Queer Between the Covers: Histories of Queer Publishing and Publishing Queer Voices (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781913002046)

Queer Between the Covers presents a history of radical queer publishing and literature from 1880 to the modern day. The book demonstrates how the queer community could be brought together through shared literature and how LGBTQ people throughout modernity have used literature as an important forum for self-expression and self-actualisation when spaces and sites for queer expression were taboo. It also shows the ways in which queer texts have fought against censorship and repression and used as tools for political organisation and production. It includes first-hand accounts of seminal moments in queer history, including the birth of Hazard Press and the Defend Gay's the Word Bookshop campaign in the 1980s.