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The Routledge Handbook of LGBTQIA Administration and Policy by Location: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2019This handbook examines a wide range of social and policy issues of broad interest--including homelessness, transgender rights, healthcare, immigration, and substance use.
The Case for Gay Reparations by Location: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2021A compelling and timely vision for gay reparations in the United States.
When We Rise by Location: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2016This sweeping memoir tells the life story of longtime LGBTQ and AIDS activist Cleve Jones in a profoundly moving account from sexually liberated 1970s San Francisco, through the AIDS crisis, and up to his involvement with the marriage equality battle.
Chicago Whispers: a History of LGBT Chicago Before Stonewall by Location: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2012"Chicago Whispers" illuminates a colorful and vibrant record of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered people who lived and loved in Chicago from the city's beginnings in the 1670s as a fur-trading post to the end of the 1960s.
After Marriage Equality by Location: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2016Examines the impact of marriage equality on the future of LGBT rights.
Queering law and order : LGBTQ communities and the criminal justice system by Location: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2020Each chapter provides recommendations for queering and disrupting the justice system.
Handbook of LGBT Communities, Crime, and Justice by Location: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2014This Handbook, the first of its kind in Criminology and Criminal Justice, will break new ground by presenting a thorough treatment of under-explored issues in one interdisciplinary volume.
Feels right : Black queer women and the politics of partying in Chicago by Location: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2022What emerges in Feels Right is a sensorial portrait of the critical, Black queer geographies and collectivities that emerge in social dance settings and in the broader neoliberal city.
Find Articles
The following are a selection of articles available through BU Libraries:
- "Protecting and Ensuring the Well-Being of LGBT Older Adults: A Policy Roadmap" by Robert Espinoza (2016). Available here.
- "The Current Status of Sociopolitical and Legal Issues Faced by Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Questioning Youth" by Natalia Ramos et. al (2023). Available here.
- "Entre Madres y Comadres: Trans Latina Immigrants Empowering Women Beyond Marianismo" by Luis R. Alvarez-Hernandez and Judith Maria Bermudez (2023). Available here.
- "Gender punitivism: Queer perspectives on identity politics in criminal justice" by Moira Pérez and Blas Radi (2020). Available here.
- "The gay rights backlash: Contrasting views from the United States and Latin America" by Omar Encarnación (2020). Available here.
- "The Practice of Slowness: Black Queer Women and the Right to the City" by Kemi Adeyemi (2019). Available here.
The following are available externally online:
- "Anti-Trans Laws Are Anti-Health" (2021). Available here.
- "50 years after Stonewall, LGBT rights are a work in progress" by David Crary (2019). Available here.
- "It’s Always Been About Discrimination for LGBT People" by Rose Saxe (2017). Available here.
- HRC State Equality Index (2023). Available here.
- Milestones in the American Gay Rights Movement. Available here.
- "Where Are All the Lesbian Bars?" by Jessica Colarossi (2022). Available here.
- "A Global Report Card on LGBTQ+ Rights for IDAHOBIT" by Graeme Reid (2020). Available here.
