From this post, which is itself also a useful ongoing conversation on LGBT-conservatism along with this off-shoot, but some people might find those too long to reblog. So here’s a shorter post with some resources to get you started, I’m sure other people can add more.
Books
- Sarah Schulman – The Gentrification of the Mind. A very insightful book about the move towards gay conservatism in the aftermath of the Aids Crisis https://www.docdroid.net/dhvC2dP/gentrification-of-the-mind-sarah-schulman.pdf
- Matt Bernstein Sycamore – Why are faggots so afraid of faggots? Excellent book on toxic masculinity in gay communities.
- Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore – That’s Revolting! : Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation. The name says it all. https://www.scribd.com/document/98495523/Thats-Revolting
- B. Binaohan – Decolonizing Trans/Gender 101. Absolute must-read
- Susan Stryker – Transgender History. Also a must-read.
- Julia Serano- Whipping Girl. The first book to really describe transmisogyny. Really good.
- Julia Serano – Excluded. Goes deeper into the history of TERFs and transmisogyny in feminism
- Kate Bornstein –
Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation. Great book on gender, queerness and activism. - C.B. Daring – Queering Anarchism. For all your anarchist needs.
Zines
- Malcolm Shanks – Decolonizing Gender
https://unsettlingamerica.wordpress.com/tag/decolonizing-gender/ - Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries https://untorellipress.noblogs.org/files/2011/12/STAR.pdf
- The Queer Zines Archive Project https://archive.org/details/qzap
Videos
- United in Anger, A history of Act Up in
a 90 minute documentary that tells the history of the aids activism.
It’s super well researched and inclusive and it’s online for free! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrAzU79PBVM&feature=youtu.be - Screaming Queens. The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria. Documentary on the big overlooked trans women riot before Stonewall. Also online for free: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-WASW9dRBU
