History on Uránia

“Queer in a Legal Sense” — a book by José A. de la Garza Valenzuela on Chicanx literature and US citizenship

Sat, 18 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0400

“Queer in a Legal Sense” is a monograph by American researcher José A. de la Garza Valenzuela about the connection between US immigration law and literature, published in English by the University of Texas Press. In the context of the long history of disputes over border control and racial politics in North America, the book demonstrates how legal documents shaped the history of regulating sexuality and migration.

“The Fight of Our Lives” — a book by David Levithan and Gabriel Duckels about the HIV crisis in the US

Sat, 18 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0400

“The Fight of Our Lives: AIDS in America” is a book by American authors David Levithan and Gabriel Duckels about the history of the HIV epidemic in the United States, published in English by Knopf. In the context of the history of LGBT activism in the US, the book recounts how the government’s neglect of the epidemic in the 1980s and 1990s forced the community to fight on its own for its rights, access to treatment, and public attention.

“The Law of Gender” — a book by Laure Murat on the cultural history of the “third sex” in France

Sat, 18 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0400

“The Law of Gender” (La Loi du genre) is a book published in French by Flammarion, written by the French cultural historian Laure Murat about the formation of gender norms in France from the 19th century onward. In the context of the history of the LGBT community and the medicalization of sexuality, this study shows how rigid gender norms clashed with real people whom society labeled as criminals or patients.