A 1960s Bronx tomboy learns how to survive her brutal but humorous Italian family and all the rest that life throws her. The harder you hit the pavement, the higher you fly.

Uses ethnography and cultural analysis to track scenes of intimate connection and disconnection among gay men across an array of media sites.

Argues that homophobia will not be eradicated in the United States until religion is ended.

Exposes how ex-gay and post-abortion ministries operate on a shared system of thought and analyzes their social implications.

A story of two twentieth-century American women whose love for each other fueled their work to create an egalitarian world.

Offers an analysis of the political economy of care in order to explain how lesbian and gay citizens in Europe benefit from equality more than those in the United States.

Illuminates the emotional significance of stories in response to racial traumas related to the Middle East.

Argues that South Africa’s apartheid system of racial segregation relied on an unexamined but interrelated system of sexed oppression that was at once both rigid and flexible.

Collection of letters written to the first openly gay magazine in the United States.

Argues that debates about Jewish identity and assimilation are signs of creative potential rather than crisis.

An analysis of unpublished letters to the first American gay magazine reveals the agency, adaptation, and resistance occurring in the gay community during the McCarthy era.

Develops Foucault’s late work on friendship into a novel critique of contemporary GLBT political strategy.

Demonstrates the dramatic interplay of elements that comprise the concepts of norm, bisexuality, and development.

Queer theory essays on time and becoming in the fields of literature, philosophy, film, and performance.

Explores the work of Maurice Kenny, a pivotal figure in American Indian literature from the 1950s to the present.

An interdisciplinary and contemporary response to Irigaray’s work.

Brings together the workplace experiences of transgender people with an assessment of current policy protections.

Traces the origins of contemporary analogies between queerness and blackness.

A demographic portrait of gay and lesbian couples who live together in committed relationships.

Provocative take on the negative effects of increasing queer visibility and assimilation on the lives of queer people and politics in the U. S.

Uses iconic dandy and queer figures to explore relationships between homosexuality, modernism, and modernity.

First collection of essays by queer scholars with working-class backgrounds.

Explores the Christian Right’s use of tailored rhetorics to advance multiple and varied antigay political projects.

Essays explore the contemporary contexts, activism, and cultural productions of queer youth and their communities.

Connects theories of sexual difference to race and queer theories through a focus on “in-between” bodies.