Happy Pride Month from the University of Washington Press! Whether you’re in the mood for regional queer histories, a deep dive into gay rodeo, or a campy, lesbian Western novel, we’ve gathered books that reflect the richness of queer and trans scholarship and storytelling—works that celebrate both joy and resistance. Browse the full list below.
Acing Science: Compulsory Sexuality and Asexual Possibilities (forthcoming December 2025)
by Kristina Gupta
Through a sharp intersectional lens, Gupta reveals the limits and exclusions of defining desire as universal.
Dancer Dawkins and the California Kid
by Willyce Kim
First published in 1985, this sapphic novel “returns to us now in this beautiful new edition, a new home to these iconoclastic rebel lesbians, giving back to us a much-needed queer classic” (Alexander Chee, author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel).
Queer Data Studies
edited by Patrick Keilty
Gathering wide-ranging interdisciplinary conversations into one rich volume, Queer Data Studies challenges readers to rethink how the extraction, circulation, modeling, governance, and use of data affects queer subjects and, at the same time, to consider how the power of data might be harnessed in the service of queer ethics.
Love Your Asian Body: AIDS Activism in Los Angeles
by Eric C. Wat
This community memoir connects the deeply personal with the uncompromisingly political in telling the stories of more than thirty Asian American AIDS activists in 1980s and 1990s Los Angeles—a vital portrait of a movement founded on joy.
Queer World Making: Contemporary Middle Eastern Diasporic Art
by Andrew Gayed
An abundantly illustrated look at how queerness is performed within artistic practice that illuminates contemporary understandings of queer sexuality in the Middle Eastern diaspora.
Racial Erotics: Gay Men of Color, Sexual Racism, and the Politics of Desire
by C. Winter Han
A finalist for the 2022 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Studies, Racial Erotics offers a new paradigm for understanding the connection of race and queer desire.
Slapping Leather: Queer Cowfolx at the Gay Rodeo
by Elyssa Ford and Rebecca Scofield
Slapping Leather traces the history and growth of gay rodeo over the decades, demonstrating how queer cowfolx have fought to build a community where LGBTQ+ people can escape discrimination in both mainstream rodeos and broader society.
Queer Feminist Science Studies: A Reader
edited by Cyd Cipolla, Kristina Gupta, David A. Rubin, and Angela Willey
This lively collection brings together essays that develop queer feminist approaches to science, offering a generative resource for students and scholars alike.
Underflows: Queer Trans Ecologies and River Justice
by Cleo Wölfle Hazard
Connecting river sciences to queer and trans theory through collaborative restoration work, Underflows ”presents insightful and challenging departures in theory and methodology“ (LSE Review of Books).
Wide-Open Desert: A Queer History of New Mexico
by Jordan Biro Walters
The untold stories about New Mexico’s queer past are revealed in this expansive history that brings to life a vibrant milieu of two-spirit, Chicana lesbian, and white queer cultural producers in the heart of the US Southwest.
The Borders of AIDS: Race, Quarantine, and Resistance
by Karma R. Chávez
Building on existing histories of HIV/AIDS, public health, citizenship, and immigration, Chávez unpacks the exclusionary politics of AIDS and traces little-known coalitions among affected communities.
