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
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 WittigCall Me Lesbian by Julia Penelope
Lesbian-Feminist Nonfiction
66 books — 30 voters
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodWe Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieBad Feminist by Roxane GayThe Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah ArendtA Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
Let's Dismantle the Patriarchy
288 books — 58 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

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
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
946 books — 220 voters


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