January 23, 2024

Kimberly D. Acquaviva on The Handbook of LGBTQIA-Inclusive Hospice and Palliative Care

A year and a half after she published her first book about LGBTQIA-inclusive hospice and palliative care in 2017, Kimberly D. Acquaviva learned that her wife Kathy had ovarian cancer. When they were unable to find a local hospice with...

September 28, 2023

Ben De Witte and João Nemi Neto on Translating In the Name of Desire

Let the power of desire not be underestimated, capable of moving mountains. —João Silvério Trevisan João Silvério Trevisan published his third novel, In the Name of Desire (originally Em nome do desejo), in 1983 at a time of climactic political...

June 14, 2023

15 Must-Read Books for Pride Month 2023

Every June, we come together to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community and carry forward the legacy of the 1969 Stonewall Riots. These 15 books both provide insight into the enduring challenges faced by members of the LGBTQ+ community and explore the...

September 15, 2022

The Power of Female Same-Sex Love

Stephen Roddy and Ying Wang

In premodern China, descriptions of homoeroticism can be found in multiple examples of histories, poetry, fiction, and drama, but nearly all of these treat exclusively male-male relations. On female same-sex desire, the written record is almost completely silent. The few...

June 9, 2022

A Voice from the Past

One Nineteenth-Century Queer Autobiography

William A. Peniston

Before the twentieth century, it is rare to find autobiographical writings by men who were attracted to other men. In France, only eight have been identified for the era between 1845 and 1905. All were originally published in French as...

June 7, 2022

Queer Cruising Before Dating Apps

Michael Rosenfeld

Ever wonder how queer people met one another in the nineteenth century, when divulging one’s sexuality could lead to scandal and even arrest? In his tell-all confessions-letters, sent to French novelist Émile Zola in 1889 and to Dr. Georges Saint-Paul...

January 7, 2022

Leah DeVun in Conversation with Olivia Treynor on The Shape of Sex

Does gender exist in the Garden of Eden? To a modern reader familiar with Christian belief, Adam and Eve may represent the very origin of binary bodies. Leah DeVun’s The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance...

September 9, 2021

Gender Bending and Homosexuality in an Eighteenth-Century Chinese Novel

By Susan Chan Egan

What does one make of a male adolescent who is sometimes mistaken for a girl; fancies himself a calligrapher and aesthete; has excessive sympathy for all things pretty that extends even to fallen flower petals; indulges in affectionate sex play...

June 1, 2021

Transtopia: A Keyword for Our Century

By Howard Chiang

My first attempt to bring together Chinese studies and transgender studies dates to a conference I organized in 2009. That conference resulted in an edited volume called Transgender China (2012). Not long after the book appeared, I discovered that my...

June 27, 2019

From the Backlist: LGBTQI Studies in Science and Literature

View this post on Instagram It’s a beautiful (and hot ☀️) day in New York today! In remembrance of the 50th anniversary of #Stonewall this weekend, help us celebrate #PrideMonth with some of our LGBTQ+ titles #FromTheArchieves #Pride #LGBTQIA A...

June 25, 2019

Book Excerpt! Buying Gay: How Physique Entrepreneurs Sparked a Movement

“This deeply researched book expands our understanding of pre-Stonewall gay male activism by describing a bold group of physique photographers, magazine publishers, and booksellers who were more militant than the Mattachine Society and built a far larger constituency through their...

June 24, 2019

Book Excerpt! Between Men, by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (foreword and preface)

“One of the most influential texts in gender studies, men’s studies and gay studies.” ~ New York Times Book Review First published in 1985, Between Men:English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire, Thirtieth anniversary edition was a decisive intervention in gender studies—...