About Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies examines the lives, experiences, and representations of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender persons, studying in historical, contemporary, and theoretical contexts LGBT communities, institutions, politics, languages, art, literature, and relationships to heterosexual norms. Drawing upon interdisciplinary and multicultural resources, LGBT Studies analyzes sexuality and sexual identity as complex social and historical phenomena. Up-to-date listings for LGBT courses can be found under Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.

Cross-listed Courses

AAAS 40/WGSS 34.02	Gender Identities and Politics in Africa
ANTH 31/WGSS 36.01	Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective
ENGL 27	Tell It Slant: Female, Black, Queer Readings of Early American Poetry
ENGL 52.05	Desire and Difference in 19th Century British Fiction
ENGL 53.33	Gender and Sexuality in Asian American Literature
ENGL 62.02	The New Emily Dickinson: After the Digital Turn
ENGL 73.07	Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop
GEOG 25/SOCY 49.22/WGSS 37.03	Social Justice and the City
HIST 8.04/WGSS 26.03	History of Sexuality in America
REL 31/WGSS 43.02/CLST 11.06	Sex, Celibacy, and the Problem of Purity: Asceticism and the Human Body in Late Antiquity
THEA 21/WGSS 59.04	Race, Gender, and Performance
WGSS 18	Introduction to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies
WGSS 34.04/SOCY 56	Sociology of Gender
WGSS 40.04	Black Women's Activism, 1970-present
WGSS 56.03	Family Matters: Pedro Almodovar, Gender Reversals, and New Communities
WGSS 62.02	A Global History of Sexual Science
WGSS 65.04	Queer Visual Culture
WGSS 65.06	Radical Sexuality: Of Color, Wildness, and Fabulosity
WGSS 65.07	Queer Popular Culture
WGSS 67.01	Freud: Psychoanalysis, Jews, and Gender (in English)
WGSS 67.04/INTS 17.08	Humanities and Human Rights: Thoughts on Community
WGSS 67.05	Feminist Theory