Zero Patience

By Susan Knabe, Wendy Gay Pearson
Series edited by Thomas Waugh, and Matthew Hays
Categories: Film & Media, LGBTQ+, Gay Literature
Series: Queer Film Classics

A Queer Film Classic on John Greyson's controversial 1993 film musical about the AIDS crisis which combines experimental, camp musical, and documentary aesthetics while refuting the legend of Patient ...

The Inverted Gaze

By Francois Cusset
Translated by David Homel
Categories: LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, Cultural Studies, Gay Literature

François Cusset, author of the acclaimed book French Theory, investigates the queering of the French literary canon by American writers and scholars in this thought-provoking and free-minded journey ...

The Mere Future

By Sarah Schulman
Categories: LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, Fiction

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Sarah Schulman's acclaimed dystopian satire about urban mores is set in New York sometime in the future, when the city has morphed into an idealized version of itself: rent is cheap, ...

The Dirt Chronicles

By Kristyn Dunnion
Categories: LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, Fiction, Youth Culture

Lambda Literary Award finalist

A tattooed young man regains consciousness in the Don Jail, charged with his friend's murder. An anti-social office clerk falls for a handsome bike courier and abandons his ...

Persistence

Edited by Ivan Coyote & Zena Sharman
Categories: Anthologies, Women's Literature, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, Trans Literature, Social Issues

Named a Stonewall Honor Book by the American Library Association

Lambda Literary Award finalist
In the summer of 2009, butch writer and storyteller Ivan Coyote and gender researcher and femme dynamo Zena ...

Farewell My Concubine

By Helen Hok-Sze Leung
Series edited by Thomas Waugh & Matthew Hays
Categories: LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, BIPOC, Asian Literature, Film & Media
Series: Queer Film Classics

Farewell My Concubine: A Queer Film Classic
is a thought-provoking consideration of Chen Kaige's acclaimed 1992 Chinese film set in the mid-20th century abouttwo male Peking opera stars and the woman ...

Fire

By Shohini Ghosh
Series edited by Thomas Waugh & Matthew Hays
Categories: BIPOC, Asian Literature, Women's Literature, Film & Media, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature
Series: Queer Film Classics

Fire: A Queer Film Classic delves into the controversial 1996 lesbian
love story by Indian-born director Deepa
Mehta. Set in a contemporary middle-class
Hindu household in the heart of Delhi, Fire is ...

Montreal Main

By Thomas Waugh, Jason Garrison
Series edited by Thomas Waugh, and Matthew Hays
Categories: LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, Film & Media
Series: Queer Film Classics

Montreal Main: A Queer Film Classic considers the brilliant yet
neglected 1974 Canadian film set in Montreal's
bohemian neighborhood "The Main" and hailed
at its premiere at the Whitney Museum of
American ...

Polaroids

By (artist) Attila Richard Lukacs & Michael Morris
Categories: Visual Arts, LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, Photography

Attila Richard Lukacs is one of Canada's most talented and controversial contemporary artists. He is best known for his epic paintings that depict masculine, homoerotic imagery, featuring figures such ...

The Last Genet

By Hadrien Laroche
Translated by David Homel
Categories: LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, Biography & Memoir, Cultural Studies

During the last eighteen years of his life (1968-86), Jean Genet was preoccupied with the struggles of the disenfranchised and displaced: among them, the Black Panthers, the Baader-Meinhof, and the Palestinians. ...