A Pride Month 2025 Reading List
The University of Chicago Press invites everyone to celebrate Pride with a reading list of recent books from Chicago and our client publishers that help illuminate LGBTQIA2S+ lives. From inspirational memoirs to gripping histories, original poetry collections, novels, studies of queer representation in media, natural history, biographies of queer luminaries, and crucial reads on the challenges faced by the trans and intersex communities, these stories honor the journeys of queer individuals and the larger movement for love, acceptance, and equality for all.
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From Chicago
Queer Behavior: Scott Burton and Performance Art
David J. Getsy
“Art historian and curator Getsy has been observing how abstraction lends itself to often less obvious—though no less potent—ways of communicating aspects of queer experience and embodiment. . . . Getsy asks the public and its institutions to grasp new alternatives that embrace multiplicity. ‘I’m interested in understanding that gender is as transformable as it is multiple, not limited to static options, and this implicates everything and everyone in a different way.’”—ArtNet
On Christopher Street: Life, Sex, and Death after Stonewall
Michael Denneny
“As a founder and editor of the wildly influential literary journal Christopher Street and later as the first openly gay editor at a major publishing house, Denneny critically shaped publishing around gay subjects in the 1970s and beyond. At St. Martin’s Press, he acquired a slew of landmark titles by gay authors—many for his groundbreaking Stonewall Inn Editions—propelling queer voices into the mainstream cultural conversation. . . . On Christopher Street revisits that heady period to map out the cultural forces, geographies, and storylines of LGBTQ in those decades.”—Queer Forty
The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government
David K. Johnson
“This book draws from newly declassified documents, records of the National Archives and the FBI, and interviews with former civil servants to show a part of American history that may have been previously unknown. Historian Johnson recalls ‘homosexual purges’ which ended careers, ruined lives, and pushed many to suicide. Winner of the Randy Shilts Award, Herbert Hoover Book Award, and Gustavus Myers Book Award, this tragic history, which is now an award-winning documentary, is essential to understand the history of the queer community.”—USA Today, on the First Edition
Born This Way: Science, Citizenship, and Inequality in the American LGBTQ+ Movement
Joanna Wuest
“Today, the belief that LGBTQ+ people were ‘born that way’ is widespread, and generally taken as indisputable truth. Wuest traces the history of beliefs about the origins of ‘homosexuality,’ later expanded to include the entire LGBTQ+ spectrum in a meticulously referenced and nuanced story. . . . A valuable contribution to LGBTQ+ research and activism [that] should be required reading for those engaged in advocacy work in the current political climate.”—Journal of Homosexuality
Looking through the Speculum: Examining the Women’s Health Movement
Judith A. Houck
“At a moment when reproductive and bodily autonomy are under threat more than ever, Houck tells a timely story of women’s health movement activists who demystified and transformed reproductive medicine to establish liberatory health practices and institutions. Houck’s protagonists also grappled with intersectional marginalization, leading many to demand healthcare that embraced the particular needs and demands of lesbians, trans people, and women of color.”—Jennifer Nelson, University of Redlands
Coming Out Republican: A History of the Gay Right
Neil J. Young
“In the fractious political atmosphere we have now, it’s essential to understand how gay conservatives have influenced politics through the decades. . . . [This] may be one of the most eye-opening books you’ll read.”—Washington Blade
Glorious Bodies: Trans Theology and Renaissance Literature
Colby Gordon
“Trans identity long predates the twentieth century, according to this ambitious debut. . . . Delving into the literature of the Renaissance, mainly religious writing like sermons and saints’ lives, Gordon discovers evocative and often surreal examples of gender variance. Gordon offers these sources as proof that Renaissance-era people conceived of gender beyond the binary; he also uses them to challenge contemporary transphobia. . . . An insightful contextualization of today’s political battles over trans rights.”—Publishers Weekly
A Little Queer Natural History
Josh L. Davis
“This splendid debut from Davis, a science writer for London’s Natural History Museum, surveys the dazzling variety of sexual behavior and expression in the animal, fungi, and plant kingdoms. . . . The fascinating science makes a resounding case that the natural world features more diverse expressions of sexual activity and biological sex than commonly believed. The result is a much needed corrective to blinkered notions of what’s considered ‘natural.’”—Publishers Weekly
Becoming Lesbian: A Queer History of Modern France
Tamara Chaplin
“Becoming Lesbian is the fruit of fifteen years of research on the subject. For the first time, this work shows how lesbian cultures, which emerged with the French cabarets of the 1920s, continued to flourish after the Second World War, subsequently enabling the politicization of lesbian identity.”—Le Monde
Farid Matuk
“Matuk’s poems, not as the shape of pleasure or language-as-pleasure but as languaged pleasure, catch us unawares. They are ‘susceptible yet undivided,’ taking us to the toothed edge but, without sharpness, turning. We move, not sure where from, as a poem, so by the end of a verse, stanza, or book, we have been to places we can’t identify on any map, ‘turned away / From the heroics and capital of literature’ and undone in a sense in a glimmering ‘queer air.’ Moon Mirrored Indivisible bends, pushing past debris and dams when needed, forceful or stagnant depending on the wind, the pressure, and the height from which words fall.”—Roque Raquel Salas Rivera, author of Lo Terciario / The Tertiary
This Is Rhythm: Ella Jenkins, Children’s Music, and the Long Civil Rights Movement
Gayle F. Wald
“Wald brings Jenkins’ ‘iridescent genius and generous spirit’ alive in this revealing portrait of a self-determined, gay Black woman. Drawing on interviews and extensive personal papers, she tells Jenkins’ story in intimate, revealing detail, framed in the sweeping cultural and political changes of the post-war Civil Rights Movement. Jenkins’s music may not have changed the world, but her rhythms continue to model a much-needed ‘antidote to its cacophony.’”—Booklist (starred review)
Standardizing Sex: A History of Trans Medicine
Ketil Slagstad
“A landmark work showcasing the value of comprehensive research, [Slagstad’s book] has powerfully revised our understanding of transgender medicine’s history through the lens of Nordic welfare states. Standardizing Sex teaches us why medical transition is subject to such baroque and exceptional restriction: its fictitious value to society has overridden its life-giving significance to people who transition. This book is essential reading for everyone seeking to understand the politicization and practice of medical transition.”—Jules Gill-Peterson, author of A Short History of Trans Misogyny
Undertale: Can a Game Give Hope?
Anastasia Salter
“For game studies scholars and fans alike, Undertale offers an important new perspective on conversations about violence, choice, and design in games.”—Bo Ruberg, author of How to Queer the World: Radical Worldbuilding through Video Games
From Acre Books
CD Eskilson
“[An] imaginative and playful debut. . . . Scream / Queen interrogates monstrosity and the monsterification of trans, queer, and disabled/mentally ill bodies through the lens of pop culture, particularly horror films. . . . By radically re-envisioning familiar characters and tropes, Eskilson breathes new life into their stories, granting them agency and also allowing readers who have been marginalized or flattened by harmful language and representation to see themselves reflected, perhaps for the first time. Scream / Queen is a testament to the liberatory power of queer imagination, creating ‘Not simply / a new ending, an entirely new script.’”—Electric Literature
From Brandeis University Press
Lessons in Drag: A Queer Manual for Academics, Artists, and Aunties
Kareem Khubchandani
Scholarship and performance combine to show how drag can be a blueprint for critique, care, teaching, and worldmaking. Lessons in Drag brings to life a vibrant and thought-provoking dialogue between scholar Kareem Khubchandani and his drag persona LaWhore Vagistan. Beginning with an intimate interview, the book unfolds in alternating chapters where the two exchange insights, stories, and critiques. Together, their reflections and conversations weave a compelling tapestry of drag’s instructive power. Witty, bold, and deeply personal, Lessons in Drag is both an invitation to explore drag as a practice and a celebration of its transformative potential.
From DIAPHANES
Radical Desires: French Gay Liberation and Anticolonial Critique
Edited by Hauke Branding and Julian Volz
An intersectional approach to the radicality of desire, this book seeks to emphasize the anti-identitarian character of the French gay liberation movement, as well as its implicit and explicit critique of gender and sexual binaries. At the same time, the volume is also interested in expanding this critique by confronting it with anticolonial and queer of color perspectives. To explore the multiplicity of forms with or in which these critiques were expressed, this volume places theoretical perspectives in conversation with artistic perspectives on queer liberation in a transnational context. Contributors include Friederike Beier, Antoine Idier, Émilie Notéris, Lukas Betzler, Mohammad Shawky Hassan, Sido Lansari, Todd Shepard, and Julian Volz.
From Hirmer Publishers
Edited by David Evans Franz, Christina Linden, and Chris E. Vargas
“It’s hard to overstate the importance of a book and exhibition series like Trans Hirstory in a time of historic attacks against trans and LGBTQ+ rights both in the United States and around the world. . . . And like any good object history, Trans Hirstory challenges the very idea of history as a mode of study that has a singular and comprehensive perspective or that can even have a fixed period of time as its reference point. We see objects from the twenty-first century and the first, a reminder that trans people have always existed.”—Hyperallergic
From Hong Kong University Press
Queer TV China: Televisual and Fannish Imaginaries of Gender, Sexuality, and Chineseness
Edited by Jamie J. Zhao
“This timely volume explores the various possibilities and nuances of queerness in Chinese TV and fannish culture. Challenging the dichotomy of ‘positive’ and ‘negative’ representations of gender and sexual minorities, Queer TV China argues for a multilayered and queer-informed understanding of the production, consumption, censorship, and recreation of Chinese television today.”—Geng Song, University of Hong Kong
From Intellect Ltd
Lesbians on Television: New Queer Visibility & the Lesbian Normal
Kate McNicholas Smith
“A nuanced look at the gender and racial politics which underpin a number of relevant queer televisual works, interrogating and illuminating the often-contradictory ideologies which pervade them. . . . As McNicholas Smith writes in the book’s conclusion, contemporary lesbian representation has given us cause for both optimism and concern, with her monograph serving as a detailed account of precisely the discursive tension inherent in many queer televisual works.”—Journal of Popular Television
Gender, Sex, and Sexuality in Musical Theatre: He/She/They Could Have Danced All Night
Edited by Kelly Kessler
“In addition to the articles published as part of [the journal] Studies in Musical Theatre, Kessler has included five other articles in her book to include recent developments and shows: new pieces on Spanish musical theatre performance and fandom; historicity and musical stories told through Black female authorship, gender-flipped; nonbinary and trans narratives; and the negotiated marketing and queerness on Broadway. . . . Fabulous.”—Das Musicalmagazin
New Queer Television: From Marginalization to Mainstreamification
Edited by Thomas Brassington, Debra Ferreday, and Dany Girard
Though queer critics and queer theory tend to frame queer identities as marginal, this edited volume draws attention to a dynamic field in which a wide variety of queer identities can be put on display and consumed by audiences. Cementing a foundational understanding of queerness that is at odds with current shifts in media production, contributors present a broad variety of queer identities from across a range of televisual shows and genres to reconsider the marginalization of queerness in the twenty-first century.
From Omnidawn Publishing, Inc.
The Patient Is an Unreliable Historian
Brody Parrish Craig
“The Patient Is an Unreliable Historian begins off script, where the patient diagnoses the failures of medicine. From the clinic to the prison cell, this book speaks through those abandoned or abused by systems of care. Craig’s words alight with a madness that has both the fervid imagination of a raveling mind and lucid anger forged in struggle. With a poet’s lyricism and a critic’s cutting insight, Craig carves queer possibilities into the open road between Oklahoma, Texas, and Arkansas. Here, freedom is a covenant we make with one another—a promise ‘to keep / us each alive.’”—V. Jo Hsu, author of Constellating Home: Trans and Queer Asian American Rhetorics
Liza Flum
“‘I have never wanted to be mystified,’ Flum writes in one of the startlingly insightful prose works that support the volume’s filigree, feathery, flightworthy verse, all hummingbird and hunger and momentum: these poems keep their hummingbird consciousness thoughtful, attentive, in motion, ‘almost flying,’ even as its fertilities and their impediments yoke it to our biologically complicated Earth. Can hummingbirds marry? Can they take multiple lovers? Human beings like this powerful poet can, and we do, and we need poems about that taking, and that giving, and those satisfactions, and those needs. Flum offers a starship, an aviary, a sanctuary in half-crowned sonnets and other rooms, durable, breathing, bruised.”—Stephanie Burt, author of We Are Mermaids
From Reaktion Books
David Ellis
“A concise and distinct review of Byron’s life and works. . . . Detailing Byron’s complex life is certainly no straightforward task, yet Ellis approaches the subject with expertise, utilizing a variety of well-placed sources, understanding and good humor to create a vivid and unbiased portrayal of one of history’s most celebrated poets.”—The Pilgrim
Jess Cotton
“Cotton’s short but thorough explication of Ashbery’s life and work does a fine job of placing him both as a twentieth-century poet and as a leading figure among gay writers.”—Gay and Lesbian Review
Alone: Reflections on Solitary Living
Daniel Schreiber, Translated by Ben Fergusson
“This is a work suffused with the essayistic sensibility. It blends passages of memoir with scholarly and literary references to explore the author’s existence as a single gay man who often feels he is living outside standard social models. . . . Friendship is, in fact, as much the topic of this book as aloneness. Schreiber writes interestingly about it, drawing a contrast between its polymorphic freedoms and the ‘grand narratives’ of love and family. . . . Beautiful images and insights bounce up along the way.”—Guardian (Book of the Day)
Lara Vetter
“[An] acute, compact biography [written] with exquisite delicacy. . . . The life that mattered was in the perpetual motion of creation that made biography problematic. She created herself in her writing about her analysis of Freud, about mythology, religion, and a range of ancient and modern subjects that has made it difficult for her biographer to pin down her subject. To Vetter’s credit, she does not discount the difficulty. . . . Such admissions ought to weaken the biographer’s authority, but in Vetter’s case the opposite is true because she is as supple as her subject.”—New York Sun
Radicals and Rogues: The Women Who Made New York Modern
Lottie Whalen
“New York is undoubtedly one of the most culturally vibrant cities in the world. But it wasn’t always so. In Radicals and Rogues, the writer and researcher Whalen reveals that its transformation in the early decades of the twentieth century was largely thanks to a bold, taboo-busting cohort of women who pushed boundaries both creatively and socially. As artists, writers, salon hosts and patrons they passionately embraced new forms of living, loving and creating.”—BBC Culture
Open Play: The Case for Feminist Sport
Sheree Bekker and Stephen Mumford
“Imagine a world where anyone was free to reach their full potential playing the sport they love; where open competition replaced discrimination and exclusion, and where athletes were judged by their performances on the field rather than their conformity with gender norms. Bekker and Mumford show us how to get there, and how far we have to go. This courageous book should spark a revolution in sport.”—Caster Semenya
Jake Poller
“This is the Christopher Isherwood biography we have been missing: informative, readable, and concise. Poller covers both Isherwood’s ‘monumental life’ and his considerable work without producing a doorstop. . . . Poller provides fresh insight without being dogmatic, offering alternate readings of events and works. This is a book Isherwood fans will learn from and enjoy reading.”—James J. Berg, editor of Isherwood on Writing
Berghain Nights: A Journey through Techno and Berlin Club Culture
Liam Cagney
A pulsing, personal, and fabulous ride through the music and culture of an iconic nightclub scene, Berghain Nights not only captures the excitement of Berlin club culture but also asks how techno in a queer club context can help people strip away their inherited hang-ups to find a truer self. It takes us into the most notorious club in the world and a scene that, enthralling thousands every weekend, feeds billions annually into Berlin’s economy. In the midst of it all is the story of a person who, having gone through life feeling like an alien, finds himself in the most alien place imaginable—and feels at home there.
Katherine Mansfield: A Hidden Life
Gerri Kimber
A revealing look at the life, loves, and writing of Katherine Mansfield, one of literary modernism’s most significant writers. By the time of her death in 1923, aged just thirty-four, she had broken boundaries and created new ways of writing that led her literary sparring partner Virginia Woolf to later admit that Mansfield’s “was the only writing I was ever jealous of.” Based on compelling new research, Kimber’s book challenges previous conceptions surrounding the author’s life, uncovers friendships and relationships formerly barely acknowledged, and offers innovative readings of Mansfield’s most celebrated stories.
From Seagull Books
Ko-Hua Chen, Translated by Wen-Chi Li and Colin Bramwell
“Ophthalmologist–poet Chen’s Decapitated Poetry exuberantly straddles the bodily and the speculative. . . . The clarity of the poet’s voice never grows prosaic, and the ambit of his imagination remains broad as his perspective leaps from instruction manual to fairy tale to editorial to deadpan personal snapshot. . . . Here, Chen’s landmark poems of gay love are paired with two long works: ‘Twelve Love Poems for an Android’ and ‘Notes on a Planet,’ a 40+-page epic penned when Chen was still a teenager, written from the perspective of a human/android chimera and directed to their comrade/beloved, ‘WS.’”—Harriet Books
Cyril Wong
“Tender and poignant, stopping at the edge where words cannot go but desire enters in the poet’s form, these poems push us again and again to where the prosaic and the lyrical meet, where common language takes on the edges of passionate form.”—Shirley Geok-lin Lim, winner of the 1997 American Book Award
The Worst Thing of All Is the Light
José Luis Serrano, Translated by Lawrence Schimel
“To the list of great works of metafiction—Pale Fire, Slaughterhouse-Five, The Crying of Lot 49—we can now add Serrano’s third novel, The Worst Thing of All Is the Light, an astonishing, multi-layered work.”—Gay and Lesbian Review
Pathologies: The Downfall of Johan van Vere de With
Jacob Isräel de Haan, Translated by Brian Doyle–Du Breuil and with an Afterword by Wim J. Simons
One of the first novels to openly explore gay love and eroticism, Pathologies is a lost classic that is now translated into English for the first time. Johan is one of world literature’s most tragic, troubled young heroes, at par with Goethe’s Werther and Dostoevsky’s Raskolnikov. His struggle to come to terms with his fantasies and desires—rife with taboos that continue to resonate today—forms the beating heart of this daring novel. Written in De Haan’s precise, lyrical prose, Pathologies has lost none of its force more than a century after it was first published.
Omar Youssef Souleimane, Translated by Ghada Mourad
A rare narrative of gay love in the Arab world that travels into the lives of a group of spirited youth during the Syrian Revolution, Souleimane’s eloquent novel is also a story about inter-generational conflicts, rebellion, and liberation. With intense, poetic prose, he brilliantly captures the indomitable yearning for freedom that, despite all obstacles and setbacks, always survives in a hopeful person’s heart until it’s attained.
Valentijn Hoogenkamp, Translated by Michele Hutchison
“A stirring account of gender transition. . . . With bracing candor (“‘I’m happy,’ I say, to gauge whether I’m lying”), Hoogenkamp poignantly reflects on his failed childhood attempts to “get the hang of being a girl,” the toll his transition took on his relationship with a cis man, and the unexpected support he received from a trans ex-lover. This will offer solace to readers wrestling with similar questions, and enlightenment to those who never have.”—Publishers Weekly
Sudipto Pal, Translated by Arunava Sinha
A gay novel in which the rural landscapes of Bengal set the stage for a story that transcends the boundaries of tradition and love, Unlove Story delves into the intricate layers of two men’s lives, their fears, insecurities, hopes, and the mosaic of experiences that shape them. Their story is a testament to the complexities of human connection. One of the first openly gay novels written in Bengali, and the first to be translated into English, Pal’s Unlove Story is a groundbreaking addition to the canon of queer literature from around the world.
Mireille Best, Translated by Stephanie Schechner
In a rigid postwar institution where friendships burn bright and heartbreak stings sharper than medicine, Mila must decide whether to retreat or risk everything for love. Originally published in 1985, Hymn to Moray Eels is a rare and brilliant gem of queer literature, balancing wry humor with aching tenderness. Best’s unsentimental prose captures the bittersweet contradictions of adolescence, creating a coming-of-age novel that is both deeply personal and strikingly universal.
Chapal Rani, the Last Queen of Bengal: The Life and Times of a Female Impersonator
Sandip Roy
Blending biography with evocative vignettes, Chapal Rani traces the career of Bengali stage actor Chapal Bhaduri and his struggle for artistic identity in a changing world. As the last great female impersonator of Bengali theater, he once held audiences spellbound in the jatra tradition, where men became goddesses and heroines. But when women finally took their place on stage, Chapal found himself exiled from the world he had ruled. Through decades of research and deeply personal interviews, Roy crafts a moving portrait of gender and belonging.
From Tupelo Press
Emma Binder
WINNER of the SNOWBOUND CHAPBOOK AWARD “In Country Songs for Alice, the author has woven a collection that marries music and love poems. These pieces are ferocious with love, ablaze with it, invoking a world of deserts and horses, rodeos and sunsets, lizards and open roads. With no one around / you can be anything: animal, mineral, / cloud pattern, blade. The same can be said of these poems: whittled with love, transforming from song to stanza to memory across the page. If you want to come to my house, I’ll let you in, the chapbook begins. I’m glad to have been invited.”—from the Judge’s Citation by Hala Alyan
Rosa Lane
“Reading Called Back is like floating through water, dipping into Lane’s lyric obsession with Emily Dickinson as though on a raft made of erudite diction, vowel sounds, line breaks, and longing. Or it’s like Lane’s doppelganger-speaker—this less constrained Emily—laid her body out across the ocean and said, now float on me. The main conceit is to imagine, evoke, and call back to a new, less-othered Emily Dickinson, a twenty-first-century Emily Dickinson more able to openly ‘swim / up the fish weir…spawn / in sandy silt along the odic / thighs of the Loire [to] flutter / our little deaths.’ This sexy book does not protest. It does not rant or shriek any grievance, though God knows it has a right to. Instead, it gives Emily back the ‘feral / utterances’ Lane suggests her circumstances and time in history forbade her. This radical homage will delight Dickinson scholars and poets alike. And those who don’t know yet how much poetry can liberate them should read it too.”—Adrian Blevins, author of Status Pending
From University of British Columbia Press
Celeste E. Orr
“I am rarely as excited about a text as I am about this one. It provides a corrective to the usual narratives inside the humanities and social sciences when they pick up intersex as a ‘shiny toy’ used to make (usually essentialist) arguments for the liberation of other groups, only for intersex itself to end up neglected. The book invites conversation instead of foreclosing upon it. It is outstanding.”—M. Morgan Holmes, author of Intersex: A Perilous Difference
Sex, Sexuality, and the Constitution: Enshrining the Right to Sexual Autonomy in Japan
Shigenori Matsui
“Sensible as well as highly readable, Sex, Sexuality, and the Constitution is a must-have for scholars and students interested in privacy and sexual autonomy from a comparative perspective. The Japanese experience is a rich source of fascinating and thought-provoking material, and no one knows it better than Matsui.”—David S. Law, School of Law, University of Virginia
From Athabasca University Press, via University of British Columbia Press
Indigiqueerness: A Conversation about Storytelling
Joshua Whitehead, With Contributions by Angie Abdou
“Reflecting on memories of youth, Indigiqueerness is a combination of memoir and collage in conversation with writer Angie Abdou. Through [Whitehead’s] storytelling, the book contemplates the nuance and beauty of Indigenous language, queer identity, theory and childhood.”—CBC
From Concordia University Press, via University of British Columbia Press
Ingredients for Revolution: A History of American Feminist Restaurants, Cafes, and Coffeehouses
Alex D. Ketchum
“The first history of the more than 230 feminist and lesbian-feminist restaurants, cafes, and coffeehouses that existed in the United States from 1972 to the present. [With Ketchum] we dive into the ways these institutions provided spaces and community to tackle questions around the intersections between feminism, food justice, queer rights, and other social justice movements while serving as training grounds for women workers and entrepreneurs, as well as what the landscape of queer feminist restaurants looks like today.”—History Is Gay
The Regulation of Desire, Third Edition: Queer Histories, Queer Struggles
Gary Kinsman, with a Foreword by OmiSoore Dryden and an Afterword by Tom Hooper
“Kinsman’s pathbreaking book has been carefully rethought and revised to address crucial issues in contemporary queer politics. It models a dynamic queer historical materialism, founded on a deep commitment to learning from movements and integrating anti-racist, anti-colonial and trans perspectives. The third edition provides crucial tools for making sense of contemporary queer movements, understanding the influence of neoliberal queer perspectives, and seeing the centrality of trans, anti-racist and anti-colonial queer mobilizations to moving beyond the neoliberal queer towards liberation.”—Against the Current
From University of Wales Press
The New Queer Gothic: Reading Queer Girls and Women in Contemporary Fiction and Film
Robyn Ollett
Comprising literary, cultural, and film analysis, this book situates and defines the New Queer Gothic as a product of woman-authored twentieth and twenty-first-century novels. The first in-depth analysis of contemporary queer and Gothic texts to focus on the subjectivity, characterization, and representation of queer girls and women, it investigates and celebrates the relationship between queer feminine identity and the Gothic, beyond purely paranoid readings. Using contemporary texts and theory, it focuses on the representation of queer girls and women in contemporary queer and Gothic texts.
Queer for Fear: Horror Film and the Queer Spectator
Heather O. Petrocelli
“Queer for Fear is the first major empirical study of queer horror spectators, their diversity and lived experiences. It offers a new understanding of camp, queer community, queer trauma, queer live cinema, the importance of drag and camp laughter. Queer for Fear is an original, intelligent and thought-provoking study of the complex relationship between queerness, horror and the cinema. A must-have book for queer lovers of horror—and everyone else!”—Barbara Creed, author of Return of the Monstrous-Feminine: Feminist New Wave Cinema
From Calon, via University of Wales Press
Gay Aliens and Queer Folk: How Russell T Davies Changed TV
Emily Garside
“A marvellous love letter to the many brilliant TV works of Russell T Davies, this book is smartly entertaining, always accessible, and unafraid to reflect on evolving cultural norms. Embracing the subversive and the difficult alongside the glorious and the groundbreaking, Garside is your thought-provoking guide to an array of topics—the asexual Doctor in Doctor Who, nerds, politics, TV drama of its time and ahead of its time, Welshness, sex, even Margaret Thatcher as the ultimate unseen villain. Yes, it’s all in here. And just as fabulously queer as you’d imagine, faithful reader.”—Matt Hills, author of Triumph of a Time Lord and Doctor Who: The Unfolding Event
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