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)
That's Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
Epistemology of the Closet
Stone Butch Blues
In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives
Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others
Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation
No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive
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 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
227 books — 60 voters
You Can't Buy Love Like That by Carol E. AndersonCompulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence by Adrienne RichLesbian Ethics by Sarah Lucia HoaglandThe Straight Mind by Monique WittigSister Outsider by Audre Lorde
Lesbian-Feminist Nonfiction
66 books — 30 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
294 books — 146 voters

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodWe Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieA Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfThe Second Sex by Simone de BeauvoirBad Feminist by Roxane Gay
Women & Gender Studies
1,506 books — 605 voters
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Radium Girls by Kate  MooreRejected Princesses by Jason PorathGood Night Stories for Rebel Girls by Elena FavilliHidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
The Overlooked Women of History
986 books — 286 voters


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