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Queer Studies

Queer studies is the critical theory based study of issues relating to sexual orientation and gender identity usually focusing on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people and cultures. Universities have also labeled this area of analysis Sexual Diversity Studies, Sexualities Studies or LGBTQ Studies. Once only meaning odd or unusual, and later an anti-gay epithet, "queer" used in reference to LGBT communities remains controversial.

Originally centered on LGBT history and literary theory, the field has expanded to include the academic study of issues raised in biology, soc
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Gay Bar: Why We Went Out
Can the Monster Speak? A Report to an Academy of Psychoanalysts
Sounds Fake But Okay
It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic
Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad
In Their Shoes: Navigating Non-Binary Life
The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America
Hi Honey, I'm Homo!: Sitcoms, Specials, and the Queering of American Culture
Trans Care
Twilight Man: Love and Ruin in the Shadows of Hollywood and the Clark Empire
A Place for Us: A Memoir
Godność, proszę: O transpłciowości, gniewie i nadziei
We See Each Other: A Black, Trans Journey Through TV and Film
Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought
The Velvet Mafia: The Gay Men Who Ran the Swinging Sixties
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
Transgender History (Seal Studies)
Queer: A Graphic History (Graphic Guides)
Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity
Epistemology of the Closet
That's Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives
Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation
Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890-1940
Stone Butch Blues
Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex"
No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive
The Trouble with Normal: Sex, Politics, and the Ethics of Queer Life

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