A candid essay collection by bisexual sexologist Carol Queen exploring sex-positive culture, sexual identity, sex work, and erotic experiences, combining memoir with cultural analysis and advocacy.
An illustrated handbook celebrating LGBTQ+ history and culture created by lesbian couple Ashley Molesso and Chessie Needham, featuring facts, timelines, historical icons and events, and LGBTQ+ terminology definitions across 100 full-color illustrations.
The first biography of thriller writer Patricia Highsmith draws on her private diaries, notebooks, and letters to reveal her secret life as a lesbian, her many relationships with women, and the connections between her sexuality and her groundbreaking psychological suspense novels.
This anthology of twenty-five essays and interviews centers queer and trans people of color to examine how nightlife spaces like house parties and underground clubs serve as vital sites for self-expression and community building in the face of systemic exclusion.
Matt Brim challenges the ‘overrepresentation of affluence’ within queer studies,
How substance abuse treatment must be tailored to address the social and familial pressures unique to lesbians and bisexual women.
This book examines how Black queer women in Chicago navigate gentrification and neoliberalism through social dance and nightlife, arguing that their presence on the dance floor is a political assertion of their right to occupy space in the city.
Unapologetic | Charlene A. Carruthers | A manifesto from one of America’s most influential activists which disrupts political, economic, and social norms by reimagining the Black Radical Tra
A Time of One’s Own | Catherine Grant | In A Time of One’s Own Catherine Grant examines how contemporary feminist artists are turning to broad histories of feminism ranging from political or
Just Queer Folks | Colin R. Johnson | Most studies of lesbian and gay history focus on urban environments. Yet gender and sexual diversity were anything but rare in nonmetropolitan areas i