New Books in LGBTQ+ Studies

Interviews with scholars and activist on LGBTQ+ matters.

Books
Society & Culture
Sexuality
376
John Wei, "Queer Chinese Cultures and Mobilitie...
An interview with John Wei
30 min
377
Queer Voices of the South: Year in Review
A discussion with John Marszalek, Pip Gordon and Morris Ardoin...
67 min
378
Jenn Shapland, "My Autobiography of Carson Mccu...
An interview Jenn Shapland
44 min
379
Ashon T. Crawley, "The Lonely Letters" (Duke UP...
An interview with Ashon T. Crawley
61 min
380
Tom Rastrelli, "Confessions of a Gay Priest: A ...
Tom Rastrelli is a survivor of clergy-perpetrated sexual abuse who then became a priest in the early days of the Catholic Church’s ongoing scandals...
58 min
381
Jim Downs, "Stand by Me: The Forgotten History ...
Despite the tremendous gains of the LGBT movement in recent years, the history of gay life in this country remains poorly understood....
30 min
382
Pip Gordon, "Gay Faulkner: Uncovering a Homosex...
Gordon explores the intimate friendships Faulkner maintained with gay men...
63 min
383
Terry Baum, "One Dyke’s Theater: Selected Plays...
The plays range from outlandish comedies like Bride of Lesbostein to the historical drama Hick: A Love Story...
50 min
384
Kevin Leo Nadal, "Queering Law and Order: LGBTQ...
Nadal examines the state of LGBTQ people within the criminal justice system. Intertwining legal cases, academic research, and popular media,..
33 min
385
Robert Fieseler, "Tinderbox: The Untold Story o...
Fiesler reconstructs the 1973 fire that devastated New Orleans’ subterranean gay community...
55 min
386
Morris Ardoin, "Stone Motel: Memoirs of a Cajun...
In the summers of the early 1970s, Morris Ardoin and his siblings helped run their family's roadside motel in a hot, buggy, bayou town in Cajun Louisiana...
53 min
387
Dan Royles, "To Make the Wounded Whole: The Afr...
In the decades since it was identified in 1981, HIV/AIDS has devastated African American communities...
69 min
388
Joshua Chambers-Letson, "After the Party: A Man...
Through this diverse cast of characters, Chambers-Letson highlights moments of immanent communism: collaborations, romantic relationships, and serendipitous collisions that point towards a liberated future which also exists in our troubled present...
58 min
389
Anita Kurimay, "Queer Budapest, 1873-1961" (U C...
Kurimay tells the riveting story of nonnormative sexualities in Hungary as they were understood, experienced, and policed between the birth of the capital as a unified metropolis in 1873 and the decriminalization of male homosexual acts in 1961....
56 min
390
Laura Westengard, "Gothic Queer Culture: Margin...
Westengard examines the intersection of queerness and the gothic...
60 min
391
John F. Marszalek III, "Coming Out of the Magno...
Marszalek shares conversations with same-sex couples living in small-town and rural Mississippi...
28 min
392
Kareem Khubchandani, "Ishtyle: Accenting Gay In...
Khubchandani follows queer South Asian men across borders into gay neighborhoods, nightclubs, bars, and house parties in Bangalore and Chicago...
47 min
393
Elspeth H. Brown, "Work! A Queer History of Mod...
Brown traces the history of modeling from the advent of photographic modeling in the early twentieth century to the rise of the supermodel in the 1980s....
43 min
394
Ghassan Moussawi, "Disruptive Situations: Fract...
Moussawi challenges representations of contemporary Beirut as an exceptional space for LGBTQ people by highlighting everyday life in a city where violence is the norm...
54 min
395
Caridad Svich, "Mitchell and Trask’s Hedwig and...
This book is Caridad Svich’s love letter to the 1998 musical that introduced the world to its favorite East German ex-pat genderqueer rock star, Hedwig...
48 min
396
Mia Fischer, "Terrorizing Gender: Transgender V...
Mia Fischer traces how media and state actors collude in the violent disciplining of trans women...
50 min
397
Sa’ed Atshan, "Queer Palestine and the Empire o...
Atshan explores the Palestinian LGBTQ movement and offers a window into the diverse community living both in historic Palestine and in diaspora...
52 min
398
Howard Philips Smith, "Southern Decadence in Ne...
Commonly referred to as “Gay Mardi Gras,” the Southern Decadence festival began in 1972 as a spontaneous end-of-the-summer celebration...
60 min
399
Javier Samper Vendrell, "The Seduction of Youth...
Vendrell writes the first study to focus on the League for Human Rights and its leader, Friedrich Radszuweit...
61 min
400
M. R. Michelson and B. F. Harrison, "Transformi...
Michelson and Harrison examine what tactics are effective in changing public opinion regarding transgender people...
49 min