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)
Epistemology of the Closet
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
That's Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation
Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives
Stone Butch Blues
Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others
Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation
Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex"
No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive
Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890-1940
Getting Bi by Robyn OchsBi Any Other Name by Loraine HutchinsAdaptation by Malinda LoThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonInheritance by Malinda Lo
Bisexual Women Fiction and Memoirs
192 books — 50 voters

Hunger by Roxane GayWe Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieFreedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Y. DavisBad Feminist by Roxane GayWomen Don't Owe You Pretty by Florence Given
21st Century Feminisms
103 books — 35 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
291 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
1,488 books — 581 voters
Nice Jewish Girls by Evelyn Torton BeckNaked in the Promised Land by Lillian FadermanRiding Fury Home by Chana WilsonFraming a Life by Roberta S. KuriloffThe Secret Life of a Weight-Obsessed Woman by Iris Ruth Pastor
Jewish Lesbian Memoirs
16 books — 8 voters


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