Since its beginnings in 1993, the Queer Voices reading series has featured both emerging and established Minnesota-based writers of the LGBTQIA+ community. With a track record of more than twenty years, the series has become a national model and one of Minnesota's most important literary institutions. It is reputed to be the longest-running curated queer reading series in the country. In this volume, series curators John Medeiros and Andrea Jenkins...

Spawning Generations is a collection of stories by queerspawn (people with LGBTQ+ parents) spanning six decades, three continents, and five countries. Curated by queerspawn, this anthology is about carving out a space for queerspawn to tell their own stories. The contributors in this volume break away from the pressures to be perfect, the demands to be well adjusted, and the need to prove that they turned out "all right." These are queerspawn stories,...

Introduction to LGBTQ+ Studies offers accessible, academically sound information on a wide range of topics, including history, culture, and Queer Theory; an exploration of LGBTQ+ relationships, families, parenting, health, and education; and how to conduct research on LGBTQ+ topics. The book explores LGBTQ+ issues from the ancient world to contemporary global perspectives. Employing an intersectional analysis, the textbook highlights how sexuality...

This comprehensive anthology traces the rhetoric of the gay rights movement from the late nineteenth century to the present. It chronicles the progression from its deeply clandestine beginnings to the battle for recognition, through political struggles and victories of the mid-twentieth century to its current position-at the forefront of the mainstream political debate concerning the fight for marriage equality. The speeches include Robert G. Ingersoll's...

That Man from C.A.M.P., Jackie Holmes, says: "And away we go! Back to that little room. No, not that one-the one just on the other side of that place they call the dining area. The kitchen, of course. Now, I'm sure you know your way around the other rooms, especially the one with the queen-sized you-know-what, but as I'm prone to mention from time to time, one of the ways to a man's heart is through his stomach, which means you'll have to spend some...

In these rigorous and challenging essays, writers from Aotearoa and Turtle Island (Canada and the United States of America) explore the well-being of takatapui, two-spirit, and Maori and Indigenous LGBTQI+ communities. Themes include resistance, reclamation, empowerment, transformation and healing. Central to Honouring Our Ancestors is the knowledge that, before colonisation, Indigenous peoples had their own healthy understandings of gender, sexual...

Lambda Literary Award finalist! Alternately unsettling and affirming, devastating and delicious, The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You is a new collection of essays on gender and identity by S. Bear Bergman that is irrevocably honest and endlessly illuminating. With humor and grace, these essays deal with issues from women's spaces to the old boys' network, from gay male bathhouses to lesbian potlucks, from being a child to preparing to have one. Throughout,...

Few words are as steeped in beliefs about gender, sexuality, and social desirability as "motherhood". Drawing on queer, postcolonial, and feminist theory, historical sources, personal narratives, film studies, and original empirical research, the authors in this book offer queer re-tellings and reexaminations of reproduction, family, politics, and community. The list of contributors includes emerging writers as well as established scholars and activists...

Un recorrido por la historia de la autoaceptación de la homosexualidad, que nos transportará a los inicios del franquismo para descubrir cómo la sociedad es a veces, tan o más opresora que la propia legislación. Un ensayo que sustituye los convencionalismos por historias de vida, una fuente inagotable de experiencias que nos conduce hasta la realidad de nuestros días. En estas páginas no encontrarás respuestas ni guiones preestablecidos, sino...

"Dr. Lange's TRANSformative Mentoring Guidebook is a must read and must use resource for anyone who wants to build transgender/gender-diverse peer groups. We believe you will come to love her work as much as we do." - Cassandra Williamson, Transgender Rights Activist Grounded in established research and real-world practice, the TRANSformative Mentoring Guidebook is an essential resource for Peer Mentors providing support services to Gender...