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This book focuses on queering texts with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and/or transgender (LGBT) themes in collaboration with students - young to young adult – and their teachers - both pre- and in- service. It strives to generate knowledge and deeper understandings of the pedagogical implications for working with LGBT-themed texts in classrooms across grade levels. The contributions in this book offer explicit implications for pedagogical practice, considering literature for children and young adults, and work in elementary school, high school, and university classrooms and schools. They give insights on exploring how queer and trans theories might inform the teaching and learning of English language arts with great respect to people who live their lives beyond hegemonic heternormativity and cisnormativity. They provide wisdom on how to provoke, foster, and navigate complicated conversations about sexuality, queer desire, gender creativity, gender independence, and trans inclusivity. In addition, they show how all of these are informed by an epistemological and ontological understanding of gender embodiment as a process of becoming. They offer insights into how queer and trans theories, as informed and driven by trans, non-binary and gender diverse scholars themselves, can move all of us beyond LGBTQ-inclusivity and inform reading, discussing, teaching, and learning in all of the classrooms and school contexts where we live and work

Queer pedagogies, queer literacies: LGBTQ texts across the English studies curriculum / William P. Banks & John Pruitt -- Contingently queer: decolonizing and unsettling the boundaries of identitarian-based literatures / Tom Sarmiento -- Death, pleasure, and the literary imagination: Middlesex and queer pedagogy / Juliane Römhild, Damien Barlow, and Karyn Lehner -- Past, present, and potential: teaching LGBT+ poetry historically / Eric Keenaghan -- Mainstreaming difference in youth sexualities/identities: demystifying the otherness of LGBT youth literature through the Hetero-Corollary / Lance Weldy -- Slipping queer underneath the radar: a reflection on teaching "bizarre love triangles in fiction" / Mica Hilson -- Cross dressing in early America: a course in transgressive figures before 1865 / Cathy Rex -- Centering the queer, black, female voice: a case study of reclaiming the soul through literature / Veronica Neal and Julie Keiffer-Lewis.

Introduction -- A survey of LGBTQ+ literature. Young adult literature in the pre-stonewall era -- Young adult literature of the 1970s -- Young adult literature of the 1980s -- Young adult literature of the 1990s -- A new literature for a new century -- Young adult literature since 2010 -- Breaking down the barriers. Bisexual inclusion in young adult fiction -- Transgender & intersex inclusion in young adult fiction -- Visual formats: comics and graphic novels -- Teens' search for information: young adult nonfiction with LGBTQq+ content -- Conclusion what a wonderful world?

"This book analyses queer cultural production in contemporary China to map the broad social transformations in gender, sexuality and desire. It examines queer literature and visual cultures in China's post-Mao and postsocialist era to show how these diverse cultural forms and practices not only function as context specific and culturally sensitive forms of social activism, but also produce distinct types of gender and sexual subjectivities unique to China's postsocialist conditions. From poetry to papercutting art, from 'comrade/gay literature' to girls love fan fiction, from lesbian films to activist documentaries, and from a drag show in Shanghai to a public performance of same-sex wedding in Beijing, the book reveals a queer China in all its ideological complexity and creative energy. Empirically rich and methodically eclectic, Queer China skilfully weaves together historical and archival research, textual and discourse analysis, along with interviews and ethnography. Breaking new ground and bringing a non-Western perspective to the fore, this transdisciplinary work contributes to multiple academic fields including literary and cultural studies, media and communication studies, film and screen studies, contemporary art, theatre and performance studies, gender and sexuality studies, China/Asia and Global South studies, cultural history and cultural geography, political theory and the study of social movements"--

Foreword: telling new stories / by Darla Linville and David Lee CarlsonOut of the closet and all grown up: problematizing normative narratives of coming-out and coming-of-age in young adult literature / by Amanda Haertling Thein -- Queer recognition and interdependence: LGBTQ young adult literature and the contemporary moment / by David Lee Carlson -- Billy Elliot, Swan lake and shifting queering effects / by Angelo Benozzo, Mirka Koro-Ljungberg, and Sergia Adamo -- Friendship as shared enmity / by Kevin J. Burke and Adam J. Greteman -- At the intersections of identity: race and sexuality in LGBTQ young adult literature / by Sybil Durand -- Destabilizing the homonormative for young readers: exploring Tash's queerness in Jacqueline Wodson's After Tupac and D Foster / by Jill M. Hermann-Wilmarth and Caitlin l. Ryan -- After homonormativity: hope for a (more) queer canon of gay YA literature / by William P. Banks and Jonathan Alexander -- Creating spaces of freedom for gender and sexuality for queer girls in young adult literature / by Darla Linville, Ph.D -- Exploring the tensions of reading LGBTQ YAL with higher education: student affairs professionals / by Jacqueline Bach and Chaunda Allen Mitchell -- Reading YAL queerly: a queer literacy framework for inviting (a)gender and (a)sexuality self-determination and justice / by S J Miller -- Queer literacies: a multidimensional approach to reading LGBTQ-themed literature / by Kirsten Helmer -- Openly straight: a look at teaching LGBTQq young adult sports literature through a queer theory youth lens / by Nicole Sieben -- Afterword / by Mollie V. Blackburn and Caroline T. Clark.

"LGBTQ Lobbying in America argues that the issues and tactics prioritized by the mainstream gay lobbying community fail to serve LGBTQ interests and are complicit in perpetuating heteronormative power dynamics and institutions that render queer and trans people vulnerable to structural oppression. The book posits that there are different LGBTQ lobbying communities - a dominant gay mainstream lobbying category, whose work advances heteronormative ideals and a second category of LGBTQ lobbying that is intersectional and challenges hegemonic heterosexual institutions. Analysis in the book builds on existing public policy literature and is aided by the author's practitioner experience in lobbying for LGBTQ issues in Washington DC over the past twenty years. This book is suitable as a textbook for students and researchers in LGBTQ studies, US Politics and Gender Studies. The book will also appeal to activists and professionals in political lobbying"--