In Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search For Identity (Scribner), psychologist Andrew Solomon poses a fundamental question: How do you nurture a child who is nothing like you? Read More
In a few weeks, Minnesotans will vote on whether or not to approve an amendment to the state constitution which...
The average reader might have no familiarity with the authors featured in The Collection, but it will make no difference. That person might start reading The Collection at the beginning, or at the story with the most eye-catching title...and they will keep reading until they finish the entire book. Read More
In Imagining Gay Paradise, Atkins tells the stories of several gay men who shaped modern gay male cultures in Southeast Asia. In particular, he focuses on the Siamese king Vajiravudh (Rama VI), German painter Walter Spies who lived in Dutch Java and Bali, and Singaporean webmaster Stuart Koe. Read More
Since the nineteenth century, New York City has provided inspiration, sanctuary, and community for millions of LGBTA Americans and immigrants...
Based on 2010 Census numbers, Chicago has the third largest urban LGBT population in the United States. The land that we know today as Chicago has had an LGBT presence since the seventeenth century. In spite of that, no one has published a history of LGBT life in Chicago until today. Chicago gay press writer St. Sukie de la Croix wrote Chicago Whispers: A History of LGBT Chicago Before Stonewall (University of Wisconsin Press) to fill that empty space on the shelf. Read More
In Odd Couples: Friendship at the Intersection of Gender and Sexual Orientation, Sociology Professor Anna Muraco of Loyola Marymount University strives to find out why we believe that friendships between gay men and straight women seem to form “naturally,” while friendships between lesbians and straight men seem harder to imagine. Read More
There are approximately 39 million people who check “Black or African-American” on their Census forms. Nearly sixty percent of those...
In American prisons today, the exact number of incarcerated transpeople remains unknown. The Prison Industrial Complex of the United States...
Scholars from many disciplines engage in heated debates over the definition and role of LGBT Studies. They question whether LGBT...
