Queer Theory Reading List
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1, An Introduction by Michel Foucault
Autobiography of an Androgyne by Ralph Werther
Four Poems by Sappho (translated by Anne Carson) -- poems 1, 16, 31, 94
Six Poems by C.P. Cavafy (translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard) -- "At the Café Door," "Craftsman of Wine Bowls," "Picture of a 23-Year Old Painted by His Friend of the Same Age, an Amateur," "Two Young Men, 23 to 24 Years Old," "The Window of the Tobacco Shop," "One Night"
"Aristophanes' Speech" from The Symposium by Plato
"Critically Queer" by Judith Butler
"The Finger" by William S. Burroughs
"Hassan's Rumpus Room" by William S. Burroughs
"The Man Who Taught His Asshole How To Talk" by William S. Burroughs
De Profundis by Oscar Wilde
"As a Wife Has a Cow: A Love Story" by Gertrude Stein
"Lifting Belly" by Gertrude Stein
"Miss Furr and Miss Skeene" by Gertrude Stein
"Alice Toklas, 89, Is Dead In Paris," March 8, 1967 (New York Times obituary)
Milk (film)
"Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Experience" by Adrienne Rich
"Diving into Wreck" by Adrienne Rich
"The Epistemology of the Closet" by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Coming out statements by Anderson Cooper and Frank Ocean
"Thinking Sex" by Gayle Rubin
"Dueling Dualisms" by Anne Fausto-Sterling
"Melancholy Gender/Refused Identification" by Judith Butler
Readings from Families we Choose by Kath Weston
Paris is Burning (film)
"What's Wrong with Normal?" by Michael Warner
Readings from Times Square Red/Times Square Blue by Samuel R. Delany
"Is Kinship Already Heterosexual" by Judith Butler
Selections from Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel
"Is the Rectum a Grave?" by Leo Barsani
Readings from And the Band Played On by Randy Shilts
"The Future is Kid Stuff" by Lee Edelman
"Atlantis" and other poems by Mark Doty
"AIDS Activism and Public Feelings" by Ann Cvetkovich
How to Survive a Plague (film)
Readings from Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame by Kathryn Bond Stockton
Readings from Anachronism and its Others by Valerie Rohy
"Transgender Butch: Butch/FTM Border Wars and the Masculine Continuum" by Judith Halberstam
Introduction to Imagining Transgender by David Valentine
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (film)
"Queering Migration and Citizenship" by Eithne Luibheid
"On Homosexual Reproduction" by Valerie Rohy
"Rooster at the Hitchin' Post" by David Sedaris
"Friendship as a Way of Life" by Michel Foucault
"The Navigators" and other poems by Marilyn Hacker
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