... are the experiences of two other adjunct faculty. Doctoral Candidate X, a queer Black woman, who talks about how the intersection of class and sexuality shape her choices as she considers whether or not to continue her academic career, while Dionne Bensonsmith discusses how she has fashioned a scholarly community...

...This chapter examines how notions of what is means to be Ghanaian and African shape the gender and sexual politics of class-privileged Ghanaians in Houston and Accra. Through a discussion of compulsory heterosexuality, queer activism, and indigenous orientations to gender and sexual expansiveness...

...This chapter introduces the Southwest Virginia LGBTQ+ History Project, a queer public history initiative based in Roanoke, Virginia. The narrative focuses on the origins of the project, the stories of some of the project’s early undertakings and its multigenerational volunteers and participants...

... in Charlottesville, to the author’s trip to Boca Raton, Florida to visit her grandmother and come out again to her family. In the end, the author describes a visit to an older Black gay man’s holiday party, Christmas Eve service at a gay church, and fellowship at an all-trans home, showcasing the diverse queer...

...Trucking has changed dramatically since the 1970s, with increased regulations and reduced pay. Queer people, women, and racial minorities have entered the industry during these years. How are these changes related, and what are their larger consequences? ACLU American Civil Liberties Union...

... boundaries. The chapter explains that Chapter 2 applied feminist theories from gender studies to understand the body of Sayyida Amina, and that it will add to this repertoire theory from queer studies to address the question of Hussayn's sexual orientation, or nonnormative sexual interactions with other men...

... fields of characterization: the queer figure of El Malinche who emblematizes assimilative desire and the masculinist figure of El Macho who has a revolutionary consciousness of colonial subjection. Pocho reveals rather than reproducing the dominant heteropatriarchal order from which...

... Dauenhauer and in Filipino writer Carlos Bulosan’s novel America Is in the Heart to ruminate on queer affinities within settler colonial racial capitalism. Blue Scholars canneries Hope Ishmael Industrial Workers of the World IWW Japanese labor Local 283 “North by Northwest” Blue...

...In this chapter gay Pride serves as a lens through which the environment for lesbian lives in Atlanta and Charlotte is understood. Atlanta’s long history of supporting gay Pride celebrations in its queer-friendly Midtown neighborhood offers a unique comparison to Charlotte’s reluctant relationship...

...The Famous Lady Lovers introduces readers to the vibrant worlds made by Black queer women in the Interwar era, and the important mark they made on American culture in this time. The book begins with the story of a southern migrant in Chicago who left her husband to be with a woman...

...After World War II, Atlanta and Charlotte emerged as leading urban centers in the South, redefining the region through their competing metropolitan identities. Both cities also served as home to queer communities who defined themselves in accordance with their urban surroundings and profited...

... been a queer borderland for over a century. In chronicling Miami’s queer past from its 1896 founding through 1940, Capó shows the multifaceted ways gender and sexual renegades made the city their own. Drawing from a multilingual archive, Capó unearths the forgotten history of "fairyland," a marketing...

...Black. Queer. Southern. Women.: An Oral History reveals how identity is made through race, gender, sexuality, class, and region. In particular, it centers the life stories of more than seventy Black, queer women from the U.S. South. With their lives and experiences as the focus, E...

... spiritual practices that shape the experiences of other practitioners and observers in her temple. Drawing from an interdisciplinary methodology that includes history and transnational Black feminist ethnography grounded in Africana studies, religious studies, performance studies, and queer studies...

... anticommercial motives for seeking alternative economies and for presenting "queer" appearances. Both men and women—like the Bowery-browsing punk icon Patti Smith—displayed cross-gendered appearance, yet public reception of "genderfuck" suggested that men in women’s clothing were assumed to be more politically...

... grotesque to explore a wide range of hitherto unspeakable sexual practices. incest queer sexuality rape southern gothic southern grotesque lesbian desire literary works Rubin Gayle Yaeger Patricia Allison Dorothy Harris Bertha intersectionality My Mama’s Dead Squirrel Segrest queer theory...

... Visibility Performance Indigenous Queer Queer studies Respectability Sexuality Christianity Drag performances Fa‘afafine Fakaleiti Heteropatriarchy Morgensen Scott Lauria Pacific studies Queer Indigenous studies Queer Indigenous Studies Critical Interventions in Theory Politics and Literature...

... Xhosa culture Zulu culture Brixton London soul power Olive Morris Black Panther movement police brutality sexual violence queer black feminist movement Desmond’s Hip City On November 15, 1969, violence erupted in front of Desmond’s Hip City, one of the first black-owned record stores...

...This essay presents Berube's keynote address at the first queer studies conference in Quebec. Using class, ethnicity, and race as lenses through which to understand not only his own life but, in some ways, the broader contours of gay experience, Berube argues that gay as a social category can never...