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Global Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) History
Howard Chiang, Editor in Chief
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Name: Chiang, Howard, 1983- editor.
Title: Global encyclopedia of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) history/Howard Chiang, editor in chief; associate editors, Anjali Arondekar [and six others].
Description: Farmington Hills, Mich.: Charles Scribner's Sons, [2019] | Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: Volume 1. A-F --Volume 2. G-O -- Volume 3. P-Z.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018030836| ISBN 9780684325538 (set : hardcover: alk. paper) | ISBN 9780684325552 (vol. 1 : hardcover: alk. paper) | ISBN 9780684325569 (vol. 2 : hardcover: alk. paper) | ISBN 9780684325576 (vol. 3 : hardcover: alk. paper) | ISBN 9780684325545 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Sexual minorities--History--Encyclopedias. | Gays--History-Encyclopedias. | Transgender people--History--Encyclopedias. | Bisexuals-History--Encyclopedias.
Classification: LCC HQ73.G56 2019 | DDC 306.76003--dc23
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Table of Contents
Preface xxv
Introduction xxix
List of Contributors xxxv
Thematic Outline liii
A
ACT UP 1
The founding, achievements, international impact, and demise of this important AIDS activist group.
Sidebar: ACT UP in Europe
Activism in Africa South of the Sahara 8
The history and current state of LGBTQI activism in Africa, including challenges and victories.
Adoption and Surrogacy in Europe 16
The availability and legal rights surrounding the issues of adoption and surrogacy for European LGBT persons.
Adoption, Fostering, and Surrogacy (International) 20
The legal and social challenges LGBTQ adults face to access intercountry adoption and surrogacy, as well as challenges LGBTQ youth face when rejected from their families.
Aestheticism and Decadence, Nineteenth-Century 26
The important figures and works of these interrelated cultural movements that explored queer and erotic themes around the end of the nineteenth century.
African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights 35
The role of this human rights organization in advocating for LGBTQ individuals in Africa.
Sidebar: The Commission Condemns Violence and Discrimination against LGBTQ Persons
Afropop Music 38
A type of popular music on the African continent, and the ways LGBT artists are using it both to resist social oppression and promote tolerance.
AIDS Memorial QuiltThe NAMES Project 40
The development and cultural impact of this famous memorial to those who have died from AIDS.
Al-Akharun (2006; Seba al-Herz) 44
Saudi Arabian novel narrated by a disabled Shia woman struggling to reconcile her religious faith with her nonnormative sexual identity.
alQaws 48
Palestinian organization that promotes queer acceptance combined with advocacy against Israeli pinkwashing.
Amer, Ghada (1963) 51
Egyptian artist whose work challenges conventional representations of women, particularly in its depictions of same-sex desire.