We are often asked what Book/TV Shows/Films we recommend. So, here is a sample of media we think are worth checking out:
Prof Windhauser’s Recent Recommendations:
- Showtime’s Fellow Travellers
- Starting in the McCarthy era of the 1950s, the series, which is based on the book of the same name, follows several queer people as they navigate their lives with varying degrees of success through several decades
- Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Melinda Lo
- Wonderful YA novel set in the 1950s Chinatown in San Francisco
- Non Binary: A Memoir by Genesis P-Orridge
- Very interesting memoir about a person I’d never heard of before finding this book. They were big in the art scene in the UK and one of the originators of industrial music (among other things).
- All That’s Left in the World by Erik Brown
- Engaging YA dystopian novel
- All of Us Strangers, 2023
- Excellent film currently in theaters focusing on gay men.
- Mutt, 2023
- Excellent film exploring a trans masc protagonist
- Monica, 2023
- Excellent film exploring a trans femme protagonist forced to return home.
- Tell the Wolves I’m Home by Carol Rifka Brunt
- Wonderful coming age story of a young girl trying to understand her uncle, who recently passed due to AIDS.
GSWS Student recommendations:
The Monster Under the Bed by JoEllen Notte
Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters (fiction)
Pure by Linda Kay Kleine
Nina Here Nor There by Nick Krieger
Vibrator Nation by Lynn Comella
Bang! by Vic Liu
Ace by Angela Chen
Getting It by Allison Moon
Polysecure by Jessica Fern
Beyond Shame by Matthias Roberts
New Handbook for a Post-Roe America by Robin Marty
You Know, Sex by Cory Silverberg
Between Certain Death and a Possible Future (anthology)
What Fresh Hell is this? by Heather Corinna
Queer Conception by Kristin L. Kali
Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us by Kate Bornstein
Refusing Compulsory Sexuality by Sherronda Brown
Transgender History by Susan Stryker