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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Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary
Gay Bar: Why We Went Out
Deep House: The Gayest Love Story Ever Told
Godność, proszę: O transpłciowości, gniewie i nadziei
Decolonize Drag (Decolonize That!)
A Place for Us: A Memoir
We See Each Other: A Black, Trans Journey Through TV and Film
Sounds Fake But Okay: An Asexual and Aromantic Perspective on Love, Relationships, Sex, and Pretty Much Anything Else
Sick and Dirty: Hollywood’s Gay Golden Age and the Making of Modern Queerness
Transgender Marxism
The Velvet Mafia: The Gay Men Who Ran the Swinging Sixties
Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad
It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic
Vice Patrol: Cops, Courts, and the Struggle over Urban Gay Life before Stonewall
Hello Stranger: Musings on Modern Intimacies
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
Stone Butch Blues
In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives
Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others
Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive
Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex"
The Immigrant by Nery McMahonI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouI Am Malala by Malala YousafzaiBlack Indian by Shonda BuchananThe Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Non Fiction/Memoirs by Women of Color
345 books — 70 voters

The Color Purple by Alice WalkerBeloved by Toni MorrisonKindred by Octavia E. ButlerAmericanah by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThe Darkest Child by Delores Phillips
Contemporary Black Women's Literature
571 books — 235 voters
Paulyanna International Rent-boy by Paul Douglas LovellThe Las Vegas Madam by Jami RodmanThe Happy Hooker by Xaviera HollanderMattress Actress by Annika CleevePaid For by Rachel Moran
Sex Worker Memoirs
198 books — 111 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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