Gay & Lesbian Books

New and Published Books

1. Rethinking the Gay and Lesbian Movement

   By Marc Stein

   Series: American Social and Political Movements of the 20th Century

   Rethinking the Gay and Lesbian Movement provides a new narrative history of U.S. gay and lesbian activism, drawing on primary research in the field and the best scholarship on the history of the gay and lesbian movement. Focusing on four decades of social, cultural, and political change in the...

   Published May 20th 2012 by Routledge
2. The Gay Games

   A History

   By Caroline Symons

   Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Sport

   The Gay Games is an important piece of new social history, examining one of the largest sporting, cultural and human rights events in the world. Since their inception in 1980, the Gay Games have developed into a multi-million dollar mega-event, engaging people from all continents, while the...

   Published April 30th 2012 by Routledge
3. Bisexuality and Queer Theory

   Intersections, Connections and Challenges

   Edited by Jonathan Alexander, Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio

   According to David Halperin, sexuality in our time is typified by a "crisis in contemporary sexual definition". What is sexuality? What does it mean to have a sexual identity or orientation? What is the relationship between sexuality as a knowledge construct, on one hand, and the often messy flows...

   Published November 22nd 2011 by Routledge
4. Gender Diversity in Indonesia

   Sexuality, Islam and Queer Selves

   By Sharyn Graham Davies

   Series: ASAA Women in Asia Series

   Indonesia provides particularly interesting examples of gender diversity. Same-sex relations, transvestism and cross-gender behaviour have long been noted amongst a wide range of Indonesian peoples. This book explores the nature of gender diversity in Indonesia, and with the world’s largest Muslim...

   Published November 3rd 2011 by Routledge
5. Queer Theory: Law, Culture, Empire

   Edited by Robert Leckey, Kim Brooks

   Queer Theory: Law, Culture, Empire uses queer theory to examine the complex interactions of law, culture, and empire. Building on recent work on empire, and taking contextual, socio-legal, comparative, and interdisciplinary approaches, it studies how activists and scholars engaged in queer theory...

   Published September 29th 2011 by Routledge
6. Transgender Migrations

   The Bodies, Borders, and Politics of Transition

   Edited by Trystan Cotten

   Series: New Directions in American History

   Transgender Migrations brings together a top-notch collection of emerging and established scholars to examine the way that the term "migration" can be used not only to look at the way trans bodies migrate from one gender to the (an?) other, but the way that trans people migrate in the larger...

   Published July 19th 2011 by Routledge
7. Gay and Lesbian Subculture in Urban China

   By Loretta Wing Wah Ho

   Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

   This book contributes to a critical understanding of how Chinese same-sex identity in urban China is variously imagined; how it is transformed; and how it presents its resistances as China continues to open up to global power relations. Equally important, the book will 1) sharpen knowledge of China...

   Published July 5th 2011 by Routledge
8. Homosexuality and Manliness in Postwar Japan

   By Jonathan D. Mackintosh

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Japan Series

   Japan’s first professionally produced, commercially marketed and nationally distributed gay lifestyle magazine, Barazoku (‘The Rose Tribes’), was launched in 1971. Publicly declaring the beauty and normality of homosexual desire, Barazoku electrified the male homosexual world whilst scandalising...

   Published April 19th 2011 by Routledge
9. Routledge International Encyclopedia of Queer Culture

   Edited by David A Gerstner

   The Routledge International Encyclopedia of Queer Culture covers gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer (GLBTQ) life and culture post-1945, with a strong international approach to the subject.The scope of the work is extremely comprehensive, with entries falling into the broad categories of...

   Published April 12th 2011 by Routledge
10. Gender, Sexuality and Museums

    A Routledge Reader

    Edited by Amy K. Levin

    Gender, Sexuality and Museums provides the only repository of key articles, new essays and case studies for the important area of gender and sexuality in museums. It is the first reader to focus on LGBT issues and museums, and the first reader in nearly 15 years to collect articles which focus on...

    Published July 27th 2010 by Routledge