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
In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives
Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation
Stone Butch Blues
Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others
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"
The Trouble with Normal: Sex, Politics, and the Ethics of Queer Life
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 Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëA Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfThe Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
Best Feminist Books
2,514 books — 3,516 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
Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers by Lillian FadermanBefriending China by Mr. Dee Charles KnightBoots of Leather, Slippers of Gold by Elizabeth Lapovsky KennedySurpassing the Love of Men by Lillian FadermanThe Disappearing L by Bonnie J. Morris
Lesbian Herstory
151 books — 62 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
278 books — 136 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 — 84 voters


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