A landmark book on South Asian queer communities in Britain and how they have helped to shape LGBTQ+ movements since the 1970s. "Desi Queers" reveals how diasporic South Asians have shaped LGBTQ+ movements and communities in Britain, from the 1970...

A fresh, deeply biblical account of God's expanding grace and mercy, tracing how the Bible's narrative points to the full inclusion of LGBTQ people in Christian communities. Discussions of the Bible and human sexuality often focus on a scattered ha...

Yale French Studies 142 explores the contemporary relevance of an alternative strand of feminism as theorized by Monique Wittig. This volume of Yale French Studies foregrounds Monique Wittig (1935-2003), a writer who left France to live and teach i...

A courageously personal exploration of gender identity across Muslim cultures, from the West to South Asia. From an early age, Leyla Jagiella knew that her life would be defined by two things: being Muslim and being trans. Struggling to negotiate...

Check out what's up and coming in LGBTQ scenes around the world with this quirky, vibrant queer travel guide. For decades, LGBTQ travelers have congregated in predictable places: queer-friendly cities like New York and Berlin, or beach towns such as...

A gay man's memoir of hardship, courage, community and kin in the Arab world and beyond. When Madian Al Jazerah came out to his Arab parents, his mother had one question. "Are you this?" she asked, cupping her hand. 'Or are you this?' she motioned...

Jack Balkin and an all-star cast of legal scholars, sitting as a hypothetical Supreme Court, rewrite the famous 2015 opinion in "Obergefell v. Hodges", which guaranteed same-sex couples the right to marry. In eleven incisive opinions, the authors off...

Richard Siken's "Crush", selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful collection of poems driven by obsession and love. Siken writes with ferocity, and his reader hurtles unstoppably with him. His poetry is confessional,...

Harvey Milk – eloquent, charismatic, and a smart-aleck – was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977, but he had not even served a full year in office when he was shot by a homophobic fellow supervisor. Milk's assassination at the a...

In a hugely ambitious study which crosses continents, languages, and almost a century, Gregory Woods identifies the ways in which homosexuality has helped shape Western culture. Extending from the trials of Oscar Wilde to the gay liberation era, this...