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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Can the Monster Speak? A Report to an Academy of Psychoanalysts
Deep House: The Gayest Love Story Ever Told
Gay Bar: Why We Went Out
The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America
A Place for Us: A Memoir
Hi Honey, I'm Homo!: Sitcoms, Specials, and the Queering of American Culture
Hello Stranger: Musings on Modern Intimacies
Sounds Fake But Okay
Sick and Dirty: Hollywood’s Gay Golden Age and the Making of Modern Queerness
Godność, proszę: O transpłciowości, gniewie i nadziei
Trans Care
The Queer Games Avant-Garde: How LGBTQ Game Makers Are Reimagining the Medium of Video Games
Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought
The Queens' English: The LGBTQIA+ Dictionary of Lingo and Colloquial Phrases
Non-Binary Lives - An Anthology of Intersecting Identities
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
Stone Butch Blues
In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives
Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation
Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others
Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890-1940
Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex"
No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive
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
34 books — 20 voters
Getting Bi by Robyn OchsBi Any Other Name by Loraine HutchinsAdaptation by Malinda LoThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonInheritance by Malinda Lo
Bisexual Women Fiction and Memoirs
190 books — 48 voters

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

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
The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf by Vita Sackville-WestViolet to Vita by John  PhillipsOpen Me Carefully by Emily DickinsonSister Love by Julie R. EnszerLove Letters by Virginia Woolf
Epistolary Lesbians
29 books — 13 voters


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