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 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 | Humanities and Human Rights: Thoughts on Community | |