On LGBTQI+ Histories and Issues Today

Arlene Stein draws from dozens of interviews with transgender people and their friends and families, as well as with activists and medical and psychological experts in Unbound: Transgender Men and the Remaking of Identity. Robert Fieseler’s Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation is an essential work of American civil rights history that reconstructs the 1973 fire that devastated New Orleans’ subterranean gay community. In his fascinating history, Welcome to Fairyland, Julio Capó Jr. explores Miami’s transnational connections to reveal that the city has been a queer borderland for over a century.