Racism, extremism, anti-democratic sentiment - our increasingly polarized world is dominated by a type of thinking that doubts others' positions but never its own. In a powerful challenge to fundamentalism in all its forms, Carolin Emcke, one of Germany's leading intellectuals, argues that we...

PRE-ORDER NOW - 16th March 2027 From its 2015 inauguration at Portland State University to its consecutive years at Southern Oregon University, the Queer Indigenous Gathering has grown each year to include Indigenous scholars, artists, poets, musicians, activists, and advocates who represent diverse communities,...

PRE-ORDER NOW - 29th June 2027 How artists and culture workers mobilize aesthetics, embodiment, and care to reimagine worlds across the Hispanic Caribbean and its diasporas This book explores how Afro-queer artists, writers, performers, filmmakers, and activists across the Hispanic Caribbean and its diasporas...

PRE-ORDER NOW - 6th April 2027 The first comprehensive theory of "the cis gaze" from a leading public intellectual, including close readings of the work of trans artists, musicians, and filmmakers To be trans is to be seen through the cis gaze. To be...

PRE-ORDER NOW - 13th May 2027 Inclusive Support from the First Trimester Through Early Parenthood An essential, inclusive pregnancy and postpartum guide for LGBTQ+ families The world needs a pregnancy guide for pregnant people who don’t fit into society’s traditional gender and relationship norms,...

PRE-ORDER NOW - 15th June 2027 On 9 November 1989, as the Berlin Wall fell, East Germany’s only gay-themed film premiered. Competing Utopias recounts how this moment became possible, tracing the media, cultural, and information networks through which LGBTQ people made themselves visible in...

In Everyday Erotics, Denise Tse-Shang Tang explores the lives of older women with same-sex desire in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan. Tang interviews women born in the 1930’s through the 1960’s, looking at how their lives differ across culture, class, and place, and how...

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...

PRE-ORDER NOW - 31 Dec 2026 While there are a great many books on the Hollywood star system and its costuming, and a number of books on queer cinema, the role of lesbian dress styles in constructing lesbian characters has yet to be the subject...

A grassroots tour of the nation’s lesbian bars that illuminates their past, present, and hopeful future, from the co-creator of the hit podcast CruisingLesbian bars are so much more than a place to get a drink. For over a century, they’ve acted as community...

A revelatory history of sex, gender, and science from Linnaeus to DarwinWhat did Darwin and Linnaeus really think about sex? In print, their descriptions of animal courtship painted a comfortingly traditional picture: males were belligerent show-offs, females were choosy and skittish, and the two...

This book explores how gay and bi men’s lived experiences of chemsex intersect with its cultural representations. It argues that while normative moral frameworks are often used to talk about chemsex, chemsex sub-cultures contain their own valuable moral frameworks that can provide lessons about...

A landmark exploration of women-led communities worldwide and what they can teach us about new ways to live, think and govern, from BBC global correspondent Megha Mohan. Society isn’t working for women - or any of us. But what if the rules were different?Imagine...

Although imagined as a queer subcultural practice, drag seems to be everywhere we look: from AI filters on TikTok to brunchtime entertainment, from state legislations to political rallies. Yet as drag enters the mainstream—largely due to the intense, global popularity of reality TV competition RuPaul’s...

Nonbinary Life is an invitation to imagine the possibilities of life outside of gender. To write, to think, to imagine, to agitate, and to love without regard for gender is to lead a non-binary life. In this genre-defying work of autotheory, Marquis Bey proposes...

  PRE-ORDER NOW - 20th November 2026 Defining femininity is an intriguing pursuit. Socially constructed and individually experienced, its definition changes across time and place. For some, it is found in the shape of the body or the length of the hair.For others, it...

PRE-ORDER NOW - 6th July 2027 A radically new framework for understanding the relationship between race, eroticism, representation, and literary form What happens when African American literature ceases to labor under the demands of racial representation, political redemption, and liberationist expectation? What emerges when...

PRE-ORDER NOW - 22th April 2027 Our culture, at every level, is reckoning with sex: its relationship to power, gender and violence, its value and its cost. No one navigates these intersections more directly than sex workers. And no one is better equipped to...

PRE-ORDER NOW- 18th February 2027 An international and intersectional introduction mapping the history, impact, key critical issues and seminal texts of the genre, Queer Comics looks at queer creators and content in graphic narratives beyond familiar American gay and lesbian names. For as long...

PRE-ORDER - NOW - 4th February 2027 This visually rich field-based study is brought to vivid life through more than 40 original photographs, offering rare insight into contemporary queer dress practices and masculinities in India and developing two innovative methodologies for studying queer fashion...

PRE-ORDER NOW - 18th March 2027 Please hear me. We get here, you and me, my dark eyed, lost younger me, we found an answer to the question of feeling or being real. We are real and we are very much alive.We made it...

PRE-ORDER NOW - 15th July 2027 From the torch songs of Hollywood's Golden Age to the glittering arenas of modern pop superstardom, Slay Diva explores one of the most important and enduring relationships in popular culture: the bond between gay men and iconic female performers. Why...

PRE-ORDER NOW - 28th January 2027 From Award-winning and bestselling science journalist Angela Saini, comes a groundbreaking exposé of the hidden harms of race and sex data across medicine, education, politics and society at large. ‘One of the world’s best science writers’ Ed Yong,...

PRE-ORDER NOW - 4th March 2027 The Stonewall riots were a turning point in queer history, sparking the foundation of the modern Gay Liberation Movement. This book explores LGBTQ+ representation in film through 100 features and shorts released in or before 1969, in the...

The fiercest battles over gender today aren’t just about identity or womanhood—but about punishment, fear, and control. The twenty-first century “gender wars” have been driven by a powerful and seductive narrative: that safety can be secured through exclusion, surveillance, and the policing of difference....

In Curating Deviance, 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,...

PRE-ORDER NOW - 21st January 2027 There is no shortage of sex books telling you how it's supposed to work. What they rarely offer is the invitation to pause, reflect, and discover what genuinely resonates with you. Especially for queer neurodivergent adults, navigating intimacy...

PRE-ORDER NOW - 5th January 2027 Bringing together literary history, queer theory, and lived experience, Jaime Harker maps the shifting queer literary publishing landscape of the last thirty years, through the lens of being an English professor and lesbian feminist bookstore owner. To tell...

PRE-ORDER NOW - 3rd November 2026 Famously rejected in Toronto, Fortune and Men’s Eyes, John Herbert’s autobiographical prison drama based on his incarceration for “gross indecency,” became an off-Broadway hit when it premiered in New York City in 1967. Less than twenty years later,...

PRE-ORDER NOW - 27th October 2026 Martin Luther King Jr.'s idea of "the beloved community" focused on the hoped-for new relationship between the oppressor and the oppressed after the success of a nonviolent movement. But the vision excluded, and sometimes still excludes, LGBTQIA people...