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Location: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2025When we are seen, life appears in full colors. The testimoniadores (storytellers for social change) in this book tell their life stories as gay and trans men living in South Texas. Just published by Professor Alvarez-Hernandez at BU.
Queer Brown Voices by Location: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2015In the last three decades of the twentieth century, LGBT Latinas/os faced several forms of discrimination. Essays cover the broad-ranging experiences of being racialized and discriminated against, fighting for access to health care during the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and struggling for awareness.
Bi : bisexual, pansexual, fluid, and genderqueer youth by Location: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2021What bisexual youth can tell us about today’s gender and sexual identities.
Sweet Tea by Location: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2014Giving voice to a population too rarely acknowledged, Sweet Tea collects more than sixty life stories from Black gay men who were born, raised, and continue to live in the south.
Coming Out to the Streets by Location: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2020Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer youth are disproportionately represented in the U.S. youth homelessness population.
Constellating home : trans and queer Asian American rhetorics by Location: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2022Hsu explores three archives of trans and queer Asian American (QTAPI) rhetorics, considering a range of texts including oral histories, photography, personal essays, and performance showcases.
Trans bodies, trans selves : a resource by and for transgender communities by Location: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2022A comprehensive, reader-friendly guide for transgender people, with each chapter written by transgender and gender expansive authors.
Gender Queer by Location: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2019Gender Queer is more than a personal story: it is a useful and touching guide on gender identity--what it means and how to think about it--for advocates, friends, and humans everywhere.
"Thinking Brown and Trans Together" by Location: Book Chapter Available OnlinePublication Date: 2021Brown Trans Figurations presents a collection of representations that reveal the repression of brown trans narratives and make that repression visible and palpable.
Find Articles
The following are a selection of the many articles available to you through BU Libraries:
- "Rethinking gender diversity: Transgender and gender nonconforming people and gender as constellation" by Olga Suhomlinova et. al (2024). Available here.
- "Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity/Expression in Adolescent Research: Two Decades in Review" by Laura Baams and Tessa Kaufman (2023). Available here.
- "Queer identities in the 21st century: Reclamation and stigma" by Meredith G.F. Worthen (2023). Available here.
- "Complicating the Coming Out Narrative: Becoming Oneself in a Heterosexist and Cissexist World" by Kate Klein et. al (2015). Available here.
- "Queer Politics, Bisexual Erasure: Sexuality at the Nexus of Race, Gender, and Statistics" by Juana María Rodríguez (2016). Available here.
- "A Qualitative Exploration of the 'Coming Out' Process for Asexual Individuals" by Nicolette Robbins et. al (2016). Available here.
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