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Book SynopsisThrough the eyes of publishing icon Michael Denneny, this cultural autobiography traces the evolution of the US's queer community in the three decades post-Stonewall. The Stonewall Riots of 1969 and the AIDS crisis of the 1980s have been captured in minute detail, and rightly memorialized in books, on tv, and in film as pivotal and powerful moments in queer history. Yet what about the moments in betweenthe tumultuous decade post-Stonewall when the queer community's vitality and creativity exploded across the country, even as the AIDS crisis emerged? Michael Denneny was there for it all. As a founder and editor of the wildly influential magazine Christopher Street and later as the first openly gay editor at a major publishing house, Denneny critically shaped publishing around gay subjects in the 1970s and beyond. At St. Martin's Press, he acquired a slew of landmark titles by gay authorsmany for his groundbreaking Stonewall Inn Editionspropelling queer voices into the mainstream cuTrade Review“Because of his pivotal role in creating modern gay literature, Denneny has perhaps done more than any other single individual to actually create contemporary gay literary culture. On Christopher Street shows that there was a first-rate intellect behind his more familiar role as publisher and editor. While this volume is an important window on the recent past, it also demonstrates the extent to which one man’s lively and humane intellect influenced the creation of contemporary gay culture.” * David Carter, author of Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution *“On Christopher Street offers a remarkable glimpse into the first decades after the Stonewall Riots, a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at a new culture in formation. A valuable and thoughtful account of a foundational moment in American cultural history.” * David K. Johnson, author of The Lavender Scare *“There simply is no other person in the LGBT community who has been as pivotal for LGBT publishing, from newspapers and magazines to books. This important book is a testament to the history of our community.” * Mark Segal, founder and publisher of the Philadelphia Gay News and author of And Then I Danced *"Michael Denneny’s memoir-in-essays On Christopher Street illuminates various aspects of gay life in the past half-century. . . . The book’s primary focus is the state of the burgeoning gay literary scene and its public and critical reception. In preserving articles as they appeared at the time, the book revives the atmosphere, hopes, fears, ambitions, and challenges of the nascent community, as experienced by Denneny as a gay man living and working in New York. It also exposes the flawed, underdeveloped personal perspectives that Denneny spent subsequent years grappling with and refining." * Foreword *"As a founder and editor of the wildly influential literary journal Christopher Street and later as the first openly gay editor at a major publishing house, Denneny critically shaped publishing around gay subjects in the 1970s and beyond. At St. Martin’s Press, he acquired a slew of landmark titles by gay authors—many for his groundbreaking Stonewall Inn Editions—propelling queer voices into the mainstream cultural conversation. . . . On Christopher Street revisits that heady period to map out the cultural forces, geographies, and storylines of LGBTQ in those decades. Through 41 micro-chapters, Denneny draws on his journal writings, articles, interviews, and more from the 1970s and ’80s to put us there in this formative and also tragic time." * Queer Forty *"As the queer community has survived countless attempts at suppression and elimination, this book offers not only a historical account of the political environment of the 1970s-80s. It also showcases tried and true forms of activism and rhetoric, ones that have kept and continue to make our survival possible." * Out in Jersey *"If you love reading about gay life, you owe a debt to Michael Denneny." * Passport *Table of ContentsPreface: Becoming Real Part 1: Morning in Gay America (1970–1980)Christopher Street Magazine Dead Souls at The New Yorker: A Puzzling Case Lovers: The Story of Two Men “Everything Is Only Ten Years Old”: A Conversation with Felice Picano Decent Passions: Real Stories about Love Blue Moves: Conversation with a Male Porn Dancer Part 2: Beginning to Count Ourselves (1980–1983) Archeologist of the Present: Michel Foucault in New York City Gay Politics and Its Premises: Sixteen Propositions Sixteen Propositions: An Exchange Scaring the Horses; or the Question of Gay Identity Who Are We? What Do We Want? How Best Might We Get it? Part 3: The State of the Tribe (1983–1987) Gay Pride and Survival in the Eighties The State of Gay Criticism Oedipus Revised: David Leavitt’s The Lost Language of Cranes Paragraph 175, or How Dark Can It Get? A Culture in a Crucible Part 4: Workaday Publishing, or Hegel’s Ernst (1985–1988) Further Down the Road The Universal Voice of Gay Writers A Conversation with Allen Barnett How to Review a Gay Novel Chasing the Crossover Audience and Other Self-Defeating Strategies Editing Fiction and the Question of “Political Correctness” Part 5: On the Raft of the Medusa (1988–1990) The Death of a Generation An Intellectual Ambush A Quilt of Many Colors Preaching to the Choir The Present Moment A Letter to Ed White Part 6: In the Gathering Darkness an Age of Heroes (1991–1996) Eulogy for Allen Barnett Honoring Richard Rouillard Eulogy for Randy Shilts Necessary Bread: Gay Writing Comes of Age Stonewall: From Event to Idea Three Takes on John Preston Food for Life: A Dinner Party in Two Hours Turning . . . Turning: The Boys in the Band A Mouthful of Air: The Case of Larry Kramer Key West Seminar Part 7: Reconsiderations (1996–2014) Hymn to the Gym AIDS Books: Where We’ve Been, Where We’re Going Affectionate Men Last Letter to Paul Monette Afterword: Looking Back Appendix A: Out Magazine Appendix B: A Few Words about Christopher Street’s Finances Appendix C: The Stonewall Inn Editions Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisDrawing on concepts taken from US law and legal theory, postmodernism and queer theory, as well as the author's own experience in the courtroom and classroom, this book examines the complexities of lesbian identity and the often detrimental ways in which legal scholarship approaches lesbianism.

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Book SynopsisIn the second of his trio of acclaimed memoirs, Rigoberto González looks at his past through a startling lens: hunger. A childhood of neglect, adolescent yearnings, and adult desire for a larger world, another lover, a different body - all are explored by González in a series of heartbreaking and poetic vignettes.Trade ReviewThe author of the critically acclaimed memoir Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa, takes a second piercing look at his past through a startling new lens: hunger. The need for sustenance originating in childhood poverty, the adolescent emotional need for solace and comfort, the adult desire for a larger world, another lover, a different body- all are explored in a series of heartbreaking and poetic vignettes.""An unforgettable portrait of the artist as a young immigrant gay poet. These brief, passionate chapters are filled with rare courage, raw honesty, and the uncommon beauty of a life spent yearning for consolation and hope. Absolutely arresting.""- Dinty W. Moore, author of Between Panic & Desire""A haunting book, whose many senses linger long after reading it.""- Mary Cappello, author of Awkward: A Detour""The compelling story of a life that routinely- necessarily- crosses borders of ethnic, socioeconomic, and sexual identities.""- Pablo Miguel Martínez, author of Brazos, Carry Me""Immigrant and gay readers may experience release in the book's agonizing familiarity; all readers will find it lusciously evocative.""- Publishers WeeklyTable of Contents acknowledgments allegory I. Leaving the Motherland, Mother Leaving Me duty piedrita potato zacapu piedrita jugete trash lift witch piedrita fire x-mas crayon note i crooked piedrita biology wicked dream piedrita glove migra II. Unsettled Independence invisible piedrita tongue insomnia note ii nightshift x\u00f3chitl piedrita voice reprimand martini III. In Search of Paradise station piedrita kill outcast eye kite clown piedrita tether papi godiva piedrita IV. Body Cravings love empty piedrita sketch rain chi piedrita ghosts pseudonym piedrita questions note iii piedrita haughty extraction bleed voracious piedrita forest

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Book SynopsisThe most authoritative account of a pivotal event in legal and cultural history: the trials of Oscar Wilde on charges of “gross indecency”Trade Review“[A] rich, compellingly told, meticulously researched and generously illustrated volume.”—Simon J. James, Review of English Studies“Bristow’s Oscar Wilde on Trial is a thorough, rewarding, and deeply compassionate study of a dark and significant chapter in Victorian queer history.”—Ethan Evans, British Association of Victorian Studies Newsletter“Oscar Wilde on Trial represents a major contribution to Wilde studies. Joseph Bristow has amassed and synthesized an extraordinary amount of material and presented it lucidly and cogently.”—Simon Stern, coeditor of The Oxford Handbook of Law and Humanities“There is no doubt that Oscar Wilde on Trial will be the most thorough, the most comprehensive, and the most revealing account of the trials that has yet appeared.”—John Stokes, author of Oscar Wilde: Myths, Miracles, and Imitations

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Book SynopsisGraham Robb was born in Manchester in 1958 and is a former Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. He has published widely on French literature and history. His 2007 book The Discovery of France won both the Duff Cooper and Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prizes. For Parisians the City of Paris awarded him the Grande Médaille de la Ville de Paris. He lives on the English-Scottish border.

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Book SynopsisThis book provides a number of effective tools to aid in the recovery of LGBTQIA historic material by providing extensive glossary and non-glossary written descriptions, and how to use those terms and phrases in searching effectively online and offline. Researching hidden and forbidden people from the past can be extremely difficult. Terminology used to write about LGBT+ people shifts over time, legal terminology enforces certain set terms which some writers use but others reject to avoid informing or disgusting a reading public. Often written descriptions contain no set terminology at all. How then can LGBT+ people be found in historic records? This book provides practical tools for a researcher wanting to uncover material from online or hard copy sources, including: keyword/s covering various sexual orientations and gender diversity, along with how and when to use them; tips for effective searching in online newspaper archives; how to use genealogy, auction and social mediaTable of ContentsChapter 1 Dictionaries Word Books and Encyclopaedias; Chapter 2 Lesbian and Gay Terminology; Chapter 3 Bisexual other Sexual Orientations Terminology; Chapter 4 Gender Diversity Terminology Chapter 5 Researching in Newspaper Archives; Chapter 6 Researching in Genealogy, Auction and Online Sites; Chapter 7 Researching in Libraries, Books, and Journals; Chapter 8 Researching in Archives; Chapter 9 Researching in Museums; Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis comprehensive international collection reflects on the practice, purpose, and functionality of queer oral history, and in doing so demonstrates the vibrancy and innovation of this rapidly evolving field.Drawing on the roots of oral historyâs original commitment to history from below queer oral history has become an indispensable methodology at the heart of queer studies. Expanding and extending the existing canon, this book offers up key observations about queer oral history as a methodology, and how it might be advanced through cutting edge approaches. The collection contains a mix of contributions from established scholars, early career researchers, postgraduate students, archivists, and activists, ensuring its accessibility and wide appeal.The go-to reference for queer oral history for scholars, undergraduate and postgraduate students, and community-engaged practitioners, New Directions in Queer Oral History advances rigorous methodological and theoreticTrade Review"This is a terrific collection: an outstanding volume of unusual breadth and depth, in a rapidly expanding field of inquiry. With a compelling foreword by Nan Alamilla Boyd, contextualising introduction by three co-editors, and nineteen chapters drawn from diverse oral history projects with innovative methodologies, the book ranges geographically from the country to the city, across Australia, Canada, UK, and US. It engages an astounding array of narrators, from LGBTQ+ children of Holocaust survivors to straight and gay nurses navigating the early AIDS crisis, from intersex and marriage equality activists to trans military veterans. In addition to complex accounts of shame, job loss, reticence, and dissemblance, they tell unforgettable stories of lives lived loud, proud, and against the grain.As gender and sexuality studies grows ever stronger and richer, these authors’ insights will guide students, inform colleagues, and empower community members for years to come. New Directions in Queer Oral History is an enormously important contribution to scholarship – and to queer cultures around the world."John Howard, King’s College London, UK"New Directions in Queer Oral History: Archives of Disruption reminds us why queer oral history is at the cutting edge of oral history practice and theory. Bringing together a diverse range of contributors working on lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and queer histories in a variety of national contexts, this rich collection provokes us to think again about our practice of oral history and both the limits and radical potential of the stories we generate. Raising difficult questions such as whether it is necessary, or indeed enough, for interviewers to share an LGBTQ+ identity with narrators; how intergenerational dynamics shape both the interview and our wider sense of community and self; and how we respond to the ethical dilemmas of probing traumatic histories, this lively and intimate collection shows how far queer oral history has come and points to the productive and disruptive possibilities of this fascinating field."Rebecca Jennings, UCL, UK"New Directions in Queer Oral History is a great book for anyone conducting research on queer oral history. It gives wonderful advice on how to plan and carry out successful oral history interviews. It also helps you to prepare for the interviews and the obstacles you might encounter while interviewing LGBTQ people. Reading about the difficulties and possibilities in queer oral history also gives the reader insight into how to analyze the interviews and how to find a new level of nuance in them. New Directions in Queer Oral History is also a book that I would have needed when I started planning my MA thesis on Finnish trans history. I’m delighted to have this book as a guide now, as I am starting to work on my PhD thesis." - Jean Lukkarinen , University of TurkuTable of ContentsForeword Introduction: Archives of Disruption Part 1: Narrating LGBTQ Histories: Presence, Absence, and the Space Between 1. (Un)speakable Pasts: Reflections on Working at the Edges of Queer Oral History 2. Locating Lesbians, Finding “Gay Women,” Writing Queer Histories: Reflections on Oral Histories, Identity, and Community Memory 3. Queer Intergenerational Reticence: A Religious Case Study 4. Reading Both Ways: Lesbian Oral Histories and Bisexual Visibility 5. Finding “Evidence of Me” Through “Evidence of Us”: Transgender Oral Histories and Personal Archives Speak 6. Destabilising Identities and Normative Narratives: The Methodological Challenges of Navigating Oral History Interviews with LGBTQ+ Children of Holocaust Survivors Part 2: Re/making Meaning: Navigating Discourse, Composure and Intersubjectivity 7. Beyond Composure and Discomposure in a Shifting Queer Identity Narrative 8. “Fuck the Gay Movement”: Dissemblance and Desire in a Black AIDS Oral History 9. Unfinished Business: Documenting Australian Lesbian Feminism 10. Bisexual Women’s Storytelling and Community-building in Toronto 11. Filling the Boxes in Ourselves: Conducting a Queer Oral History of Bisexuality and Multiple-gender-attraction Part 3: Making a Queer Mess: Embodiment, Affect and Exceeding Our Limits 12. Towards a Queer-chronology: Telling Stories in the Queer/Ed Archives 13. “I Gotta Go”: Mobility as a Queer Methodology 14. LGBTIQ Activism and “Insider” Interviewing: Reflecting on Oral Histories from the Campaign for Australian Marriage Equality 15. In Search of Queer Composure: Queer Temporality, Intimacy and Affect Part 4: Negotiating Identity: Sharing Authority in Creative Practice 16. Dry Your Eyes, Princess: Oral Testimony and Photography – A Case Study 17. “It’s Telling Your Story to Your Family”: Why Positionality Matters When Interviewing an Older Lesbian for a Verbatim Play 18. An Army of Listeners: Interviewing Lesbians as a Practice of Liberation for All 19. “Free to Be Me”: Oral History Research with Lesbians and Bisexual Women Seeking Asylum in the UK

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Book SynopsisWhen the first edition of Queering the Pitch was published in early 1994, it was immediately hailed as a landmark and defining work in the new field of Gay Musicology. In light of the explosion of Gay Musicology since 1994, a new edition of Queering the Pitch is timely and needed. In this new work, the editors are including a landmark essay by Philip Brett on Gay Musicology, its history and scope. The essay itself has become a cause celebre, and this will be its first full appearance in print. Along with this new historical essay, the editors are contributing a new introduction that outlines the changes that have occurred over the last decade as Gay Musicology has grown.Table of Contents1. Queering the Pitch: A Posy of Definitions and Impersonations Part 1: Canons and Arias 2. Musicality, Essentialism, and the Closet 3. Sapphonics 4. On a Lesbian Relation with Music: A Serious Effort Not to Think Straight 5. A Conversation with Ned Rorem Part 2: Chronicles 6. Henry Lawes's Setting of Katherine Philips's Friendship Poetry in His Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues, 1655: A Musical Misreading? 7. Unveiled Voices: Sexual Difference and the Castrato Joke Dame 8. "Was George Frideric Handel Gay?": On Closet Questions and Cultural Politics 9. Constructions of Subjectivity in Schubert's Music 10: Eros and Orientalism in Britten's Operas 11. Queer Thoughts on Country Music and k.d. lang Part 3: Consorts 12. Lesbian Compositional Process: One Lover-Composer's Perspective 13. Growing up Female(s): Retrospective Thoughts on Musical Preferences and Meanings 14. Authority and Freedom: Toward a Sociology of the Gay Choruses Part 4: Coda Preface 15. Lesbian and Gay Music

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Book SynopsisThe self-described black feminist lesbian mother poet used a mixture of prose, theory, poetry, and experience to interrogate oppressions and uplift marginalized communities. She was one of the first black feminists to target heteronormativity, and to encourage black feminists to expand their understanding of erotic pleasure. She amplified anti-oppression, even as breast cancer ravaged her ailing body. — Evette Dionne, Bustle MagazineA great American theorist of race, gender, living, and dying, poet and activist Audre Lorde created a body of work that was ahead of its time in its embrace of intersectionality. Lorde''s writings have become increasingly influential since her death in 1992, contributing to the timeliness of her 1988 American Book Award-winning collection, A Burst of Light.From reflections on her struggle with cancer to thoughts on lesbian sexuality and African-American identity in a straight white man''s world, Lorde''s voice remains enduringly relevant. Those who practice and encourage social justice activism frequently quote her exhortation, Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare. In addition to the journal entries of A Burst of Light: Living with Cancer, this edition includes an interview, Sadomasochism: Not About Condemnation, and three essays, I Am Your Sister: Black Women Organizing Across Sexualities, Apartheid U.S.A., and Turning the Beat Around: Lesbian Parenting 1986, as well as a new Foreword by Sonia Sanchez.When I don''t know what to do, I turn to the Lorde. — Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Bitch Media

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Book SynopsisA long overdue exploration of gay representation on British TV from its 'golden age' to the launch of the liberal Channel 4Trade ReviewBrilliantly researched and focused, PLAYING GAY is a shattering revelation of the depiction of the on-screen lives of gay men -- Lord Michael CashmanA terrific read -- Peter TatchellA masterpiece -- Russell T Davies

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Book Synopsis`Lively and engaging the themes of the chapters are well chosen and cover areas in which several key debates have taken place' - Nina Wakeford, University of SurreyWhat are the relations between homosexuality, globalization and social theory? Why has the debate on globalization paid so little attention to questions of sexuality? This timely and stimulating book explores the relationships between the national state, globalization and sexual dissidence. The book focuses on several key test issues to exploit and develop analysis: queer mobility migration and tourism the economics of queer globalization queer politics of post-colonialism the spatial politics of AIDS queer cosmopolitanism nationhood and sexual citizenship.The book regains an important human dimension that has been conspicuously neglected in the wider debate on globalization.Table of ContentsSexuality and Social Theory - the Challenge of Queer Globalization The Nation and Sexual Dissidence Locating Queer Globalization The Economics of Queer Globalization Queer Postcolonialism Queer Mobility and the Politics of Migration and Tourism AIDS and Queer Globalization Queering Transnational Urbanism Conclusion

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Book SynopsisPeter Filene's path breaking study did both.-Elaine Tyler May, from the ForewordTrade ReviewThis updated edition contains... new material on such timely topics as changing attitudes toward domesticity and work, prostitution, women's friendships, health and sexuality, 'manliness,' fatherhood, and the change and demise of previously all-male institutions. Current LiteratureTable of ContentsForewordPreface to the Third EditionPreface to the First Edition Part I: The End of the Victorian Era (1890–1919)Prologue. As They WereChapter 1. Women and the WorldChapter 2. Women and the HomeChapter 3. Men and ManlinessChapter 4. In Time of WarPart II: The Modern Era (1920–1998)Chapter 5. New GenerationsChapter 6. The Long Amnesia: Depression, War, and DomesticityChapter 7. The Children of DomesticityChapter 8. The Children of the Women's MovementEpilogue. As We Are BecomingAppendix A. The Female Labor Force, 1890–1990Appendix B. Higher Education, 1870–1990NotesEssay on SourcesIndex

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Book SynopsisFinalist, 2019 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ StudiesA profound intellectual engagement with Afrofuturism and the philosophical questions of space and time Queer Times, Black Futures considers the promises and pitfalls of imagination, technology, futurity, and liberation as they have persisted in and through racial capitalism. Kara Keeling explores how the speculative fictions of cinema, music, and literature that center Black existence provide scenarios wherein we might imagine alternative worlds, queer and otherwise. In doing so, Keeling offers a sustained meditation on contemporary investments in futurity, speculation, and technology, paying particular attention to their significance to queer and Black freedom.Keeling reads selected works, such as Sun Ra's 1972 film Space is the Place and the 2005 film The Aggressives, to juxtapose the Afrofuturist tradition of speculative imagination with the similar speculations Trade ReviewJust when the world seems to be collapsing, Queer Times, Black Futures guides us towards an anti-fragile future that exists here and now. The key? Embracing and holding in tension: Afro-futurist freedom dreams, the queer temporalities that animate Black Swans, and the radical refusal and opacity of Herman Melville's Bartleby and Eduoard Glissant's philosophy. If we haven't realized the possibilities that lie waiting in the present, its because the frame of black experience has not yet registered. Moving seamlessly from James Snead to Sun Ra, from Gilbert Simondon to Beth Coleman, Audre Lorde to Gilles Deleuze, Keeling helps us imagine the (im)possible. Stop reading this blurb and start reading this book. Now. -- Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, author of Updating to Remain the SameFor its contributions to queer constructions of temporality and futurity, in particular in the context of Black media and existence, the text is valuable for queer of color theorists. Professors and students of media, cultural, and/or communication studies would also find the text useful as it provides analyses of various Black and queer media—transnational films, avantgarde music, and digital technologies. * QED *Not satisfied to leave readers in the abyss of endless critique, Keeling is concerned with alternative futures and the ethical imagination of 'the time after the future.' Queer Times, Black Futures is masterful--deeply engaging, wide ranging, carefully researched, and creative in its use of allegory to demonstrate the potential and effect of opacity for black futures and possibilities. -- Herman Gray, Emeritus Professor, UC Santa Cruz...an incredible, (im)possible work that is invested in worlds to come with the necessary caveat that its readers divest from a critical project that is measured in immediate returns. -- Courtney R. Baker * Journal of Cinema and Media Studies *

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Book SynopsisFrom Boulder in 1974 to Maine Question 1 in 2009, the first comprehensive history of the LGBT movement’s fight against anti-gay ballot measuresTrade Review"Amy L. Stone crafts a compelling, deeply textured portrayal of the more than 200 anti-gay ballot campaigns in the U.S. since 1974. Through interviews with movement leaders and other sources, Stone deftly analyzes the tension between winning campaigns and building a sustainable movement, between national, urban activists and local, rural communities, as well as debates over tactics and messaging. Gay Rights at the Ballot Box is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the central, disturbing role anti-gay politics has played in contemporary U.S. politics." —Sean Cahill, Ph.D., Fenway Institute and New York UniversityTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Winning (but Mostly Losing) at the Ballot Box1. From Anita Bryant to California Proposition 8: The Religious Right’s Attack on LGBT Rights2. An Uphill Battle in the 70s and 80s: Building LGBT Movement Infrastructure3. Fighting the Right in the 90s: Developing Sophisticated Campaigns4. A Winning Streak: Teaching Campaign Tactics, Building Statewide Organizations, and Spreading Victories 5. Losing at Same-Sex Marriage: Rethinking Ballot Measure Tactics6. Smears, Tears, and Queers: Race and Transgender Inclusion in CampaignsConclusion: The Future of Gay Rights at the Ballot BoxNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisArgues for a reading practice that accounts for the queerness of temporality, for the way past, present, and future time appear out of sequence and in dialogue in our thinking about history and texts. This book urges us to see how the indeterminacies of subjectivity found in literary texts challenge identitarian constructions.Trade Review“Carla Freccero’s beautifully written book offers a strong, persuasive, and new way of reading queer early modern texts. Refusing the historicist view that would draw fierce lines between premodern and modern, Freccero asks her reader to consider premodern texts as intervening in the logic of their times and persisting within modernity in spectral form. Her intense engagement with queer early modern scholarship is enriched and disoriented by her insistence that contemporary practices of ‘queering’ are haunted by their unfinished and unfinishable past. Her singular and deft way of moving between contemporary culture and politics and the animated remnants of premodern texts offers a brilliant model for contemporary scholarship and a truly innovative turn in queer studies.”—Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor at the University of California, Berkeley“Had he lived in the sixteenth century, André Breton would have proclaimed: ‘Art will be queer or it will not be.’ Such is the enduring truth we obtain from Carla Freccero’s powerful, inventive, indeed genial readings of the early modern canon. A brilliant work showing us what we can do with what we call the past.”—Tom Conley, author of The Self-Made Map: Cartographic Writing in Early Modern France“Queer/Early/Modern is an important and exciting contribution to the literature on representations of sexuality and subjectivity in early modern literature and culture. The book will be of interest to anyone who has been engaged in the project of ‘queering’ the Renaissance and beyond not simply as a way of finding precursors for modern lifestyles and identities but as a political gesture meant to resist essentialist critiques that attempt to simplify the complexity of (queer) identities by anchoring them in rigid notions of history. Freccero is not afraid to make bold claims, and she has the historical knowledge and theoretical prowess to support them convincingly.” -- David LaGuardia * Journal of the History of Sexuality *“If the academy were a spa, then Queer/Early/Modern would be its hot-rock massage. At once painful and invigorating, this brilliant book destroys heteronormative historiography with a force belied only by its exquisitely beautiful prose.” -- Madhavi Menon * GLQ *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments iv 1. Prolepses: Queer/Early/Modern 1 Part One. Past, Present 2. Always Already Queer (French) Theory 13 3. Undoing the Histories of Homosexuality 31 4. Queer Nation: Early/Modern France 51 Part Two. Futures 5. Queer Spectrality 69 Notes 105 Bibliography 149 Index 173

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Book SynopsisExamines children's strangeness, even some children's subliminal 'gayness', in the twentieth century.Trade Review“I consider Kathryn Bond Stockton to be one of the most impressive and important queer critics in the academy today, and The Queer Child, or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century only confirms that assessment. It is magnificent: the kind of book that defines the field and is returned to again and again, inspiring all sorts of thought and work for generations to come.”—Michael Cobb, author of God Hates Fags: The Rhetorics of Religious Violence“I don’t know when I’ve been so captivated by a book and eager to get to the next page. That it is original and that addresses a topic, the queer child, pretty much completely ignored is one mark of its importance. Even more striking though is the ease with which stunning insights are delivered as if they were a matter of course. Many readers will be struck by the centrality of Kathryn Bond Stockton’s book and the graceful way it exposes and breaks the silence surrounding the queer child.”—James R. Kincaid, author of Erotic Innocence: The Culture of Child MolestingTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Growing Sideways, or Why Children Appear to Get Queerer in the Twentieth Century 1 Part I. Sideways Relations: "Pedophiles" and Animals 1. The Smart Child is the Masochistic Child: Pedagogy, Pedophilia, and the Pleasures of Harm 61 2. Why the (Lesbian) Child Requires an Interval of Animal: The Family Dog as a Time Machine 89 Part 2. Sideways Motions: Sexual Motives, Criminal Motives 3. What Drives the Sexual Child? The Mysterious Motions of Children's Motives 119 4. Feeling Like Killing? Murderous Motives of the Queer Child 155 Part 3. Sideways Futures: Color and Money 5. Oedipus Raced, or the Child Queered by Color: Birthing "Your" Parents via Intrusions 183 Conclusion: Money Is the Child's Queer Ride: Sexing and Racing around the Future 219 Notes 245 Bibliography 275 Index 287

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Book SynopsisGayle Rubin laid the foundation for queer theory as a graduate student at Michigan in the early 70s with the essay The Traffic in Women, which was followed a decade later by an equally influential essay, Thinking Sex. This volume collects her essays covering topics ranging from BDSM to feminist debates on pornography and sex to lesbian and gay history.Trade Review“This book brings together a canonical collection of her writing, but it is more than a reader: she rewrites the genealogy of sexuality studies, giving us a precise intellectual history of sexuality studies that recognises the pivotal role played by academic homosexuals other than the now-feted and individuated Michel Foucault. . . . [I]t is clarifying to read Rubin's analyses, still germane, direct and sharp after all these years. She is alert to nuances in the social field, keen to represent the intersectionality of issues around sex, and judiciously observant of any nexus of inequality.” - Sally R. Munt, Times Higher Education Supplement“Gayle S. Rubin has had an incalculable impact on the study of gender and sexuality over the past 35 years. Rubin’s work changed the very language and vocabulary with which we discuss sexuality and gender. . . . It is fitting that a scholar of Gayle S. Rubin’s stature has finally been rewarded with a comprehensive collection of her most influential essays. While Deviations: A Gayle Rubin Reader will please seasoned scholars of queer theory and gay and lesbian studies with its first ever assemblage of Rubin’s most significant work, I believe that the collection will most benefit those who are just making their first steps into the study of queer culture.” - Chase Dimock, Lambda Literary Review“Finally: a collection of Gayle Rubin’s writings. It is long overdue and sorely needed. . . . For decades, her works appeared in scholarly journals and small-press publications. This collection includes a dozen of her already published pieces, some updated with thoughtful afterwords. She truly has something to say, not only about women and lesbian culture, but (from her unique and insightful perspective) about the sexual crisis America now faces.” - David Rosen, The Brooklyn Rail“The definitive collection of Gayle Rubin’s work is now available. . . . Deviations offers up articles that shaped the thinking of the modern feminist and LGBT movements, while contextualizing the gradual institutionalization and canonization of sexuality studies. In providing the opportunity to think through the history of American feminism, including the racialization of feminist debates on sexuality, Deviations provides an impetus for ‘thinking sex’ even more critically.” - Svati P. Shah, Women’s Review of Books“Foundational essays and commentary from America’s preeminent queer feminist intellectual; a must-have for any scholar and every library.”—Esther Newton, author of Margaret Mead Made Me Gay: Personal Essays, Public Ideas“Gayle S. Rubin has been breaking new intellectual ground around gender and sexuality for almost four decades. This collection of essays lets us see in one place the breadth, depth, and profound originality of her thinking. It’s a wonder to behold. As I reread some familiar pieces and encountered some new ones, I was reminded how much I am in her debt.”—John D’Emilio, co-author of Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America“It is rare to find an intellectual who founded an entire field of sexuality studies, whose theoretical contributions have been so far-reaching, and who continues to make rich, surprising, and singular interventions. These are the essays that riveted generations and claim our attention time and again. Gayle S. Rubin gives us the material life of sexual categories, lucid and careful argumentation, extraordinary and unprecedented archives. This brilliant collection is a gift for anyone who wants to follow the formidable trajectory of the most exacting and influential intellectual of sexuality studies.”—Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor, Rhetoric and Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley“The essays in Deviations cover a tightly meshed set of concerns in an extraordinarily provocative manner. Whether Gayle S. Rubin writes about antiporn politics, lesbian literary histories, gay male leather communities, S/M cultures, or butch-femme erotics, she always provides deeply engaged and respectful accounts of the kinds of knowledges that are produced in sexual subcultures but are often passed over by mainstream theorists and researchers. This is a fantastic collection, and it will be an immensely popular book.”—Judith Halberstam, author of The Queer Art of Failure“Finally: a collection of Gayle Rubin’s writings. It is long overdue and sorely needed. . . . For decades, her works appeared in scholarly journals and small-press publications. This collection includes a dozen of her already published pieces, some updated with thoughtful afterwords. She truly has something to say, not only about women and lesbian culture, but (from her unique and insightful perspective) about the sexual crisis America now faces.” -- David Rosen * The Brooklyn Rail *“Gayle S. Rubin has had an incalculable impact on the study of gender and sexuality over the past 35 years. Rubin’s work changed the very language and vocabulary with which we discuss sexuality and gender. . . . It is fitting that a scholar of Gayle S. Rubin’s stature has finally been rewarded with a comprehensive collection of her most influential essays. While Deviations: A Gayle Rubin Reader will please seasoned scholars of queer theory and gay and lesbian studies with its first ever assemblage of Rubin’s most significant work, I believe that the collection will most benefit those who are just making their first steps into the study of queer culture.” -- Chase Dimock * Lambda Literary Review *“The definitive collection of Gayle Rubin’s work is now available. . . . Deviations offers up articles that shaped the thinking of the modern feminist and LGBT movements, while contextualizing the gradual institutionalization and canonization of sexuality studies. In providing the opportunity to think through the history of American feminism, including the racialization of feminist debates on sexuality, Deviations provides an impetus for ‘thinking sex’ even more critically.” -- Svati P. Shah * Women's Review of Books *“This book brings together a canonical collection of her writing, but it is more than a reader: she rewrites the genealogy of sexuality studies, giving us a precise intellectual history of sexuality studies that recognises the pivotal role played by academic homosexuals other than the now-feted and individuated Michel Foucault. . . . [I]t is clarifying to read Rubin's analyses, still germane, direct and sharp after all these years. She is alert to nuances in the social field, keen to represent the intersectionality of issues around sex, and judiciously observant of any nexus of inequality.” -- Sally R. Munt * Times Higher Education *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Sex, Gender, Politics 1 1. The Traffic in Women: Notes on the "Political Economy" of Sex (1975) 33 2. The Trouble with Trafficking: Afterthoughts on "The Traffic in Women" 66 3. Introduction to A Woman Appeared to Me 87 4. The Leather Menace: Comments on Politics and S/M 109 5. Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality 137 6. Afterword to "Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality" 182 7. Postscript to "Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality" 190 8. Blood under the Bridge: Reflections on "Thinking Sex" 194 9. The Catacombs: A Temple of the Butthole 224 10. Of Catamites and Kings: Reflections on Butch, Gender, and Boundaries 241 11. Misguided, Dangerous, and Wrong: An Analysis of Antipornography Politics 254 12. Sexual Traffic: Interview with Gayle Rubin by Judith Butler 276 13. Studying Sexual Subcultures: Excavating the Ethnography of Gay Communities in Urban North America 310 14. Geologies of Queer Studies: It's Déjà Vu All Over Again 347 Notes 357 Bibliography 425 Index 469

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Book SynopsisThis collection brings together scholars and artists in disability studies, sexuality, queer theory, and feminism, to show how much sexuality studies and disability studies have to learn from each other.Trade Review"This is a big collection, literally, politically, and theoretically. With essays drawing on sociology, anthropology, literary studies, history, and cultural studies, as well as some more lyrical, performative, and autobiographical, Sex and Disability will be indispensable for a wide range of audiences in gender studies, disability studies, queer studies and beyond."—Siobhan B. Somerville, author of Queering the Color Line: Race and the Invention of Homosexuality in American Culture"This riveting collection of essays is a fascinating rethinking of what sex and disability could feel like together, affirmatively and generatively. Opening with a candid, frank introduction that moves deftly between the autobiographical and the political, the volume mounts a serious challenge to the sex-ableism of queer theory and the tendency to think of sex and disability in negative terms. Having read about pregnant men, the vagaries of touch, amputee devotees, and sex addiction, the reader will emerge uncertain about what exactly sex is, who has it, and with what. More trenchantly, these works demand an acknowledgement of how notions of ableism severely limit broader experiences of sexual erotics, intimacy, and arousal. Kudos to the editors for undertaking this important project."—Jasbir K. Puar, author of Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times“As a political intellectual project, Sex and Disability aims toward a queer disability refusal of the normalization of our bodies, desires, spaces, imaginations. This refusal is an opening: what might happen to queer theories and practices of sexuality if we centered disability? ... [T]he editors have set the stage for future conversations, political action, and, really, hotter sex.” -- Alexis Shotwell * Signs *“[R]apturous and sophisticated in both scope and nuance.” -- Jacob Miller * Cyberhetoric *“[S]timulating, thought-provoking, and fascinating. Many of the entries left me with food for thought, including some intriguing reframing of social issues that will inform my own work in the future.” -- S. E. Smith * Global Comment *“Although sexuality studies and disability studies have independently generated much scholarship, few have sufficiently bridged the disciplines as extensively as this anthology and showed as convincingly that "sex and disability" do in fact come together.... Recommended.” -- Y. Kiuchi * Choice *“The vast majority of the contributions that engage with queer and disability theory here are, by turns, beautifully written, engaging, perceptive, hilarious, and nuanced. . . . [A]n intellectually invigorating read.” -- Anna Hamilton * Bitch *“Sex and Disability is one of the most important volumes to appear in disability studies in years and, I would hazard to guess, in sexuality studies as well.” -- Bruce Henderson * Journal of Sex Research *“This book shows sex to be at work in encounters and objects not usually considered to be erotic, and marks the terrifying and exhilarating ways in which disability turns up in unexpected places. Such an undressing of sex and disability as is provided in this collection is sure to have a significant impact on disability studies in the years to come.” -- Kelly Fritsch * Canadian Journal of Disability Studies *“Though McRuer and Mollow acknowledge that they are not the first to bridge these fields, what they do here, and quite impressively, is to harness the energies of this emerging discourse into a single volume at a defining moment in disability studies and disability culture. . . . One of the anthology’s most exciting elements is the complicated interplay its essays stage between body theory and embodied experience.” -- Cynthia Barounis * symploke *“Mollow and McRuer have edited an important book. The collection is an exciting contribution to the fields of disability, queer studies, and queer theory. Every chapter is an inspirational read, but taken together, the contributions provide insightful discussion with layers of reflection that would be difficult to incorporate otherwise. The volume not only shows the multiple ways sex and disability are intertwined, but also invites readers to think beyond established understandings of those concepts, thereby challenging boundaries and transforming ideas of disability and sex.” -- Nina Mackert * H-Disability, H-Net Reviews *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction / Anna Mollow and Robert McRuer 1 Part I: Access 1 1. A Sexual Culture for Disabled People / Tobin Siebers 37 2. Bridging Theory and Experience: A Critical-Interpretive Ethnography of Sexuality and Disability / Russell Shuttleworth 54 3. The Sexualized Body of the Child: Parents and the Politics of "Voluntary" Sterilization of People Labeled Intellectually Disabled / Michel Desjardins 69 Part II: Histories 4. Dismembering the Lynch Mob: Intersecting Narratives of Disability, Race, and Sexual Menace / Michelle Jarman 89 5. "That Cruel Spectacle": The Extraordinary Body Eroticized in Lucas Malet's The History of Sir Richard Calmady / Rachel O'Connell 108 6. Pregnant Men: Modernism, Disability, and Biofuturity / Michael Davidson 123 7. Touching Histories: Personality, Disability, and Sex in the 1930s / David Serlin 145 Part III: Spaces 8. Leading with Your Head: On the Borders of Disability, Sexuality, and the Nation / Nicole Markotic and Robert McRuer 165 9. Normate Sex and Its Discontents / Abby L. Wilkerson 183 10. I'm Not the Man I Used to Be: Sex, HIV, and Cultural "Responsibility" / Chris Bell 208 Part IV: Lives 11. Golem Girl Gets Lucky / Riva Lehrer 231 12. Fingered / Lezlie Frye 256 13. Sex as "Spock": Autism, Sexuality, and Autobiographical Narrative / Rachel Groner 263 Part V: Desires 14. Is Sex Disability?: Queer Theory and the Disability Drive / Anna Mollow 285 15. An Excess of Sex: Sex Addiction as Disability / Lennard J. Davis 313 16. Desire and Disgust: My Ambivalent Adventures in Divoteeism / Alison Kafer 331 17. Hearing Aid Lovers, Pretenders, and Deaf Wannabees: The Fetishizing of Hearing / Kristen Harmon 355 Works Cited 373 Contributors 393 Index 399

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction: Homo Psyche: On Queer Theory and Erotophobia | 1 1 What “Theory” Knew: Sedgwick, Queerness, Hermeneutics | 33 2 The Genealogy of Sex: Bersani, Laplanche, and Self-Shattering Sexuality | 62 3 Boundaries Are for Sissies: Violation in Jane Gallop and Henry James | 85 4 Adults Only: Lee Edelman’s No Future and the Limits of Queer Critique | 116 5 Psychology as Ideology-Lite: Butler, and the Trouble with Gender Theory | 141 6 Two Girls2: Sedgwick + Berlant, Relational and Queer | 171 Acknowledgments | 201 Notes | 203 Works Cited | 223 Index | 233

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction: Homo Psyche: On Queer Theory and Erotophobia | 1 1 What “Theory” Knew: Sedgwick, Queerness, Hermeneutics | 33 2 The Genealogy of Sex: Bersani, Laplanche, and Self-Shattering Sexuality | 62 3 Boundaries Are for Sissies: Violation in Jane Gallop and Henry James | 85 4 Adults Only: Lee Edelman’s No Future and the Limits of Queer Critique | 116 5 Psychology as Ideology-Lite: Butler, and the Trouble with Gender Theory | 141 6 Two Girls2: Sedgwick + Berlant, Relational and Queer | 171 Acknowledgments | 201 Notes | 203 Works Cited | 223 Index | 233

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Book SynopsisCelebrating the history of the LGBTQ+ community?s marriage equality movement from the 1950s until today, this triumphant journey is presented in compelling stories of the pioneering couples, along with winning photographs.Published to coincide with Pride Month, this beautiful, moving tome honors the brave LGBTQ+ couples, activists, and allies who fought for and ultimately gained the right to marry. The chronological presentation of 100 inspiring stories of these dauntless partners up to the strategistsof today, recount how they were instrumental in bringing about this basic civil right. Beginning in the pre-1970s era when gay couples were nearly invisible, the story then shifts to the growing activism of the 1980s and 1990s, continues with the landmark Supreme Court ruling in 2015, which granted full marriage equality across the nation, and concludes with an exploration of current issues. These moving profiles, along with archival images, feature couples from major court cases, such as Jim Obergefell and John Arthur, along with well-known personalities whose narratives helped draw attention to marriage equality, including Cynthia Nixon and Christine Marinoni, George and Brad Takei, and Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi.

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Book SynopsisDo the conventional insights of depth psychology have anything to offer the gay patient?  Can contemporary psychoanalytic theory be used to make sense of gay identities in ways that are helpful rather than hurtful, respectful rather than retraumatizing?  In Psychoanalytic Therapy and the Gay Man Jack Drescher addresses these very questions as he outlines a therapeutic approach to issues of sexual identity that is informed by traditional therapeutic goals (such as psychological integration and more authentic living) while still respecting, even honoring, variations in sexual orientation.     Drescher''s exploration of the subjectivities of gay men in psychoanalytic psychotherapy is more than a long-overdue corrective to the inadequate and often pathologizing tomes of traditional psychoanalytic writers.  It is a vitally human testament to the richly varied inner experiences of gay men.  Drescher does not assume that sexual orientatTable of ContentsIntroduction. Defining a Gay Identity. Theories of the Etiology of Homosexuality. Therapeutic Meanings of Antihomosexuality. Psychoanalytic Theories of Homosexual Development. Reparative Therapies. The Therapist's Stance. Developmental Narratives of Gay Men. The Closet. Coming Out.

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Book SynopsisTedesco became a priest and then realized that he was gay.Trade ReviewA rare and fascinating look into the soul of a man desperately searching for his happiness in others and in the church before finally turning to himself. - Tony McEwing, Fox News

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Book Synopsis“If truth be told, and it always should, I was taken in by the view, as so many others, both before and since. For me, it wasn’t the sea which proved my downfall, but a pair of eyes.  Eyes, specifically, made to drown in.”Imagine thinking you had the ideal life.  The perfect partner, on whom you relied and trusted.  An infant child, newly adopted.  Then one day, you wake up, and the life you’ve been living has suddenly turned upside down.  Everything thought true becomes suspect.  And you learn, quite quickly, that you can never again trust the person sleeping beside you.If Kergan Edwards-Stout’s life was a Lifetime movie, surely he would be played by Valerie Bertinelli, and his husband played by some charming hunk. But life is far more subtle than that.  And even now, the truth is murkier, and even more disturbing.  For Kergan, that email proved to be only the beginning.Like

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Book SynopsisThis Element aims to understand how multilingualism, second language acquisition and minority language revitalisation have overlooked queer sexual identities. The marginalisation of queer subjects in these strands of linguistics can be traced to the Fishmanian model of 'Reversing Language Shift' (RLS).

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Book SynopsisThis ground-breaking textbook engages readers in conversation about responding to the effects of diversity within formal criminal justice systems in Westernized nation-states. Moving past a binary concept of diversity that involves only race and gender, this book elaborates upon a wide variety of other forms of diversity, including sexuality, disability, mental health, gendered identity, refugees, the young and the ageing, and culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) peoples, with an awareness of how intersecting identities make some people more vulnerable than others. With reported statistics providing only a snapshot of the incongruent experiences of diverse minorities in contact with criminal justice systems, there is a clear need for nuanced training and accessible information regarding diversity in criminal justice. The book examines diversity in terms of both criminal justice agents and justice-involved individuals such as people in prison, those convicted of crimesTrade Review"This book is a powerfully written, engaging exploration of intersectionality and culturally safe practices. My first response, on reading was, to say, "Wow, this book has so many potential applications and I'll be recommending it to the many organisations I work with!". It is likely to be if value to new scholars, seasoned academics, policymakers, and practitioners alike. In many settings, we grapple with how to ensure that our approaches are inclusive and non-discriminatory. This book provides a framework likely to enhance critical thinking that will cause reflection and meaningful change across multiple sectors, including criminal justice. Highly recommend."Dr. Tracey Price-Allan, Director of MyCorZ Consultancy Ltd, Board Member of the Global Law Enforcement and Public Health Association (GLEPHA)"While it is questionable whether the criminal system can ever be culturally safe, this book makes an important contribution to critical understandings of cultural threats to marginalised people who are criminalised. It brings together a diverse field of scholars who interrogate the nature of criminalisation for oppressed peoples and make recommendations for systemic change. People in the criminalising system are often typecast as 'suspects', 'offenders' or 'inmates'. This book shines a light on their intersectional humanity and how the system intrudes on their, and our, basic human rights. Finally, this book addresses the toxic cultures within criminalising agencies that contribute to structural oppression within and outside of the agencies. This is a valuable resource for academics and students who want to learn about systemic bias and the harms it wreaks on individuals and society."Professor Thalia Anthony, Professor of Law, University of Technology Sydney "Understanding the underlying and implicit role diversity plays across criminal justice systems is vital in creating fair and just societies. This book provides a nuanced and in-depth analysis on working towards this shared goal and aspiration, whilst holding existing structures and systems accountable to being much better in its approach and application. Such diverse contexts and lived experiences can create cultural safe perspectives and practices as privileged across the various narratives within this edited collection." Professor Jioji Ravulo, The University of SydneyTable of ContentsPrefaceSection 1 – Understanding Culture, Diversity, ad Criminal JusticeChapter 1: Introduction to Culture, Diversity, and Criminal JusticeAlex Workman, Ranya Kaddour, and Patricia M. GriffinChapter 2: Trauma-Informed Practices: The Need for Cultural Safety in Criminal JusticeTinashe Dune, Alex Workman, Patricia M. Griffin, and Ranya KaddourSection 2 – Culturally Diverse PeopleChapter 3: Indigenous peopleKrystal Lockwood, Rachel Stringfellow, Stephen Corporal, and Sally WeidleChapter 4: Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD)Rashmi Pithavadian and Meghna BhatChapter 5: Refugees and Asylum Seekers Mary Hilmi, Katarzyna Olcoń, and Melissa PhillipsChapter 6: People with Disabilities, Chronic Disease, and Illness Anita Eseosa Ogbeide, Ranya Kaddour, and Lydia Kaki OcanseyChapter 7: Mental HealthBill Walsh, Jeffrey Czarnec, and Charles Tucker Jr.Chapter 8: Gender and Sexuality Diverse PeopleAlex Workman, Matthew Ball, and Tinashe DuneChapter 9: WomenJane Townsley, Ellie Lenawarungu, and Samantha BurtonChapter 10: MenDarren Stocker, Charles James Kocher, Robert Lindblom, and John McGuireChapter 11: The ElderlyLacey Schaefer and Emily MoirChapter 12: The YoungAngelica Ojinnaka, Leah Maree, Annalise Zareba, and Asheka JacksonSection 3 – Toward a Culturally Safe Justice SystemChapter 13: Intersectionality: The Way Forward for Culture, Diversity, and Criminology within Criminal Justice SystemsRanya Kaddour, Alex Workman, and Patricia. M GriffinGlossary

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Book SynopsisThis volume showcases a vibrant wave of scholarship that explores the intersection of queer theory and Sinophone studies, consolidating an interdisciplinary framework for furthering transnational research into non-conforming genders, sexualities and bodies. Engaging with contemporary debates and controversies, Keywords in Queer Sinophone Studies presents a definitive collection of original contributions, which are both theoretically and empirically grounded and cross-disciplinary in nature. Individual chapters offer an in-depth study of new empirical data and case studies, covering keywords such as transpacific, viscerality, fandom, postcoloniality, ethnicity and activism. Imagining new conversations across several fields, including literature, film, communication, ethnic studies, anthropology, history, sociology and politics, this book will appeal to students and scholars of Queer Studies and Asian culture, literature and film, as well as gender and sexuality.<Table of Contents1. Introduction – Queer Sinophone Studies: Intellectual Synergies 2. Transpacific – Transfiguring Asian North America and the Sinophonic in Jia Qing Wilson-Yang’s Small Beauty 3. Viscerality – Choreographies of Flesh: The Geopolitics of Visceral Violence in Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale (2011) 4. Postcoloniality – Postcoloniality beyond China-centrism: Queer Sinophone Transnationalism in Hong Kong Cinema 5. Ethnicity – A Queerness of Relation: The Plight of the ‘Ethnic Minority’ in Chan Koon-Chung’s Bare Life 6. Liminality – So Happy Together… Too: Contemporary Philippine Gay Comedy and the Queering of Chinese-Filipino Liminality 7. Fandom – Transcultural Desires and Lesbian Fandom: Takarazuka Revue in Taiwan 8. Adaptation – Recognition, Reproach, Repression: The Ren Likui Case in 1947 Tianjin and the Cultural Politics of Homosexual Murder in the Sinophone World 9. Intermediality – "A Weird Concept’: Queer Intermediality in Dung Kai-cheung’s Fiction 10. Activism – Language, Class, and the Hoenggong-Gwailou Divide in Hong Kong LGBTI Activism 11. Residual – The Polite Residuals of Heteronormativity: Legalizing Transgender Marriage from the European Court of Human Rights to Sinophone Hong Kong

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Book SynopsisThis book takes stock of German gender equality in several policy fields after 16 years of governments led by Angela Merkel and her conservative Christian Democratic Party (CDU). While maintaining its status as an economic engine in Europe, Germany has historically been a laggard in adopting gender equality measures. The European Gender Equality Index, however, now ranks Germany relatively high and shows substantial progress since 2005. While this has gone mostly unnoticed, Germany has passed far-reaching legislation in major policy fields relevant for gender equality.Investigating the effects of Merkel''s tenure on gender equality, the chapters in this volume assess policy output and outcomes with a focus on internal power dynamics in Germany, as well as international and European Union (EU)-level pressures in the policy domains of political representation, LGBTI rights, migration, the labor market, and care. It examines how policy measures introduced by conservative go

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Book SynopsisThis book provides research and analysis on an understudied topic: the LBGTQ+ community as victims and offenders. Most publications focus on LBGTQ+ history and the community''s movement towards equality and acceptance in society and in law. A focus on how the criminal justice system victimizes and marginalizes LBGTQ+ persons is needed. Consequently, this work includes chapters on members of the LBGTQ+ community who work in the criminal justice system, forced sexual orientation efforts, transgender legal concerns, LBGTQ+ persons who are arrested and imprisoned, and online dating hate crimes. International scholars provide their individual stories about being gay, bisexual or lesbian and working as a police or correctional officer. Other international contributors explain their research on crime and how the law and criminal justice community does not provide LBGTQ+ persons with protection or support as offenders or victims. This book will of interest to researchers and advanced studenTable of ContentsIntroduction: The LBGTQ+ Community and Criminal Justice 1. Confronting Oppression: Reframing Need and Advancing Responsivity for LGBTQ+ Youth and Young Adults 2. Hate Hurts: Exploring the Impact of Online Hate on LGBTQ+ Young People 3. Gay Dating Platforms, Crimes, and Harms in India: New Directions for Research and Theory 4. “Missing and Missed”: Failures of the Bruce McArthur Investigation and the Ongoing Victimization of Toronto’s Rainbow Streets 5. Workplace Experiences of Lesbian and Bisexual Female Police Officers in the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary 6. Surviving the Landings: An Autoethnographic Account of Being a Gay Female Prison Officer (in an Adult Male Prison in England) 7. From Victimization to Incarceration: Transgender Women in Costa Rica 8. Litigation on Gender Confirmation Surgery and Hormonal Therapy among Trans Women Prisoners: Views from the U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals 9. No Such Thing as Acceptable Sexual Orientation Change Efforts: An International Human Rights Analysis 10. Exploring How Gender and Sex Are Measured in Criminology and Victimology: Are We Measuring What We Say We Are Measuring? 11. Comparing the Gay and Trans Panic Defenses

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Book SynopsisStu Oakley and Lotte Jeffs are the authors of The Queer Parent, the first LGBTQ+ focused parenting book to be published by a mainstream press, and hosts of award-winning podcast queer parenting podcast Some Families.Stu Oakley is a leading film and TV publicist, having worked on major franchises including Star Wars, Barbie, Paddington and Jurassic World.Lotte Jeffs is also the author of This Love, a novel dubbed One Day for a new generation' by Grazia, published by Dialogue, and picture book My Magic Family, published by Puffin. She is a celebrated magazine writer and editor, and was previously Deputy Editor of Elle.

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsChapter One: Queer Youth Histories: An Introduction; Daniel Marshall.- Chapter Two:Toward Psychosexual Development: Preliminaries to Queer Youth Prehistory; Diederik F. Janssen.- Chapter Three: Perverse Plasticity in G. Stanley Hall’s Modern American Adolescence; Don Romesburg.- Chapter Four: Same-sex Desire and Young New Zealanders before 1950; Chris Brickell.- Chapter Five:“‘We Will Never Betray You, Brothers and Sisters:’ Queer Youth and the Intellectual History of Gay Liberation across the Anglo-American World”; Scott de Groot.- Chapter Six: “Cherishing all the Children of the Nation Equally” – Gay Youth Organisation and Activism in Ireland; Patrick James McDonagh and Páraic Kerrigan.- Chapter Seven: The “New” Trans Child: Pioneering Families and Documentary Television; Jessica Ann Vooris.- Chapter Eight: Between Norms and Differences : The Online Histories of Quebec's Queer Youth; Roberto Ortiz Nunez and Dominique Meunier.- Chapter Nine: The Print Culture of ‘Bombay Dost’:The “Recent Past” of Queer Youth in Postcolonial India; Pawan Singh.- Chapter Ten: Tuning into yourself: queer coming of age and music; Marion Wasserbauer.- Chapter Eleven: Escaping to a Digital Congregation: LGBTQIA Mormon Youth on Tumblr and the Rise and Decline of Queerstake; David Eichert.- Chapter Twelve: Historical and contemporary silences: the experiences of queer Muslim youth; Shanon Shah Mohd Sidik.- Chapter Thirteen: Schoolgirl lesbians in Hong Kong: (A)historicity, temporality, and survival; Sonia Wong.- Chapter Fourteen: Growing up needing the past: an activist’s reflection on the history of LGBT History Month in the UK; Sue Sanders.- Chapter Fifteen: Being a young gay person in the 1970s: reflections on reading Young, Gay and Proud; Karen Charman.- Chapter Sixteen: Mundjulk: One plant, many leaves; Laniyuk Garcon.- Index

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Book SynopsisA USA Today National Bestseller!An inspiring and personal roadmap to servant leadership In All Pride, No Ego: A Queer Executive's Journey to Living and Leading Authentically, celebrated corporate leader James Fielding delivers an inspirational leadership story told from the perspective of an out and proud LGBTQ+ executive. In the book, you'll explore a call-to-action for authentic servant leadership that encourages people to own their truth and bring out the best in themselves and their communities. The author explains his key decisions and inflection points and highlights how his leadership style, learnings, successes, and failures informed his rise through the rungs of the corporate ladder. You'll also find: The importance of becoming and remaining a lifelong learner and constantly curious How to control the controllable while leaving space for the possible Strategies for employing truthful and inspiratiTable of ContentsPreface xi Learning 1 Control the Controllable, but Leave Space for the Possible 1 Learning 2 Be a Lifelong Learner and Stay Constantly Curious 21 Learning 3 Don’t Let Anyone Dim Your Light 33 Learning 4 Find and Embrace All Your Families, Especially the Ones You Choose 67 Learning 5 How to Define Enough? 95 Learning 6 May We Leave Our Corner of the World a Better Place than We Found It 105 Learning 7 Trust Your Jiminy Cricket Learn to Listen to and Love Yourself 121 Learning 8 Building High- Performing Teams and Cultures of Excellence 137 Learning 9 Selfish Is Not a Bad Word 169 Learning 10 Authentic Kindness Is More Important than Being Right or First 183 Epilogue 193 Acknowledgments 197 About the Author 201 Index 203

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Book SynopsisDrawing on international perspectives and research, this book explores the experiences of sex and sexuality in individuals and groups living with HIV in later life (50+).Trade Review"HIV, Sex, and Sexuality in Later Life stands as a pioneering work, transcending borders, and offering a nuanced understanding of the intricate interplay between aging, HIV, and sexuality. Each chapter adds a unique perspective, creating a collective narrative that challenges stereotypes and amplifies voices often marginalized in discussions of global significance." Social Work and EducationTable of ContentsForeword: Dare we hope for the erotic? HIV/AIDS, sexuality and ageing - OmiSoore H. Dryden Introduction - Mark Henrickson, Casey Charles, Shiv Ganesh, Sulaimon Giwa, Kan Diana Kwok and Tetyana Semigina Part 1: Women 1. The ‘disease of love’: trajectories of women living with HIV in Switzerland - Vanessa Fargnoli 2. Beyond the biomedical: HIV as a barrier to intimacy for older women living with HIV in the United Kingdom - Jacqui Stevenson 3. ‘Everyone is on their own and nobody needs us’: women ageing with HIV in Ukraine - Tetyana Semigina, Tetiana Yurochko and Yulia Stopolyanska Part 2: Gay and bisexual men 4. Chemsex among gay men living with HIV aged over 45 in England and Italy: sociality and pleasure in times of undetectability - Cesare Di Feliciantonio 5. Freed from fear: reconstructing older gay male sexuality through PrEP – an account of a generational experience - Jacek Kolodziej 6. In the company of men: gay culture and HIV in Aotearoa New Zealand - Michael Stevens 7. Growing old with stigma: a case study of four older Chinese gay/bisexual men living with HIV in Hong Kong - Barry Man Wai Lee 李 文 偉 Part 3: Intersectional lives, multiple stigmas 8. Out in Africa: facing the HIV other in Nairobi - Casey Charles 9. Survival of an older Bangladeshi lesbian experiencing intersectional vulnerability - Kanamik Kani Khan 10. Sanjeevani: early ageing and HIV survival in queer Mumbai - Casey Charles Afterword - Mark Henrickson

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Book SynopsisThis vibrant collection of essays reveals the intimate politics of how people with a wide range of relationships to war identify with, and against, the military and its gendered and racialised norms.

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Book Synopsis Theatre of the Ridiculous is a significant movement that highlighted the radical possibilities inherent in camp. Much of contemporary theatre owes this form a great debt but little has been written about its history or aesthetic markers. This book offers a comprehensive overview of the important practitioners, along with critical commentary of their work. Beginning with Ridiculous'' most recognizable name, Charles Ludlam, the author traces the development of this campy, queer genre, from the B movies of Maria Montez to the Pop Art scene of Andy Warhol to the founding of the Play-House of the Ridiculous and the dawn of Ludlam''s career and finally to the contemporary theatre scene.

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Book SynopsisThe conventional idea of the commonsa resource managed by the community that uses itmight appear anachronistic as global capitalism attempts to privatize and commodify social life. Against these trends, contemporary queer energies have been directed toward commons-forming initiatives from activist provision of social services to the maintenance of networks around queer art, protest, public sex, and bar cultures that sustain queer lives otherwise marginalized by heteronormative society and mainstream LGBTQ politics. This issue forges a connection between the common and the queer, asking how the category queer might open up a discourse that has emerged as one of the most important challenges to contemporary neoliberalization at both the theoretical and practical level. Contributors look to radical networks of care, sex, and activism present within diverse queer communities including HIV/AIDS organizing, the Wages for Housework movement, New York's Clit Club community, and trans/queer

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Book SynopsisOver the course of her long career, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick became one of the most important voices in queer theory, and her calls for reparative criticism and reading practices grounded in affect and performance have transformed understandings of affect, intimacy, politics, and identity. With marked tenderness, the contributors to Reading Sedgwick reflect on Sedgwick''s many critical inventions, from her elucidation of poetry''s close relation to criticism and development of new versions of queer performativity to highlighting the power of writing to engender new forms of life. As the essays in Reading Sedgwick demonstrate, Sedgwick''s work is not only an ongoing vital force in queer theory and affect theory; it can help us build a more positive world in the midst of the bleak contemporary moment. Contributors. Lauren Berlant, Kathryn Bond Stockton, Judith Butler, Lee Edelman, Jason Edwards, Ramzi Fawaz, Denis Flannery, Jane Gallop, Jonathan Goldberg, Meridith Trade Review“Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's writing remains indispensable, never more so than now when the light of her intelligence illuminates a darkening horizon. We need her intelligence, her queer sensibility, and her way with words. Reading Sedgwick will be welcome both for those encountering her for the first time and as a reprise for those wishing to be reminded of her work's particular charm, enlivening curiosity, and power.” -- Christina Crosby, author of * A Body, Undone: Living on after Great Pain *"This volume is required reading in queer studies. Essential. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty." -- D. M. Jarrett * Choice *Table of ContentsPreface. Reading Sedgwick, Then and Now / Lauren Berlant 1 Introduction. "An Open Mesh of Possibilities": The Necessity of Eve Sedgwick in Dark Times / Ramzi Fawaz 6 Note. From H. A. Sedgwick / H. A. Sedgwick 34 1. What Survives / Lauren Berlant and Lee Edelman 37 2. Proust at the End / Judith Butler 63 3. For Beauty Is a Series of Hypotheses? Sedgwick as Fiber Artist / Jason Edwards 72 4. In / Denis Flannery 92 5. Early and Earlier Sedgwick / Jane Gallop 113 6. Eve's Future Figures / Jonathan Goldberg 121 7. Sedgwick's Perverse Close Reading and the Question of an Erotic Ethics / Meredith Kruse 132 8. On the Eve of the Future / Michael Moon 141 9. Race, Sex, and the Incommensurate: Gary Fisher with Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick / José Esteban Muñoz 152 10. Sedgwick Inexhaustible / Chris Nealon 166 11. The Age of Frankenstein / Andrew Parker 178 12. Queer Patience: Sedgwick's Identity Narratives / Karin Sellberg 189 13. Weaver's Handshake: The Aesthetics of Chronic Objects (Sedgwick, Emerson, James) / Michael D. Snediker 203 14. Eighteen Things I Love about You / Melissa Solomon 236 15. Eve's Triangles: Queer Studies Beside Itself / Robyn Wiegman 242 Afterword / Kathryn Bond Stockton 274 Acknowledgments 279 Bibliography 281 Contributors 295 Index 299

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Book SynopsisJohn D’Emilio is one of the leading historians of his generation and a pioneering figure in the field of LGBTQ history. At times his life has been seemingly at odds with his upbringing. How does a boy from an Italian immigrant family in which everyone unfailingly went to confession and Sunday Mass become a lapsed Catholic? How does a family who worshipped Senator Joseph McCarthy and supported Richard Nixon produce an antiwar activist and pacifist? How does a family in which the word divorce was never spoken raise a son who comes to explore the hidden gay sexual underworld of New York City?Memories of a Gay Catholic Boyhood is D’Emilio’s coming-of-age story in which he takes readers from his working-class Bronx neighborhood to an elite Jesuit high school in Manhattan to Columbia University and the political and social upheavals of the late 1960s. He shares his personal experiences of growing up in a conservative, tight-knit, multigenerational Trade Review"Unusual among today’s memoirs, this one is upbeat and generous spirited about its author’s early life and challenges. . . . The author’s compassionate spirit suffuses the text to such a degree that one hopes for a future continuation into his years as a professional historian. A warm, humane coming-of-age memoir. . . ." * Kirkus Reviews *“In this fascinating self-portrait and insightful portrait of his times, a prominent queer historian recalls growing up in the 1950s and ’60s—a smart, pious, conservative, Catholic boy from a working-class Italian family in the Bronx transforms himself into a radical left, openly gay Columbia University student.” -- Jonathan Ned Katz, author of * The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adams *"D’Emilio’s youthful reminiscences make for a classic work of literature that deserves a wide readership. One hopes this memoir is only the first in a succession." (Starred Review) -- David Azzolina * Library Journal *"[D'Emilio's] memoir is a love letter to Manhattan. but also to the Bronx of his childhood, to the schools that educated and occasionally hindered him, to the family members who nourished him—even when they no longer understood him—so he would someday find his life's work. . . . Based on the many pleasures offered by this book, I hope he decides to write the sequel." -- Daniel A. Burr * Gay and Lesbian Review *"D’Emilio, who has been an eminent historian of the American gay man’s experience and struggle during his lifetime, has turned his searching eye inward and now gives us a different kind of history—one that’s pegged to his own life, loves and learnings. Every page is fork-tender with emotion, and to be honest, in my mind’s eye, I imagined him going back to a huge file of every sweet or difficult or thoughtful observation he’d ever excised from one of his academic books and sewing them together with hindsight for this volume." -- S. Bear Bergman * Xtra! *"As D’Emilio applies his skills as an acclaimed social and cultural historian to his own youth, Memories of a Gay Catholic Boyhood offers us a caring and thoughtful window into a time of enormous change in American society and the Catholic Church. His account is warm and gracious; he is quick to acknowledge his own limitations while acknowledging the crucial role of his friends and family in shaping and loving the gay Catholic man he became." -- Brian Linnane * America *Table of ContentsPreface ix Part I. An Italian Boy from the Bronx 1. An Italian Family 3 2. Big Grandma's House 11 3. School: Becoming a Big Boy 17 4. Baby Jim 25 5. Change, and More Change 32 6. A Family of Friends 40 7. God Help Me! 49 8. A Beginning and an End 57 Part II. A Jesuit Education 9. A Whole New World 65 10. Striving to Win 76 11. My Sexual Desires 84 12. Another Ending 94 13. Working in the City 105 Part III. Everything Changes 14. God Is Dead 119 15. War and Peace 128 16. This Is Me 140 17. I Come Out, Sort Of 148 18. Her Name Is Margaret Mead 160 19. And Then I Studied 169 20. Now What Do I Do? 182 21. A Door Opens 194 Postscript 205 Acknowledgments 207

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Book SynopsisPetrus Liu challenges key premises of classic queer theory and Marxism, turning to an analysis of the Beijing Consensusglobal capitalism's latest mutationto develop a new theory of the political economy of sexuality.Trade Review"Petrus Liu’s The Specter of Materialism is intellectually courageous and theoretically sophisticated, advancing both queer theory and Marxist thought. This review has only scratched the surface of this paradigm-shifting work. Scholars of queer theory, gender and sexuality studies, Marxism, and China Studies will all find this book indispensable for their fields." -- Wenqing Kang * Modern Chinese Literature And Culture *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Periodizing the Post-1989 World Order 1 Part I: Theory 1. Alterity in Queer Theory and the Political Economy of the Beijing Consensus 21 2. The Specter of Materialism 52 Part II: History 3. The Subsumption of Literature: Lu Xun’s Queer Modernism in the Chinese Revolution 81 4. The Subsumption of the Cold War: The Material Unconscious of Queer Asia 104 5. The Subsumption of Sexuality: Translating Gender from the Beijing Fourth World Conference on Women to the Beijing Consensus 135 Conclusion: Toward a Transnational Queer Marxism 161 Notes 165 Bibliography 195 Index

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Book SynopsisA compelling examination of the social and legal experiences of lesbian, bisexual, and queer stepparent familiesLesbian, bisexual, and queer families formed after the dissolution of a marriage face a range of obstacles. In Queer Stepfamilies, Katie L. Acosta offers a wealth of insight into their complex experiences as they negotiate parenting among multiple parents and family-building in a world not designed to meet their needs. Drawing on in-depth interviews, Acosta follows the journeys of more than forty families as they navigate a legal and social landscape that fails to recognize their existence. Acosta contextualizes the legal realities of LGBTQ stepparent families and considers the actions these parents take to protect their families in the absence of comprehensive policies or laws geared to meet their needs. Queer Stepfamilies reveals the obstacles these families face in family courts during divorce proceedings and custody cases, and highlights their distrust of courts when it cTrade ReviewThis is a fantastic and important book. Putting forth profound and often heartbreaking narratives about the struggles and strengths of LBQ stepparent families, Katie L. Acosta advocates for family forms that resist the limited—and limiting—terms used to describe them today. Queer Stepfamilies offers the reader useful roadmaps and pathways for better understanding these complexities. -- Carla A. Pfeffer, author of Queering Families: The Postmodern Partnerships of Cisgender Women and Transgender MenWhile grounded in academic research, the book generally avoids jargon, quotes extensively from the family interviews, and feels readable for anyone interested in the subject ... Those engaged in plural parenting will likely value this book for sharing the stories, solutions, and struggles of others in similar situations. Others involved with supporting, advocating for, or writing about LGBTQ families in general should read it, too, in order to better understand the full range of what being part of a queer family may encompass. * Mombian *Drawing on in-depth interviews with more than forty US families, Acosta contextualizes the legal realities of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer stepparent families and considers the actions that these parents take to protect their families in the absence of comprehensive policies or laws geared to meet their needs. * Law and Social Inquiry *

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