A wide-ranging overview of contemporary literary works by LGBTQ Appalachians with a focus on LGBTQ themes and characters.

Traces the Trump administration's surprising support for LGBTI human rights abroad to Trump's indifference and the cynicism and political interests of Christian conservative elites.

Juxtaposes feminist and queer activism in Britain and the United States in the face of resurgent conservatism during the 1980s.

Incorporates a unique diplomatic, insider perspective to explain the unexpected incorporation of LGBTI rights into American and Swedish foreign policies.

Examines the limitations of rights-based mobilization and litigation for advancing the interests of trans individuals in the contemporary United States.

The gripping memoir of a young man’s struggle with his sexuality and Muslim identity, culminating in his rise to the Dutch Parliament.

Illuminates transgender activists' successful strategies to organize for social and political change in the US.

Analyzes intersex debates through a queer feminist, intersectional, and transnational lens.

Offers a complete empirical account of US government programs, policies, and interventions outside the United States on behalf of the human rights of LGBTQ people.

Investigates the rise and fall of US American lesbian cultural institutions since the 1970s.

Offers a more democratic way to think about families, politics, and public life.

Uses the state of Oklahoma as a case study for how US conservatives have attempted to unqueer America since the 1950’s.

The first book to focus on the experience of LGBT archival research.

Examines strategies and best practices that effectively integrate LGBTQ areas of teaching and research with student life activities.

Uses historical case studies to illuminate women’s claims to emancipation and to sexual subjectivity during the tumultuous Wilhelmine and Weimar periods in Germany.

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.

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.

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

An analysis of unpublished letters to the first American gay magazine reveals the agency, adaptation, and resistance occurring in the gay community during the McCarthy era.

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

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