Exploring LGBTQ+ Topics for Pride Month

In the Workplace

Enabling LGBTQ+ people to achieve their career potential is complex. In Breaking the Rainbow Ceiling: How LGBTQ+ people can thrive and succeed at work, Layla McCay explores the hidden differences that cause LGBTQ+ people to be underrepresented at the most senior levels of professional life, combining data with personal insights from over 40 prominent LGBTQ+ trailblazers, from CEOs to Ambassadors.

In this sample chapter, read about being LGBTQ+ in the workplace, diversity as a performance advantage, networking, and challenges.

African Diaspora and Migration

Recent years have seen increased scholarly and media interest in the cross-border movements of LGBT persons, particularly those seeking protection in the Global North. While this has helped focus attention on the plight of individuals fleeing homophobic or transphobic persecution, it has also reinvigorated racist tropes about the Global South, reinforcing colonial notions about Africa and its peoples.

Queer and Trans African Mobilities: Migration, Asylum and Diaspora provides new insights into the drivers and impacts of displacement linked to sexual orientation or gender identity and challenges notions about why LGBT Africans move, where they are going and their experiences.

In the introduction, the authors provide context around queer and trans mobility in Africa.

Classification – Film and Television

For many queer people, existing in a straight society – where life is organized around a fixed, gender binary and the assumption everyone is heterosexual – highlights who classification systems are designed to work for and who they are designed to work against. Looking across six areas, Rainbow Trap: Queer Lives, Classifications and the Dangers of Inclusion, documents how inclusive interventions have attempted to bring historically marginalized communities out of the shadows and the challenges LGBTQ+ people face navigating an ever-growing list of classifications, categories, and labels.

Read this chapter to learn about queer classification in the area of film and television specifically and check out the rest of the book for analysis on classification in other areas.

Healthcare in America

The health of LGBTQ+ Americans is affected by many historical achievements and failures, societal influences, economic disparities, cultural shifts, and political divisions that can greatly impact the world of medicine. LGBTQ+ and Healthcare in America examines these issues to identify the systemic factors and enduring consequences impacting these communities, including first-hand accounts from LGBTQ+ individuals impacted by healthcare challenges through "In their Words" perspective essays.

Read the first chapter for some historical context for and major factors affecting LGBTQ+ healthcare in America.

In Print

An enormous mass of LGBTQ+ printed materials has circulated – usually locally or nationally, sometimes more widely – across Europe since the advent of a widespread gay rights movement. How have radical print cultures fostered and preserved queer lived experience from the 1960s to the present?

Check out this chapter from Queer Print in Europe to read about a French Lesbian Press that developed in the 1980s and the connections and cultures it fostered.