Celebrate Pride Week with our top LGBT reads
June 24, 2016
As New York City Pride Week reaches its culmination this weekend, get ready for the biggest LGBT party of the year by checking out our selection of top queer literature.
Category: LGBT Studies
Survivor’s Guilt
June 20, 2016
—Bernadette Barton
Wrapping my head and heart around the murder of 49 queer people while they were dancing in a gay bar in Orlando, beneath the familiar numb feeling accompanying another story of loss, horror, and violence, is survivor’s guilt. I feel an enormous teary affection for all us struggling to digest the consequences of so many queer lives lost in the very place that is supposed to be our haven, and by someone who, had he allowed it, might so easily have been one of us.
3nder and the Threesome Imaginary
November 3, 2015
—Mimi Schippers There is a new app for hooking up, and it is marketed as a tool for finding “…kinky, curious and openminded singles and couples around you.” It’s called… READ MORE
5 Things I Wish You Knew About Intersex People
October 13, 2015
—Georgiann Davis If you’ve never heard of intersex, you aren’t alone. A few weeks ago a colleague and I were at a popular Las Vegas bar attending a drag show… READ MORE
Chubby Guy Swag
September 15, 2015
—Jason Whitesel There appears to be endless chatter among bloggers about fat women’s fashion, though less so when it comes to fat men. It seems that the fashion industry has… READ MORE
Interview with Joshua Gamson, author of Modern Families
September 10, 2015
Why did you choose to write a book that focuses on the personal narratives of unconventional family making? I started writing the book because I really wanted to get our… READ MORE
Q&A with Jane Ward, author of Not Gay
September 3, 2015
Interview conducted by the Sexual Cultures series editors, Ann Pellegrini, Tavia Nyong’o, and Joshua Chambers-Letson. Not Gay focuses on straight white men who have sex with other men, but who… READ MORE
The moment of maybe
July 9, 2015
—Joshua Gamson In the days since Obergefell v. Hodges and its rainbow celebration, I spent way too much time on Facebook reading through the voluminous posts and commentaries about how… READ MORE