Short Articles

Definitions & History 

• UK LGBT+ History Month (https://lgbtplushistorymonth.co.uk/)  

• “LGBTQ History Month: When is it, when did it begin, and how is it observed?” by Sabrina Barr (https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/lgbt-history-month-when-date-a8755966.html)  

• “What LGBTIQA Plus Means” by Deaf Rainbow UK (http://regard.org.uk/); definitions also provided in sign language  

• “Glossary of terms” [A good place to start to learn terms used about queer folks or within queer communities!] (https://www.stonewall.org.uk/help-advice/faqs-and-glossary/glossary-terms)  
• “The Gay Liberation Front’s social revolution” by Peter Tatchell (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/oct/12/gay-liberation-front-social-revolution)  
• “Stonewall Riots” (https://www.britannica.com/event/Stonewall-riots) 
• “Sexual Orientation” (https://www.youngstonewall.org.uk/lgbtq-info/sexual-orientation) 
• “Gender Identity” (https://www.youngstonewall.org.uk/lgbtq-info/gender-identity)   

• “Gender Pronouns” (https://uwm.edu/lgbtrc/support/gender-pronouns/)  
• “LGBTQ History” by English Heritage (https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/learn/histories/lgbtq-history/) 
• “10 events from LGBT history” by Amy Wills (https://www.youngstonewall.org.uk/node/43992) 
• “History of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Social Movements” by Bonnie J. Morris (https://www.apa.org/pi/lgbt/resources/history) 
• “LGBTQ definitions every good ally should know” by Alia E. Dastagir (https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/06/15/lgbtq-glossary-slang-ally-learn-language/101200092/) 

• GLAAD Media Reference Guide [Has a good section on “terms to avoid” and “defamatory language”] (https://www.glaad.org/reference/lgbtq)   

Introductory Materials 

• “7 ways you can be a better LGBTQ+ ally” by UCL (https://www.ucl.ac.uk/students/news/2020/dec/7-ways-you-can-be-better-lgbtq-ally)  
• “What is Inclusion Language” by UCL (https://www.ucl.ac.uk/equality-diversity-inclusion/equality-areas-and-support/lgbtq-equality/what-inclusion-language)  
• “Inclusivity: Supporting BAME Trans People” by Sabah Choudrey (https://www.gires.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/BAME_Inclusivity.pdf) 

•  “15 things LGBTQ people of colour want you to know” by Stonewall’s BAME/PoC Staff Network (https://www.stonewall.org.uk/about-us/news/15-things-lgbtq-people-colour-want-you-know)  
• “Shut Out: The experiences of LGBT young people not in education, training or work” by Stonewall and BritainThinks (https://www.stonewall.org.uk/system/files/shut_out_2020.pdf) 
• LGBTQ Studies: A Resource Guide by the Library of Congress (https://guides.loc.gov/lgbtq-studies)  
• Key Terms by Brown University (https://www.brown.edu/campus-life/support/lgbtq/http%3A/brown.edu/campus-life/support/lgbtq/campus-resources/key-terms) 
• “LGBT facts and figures” by Stonewall (https://www.stonewall.org.uk/media/lgbt-facts-and-figures) 

• “Five things to know about being disabled and LGBTQ” by Jamie Hale (https://www.open.edu/openlearn/health-sports-psychology/young-peoples-health/five-things-know-about-being-disabled-and-lgbtq) 
• “Understanding Non-Binary People: How to be Respectful and Supportive” by National Center for Transgender Equality (https://transequality.org/issues/resources/understanding-non-binary-people-how-to-be-respectful-and-supportive) 
• “National LGBT Survey” by Government Equalities Office (https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/722314/GEO-LGBT-Survey-Report.pdf)   

Queer Theory (see Brown’s reading list) 

• Anzaldúa, Gloria. “To(o) Queer the Writer—Loca, escritor y chicana,”  in AnaLouise Keating, The Gloria Anzaldúa Reader, 163-175. 

• Anzaldua, Gloria. "La conciencia de la mestiza: Towards a New Consciousness." 
• Berlant, Lauren. The Queen of America Goes to Washington City. 
• Bornstein, Kate and S. Bear Bergman. Gender Outlaws, The Next Generation. 
• Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble and Excitable Speech. 
• Califia, Pat. “Trashing the Clinic and Burning Down the Beauty Parlor: Activism Transmutes Pitiable Patients into Feisty Gender Radicals” 

• Christian, Barbara. “The Race for Theory,” Cultural Critique 6 (Spring 1987): 51-63. 
• Clare, Eli. Exile and Pride. 
• Cohen, Cathy. “Punks, Bulldagers, and Queens: The Radical Potential of Queer Politics,”GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies vol. 3., no. 4 (1997): 437-465. 
• Cvetkovitch, Ann. An Archive of Feeling: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures 
• Cruz, Ariane. The Color of Kink: Black Women, BDSM, and Pornography. 

• Delany, Samuel. Times Square Red, Times Square Blue.  
• Driskill, Qwo-Li, Daniel Heath Justice, and Deborah Miranda, eds. Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature. 
• Duggan, Lisa. "Queering the State." 
• Fawaz, Ramzi. The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics 
• Ferguson, Roderick. Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique. 

• Fung, Richard. “Looking for My Penis: The Eroticized Asian in Gay Video Porn,” How Do I Look? Queer Film (145-61). 
• Gaines, Malik. Black Performance on the Outskirts of the Left. 
• Gopinath, Gayatri. Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures. 
• Halberstam, J. Jack. Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal. 
• Halberstam, J. Jack. In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives 

• Halberstam, J. Jack. The Queer Art of Failure. 
• Halperin, David M. "Is There a History of Sexuality?" 
• Hames-García, Michael. “Queer Theory Revisited,” in Gay Latino Studies: A Critical Reader. 
• Hammonds, Evelynn. “Black (W)holes and the Geometry of Black Female Sexuality,” differences 6.2+3 (1994): 126-145. 
• Herring, Scott. Another Country: Queer Anti-Urbanism. 

• Heyes, Cressida. “Feminist Solidarity after Queer Theory: The Case of Transgender.” 
• Holland,  Sharon The Erotic Life of Racism. 
• Johnson, Patrick. “‘Quare’ Studies, or (Almost) Everything I Know About Queer Studies I Learned from My Grandmother", Text and Performance Quarterly Vol. 21 Issue 1(January 2001), 1-25. 
• Lee, Rachel C. The Exquisite Corpse of Asian America: Biopolitics, Biosociality, and Posthuman Ecologies. 
• Lim, Eng-Beng. Brown Boys and Rice Queens: Spellbinding Performance in the Asias. 

• Lorde, Audre. “I Am Your Sister: Black Women Organizing across Sexualities,” in Lorde, A Burst of Light: Essays (Ithaca, NY: Firebrand Books, 1988): 19-26. 
• Lorde, Audre. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches. 
• Manalansan IV, Martin F.  Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora. 
• McCruer, Robert. "Compulsory Able-Bodiedness and Queer/Disabled Existence." 
• McCruer, Robert. Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability. 

• McKay, Corina. "Is Sex Work Queer?" 
• McMillan, Uri. Embodied Avatars: Genealogies of Black Feminist Art and Performance.  
• Meyerowitz, Joanne. "Sex Change and the Popular Press: Historical Notes on Transsexuality in the United States, 1930-1955” 
• Muñoz, José. “Feeling Brown, Feeling Down: Latina Affect, The Performativity of Race, and the Depressive Position,” Signs Vol. 31, No. 3, (Spring 2006), pp. 675-688. 
• Muñoz, José and Lisa Duggan, “Hope and Hopelessness: A Dialogue,” Women and Performance: a journal of feminist theory, Vol. 19, No. 2, July 2009, pp. 275-283. 

• Muñoz, José. Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity. 
• Muñoz, José.  Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics. 
• Musser, Amber.Sensational Flesh: Race, Power, and Masochism. 
• Namaste, Vivian K. Invisible Lives: The Erasure of Transexual and Transgendered People. 
• Nash, Jennifer. The Black Body in Ecstasy: Reading Race, Reading Pornography. 

• Nestle, Joan, Clare Howell, and Riki Wilchins, eds. GENDERqUEER: voices from beyond the sexual binary. 
• Nguyen, Hoang Tan. A View From the Bottom: Asian American Masculinity and Sexual Representation. 
• Pérez, Hiram.  A Taste for Brown Bodies: Gay Modernity and Cosmopolitan Desire. 
• Quiroga, José A. Tropics of Desire: Interventions from Queer Latino America. 
• Reddy, Chandan. Freedom with Violence: Race, Sexuality, and the US State. 

• Reid-Pharr, Robert F. Archives of Flesh: African America, Spain, and Post-Humanist Critique. 
• Rich, Adrienne. "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence." 
• Rodríguez, Juana María. Queer Latinidad: Identity Practices, Discursive Spaces. 
• Rodríguez, Juana María. Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings. 
• Rubin, Gayle. "Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality” 

• Scott, Darieck. Extravagant Abjection: Blackness, Power, and Sexuality in the African American Literary Imagination. 
• Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. The Epistemology of the Closet. 
• Serrano, Julia. Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity. 
• Snorton, Riley. Nobody Is Supposed to Know: Black Sexuality on the Down Low. 
• Somerville, Siobhan B. Queering the Color Line: Race and the Intervention of Homosexuality in American Culture.   

• Spade, Dean. Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law 
• Stanley, Eric A. and Nat Smith, eds. Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex. 
• Stockton, Kathryn Bond. Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame: Where "Black" Meets "Queer." 
• Stone, Sandy. "The Empire Strikes Back: A Posttranssexual Manifesto." 
• Stryker, Susan. Transgender History. 

• Sycamore, Matt Bernstein (Mattilda), ed. Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity. 
• Tongson, Karen. Relocations: Queer Suburban Imaginaries. 
• Vaid, Urvashi. Irresistible Revolution: Confronting Race, Class and the Assumptions of LGBT Politics.