Queer Studies

Queer studies is the critical theory based study of issues relating to sexual orientation and gender identity usually focusing on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people and cultures. Universities have also labeled this area of analysis Sexual Diversity Studies, Sexualities Studies or LGBTQ Studies. Once only meaning odd or unusual, and later an anti-gay epithet, "queer" used in reference to LGBT communities remains controversial.

Originally centered on LGBT history and literary theory, the field has expanded to include the academic study of issues raised in biology, soc
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Gay Bar: Why We Went Out
Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary
Deep House: The Gayest Love Story Ever Told
Hi Honey, I'm Homo!: Sitcoms, Specials, and the Queering of American Culture
Sounds Fake But Okay: An Asexual and Aromantic Perspective on Love, Relationships, Sex, and Pretty Much Anything Else
It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic
Sick and Dirty: Hollywood’s Gay Golden Age and the Making of Modern Queerness
Hello Stranger: Musings on Modern Intimacies
Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought
Transgender Marxism
We See Each Other: A Black, Trans Journey Through TV and Film
A Place for Us: A Memoir
The Queens' English: The LGBTQIA+ Dictionary of Lingo and Colloquial Phrases
Twilight Man: Love and Ruin in the Shadows of Hollywood and the Clark Empire
The Intermediaries: A Weimar Story
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
Transgender History
Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity
Queer: A Graphic History (Graphic Guides)
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
That's Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation
Epistemology of the Closet
Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation
In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives
Stone Butch Blues
Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others
Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex"
The Trouble with Normal: Sex, Politics, and the Ethics of Queer Life
No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive
Fun Home by Alison BechdelThe Essential Dykes To Watch Out For by Alison BechdelLe bleu est une couleur chaude by Jul MarohAre You My Mother? by Alison BechdelBatwoman by Greg Rucka
Best Lesbian Graphic Novels
249 books — 233 voters
The Ultimate Guide for Gay Dads by Eric RosswoodJourney to Same-Sex Parenthood by Eric RosswoodThe Kid by Dan SavageFun Home by Alison BechdelDoes This Baby Make Me Look Straight? by Dan Bucatinsky
Nonfiction: Gay & Lesbian Parenting
165 books — 83 voters

Hunger by Roxane GayWe Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieFreedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Y. DavisBad Feminist by Roxane GayWomen Don't Owe You Pretty by Florence Given
21st Century Feminisms
100 books — 32 voters
Fun Home by Alison BechdelStone Butch Blues by Leslie FeinbergAnd the Band Played On by Randy ShiltsThe Vast Fields of Ordinary by Nick BurdThe Teahouse Fire by Ellis Avery
Stonewall Book Award Winners
112 books — 34 voters

The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs by Steve BrusatteI'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamaraFascism by Madeleine K. AlbrightEnlightenment Now by Steven PinkerChildren of Nazis by Tania Crasnianski
Historical Nonfiction 2018
219 books — 53 voters
The Dyke and the Dybbuk by Ellen GalfordPaper is White by Hilary ZaidThe Second Mango by Shira GlassmanIn Every Laugh A Tear by Lesléa NewmanBeyond the Pale by Elana Dykewomon
Lesbian Jewish fiction
39 books — 27 voters


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