New Books in LGBTQ+ Studies

Interviews with scholars and activist on LGBTQ+ matters.

Books
Society & Culture
Sexuality
401
Katie Horowitz, "Drag, Interperformance, and th...
Horowitz argues that the radical (in)difference between kings and queens provides a window into the perennial rift between lesbians and gay men...
61 min
402
Jyoti Puri, "Sexual States: Governance and the ...
Puri tracks the efforts to decriminalize homosexuality in India to show how the regulation of sexuality is fundamentally tied to the creation and enduring existence of the state...
52 min
403
James N. Green, "Exile Within Exiles: Herbert D...
Green tells the story of Herbert Daniel, a significant and complex figure in Brazilian leftist revolutionary politics and social activism from the mid-1960s until his death in 1992...
59 min
404
Roberto Strongman, "Queering Black Atlantic Rel...
Strongman reveals the many non-heteronormative texts, practices and beliefs though which Black Atlantic religious practices in Haiti, Cuba and Brazil were constituted...
41 min
405
Andrew Israel Ross, "Public City/Public Sex: H...
Ross maps out the intersection between histories of sexualities and the urban history of Paris in the 1800s
36 min
406
Lincoln A. Mitchell, "San Francisco Year Zero" ...
1978 was the year that changed San Francisco forever..
49 min
407
Emily Skidmore, "True Sex: The Lives of Trans M...
Skidmore weaves in a vibrant discussion on how trans men created community and crafted their lives in rural America at the turn of the twentieth century...
60 min
408
Brett Krutzsch, "Dying to Be Normal: Gay Martyr...
Krutzsch argues that gay activists memorialized people like Shepard as part of a political strategy to present gays as similar to the country's dominant class of white, straight Christians...
43 min
409
Selby Wynn Schwartz, "The Bodies of Others: Dra...
Schwartz covers four decades of drag dances, exploring the politics of gender in motion...
52 min
410
Cyril Ghosh, "De-Moralizing Gay Rights: Some Qu...
Ghosh interrogates three arenas of debate over LGBT+ rights in the contemporary American landscape...
35 min
411
Elizabeth Otto, "Haunted Bauhaus: Occult Spirit...
Otto “liberates Bauhaus history” with this work, drawing the focus from the handful of male artists like Klee and Breuer outward as she considers the other 1200 odd Bauhäusler...
71 min
412
Howard Philips Smith, "Unveiling the Muse: The ...
Howard Philips Smith has been investigating and writing about the gay history of New Orleans for over two decades...
61 min
413
Katie Batza, "Before AIDS: Gay Health Politics ...
Katie Batza demonstrates in this path-breaking book, there was already a well-developed network of gay-health clinics in American cities when the epidemic struck, and these clinics served as the first responders to the disease...
30 min
414
Marc Stein, "Sexual Injustice: Supreme Court De...
Stein shows how a diverse set of influential journalists, judges, and scholars translated the Court's language about marital and reproductive rights into bold statements about sexual freedom and equality...
34 min
415
Anne Balay, "Semi Queer: Inside the World of Ga...
Among many topics, Balay details how racism, sexism, homophobia, and transphobia are a part, and not a part, of truck drivers’ interactions with customers, shippers, and receivers...
53 min
416
Heike Bauer, "The Hirschfeld Archives: Violence...
Influential sexologist and activist Magnus Hirschfeld founded Berlin's Institute of Sexual Sciences in 1919 as a home and workplace to study homosexual rights activism and support transgender people...
39 min
417
Jerry T. Watkins III, "Queering the Redneck Riv...
Watkins re-queers this North Florida tourist destination showing how people who defied gender and sexual normalcy found their space in the “Sunshine State” after the Second World War...
51 min
418
Heather R. White, "Reforming Sodom: Protestants...
White argues that today's antigay Christian traditions originated in the 1920s when a group of liberal Protestants began to incorporate psychiatry and psychotherapy into Christian teaching...
32 min
419
J Mase III, "And Then I Got Fired: One Transque...
J Mase III takes on themes of the messiness of grief, Black trans spirituality, and what it means to be an independent artist...
28 min
420
Clayton Whisnant, "Queer Identities and Politic...
Germany in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries witnessed key developments in LGBT history...
66 min
421
Anthony Nownes, "Organizing for Transgender Rig...
Hard won transgender rights have been under attack by the Trump administration...
21 min
422
Arnika Fuhrmann, "Ghostly Desires: Queer Sexual...
A perennially popular theme in Thai cinema is that of haunting by a female ghost...
40 min
423
Julian Gill-Peterson, "Histories of the Transge...
With transgender rights front and center in American politics, media, and culture, the pervasive myth still exists that today’s transgender children are a brand new generation...
61 min
424
Denis Provencher, "Queer Maghrebi French: Langu...
At the end of his previous book, Queer French: Globalization, Language, and Sexual Citizenship (Routledge, 2007), Denis Provencher discusses a map of “gay Paris” drawn by Samir....
59 min
425
Peter Hart-Brinson, "The Gay Marriage Generatio...
How and why did public opinions about gay marriage shift?
42 min