In 1991, sixteen-year-old activist Keiko Lane joined the Los Angeles chapters of Queer Nation and ACT UP. Their members protested legislation aimed at dismantling rights for LGBTQ people, people living with HIV, and immigrants while fighting for needle-exchange programs, reproductive justice, safer-sex education, hospice...

Weber, RobbySeptember 17, 2024

Longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award, NonfictionAN ALLSTORA'S QUEER HISTORY 101 BOOK CLUB PICK "An absorbing landmark of film criticism." --The Chicago Tribune, "The 10 Best Books of the Year" A blazingly original history celebrating the persistence of queerness onscreen, behind the...

For more than twenty years, film critic, teacher, activist, and fan Thomas Waugh has been writing about queer movies. As a member of the Jump Cut collective and contributor to the Toronto-based gay newspaper the Body Politic, he emerged in the late 1970s as...

B. Ruby Rich designated a brand new genre, the New Queer Cinema (NQC), in her groundbreaking article in the Village Voice in 1992. This movement in film and video was intensely political and aesthetically innovative, made possible by the debut of the camcorder, and...

Bob the Drag QueenMarch 25, 2025

Torry, RichardMay 20, 2025

Mulvaney, DylanMarch 11, 2025

"[A] joyful ode to the awesome ability of pop-culture arcana to create a solid community." --The New York Times A memoir reflecting on heartbreak, perseverance, and life lessons learned from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, from the hosts of the hit podcast Buffering the Vampire...

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Tucker, TaliaJune 10, 2025

Ruffell, SuziJuly 01, 2025

A groundbreaking, global survey of queer art, featuring more than 300 artworks made following the introduction of the term ‘homosexual’ in 1869 An unprecedented and historic new book, The First Homosexuals traces the evolution of the homosexual identity through an archive of more than 300 paintings, drawings,...

Copiously illustrated, Queer Lens explores the transformative role of photography in LGBTQ+ communities from the nineteenth century to the present day.Winner of the 2026 Lamba Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Anthology"An outstanding addition to the growing body of scholarship around queer imagery."--Jim Van Buskirk, The...

McCarty-Simas, PaytonJuly 22, 2025ING 36%

Stoner, AlysonAugust 12, 2025

WARNING: Those who don't remember my past are doomed to repeat it. I'm Prancing As Fast As I Can is a coming of Gay story that takes us from a scared, self-hating kid who spends most of his time under his desk staring at...

Early in the 1980s AIDS epidemic, six gay activists created one of the most iconic and lasting images that would come to symbolize a movement: a protest poster of a pink triangle with the words “Silence = Death.” The graphic and the slogan still...

A View from the Bottom offers a major critical reassessment of male effeminacy and its racialization in visual culture. Examining portrayals of Asian and Asian American men in Hollywood cinema, European art film, gay pornography, and experimental documentary, Nguyen Tan Hoang explores the cultural...

Within the realm of American culture and its construction of its citizenry, geography, and ideology, who are southerners and who are queers, and what is the South and what is queerness? Queering the South on Screen addresses these questions by examining the intersections of...