Lesbian / Gay Studies
Desbordes
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.
Male Beauty
Explores how a younger and more sensitive form of masculinity emerged in the United States after World War II.
Grassroots Literacies
Examines the grassroots activism of an Internet-mediated collegiate lesbian and gay organization in Turkey.
L Is for Lion
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.
Virtual Intimacies
Uses ethnography and cultural analysis to track scenes of intimate connection and disconnection among gay men across an array of media sites.
Why Europe Is Lesbian and Gay Friendly (and Why America Never Will Be)
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.
Passionate Commitments
A story of two twentieth-century American women whose love for each other fueled their work to create an egalitarian world.
Letters to ONE
Collection of letters written to the first openly gay magazine in the United States.
Identity Papers
Argues that debates about Jewish identity and assimilation are signs of creative potential rather than crisis.
Friendship as a Way of Life
Develops Foucault’s late work on friendship into a novel critique of contemporary GLBT political strategy.
Masked Voices
An analysis of unpublished letters to the first American gay magazine reveals the agency, adaptation, and resistance occurring in the gay community during the McCarthy era.
Queer Times, Queer Becomings
Queer theory essays on time and becoming in the fields of literature, philosophy, film, and performance.
Anachronism and Its Others
Traces the origins of contemporary analogies between queerness and blackness.
Same-Sex Partners
A demographic portrait of gay and lesbian couples who live together in committed relationships.
Queer Externalities
Provocative take on the negative effects of increasing queer visibility and assimilation on the lives of queer people and politics in the U. S.
Materializing Queer Desire
Uses iconic dandy and queer figures to explore relationships between homosexuality, modernism, and modernity.
Resilience
First collection of essays by queer scholars with working-class backgrounds.
Sin, Sex, and Democracy
Explores the Christian Right’s use of tailored rhetorics to advance multiple and varied antigay political projects.
The Family Flamboyant
Interrogates the normative heterosexual family from feminist, Jewish, and queer perspectives.
Fit to Teach
Examines the construction of gender in public school employment.
AIDS and American Apocalypticism
Looks at how both anti-gay and AIDS activists use apocalyptic language to describe the AIDS crisis.
The Gender of Desire
Articles and essays on the construction of male sexuality by a pioneer in the field of masculinity studies.
In the Game
Examines the relationship between gay male athletes, sport, and American masculinity.
Sappho in the Holy Land
Essays on the experience of lesbians in contemporary Israeli society.
Cultural Activisms
Offers a multiple-genred mosaic of multiple resistances to oppression through a variety of styles and mediums.