LGBTQ+ Studies 2025 - 2026
CONTENTS 1-3
Art
4-7
Film
8-11
History
12
History - New in Paperback
13
Family
14-16
Fiction & Poetry
17-19
Memoir
20
Plays
21-22
Literary Studies
23-24
Activism
25
Religion
26
Theory
27-29
Recent Highlights
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ART
CROSSINGS
Creative Ecologies of Cruising
João Florêncio & Liz Rosenfeld Foreword by Grace Lavery Q+ Public It’s difficult to pinpoint the origins of cruising. While the term was used by men seeking casual encounters with other men in the parks and streets of New York City as early as the 1920s, historical records show the practice is much older. Cruising has existed for as long as anyone outside the dominant sex and gender systems has sought sexual encounters outside of sanctioned norms. This book offers a serious exploration of queer sex and sex cultures, exploring cruising as a mode of thinking with the body and communicating through sexuality. A creative dialogue between a queer artist and a queer academic reminiscing about and thinking with their cruising experiences, Crossings takes queer sex practices and cultures seriously as ways of knowing and world-making. The result is an erotic hybrid form hovering between scholarship and avant-garde experimentation, between critical manifesto and sex memoir. Here, the voices of each author, merged together in one, invite the reader to inhabit the erotic spacetime between self and other, the familiar and the strange, desire and pleasure, climax and release. That is, the spaces and temporalities of cruising itself. 15 April 2025 | 166pp | 13 colour and 4 b&w images 9781978837546 | £16.99 / $22.95 | PB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
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ART
DAMAGE
Notes on a Queer Aesthetic
Jonathan Alexander A personal, critical guide to seeing queer art’s wounds and possibilities, Damage asks how to look at images marked by queer pain without turning that pain into shock or pretending it isn’t there. Writer and critic Jonathan Alexander answers by pairing close looking with lived experience. The result is intimate and analytic at once, a book that stays with hard feelings while still making room for possibility. 02 June 2026 | 160pp | 9 colour and 8 b&w illus. 9781531513160 | £18.99 / $24.95 | PB
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
MY STUDIO IS A DUNGEON IS THE STUDIO Writings and Interviews, 1983–2024
Nayland Blake Edited by Jarrett Earnest For four decades, Nayland Blake has been at the center of discussions of queer aesthetics and contemporary art. From interviews and critical essays to performance scripts and collage pieces, My Studio Is a Dungeon Is the Studio gathers forty years of Blake’s groundbreaking thought and writing on their personal explorations of kink and creativity as well as on the making, teaching, and curating of art and queer culture. 21 October 2025 | 368pp | 36 illus. 9781478032502 | £21.99 / $28.95 | PB 9781478029083 | £96.00 / $119.95 | HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
REPARATIVE CRAFT
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick as a Textile Artist
Jason Edwards Theory Q Jason Edwards examines a range of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s textile art from a ten-year period in which she was also writing Touching Feeling. Richly illustrated and presented in full color, this volume invites readers to connect Sedgwick’s art with her theory, presenting a new model of reparative reading that exemplifies ideas of queer and trans craft so vital to Sedgwick’s body of work. 11 August 2026 | 336pp | 90 colour illus. 9781478038856 | £26.99 / $35.00 | PB 9781478033974 | £100.00 / $125.00 | HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS 2
FILM
QUEER SLASHERS
Peter Marra Icons of Horror From Norman Bates dressed as "Mother" in Psycho to the rouged cheeks of Leatherface in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, many slasher icons have borne traces of queer and gender nonconforming behavior since the subgenre's very beginning. Queer Slashers presents the first book-length study of how and why the slasher subgenre of horror films appeals to queer audiences. In it, Peter Marra constructs a reparative history of the slasher that affirms its queer lineage extending back as early as the 1920s. It also articulates the queer aspects of the slasher formula that forge an unlikely kinship between queer audiences and these retrograde depictions of queer killers. Marra establishes a queer history and function for the slasher, analyzing several key contemporary "queer slashers"–that is, slashers that are made by queer filmmakers–to better understand how queer artists take up the slasher iconography and put it toward modern queer aims. Featuring analysis of films such as John Waters's Serial Mom, Peaches Christ's All About Evil, and Alain Guiraudie's Stranger by the Lake, Queer Slashers illuminates the queer meanings of slashers, their foundations, and their future possibilities. 04 February 2025 | 238pp | 19 b&w illus. 9780253071941 | £20.99 / $28.00 | PB 9780253071934 | £52.00 / $65.00 | HB
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
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FILM
CINEMAS OF BISEXUAL TRANSGRESSION
Jacob Engelberg a Camera Obscura book Jacob Engelberg makes the case for radically recalibrating queer film studies, taking as a starting point those cinematic figures who resist categorization within the gay-straight binary. Engelberg’s engagement with bisexual transgression on film illuminates the mutability and instability of sexuality, and of sociocultural structures more broadly by resisting the censure of images as politically harmful as well as the celebration of transgression as inherently subversive. 06 January 2026 | 350pp | 60 illus. 9781478032984 | £22.99 / $29.95 | PB 9781478029526 | £96.00 / $119.95 | HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
CURATING DEVIANCE
Programming the Queer Film Canon
Marc Francis a Camera Obscura book Marc Francis scavenges film history for signs of vibrant, wayward life in the film programming of US art house and repertory cinemas between 1968 and 1989. Francis examines how creative and savvy programmers screened films by the likes of John Waters, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Russ Meyer, and a bevy of others in major cities across the United States, forming intertextual constellations in their repertory calendars. 30 January 2026 | 302pp | 43 illus. 9781478033080 | £23.99 / $31.95 | PB 9781478029632 | £96.00 / $119.95 | HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
JOHNNY GUITAR
Brooks E. Hefner Reel West Series In this first-ever book on this divisive Western, Brooks Hefner disentangles the tortured production history of the film and explores the question of what makes Johnny Guitar not only an important film but an important Western in an era rife with classic examples of the genre. Made at the peak of director Nicholas Ray’s career, Johnny Guitar’s layered themes of gender, sexuality, psychology, and politics make it one of the richest examples of the “adult Western.” 16 June 2026 | 216pp 9780826369642 | £14.99 / $19.95 | PB
UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS
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FILM
THE ADVENTURES OF PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT
Renee Middlemost Queer Film Classics Written in less than ten days in 1994, The Adventures of Priscilla: Queen of the Desert became a cultural phenomenon that fundamentally altered mainstream ideas about queer identity worldwide. The iconic imagery of Priscilla still resonates as a symbol of global queer pride and liberation in spite of a critical reception that has varied since its release. Renée Middlemost provides valuable insight into the key debates surrounding the film through an overview of its production, initial reception, and legacy – adaptation into a stage musical, theme for an Olympic float, and inspiration for reality television programs. The evolution of Priscilla’s reputation also offers insight into ever-changing cultural attitudes: wild praise upon release, academic and critical backlash, and finally a nuanced but warm welcome into the history of Australian cinema. Equal parts road movie, musical, and comedy, Priscilla moved between genres, pulling off a radical centring of queer lives for mainstream consumption in the mid1990s. Passing its thirtieth anniversary, The Adventures of Priscilla: Queen of the Desert endures as cult object and cultural touchstone, adored by devoted audiences while serving as a reminder of progress made and the work still needed for acceptance. As Middlemost says of her first viewing in a suburban Sydney multiplex in 1994: “It was rude, it was sparkly, it shocked the family members who had begrudgingly taken me; I loved it.”. 19 May 2026 | 162pp | 50 photos 9780228027805 | £14.99 / $19.95 | PB
MCGILL-QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY PRESS
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FILM
QUEER INDIGENOUS CINEMAS
Sovereign Genders from Seven Directions
Gabriel S. Estrada Latinx Pop Culture In Queer Indigenous Cinemas, scholar Gabriel S. Estrada offers an analysis of queer Indigenous media from the Americas, the Pacific, and the Caribbean. This groundbreaking work uses Indigenous directional space and sovereign mapping methods to uncover the emotional, spiritual, and cultural dimensions of queer Indigenous lives. 17 March 2026 | 208pp | 19 colour illus. 9780816556403 | £22.99 / $30.00 | PB
THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA PRESS
THE LIVING END
Glyn Davis Queer Film Classics Scuzzy, sexy, and driven by anger at the ongoing AIDS crisis, Gregg Araki’s The Living End follows the exploits of an HIVpositive couple, journalist Jon and hustler Luke, as they reject conformity and take to the road. A touchstone of New Queer Cinema, the movie crackles with defiance, capturing the blunt rage and vital passion of its historical moment. Over thirty years after its release, The Living End remains a groundbreaking work of queer cinema, its anger undiminished. 15 September 2026 | 136pp | 34 photos 9780228028994 | £14.99 / $19.95 | PB
MCGILL-QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY PRESS
THE SEDUCTION OF SPACE Cruising French Cinema
Jules O'Dwyer Through the work of Jacques Nolot, Sébastien Lifshitz, Christophe Honoré, Alain Guiraudie, and others, Jules O’Dwyer draws film theory, queer studies, and spatial inquiry into close proximity to examine the politics of cruising and the gendering of space. Foregrounding the crucial role that spatiality plays in shaping the parameters of France’s visual cultures and political imaginary, The Seduction of Space is an urgent queer reconceptualization of this tradition. 11 March 2025 | 248pp | 15 b&w illus. 9781517916848 | £20.99 / $27.00 | PB 9781517916831 | £87.00 / $108.00 | HB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS 7
HISTORY
CISGENDER
CONTESTED CURRICULUM
Disorienting a Category
LGBTQ History Goes to School
Perry Zurn ASTERISK Perry Zurn turns an incisive yet playful eye toward the “norm” against which transgender gets defined. Cisgender is the first book to trace the story of how cis entered contemporary gender lexicons. Utilizing unplumbed archives and fresh interviews, Zurn offers a critical history of the term from the 1990s to the present, deftly defamiliarizing and reimagining cis at the same time. This unique examination of cisgender is a mustread for all readers invested in trans life and the futures of gender. 07 July 2026 | 288pp | 9 illus. 9781478038771 | £22.99 / $29.95 | PB 9781478033899 | £96.00 / $119.95 | HB
Don Romesburg Q+ Public Historian Don Romesburg, the lead scholar who worked with advocacy organizations to pass the act, recounts the decades-long struggle to integrate LGBTQ content into history education policy, textbooks, and classrooms. Looking at California and states that followed its lead, he assesses the challenges and opportunities presented by this new way of teaching history. 15 April 2025 | 284pp | 11 colour and 2 b&w images 9781978824096 | £21.99 / $28.95 | PB 9781978824102 | £56.00 / $69.95 | HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
NIGHTS IN FAIRYLAND
SEX ISN'T REAL
The Invention of an Incoherent Binary
Gossip, Blackmail, and the Many Lives of "Broadway Brevities"
Beans Velocci Beans Velocci traces the history of current high stakes attempts to define sex and to create a world devoid of trans life. Drawing on lab notes, family genealogies, medical case studies, and more, Velocci demonstrates how the practice of sorting of bodies into male and female shifts based on changing understandings of race, anatomy, and research and medical methodologies. They demonstrate that it is not the cis people who fit the categories; it is the categories that flex to make them fit. 03 February 2026 | 326pp | 10 illus. 9781478033028 | £22.99 / $29.95 | PB 9781478029595 | £96.00 / $119.95 | HB
Will Straw In 1925 the publishers of Broadway Brevities were tried for running an extortion operation targeting New York's social and cultural elites. Drawing on a singular complete collection of Broadway Brevities issues discovered over decades of research, Nights in Fairyland is a rich account of a virtually unknown form of periodical publishing, urban nightlife, queer sociability, and the commodification of gossip in the 1920s and 1930s. 13 January 2026 | 296pp | 39 photos 9780228026594 | £18.99 / $24.95 | PB
MCGILL-QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY PRESS
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS 10
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MEMOIR
WRITING IN THE FLESH
Essays on My Lives, My Bodies, My Families, My Places, My Movies
Thomas Waugh A confessional of the unrepentant, Writing in the Flesh caresses taboos, confronts sentimentality, and recasts memory. Thomas Waugh writes the body back into the intellectual autobiography, revealing the unsettling arguments and politics born from the tastes and desires of his own carnal vessel. Shaped by the arc of a life still in full flight – a preacher's kid who grows up to be a porn teacher and, along the way, a New Left activist and expert in documentary, queer, and Canadian film – Writing in the Flesh confronts the struggle of writing the self. Against the backdrop of Montreal's Plateau-Mont-Royal, New York City, and the Punjab, Waugh brings places and people to life in profound and unexpected ways. This is also a memoir about history, the archive, and ephemera: Waugh mines his personal annals for photographs, film stills, testimony, and correspondence to reconstitute the voices of blood and chosen families, to hedge against erratic memory, and to give sense to life. Indebted to the tradition of queer first-person rabble rousers, Waugh takes us on a journey through seven decades of queer relations: the erotic, the pedagogical, the familial, the romantic, the platonic, and, of course, the filmic. Sexy, cinematic, encyclopedic: this vivacious vita celebrates a life filled with family and chosen family, movies, and beefcake. At the same time these pages are, as the title declares, a writing in the flesh: the unveiling of the fraught, vulnerable, declining yet still robust and pleasured body at the very centre of it all. 02 December 2025 | 388pp | 127 photos 9780228027348 | £31.00 / $39.95 | PB
MCGILL-QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY PRESS
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PLAYS
PUTO Plays
Ricardo A Bracho Edited by Jennifer Ponce de León, Richard T. Rodríguez and Randall Williams Foreword by Cherríe Moraga Ricardo A. Bracho is a queer Chicano Marxist playwright from Los Angeles whose theatrical works dramatize the lives of gay Black and Brown partisans of anti-capitalism and decolonization. Characterized by their playful use of theory, Bracho’s plays utilize the stage as a place for characters to debate questions of sexual and political liberation. Driven by passion – for politics, for the dancefloor, for dispossessed bodies, communities, and lands – Bracho’s awardwinning plays express a polyphony of outlaw voices and contemporary dramas. 13 February 2026 | 238pp 9781478032908 | £22.99 / $29.95 | PB 9781478029496 | £96.00 / $119.95 | HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
CIRCLE JERK AND THIS AMERICAN WIFE
the internet theater of Fake Friends
Michael Breslin and Patrick Foley Edited by Michael Breslin and Ariel Sibert In March 2020, the New York theater company Fake Friends was pushed off the stage and into the land of the internet. This book marks the first publication of two of their deliciously absurd and toxically serious internet plays, Circle Jerk (the first-ever work in digital theater to be shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama) and This American Wife. Circle Jerk tells the social media– infused tale of gay white supremacists creating an AI-influencer to dominate the global discourse, and This American Wife spins a surrealist web of queer devotion to the stars and performance strategies of reality television. 15 August 2026 | 368pp | 3 b&w halftones, 46 colour halftones 9798899480546 | £20.99 / $28.00 | PB
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY PRESS 20
LITERARY STUDIES
BEYOND OURSELVES
Contemporary Poets on Muriel Rukeyser
Edited by Catherine Gander & Stefania Heim Muriel Rukeyser has many faces: poet, biographer, theorist, playwright, novelist, story-writer, filmmaker, translator, ethnographer, and innovator of social, documentary poetics; feminist, queer, Jewish, single mother, and social justice activist. Yet above all, she was a poet. Threaded through her work, politics, and life was the conviction that poetry is an animating force that connects people and disciplines. Beyond Ourselves is the first volume of its kind to comprehensively consider the continued urgency and lasting legacy of Rukeyser's work as a key source and inspiration for poets working today. 07 April 2026 | pp | 21 b&w images 9781959000662 | £20.99 / $27.99 | PB
WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY PRESS
CLOSE WRITING
QUEER IN A LEGAL SENSE
Kathy Acker, Cookie Mueller, and Love-in-Pieces
Brown Citizenship and Other Lawful Fictions
Alice Butler While the transgressive avant-garde writer Kathy Acker has developed a cult following in the decades since her death in the late-90s, the actress and writer Cookie Mueller has remained relatively obscure. In this creativecritical study, Butler draws on the autofictional strategies that Acker and Mueller pioneered in their own experimental writings and performances, encountering the women in intimate theoretical spaces of sensuality, sexuality, and sickness that slip between life and text. 30 April 2026 | 304pp | 34 illus., including 16 in colour 9781478029786 | £100.00 / $125.00 | HB
José A. de la Garza Valenzuela Contrasting works by queer Chicano writers against the legal landscape of sexuality and migration to interrogate the “lawful fiction” that denies queer migrants citizenship and community. Queer in a Legal Sense studies literary works by gay Chicanx writers alongside instruments of law, showing through this juxtaposition how racialized queer people have been imagined as nonviable from the standpoint of citizenship. 30 April 2026 | 248pp | 7 b&w photos 9781477333532 | £26.99 / $34.95 | PB 9781477333525 | £84.00 / $105.00 | HB
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS 21
THEORY
EROTIC KNOWLEDGE
Toward a Lesbian Feminist Political Theory
Elena Gambino Erotic Knowledge explores how US lesbian feminists raised questions about the political stakes of sexual freedom, how their distinctive political vocabularies informed coalition - and institution - building in ways that strain against contemporary queer and feminist assumptions, and how these alternative grammars were left behind in the decades since lesbian feminism’s remarkable surge in the 1970s. Gambino argues that the full extent of lesbian feminists’ contributions should be seen as a distinctive form of political analysis. 28 April 2026 | 208pp 9781478038689 | £19.99 / $25.95 | PB 9781478033776 | £83.00 / $103.95 | HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
SPECULATIVE RELATIONS
THE HOUSE IS (NOT) A PRISON
Indigenous Worlding and Repair
On the Queerness of Architecture
Joseph M. Pierce Drawing on Cherokee thinking, Indigenous queer theory, literary and cultural studies, and art criticism, Joseph M. Pierce considers the potential of Indigenous relations to repair the damages of history and imagine new futures. Indigenous relations are often described in anthropological terms, or as expressions of timeless, unchanging kinship ties. Speculative Relations challenges this view, considering the potential of these relations as a means of repairing the damages of history. 26 August 2025 | 296pp | 33 illus., including 8 in colour 9781478032151 | £25.99 / $34.00 | PB 9781478028888 | £100.00 / $125.00 | HB
Colin Ripley Where is sexuality, especially queer sexuality, in architecture? The House Is (Not) a Prison approaches this question from a radically new position, looking not for a theory of queer architecture, but rather for a queer theory of architecture. Starting from a reconsideration of the foundational principles of architecture, Colin Ripley demonstrates how the division of space steals land from the commons and forces separations and categories. In the process, queerness is created as an indispensable outside to architecture's disciplinary interior. 29 April 2026 | 368pp | 35 b&w photos 9781988111612 | £35.00 / $44.95 | PB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
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