“Queer in a Legal Sense” — a book by José A. de la Garza Valenzuela on Chicanx literature and US citizenship
A study at the intersection of law and literature about queer migrants in the United States.
Book News
This section gathers new books on LGBT history, queer history, and queer studies and briefly explains why they matter. It includes books about law, culture, politics, religion, literature, and different countries when they help readers understand queer experience and its history.
“The Fight of Our Lives” — a book by David Levithan and Gabriel Duckels about the HIV crisis in the US
A journalistic history of the epidemic told through chronicles and interviews.
“The Law of Gender” — a book by Laure Murat on the cultural history of the “third sex” in France
The work explores how medicine and literature shaped the images of trans people in the 19th century.