Celebrate Pride Month with a Journals Reading List

Each June, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) Pride Month is celebrated to commemorate the 1969 Stonewall Uprising and the contributions and culture of the LGBTQIA+ community. JHU Press is proud to publish cutting edge scholarly research from and about the LGBTQIA+ community in journals across a variety of disciplines. All the research listed below is freely available through the month of June. 


Quaring Sorority Life: Identity Negotiation of Queer Women of Color in Culturally Based Sororities
Antonio Duran and Crystal E. Garcia
Journal of College Student Development, Volume 62, Number 2, March-April 2021


Global Rainbow Families: Examining Visual Depictions of Same-Sex Couples in International Picturebooks
Jamie Campbell Naidoo and Kaitlyn Lynch 
Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature, Volume 58, Number 4, 2020


Engaging LGBTQ Communities in Community-Partnered Participatory Research: Lessons from the Resilience Against Depression Disparities Study
Olivia K. Sugarman, MPH, Ashley Wennerstrom, PhD, MPH, Miranda Pollock, MPH, Krystal Griffith, MPH, Emily Rey, MA, Sylvanna M. Vargas, MA, Catherine Haywood, Diana Meyers, BSN, RN, Jessie Smith III, Clarence R. Williams, Pluscedia Williams, Curley Bonds, MD, Benjamin Springgate, MD, MPH, Jeanne Miranda, PhD, and Bowen Chung, MD, MSHS
Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action, Volume 15, Issue 1, Spring 2021


Alison Bechdel's Fun Home: Queer Futurity and the Metamodernist Memoir
Meghan C. Fox 
MFS Modern Fiction Studies, Volume 65, Number 3, Fall 2019


Organizational Strategies and Inclusive Language to Build Culturally Responsive Health Care Environments for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer People
Hilary Goldhammer, SM, Alicia C. Smart, MD, Laura A. Kissock, MPH, and Alex S. Keuroghlian, MD, MPH 
Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, Volume 32, Number 1, February 2021


What's Queer Got To Do With It?
Leila J. Rupp 
Reviews in American History, Volume 38, Number 2, June 2010


Queer Healing: AIDS, Gay Synagogues, Lesbian Feminists, and the Origins of the Jewish Healing Movement
Gregg Drinkwater
American Jewish History, Volume 104, Number 4, October 2020


“Queer King Arthur in Space”: Problematizing Gender Binaries, Heteronormativity, and Medieval(ist) Heroic Ideals in Once & Future
Lisa Kazianka 
Children's Literature Association Quarterly, Volume 45, Number 4, Winter 2020


"We Taught You How to Dance": Cultural Inheritance in David Levithan's Two Boys Kissing
Jon Heggestad
The Lion and the Unicorn, Volume 44, Number 1, January 2020


Learning My True Colors: Race, Sexuality, and Adultism in LGBTQA Youth Theatre
Sidney Monroe Williams 
Theatre Topics, Volume 30, Number 2, July 2020


“I could tell I wasn’t like everybody else”: Toward a History of Queer Childhoods in Australia
Scott Mckinnon, Shirleene Robinson, and Robert Reynolds
The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, Volume 13, Number 2, Spring 2020


Debating the "Man Child": Understanding the Politics of Motherhood through Debates in the US Lesbian Community, 1970–1990
Elizabeth Alice Clement 
Journal of Women's History, Volume 31, Number 4, Winter 2019


Queer Relations
David J. Getsy 
ASAP/Journal, Volume 2, Number 2, May 2017