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Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Americans at Risk: Problems and Solutions

This book is a cutting-edge resource for academics, activists, scholars, students, and lay people who are interested in examining LGBT social and political movements as well as the public policy progress and setbacks of recent years. Three volumes of essays by experts in a variety of fields delve deeply into primary sources to tackle important…

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To Survive on This Shore: Selections From the South

Here, we share portraits and interview excerpts with participants from Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Missouri, South Carolina, Virginia, and Washington D.C., to highlight the ways in which transgender people are aging in the South. Our participants’ experiences reflect the complex intersections of gender identity, age, race, ethnicity, sexuality, socioeconomic status, and geographic place. Their…

Essay Humanities Nonfiction Social Sciences

An Archaeology of Posing: Essays on Camp, Drag, and Sexuality

An Archaeology of Posing compiles two decades of new and previously published writing on gay culture by one of the field’s most provocative and outspoken critics. Diverging from the text-based premise of most queer theory, Meyer utilizes performance studies and interpretive anthropology to examine camp and drag performances in the spaces in which they appear.…

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Y’all Means All: The Emerging Voices of Queering Appalachia

A thoughtful and accessible exploration of what it means to be queer in Appalachia, Y’all Means All: The Emerging Voices Queering Appalachia is a collection of essays that is both an exploration and a celebration of the region. As many who live in Appalachia and the South already know, these areas are misunderstood and misrepresented…

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Little Miss Dysphoria: An Essay about Transgender Women and Madness

Originally published at http://www.trickymothernature.com/littlemissdysphoria.html In 1973, the American Psychiatric Association decided to change what kind of homosexuality constituted a mental illness. Those millions of gay men and women who were, in the language of their liberation movement, “happy,” “healthy,” or “proud” – in the language of the psychiatrists, they were “homosexuals per se” – were…