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
Virgin by Hanne BlankCharity and Sylvia by Rachel Hope ClevesMasters of Sex by Thomas MaierUnmentionable by Therese OneillWolf Girls at Vassar by Anne MacKay
Sexuality and History
233 books — 57 voters
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette WintersonFun Home by Alison BechdelTwo or Three Things I Know for Sure by Dorothy AllisonZami by Audre LordeLeaving Isn't the Hardest Thing by Lauren  Hough
Lesbian Memoirs
280 books — 136 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

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouThe Immigrant by Nery McMahonI Am Malala by Malala YousafzaiBlack Indian by Shonda BuchananThe Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Non Fiction/Memoirs by Women of Color
358 books — 71 voters
Sex Is a Funny Word by Cory SilverbergIt's Perfectly Normal by Robie H. HarrisWhat Makes a Baby by Cory SilverbergIt's So Amazing! by Robie H. HarrisIt's Not the Stork! by Robie H. Harris
Progressive Sexuality Education
36 books — 21 voters


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