On October 7, 1998, Matthew Shepard was brutally murdered by Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson on the outskirts of Laramie,...
The Ojibwe saw the creatures and objects in their universe as animate or inanimate, rather than male or female. They...
Millions of Syrian refugees have fled their homeland due to decades of civil war. While most settle in Turkey, Greece,...
In her third creative non-fiction book Body Geographic, creative writing professor Barrie Jean Borich traces the development of her identity as an American, a Midwesterner, a woman, a lesbian, and a writer. Read More
Experts estimate that the number of transgender people in the human population ranges from 1 in 1,000 to 1 in...
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...
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
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
