Tools And Resources

• Coetzee, W. J. L. (2023): Transformative power of small-scale LGBTQI+ festivals and events. Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events, 15(2).

• Konstantinos Eleftheriadis: Queer Festivals - Challenging Collective Identities in a Transnational Europe.

• IETM Report:  Mapping the Queer International by Ksenija Đurović and Jovana Marković. Report from the IETM Sofia Plenary Meeting, 12 - 15 June 2024 (https://www.ietm.org/en/resources/reports/mapping-the-queer-international)

• Toolkit: Resources Pride Essentials, https://www.consortium.lgbt/toolkit-resources-pride-essentials/. A workbook,  example documents, factsheets & templates.

• Pride at Work Canada - Reports, Guides & Toolkits: A collection of toolkits designed to support 2SLGBTQIA+ leadership and inclusion in workplaces.

• PAStart LGBTQ+ - Prevention Professionals Toolkit: For professionals working with LGBTQ+ youth, focusing on mental health and safety.

• Mentally Healthy Schools - Pride Month Toolkits: Aimed at supporting students and staff in educational settings. 

• Whats on Queer BC? - A Guide to Touring 2SLGBTQIA+ Festivals: This guide will help you navigate and make the most of your journey through some of the most iconic 2SLGBTQIA+ festivals worldwide 

Queer Theory

• Judith Butler: Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (1990)

• Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick: Epistemology of the Closet (1990)

• Michel Foucault: The History of Sexuality, Volume 1 (1976, English Translation 1978)

• Adrienne Rich: Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence (1980)

• Audre Lorde: Sister Outsider (1984)

• José Esteban Muñoz: Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity (2009)

• Jack Halberstam: The Queer Art of Failure (2011)

• Sara Ahmed: Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others (2006)

• Lauren Berlant and Michael Warner: Sex in Public (1998)

• Alexander Doty: Making Things Perfectly Queer: Interpreting Mass Culture (1993)

• Richard Dyer: The Matter of Images: Essays on Representation (1993)

Anthologies

• David Halperin & Valerie Traub: Gay Shame (2009)

• Nikki Sullivan: A Critical Introduction to Queer Theory (2003)

• Michael Warner (ed.): Fear of a Queer Planet: Queer Politics and Social Theory (1993)

• Annamarie Jagose: Queer Theory: An Introduction (1996)

Queer Theory/Postcolonial Theory:

• Roderick Ferguson: Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique (2004)

• Gloria Anzaldúa: Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1987)

• Cathy J. Cohen: Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens: The Radical Potential of Queer Politics? (1997)

Queer Theory/Transgender Theory:

• Susan Stryker: Transgender History (2008)

• Dean Spade: Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law (2011)

• Judith Butler: Undoing Gender (2004)

Queer Theory/Disability Studies:

• Robert McRuer: Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability (2006)

• Amadiume (1987): Male Daughters, Female Husbands: Gender and Sex in an African Society. Zed Books.

• Dover (1978): Greek Homosexuality. Harvard University Press.

• Epprecht (2008): Heterosexual Africa?: The History of an Idea from the Age of Exploration to the Age of AIDS. Ohio University Press.

• Goldberg (2002): The Lord Who is Half Woman: Ardhanarisvara in Indian and Feminist Perspective. State University of New York Press.

• Halperin (1990): One Hundred Years of Homosexuality: And Other Essays on Greek Love. Routledge.

• Nanda (1999): Neither Man nor Woman: The Hijras of India. Wadsworth Publishing.

• O'Brien (2020): Mesopotamian Myths and the Gendered Priesthood: Sexuality, Power, and Fluidity in the Ancient Near East. Cambridge University Press.

• Roscoe (1998): Changing Ones: Third and Fourth Genders in Native North America. Palgrave Macmillan.

• Williams (2010): Roman Homosexuality: Ideologies of Masculinity in Classical Antiquity. Oxford University Press.