LGBTQ America: A Theme Study of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer History is a publication of the National Park Foundation for the National Park Service and funded by the Gill Foundation. Each chapter is written and peer-reviewed by experts in LGBTQ Studies.
Queer Looks is a collection of writing by video artists, filmmakers, and critics which explores the recent explosion of lesbian and gay independent media culture. A compelling compilation of artists’ statements and critical theory, producer interviews and image-text works, this anthology demonstrates the vitality of queer artists under attack and fighting back. Each maker and…
This paper explores a tension between Francis’s openness to ‘liminality’ and certain papal statements condemning transness that reproduce the ways in which people are marginalised as trans. It seeks to make sense of these tensions, reading them back through Francis’s theology of history, and suggesting a place for trans people to locate ourselves within the…
This paper anticipates a peril involved in Catholic writing on trans issues, which I call perlocutionary dominion: the empowerment of cisgender voices, and disempowerment of transgender voices within our theological communities through perlocutionary acts. It finds an example of this peril in Helen Watt’s paper, ‘Gender Transition: The Moral Meaning of Bodily and Social Presentation’,…
The Vatican’s Commission on Spirituality Sub-Group’s 2022 document, Towards a Spirituality for Synodality, offers a vision of a synodal ecclesial life. Central to this vision is the conviction that marginalised groups need to play an equal and active part in that life. This paper reflects on how this inclusion might extend to trans people. It…
What does it mean to keep gender as a secret? Anush explores this question on his solo travel to Goa after his Top surgery. “Fluid Bodies” is a personal essay written by a trans boi about his experience of transitioning at various phases.
The purpose of this paper is to rebut the assertion that reassignment or change of sex necessarily constitutes an extreme psychological hazard for individuals who have been assigned to the wrong sex at birth. Some doubt will also be thrown on the claim that psychological sex—normal or abnormal-develops entirely as a consequence of environmental psychological…
This article argues that through its role as a national clearing house and funding agency, Reed Erickson and the Erickson Educational Foundation (EEF) actively directed the course of trans research and contemporary social services and policies effecting trans people.
Sass Sasot, a transpinay (Filipino transsexual woman) writer and founding member of the Society of Transsexual Women of the Philippines (STRAP), provides a firsthand account of the history of the Filipino transgender advocacy movement up to that point. This was presumably originally published on the website philippine-transgender-movement.com, which is now defunct. Uploaded here is a…
How do the bodies we inhabit affect our relationship with art? How does art affect our relationship to our bodies? T Fleischmann uses Felix Gonzáles-Torres’s artworks—piles of candy, stacks of paper, puzzles—as a path through questions of love and loss, violence and rejuvenation, gender and sexuality. From the back porches of Buffalo, to the galleries…