemi Adeyemi presents an ethnography of how black queer women in Chicago use dance to assert their physical and affective rights to the city. Adeyemi stages the book in queer dance...

Over the course of the last half century, queer history has developed as a collaborative project involving academic researchers, community scholars, and the public. Initially rejected by most colleges and universities, queer history was sustained for many years by community-based contributors and audiences. Academic...

A Queer-Feminist Theory Democracy in the Political Present 'Presentist democracy is without a people and without nation. Rather than regimes of borders and migration, its borders are sexism and racism, homo- and transphobia, colonialism and extractivism.'In the midst of the crises and threats to...

Sexuality, Photography, and Cultural Difference : Selected essays by Sunil Gupta We Were Here: Sexuality, Photography, and Cultural Difference offers an unparalleled first hand account of the influential photographer and curator Sunil Gupta's writing and critical inquiry since the 1970s. Newspaper articles, speeches, and...

Queer Kinship and Religion in San Francisco's Tenderloin In Kids on the Street Joseph Plaster explores the informal support networks that enabled abandoned and runaway queer youth to survive in tenderloin districts across the United States. Tracing the history of the downtown lodging house districts...

Creating Queer Religious Community in North America Offers vivid stories of nonconformist Muslim communities. The turn of the twenty-first century ushered in a wave of progressive Muslims, whose modern interpretations and practices transformed the public's perception of who could follow the teachings of Islam. Muslims...

Luminous presence: Derek Jarman's life-writing is the first book to analyse the prolific writing of queer icon Derek Jarman. Although he is well known for his avant-garde filmmaking, his garden, and his AIDS activism, he is also the author of over a dozen books,...

Combining sociological theory, fandom, and memoir, this experimental manifesto rejects dominant narratives about marginalized bodies. Combining feminist theories, X-Files fandom, and personal memoir, Enjoy Me among My Ruins draws together a kaleidoscopic archive of Juniper Fitzgerald’s experiences as a queer sex-working mother. Plumbing the...

A Story of Glitter, Glam Rock, and Loving Lou Reed In this funny and poignant memoir and cultural history, the television personality, columnist, and author of Drag pays homage to Lou Reed's ground-breaking album Transformer on its fiftieth anniversary and recalls its influence on his...

Queer Theory and the Death Drive In this searing polemic, Lee Edelman outlines a radically uncompromising new ethics of queer theory. His main target is the all-pervasive figure of the child, which he reads as the linchpin of our universal politics of "reproductive futurism."...

Sexuality, Gender, and Race in the Middle Ages A fascinating history of marginalized identities in the medieval world While the term "intersectionality" was coined in 1989, the existence of marginalized identities extends back over millennia. Byzantine Intersectionality reveals the fascinating, little-examined conversations in medieval...

2022 Lambda Literary Award Finalist  The previously untold stories of the life of the leading subject in David France's How To Survive A Plague, Peter Staley, including his continuing activism In 1987, somebody shoved a flyer into the hand of Peter Staley: massive AIDS demonstration,...

From contributors to The Conversation, a look at gender diversity in the twenty-first century and the intricate and intersecting challenges faced by trans and nonbinary people. With media amplifying the voices of anti-trans legislators and critics, it is important to turn to the stories,...

A powerful and commanding account of the life of trailblazing political activist Angela Davis. Edited by Toni Morrison and first published in 1974, An Autobiography is a classic of the Black Liberation era which resonates just as powerfully today. Long hard to find, it...

Sexuality and the State in the Middle East The LGBTI community in Turkey face real dangers. In 2015, the Turkish police interrupted the LGBTI Pride march in Istanbul, using tear gas and rubber bullets against the marchers. This marked the first attempt by the...

Young People Fighting for Love in the New India'Essential reading for anyone seeking to understand youth in India today - or for anyone who believes in the galactic powers of love to change history, personal and political' Suketu Mehta, author of Maximum City: Bombay...

A Memoir An extraordinarily brave and moving memoir from one of the world's most famous whistle-blowers, activists and trans women. In 2010 Chelsea Manning, working as an intelligence analyst in the U.S. Army in Iraq, disclosed 720,000 classified military documents that she had smuggled...

The Queer Politics of PostcolonialityBetween 2009 and 2014, an anti-homosexuality law circulating in the Ugandan parliament came to be the focus of a global conversation about queer rights. The law attracted attention for the draconian nature of its provisions and for the involvement of...

The previously untold stories of the life of the leading subject in David France's How To Survive A Plague, Peter Staley, including his continuing activismIn 1987, somebody shoved a flyer into the hand of Peter Staley: massive AIDS demonstration, it announced. After four years on Wall...

How LGBTQ Politicians Changed the World. Part political thriller, part meditation on social change, part love story, The Children of Harvey Milk tells the epic stories of courageous men and women around the world who came forward to make their voices heard during the...

Humanist, Liberationist, Fantabulist A Story of Gay Rights and Gay Wrongs. "His activist work began in the 1930s as a teenager. As the only male living in his mother's Texas brothel, he secretly helped women working there get vital healthcare. During the 1950s, he...

Manufactured on Demand (Delivery could take 2-4 weeks) Regenerating Violent Times and Places Queer subjects have become acceptable in society only through being cast in the shadow of the new folk devil, the 'homophobic migrant' who is rendered by society as hateful and disposable....

Children and families come in all shapes and sizes, as do members of staff. LGBT Diversity and Inclusion in Early Years Education will support practitioners in thinking about LGBT issues in relation to their early years practice. It examines the history of equalities legislation...

Part of the SAGE Contemporary Family Perspective series, this book presents a comprehensive yet accessible understanding of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender families today by drawing upon and making sense of the burgeoning scholarly literature about LGBT families from the late twentieth and early...

Manufactured on Demand (Delivery could take 2-4 weeks) Queer Media Images: LGBT Perspectives presents fifteen chapters that address how the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender communities are depicted in the media. This collection focuses on how the LGBT community has been silenced or given...