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This encyclopedia covers LGBTQ topics in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Middle East, as well as North America, and takes an interdisciplinary approach to the subject, using film, literature, human rights, politics, landmark legislation, activism, the arts, language, sports, and historical events as points of entry into the content.

Table of Contents:

• ACT UP
• Activism in Africa South of the Sahara
• Adoption and surrogacy in Europe
• Adoption, fostering, and surrogacy (international)
• Aestheticism and decadence, nineteenth-century
• African commission on human and peoples' rights
• Afropop music
• AIDS memorial quilt : the NAMES Project
• Al-Akharun (2006; Seba al-Herz)
• alQaws
• Amer, Ghada (1963-)
• Ana Hiya Anti (2000; Elham Mansour)
• Antes que Anochezca (1992; Reinaldo Arenas)
• Anthropology in Africa South of the Sahara
• Anti-gender movement in Europe
• Anti-racist activism in Europe
• Anti-Semitism and Zionism
• Anti-Semitism in Europe
• Antisodomy and buggery trials
• Archives in Africa

• Archives in Asia
• Archives in Australia and New Zealand
• Archives in Europe
• Archives in Latin America
• Archives in North America
• Argentina's gender identity law
• The art of identity in India
• The art of queering Asian mythology
• Asexuality
• Asia Pacific Transgender Network
• Asrar 'Ailiyyah (2013; Hany Fawzy)
• Aswat
• Athletes, Trans and intersex
• Athletes, Trans and intersex, in Asia
• Australia and New Zealand
• 'Awdat al-Almani ila Rushdih (2006; Rashid al-Daif)
• El Baile de los 41
• Bakla
• Barbin, Herculine (1838-1868)
• Bareed Mista3jil : True stories (2009)
• Bars and cabarets in Europe
• Bars, Working-class, in Mexico
• Bathhouse raids, Toronto (1981)
• Bayrut '75 (1975; Ghada al-Samman)
• BDSM (Bondage and Discipline, Dominance and Submission, Sadism and Masochism)
• Benga, Francois "Feral" (1906-1957)
• El Beso de la Mujer Arana (1976; Manuel Puig)
• Bhutan
• Biological essentialism
• Black freedom movement and sexuality
• Blackmail
• The body politic
• Bom-Crioulo (1895; Adolfo Ferreira Caminha)
• Bookstores
• Boston marriage and women's romantic friendships
• Botswana
• Boys love (yaoi) manga
• Brokeback mountain
• The bubble (2006; Eytan Fox)
• Butt magazine
• Cabaret theater in Latin America and the Caribbean
• Cabo Verde
• Cameroon
• Camp
• Canadian criminal code reform (1969)
• Cape Town
• Carnival and sexuality in Brazil
• Cavafy, C.P. (1863-1933)
• Central American solidarity movement
• Chechnya, detention camps in
• Chevalier d'Eon or Mademoiselle Beaumont (1728-1810)
• Christianity in Africa : Anglican
• Christianity in Africa : LGBT friendly
• Christianity in Africa : Pentecostal and Charismatic
• Christianity in Africa : Roman Catholicism
• Cinema, African (Anglophone)
• Cinema, African (Francophone)
• Cinema, Latin American (early twentieth century)
• Cinema, Latin American (late twentieth and twenty-first centuries)
• Cisgender or cis
• Classical studies
• Clitoris
• The closet
• Cold War and sexuality in Latin America
• Colonialism in Africa South of the Sahara
• Combahee River Collective
• Coming-out/coming-in discourses in the Middle East
• Comite d'Urgence Anti-repression Homosexuelle (CUARH)
• Communism and queers in Europe
• Compton's cafeteria riot (1966)
• Confessional manuals in colonial Latin America
• Conquest and sodomy in Latin America
• Conversion therapy in China
• Cote d'Ivoire
• Cross-dressing in the West
• Cruising and cruising grounds
• The Cuban revolution and homosexuality
• Darnell v. Lloyd (1975)
• Daughters of Bilitis
• Defense of Marriage Act (1996)
• Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)
• Diasporas, Queer
• Digital cultures in Latin America
• Dissidence in Singapore
• Al-Dizil (1994; Thani al-Suwaidi)
• Drag, Asian
• Dyketactics!
• Ecology and environmental issues and activism
• Egymasra Nezve (1982; Karoly Makk)
• Einayim Pkuhot (2009; Haim Tabakman)
• Elbe, Lili (1882-1931)
• Erauso, Catalina de (1592-1650)
• Ethiopia
• Ethnopornography
• Ethnopsychiatry
• Eunuchs
• Eurovision Song Contest
• Family law in Asia
• Female husband
• Feminism, African
• Femmes and butches
• Film festivals
• Fin de Siecle sexuality
• Fire (1996; Deepa Mehta)
• Florentine Codex and Nahua sexuality
• Fortune and men's eyes
• Foucault, Influence of
• Frente de Liberacion Homosexual
• Friendship societies in Europe
• FTMInternational
• Gangs and street kids in Africa
• Gay European Tourism Association
• The gay international and Mideast LGBTQI organizations
• Gay Latino Alliance (GALA)
• Gay liberation front
• Gender, Flexible systems, in Africa
• Gendered violence and feminicide in Latin America
• Gentrification in Europe
• Ghana
• Ghilman
• Graffiti and graphic art
• Groupe du 6 Novembre : Lesbiennes Issues du Colonialisme, de l'Esclavage et de l'Immigration
• Grupo de Trabalho Homossexual and LES
• Grupo Gay da Bahia
• Hajar al-Dahik (1990; Hoda Barakat)
• Halat Shaghaf (1998; Nihad Sirees)
• Harlem renaissance
• Hate crime law and policy in the United States
• Helem
• Hemispheric Institute Digital Video Library
• Hena Maysara (2007; Khaled Youssef)
• Higher education and LGBTQ+ communities in the United States
• Hijras
• Historical Sexes
• HIV/AIDS
• HIV/AIDS in Africa
• HIV/AIDS in Egyptian cinema
• HIV/AIDS in Europe
• HIV/AIDS in Latin America and the Caribbean
• HIV/AIDS in South and Southeast Asia
• HIV/AIDS in the United States
• Homoerotic Poetry of Abu Nuwas
• Homoeroticism in the plays of Ibn Daniyal
• Homonationalism in Africa
• Homosexual acts in Shari'a
• Human rights
• Human rights and activism in Latin America
• Human rights and queer Arab refugees
• Human rights campaign
• Human rights in Asia
• Human rights in Europe
• I luv u but (2012-2014; Fadia Abboud)
• Imarat Ya'kubian (2002; Alaa al-Aswany)
• Imperialism and colonialism
• Inquisition, criminal courts, and sexuality in colonial Latin America
• Institut fur Sexualwissenschaft
• Internet in Africa
• Internet queer sites in the Middle East
• Intersex identities
• Involuntary servitude and same-sex sexuality in Africa
• ISIS gay trials
• Iskandariyya ... Leh? (1979; Youssef Chahine)
• Islam in Africa South of the Sahara
• Jamaica Forum for Lesbians, All-Sexuals and Gays (J-FLAG)
• Jannat wa-Iblis (1992; Nawal El Saadawi)
• Joteria studies
• Kathoey
• Kenya
• Khookha McQueer (1987-)
• Kinsey scale
• Kinship in Europe
• Lambda legal defense and education fund
• Language
• Language in Africa
• Language in Europe
• Language in Latin America
• Lavender menace
• Lavender Scare
• Lesbanese (2008; Alissar Gazal)
• Lesbian feminist encuentros of Latin America and the Caribbean
• Lesbian Herstory Archives
• Lesbian lands, women's lands, and separatist communes
• Lesbian mothering and adoption in Latin America
• The lesbian music movement
• Literary discourses in the Ottoman Middle East (1500-1900)
• Literature, African (Anglophone)
• Literature, African (Francophone)
• Literature, Caribbean (Anglophone and Creole)
• Literature, Caribbean (Francophone)
• Madame Sata (1900-1976)
• Madchen in uniform (1931; Leontine Sagan)
• Maghreb
• Malaysia
• Marches on Washington
• Marriage migration in Asia
• Marriage, Same-sex, in Latin America
• Marriage, Same-sex, in Taiwan
• Marriage, Universal, in Europe
• Marriage, Woman-woman, in Africa
• Masculinity in Iranian cinema
• Mattachine society
• Medicine, Complementary and alternative
• Meem
• Metelkova Mesto (Slovenia)
• Mexican revolution and sexuality
• Migrant queer communities, US
• Migration to Europe
• Militarism and sexualities in the Asia-Pacific region
• Military law and policy in the United States
• Military/Navy in the United Kingdom
• Mishima, Yukio (1925-1970)
• Misk al-Ghazal (1988; Hanan al-Shaykh)
• Moche pottery
• Molly houses
• Mongolia
• Mozambique
• MSM (Men Who Have Sex with Men) in Asia
• Mufakharat al-Jawari wa-al-Ghilman (al-Jahiz)
• Mukhannath
• Museo Travesti del Peru
• Museums and memorials
• Muxes
• Namibia
• Nationalism and sexuality in Europe
• Naz Foundation International
• Neoliberalism in Africa
• Neoliberalism in Latin America
• New media in Asia
• The Nicaraguan revolution
• Nigeria
• Nkoli, Simon (1957-1998)
• Nuzhat al-Albab Fima La Yujad Fi Kitab (Ahmad ibn Yusuf al-Tifashi)
• Offences Against the Person Act (1861)
• The Order of Chaeronea
• Orgasm and orgasmology
• Orientalism in gay pornography about the Middle East
• Otaku sexualities in Japan
• Ottoman and Persian miniature paintings
• Pacific Island and Pacific Island diaspora identities
• Pakistan, "Queer"
• Parada do Orgulho LGBT de Sao Paulo, Brazil
• Parenting rights in North America
• Pasolini's cinematic adaptation of A thousand and one nights
• Penis
• People Like Us (PLU)
• Performance artists in Latin America
• Phone apps
• Photography in Europe
• Pinhua Baojian (1849; Sen Chen)
• Pink triangle
• Pinkwashing
• Poets in Latin America
• Popular music and queer identities
• Pornography
• Pornography in Asia
• Pornoterrorismo and post-porn
• Pride demonstrations in Europe
• Pride parades and marches
• Psychoanalysis in Argentina
• Psychopathia Sexualis (1886; Richard von Krafft-Ebing)
• Puerto Ricans in the diaspora
• Pulp fiction, Gay and lesbian
• QT v. Hong Kong Immigration Department (2017)
• Queen Boat trials (2001-2002)
• Queer domesticity in Europe
• Queer in Latin America
• Queer names and identity politics in the Arab world
• Queer themes in Italian Neorealist cinema
• Queer theorists
• Queer theory, African
• Rape, Corrective, in Africa
• Refugees and asylum in Africa
• Refugees and immigration policies
• Religion and same-sex behaviors : Christianity
• Religion and same-sex behaviors : Islam
• Religion and same-sex behaviors : Judaism
• Rescalvo, Sonia (1946-1991)
• Resorts
• Rituals and same-sex and trans experience
• Roopbaan
• Ruling, Anna (1880-1953)
• Rural queer communities, US
• Rural queerness
• Russian Gay Propaganda Law
• Sacred Band of Thebes
• Samoan Fa'afafine
• Sappho, Nineteenth-century rediscovery of
• Scandals in Europe
• Scouting
• Section 377 and Section 377A
• Section 377 in South Asia
• Senegal
• Sex reassignment surgery in Asia
• Sex reassignment surgery in Iran
• Sex tourism in Asia
• Sex tourism in Latin America and the Caribbean
• Sex tourism in the Middle East
• Sex work in Asia
• Sex work/sex tourism/sex trafficking in Africa
• Sexology in Asia
• Sexperts and sex education in the West
• Sexual revolution in Europe
• Sexual revolution in the United States
• Sharaf (1997; Sun'allah Ibrahim)
• Shifting sexual norms in nineteenth-century Iran
• Sins against nature in colonial Latin America
• Situational homosexuality
• Slavery and sodomy in Brazil
• Sodomy laws in the United States
• Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (1648-1695)
• South Africa
• Southern Comfort Conference
• Spectra Project
• Sports and sexuality in Latin America
• Sports, Women in, Africa
• Stone butch blues (1993; Leslie Feinberg)
• Stonewall riots, International effects of
• Strange fruit
• Sufi treatment of same-sex relations in poetry and prose
• Sunil Babu Pant and Others v. Nepal Government (2007)
• tatiana de la tierra (1961-2012)
• Thai K-pop
• Theater, Queer
• Third genders
• Thomas/Thomasine Hall Court Case (1629)
• A thousand and one nights
• Tibet
• Tom of Finland (1920-1991)
• Tongzhi
• Tongzhi literature, Taiwan
• Trans issues in Africa
• Transfeminism
• Transgender identity in Iranian cinema
• Transgender Muslims
• Transgender organizations in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan
• TRansgendered subjectivities in contemporary Iran
• Transvestites/transsexuals
• Travel/travelogues on the Middle East
• Travesti and trans activism in Latin America and the Caribbean
• Treason and queerness
• Tuqus al-Isharat wa-al-Tahawwulat (1994; Sa'dallah Wannous)
• Turkish baths
• Two-spirit
• Ubuntu
• Uganda
• The Ugly Law (1961-1965; Denmark)
• Urban queerness
• El Vampiro de la Colonia Roma (1979; Luis Zapata)
• Vargas, Chavela (1919-2012)
• Vietnam War
• Vietnam War, LGBTQ+ veterans
• Von Mahlsdorf, Charlotte (1928-2002)
• W v. Registrar of Marriages (2013)
• Waria
• "We Demand" Protest (1971)
• The well of loneliness (1928; Radclyffe Hall)
• Wilde in Sinophone culture
• Wilde Trials, International significance of
• Witchcraft/occult in Africa
• The Wolfenden report
• Zheng He (1371-1433)
• Zhongxing phenomenon
• Zimbabwe
• Zuqaq al-Midaq (1947; Naguib Mahfouz).

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Contributors:

Chiang, Howard, 1983- , editor

Aronekar, Anjali , editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Global encyclopedia of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) history (Farmington Hills, Mich. : Charles Scribner's Sons, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, [2019] — ISBN 9780684325538; LCCN 2018030836)

Subjects:

Sexual minorities — History — Encyclopedias

Gay people — History — Encyclopedias

Transgender people — History — Encyclopedias

Bisexual people — History — Encyclopedias

Sexual minorities

Gays

Transgender people

Bisexuals

Genres:

Encyclopedias

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (3 volumes (lvii, 1873 pages)) : illustrations (some color)

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

HQ73 .G56 2019eb

ISBNs:

9780684325545 (electronic book)
9780684325538 (set, hardcover, alkaline paper) [Invalid]
9780684325552 (volume 1, hardcover, alkaline paper) [Invalid]
9780684325569 (volume 2, hardcover, alkaline paper) [Invalid]
9780684325576 (volume 3, hardcover, alkaline paper) [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1112342512

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