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…
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…
A short theoretical piece in the form of a memoir by Leslie Feinberg, published in 1980. This work was Feinberg’s first public attempt to put forward a political stance on trans liberation outside of Feinberg’s work as a comrade within Workers World Party, an independent communist party. WWP’s publishing arm was “World View Publishers,” which…
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.…
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…
Transsexual women are a small group who have been subject to fierce and extended scrutiny. This scrutiny includes a feminist literature that exposes a troubled and often antagonistic relationship between feminism and transsexual women.
San Francisco is a refugee camp for homosexuals. We have fled here from every part of the nation, and like refugees elsewhere, we came not because it is so great here, but because it was so bad there. By the tens of thousands, we fled small towns where to be ourselves would endanger our jobs…
En las últimas décadas se ha visto un incremento en la representación de la figura del travesti, tanto dentro de la ficción como dentro de los estudios literarios, históricos y culturales. Sin embargo, la mayoría de estos estudios se enfocan en el travesti masculino (male-to-female). La travesti femenina ha sido poco estudiada, sobre todo, en…
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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…