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

This textbook offers accessible, academically sound information on a wide range of LGBTQ+ topics. The 12 chapters cover LGBTQ+ history, culture, and Queer Theory, but also explore LGBTQ+ relationships, families, parenting, health, and education - as well as a separate chapter on how to conduct research on LGBTQ+ topics.

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

Examines how contemporary Mexican literature uses humor to contest heteronormativity.

Shares the unique story of a Christmas tree farm in Poughkeepsie, New York, where, for over four decades, women artists boldly built a space where they could create community and art together.

A significant contribution to anthropology, history, and gender studies that reveals the denials of homosexuality in traditional and contemporary African societies to be rooted in colonialist ideologies.

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

Argues that queer Israeli emigrants engage in a deliberately unheroic form of resistance to Zionism.

Reconsiders mostly German narratives from around 1800 to recover echoes of a queer messianic that still resonate today.

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.

Combines psychoanalysis, queer theory, masculinity studies, and cultural studies to explore contemporary manhood in film.

Provides sophisticated theoretical approaches to Latin American cinema and sexual culture.

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

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

When, in the late eighties, the author chooses to raise a child with her lesbian partner, she embraces a life outside the lines—one full of curious adventures as well as the usual catastrophes and everyday pleasures.

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

Examines the intersections of “Latino,” “queer,” and “American,” to illustrate how the categories of class, race, gender, sexuality, and ethnicity are directly entangled with issues of citizenship and belonging.

Examines a range of fiction that challenges widespread assumptions about what it means to be a black person of faith.

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

Explores how a younger and more sensitive form of masculinity emerged in the United States after World War II.

Examines the grassroots activism of an Internet-mediated collegiate lesbian and gay organization in Turkey.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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 cultural significance of the metrosexual in sports.

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

Looks at how both anti-gay and AIDS activists use apocalyptic language to describe the AIDS crisis.

Essays on the experience of lesbians in contemporary Israeli society.

Adds historical and philosophical perspectives to current debates over whether lesbian identity is socially constructed or genetically based.

Taking a post-psychoanalytic, queer-theoretical approach, this book links philosophical and aesthetic issues in two distinct periods through the examination of a variety of imaginative texts, from canonical poetry and fiction to avant-garde music and film.