AmazonBarnes & Noble  Transcend Freedom to Love By SANDRA CHEN WEINSTEIN Recent years have seen an unprecedented push by state legislatures to pass anti-LGBTQ bills across the United States. Hundreds of laws, mainly attempting to ban access to gender-affirming healthcare for transgender youth and to ban discussions of gender identity and sexuality from high school […]

AmazonBarnes & Noble  Ordinary People Portraits from LGBTQ: Armenia, Georgia, and Russia By KSENIA KULESHOVA In Ordinary People, Ksenia Kuleshova, a rising star in the world of photography, has taken a series of intimate portraits, accompanied by short interviews, of LGBTQ Russians who, despite the relentless homophobia from politicians, religious leaders, and the media, remain […]

AmazonBarnes & Noble  Believable Traveling with My Ancestors By LOLA FLASH Working at the forefront of genderqueer visual politics, celebrated photographer Lola Flash has become known for images that manage to both interrogate and transcend preconceptions about gender, sex, and race. Spurred by their experience as an active member of ACT UP and ART+ during […]

AmazonBarnes & Noble  Solace Portraits of Queer Chinese Youth By SARAH MEI HERMAN Same-sex relationships have been an accepted part of Chinese culture for centuries. It was only in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, under the influence of the West, that homophobia became more prevalent; and under Mao, homosexuality was criminalized. By the turn of […]

AmazonBarnes & Noble  Belonging Portraits from LGBTQ Thailand By STEVE McCURRY Thailand has long had the reputation as one of the most gay-friendly destinations in Asia, particularly Bangkok with its nightlife and its relative openness and safety. While this may be true for tourists and expats, the idea of Thailand as a haven for LGBTQ […]

AmazonBarnes & Noble   Two Women in Their Time The Belarus Free Theatre and the Art of Resistance By MISHA FRIEDMAN In Two Women in Their Time, award-winning documentary photographer Misha Friedman and New Yorker reporter Masha Gessen take us backstage, giving us an intimate look at this fiercely creative drama troop that officially cannot perform […]

AmazonBarnes & Noble   Lived Experience Reflections on LGBTQ Life By DELPHINE DIALLO In the latest volume of this groundbreaking series of photobooks on LGBTQ communities around the world, photographer Delphine Diallo trains her lens on the lives of older LGBTQ people in America. This is a generation that has witnessed incredible tragedy and triumph, a […]

AmazonBarnes & Noble   This Is How the Heart Beats LGBTQ East Africa By JAKE NAUGHTON & JACOB KUSHNER Same-sex relations are illegal in thirty-two African countries. Most, including Kenya and Uganda, were former British colonies, and the legacy of the colonialists’ anti-gay legislation can be felt to this day. In 2014 Uganda introduced a […]

AmazonBarnes & Noble    Dark Tears LGBTQ Resilience in Latin America By Claudia Jares In Dark Tears, award-winning Argentinian photographer and performance artist Claudia Jares takes her lens to the reality of queer experience in Argentina, Venezuela, and across Latin America, exploring questions of sexuality, religion, and identity with the raw eroticism that is the […]