We tapped Queer studies professors to share their favorite LGBTQ+ love stories.
The belowexplore both romantic love and self-love.
And while the community still fights for the right to love, those arent the only stories to read.
Lily Mengesha, PhD, an assistant professor of dramatic literature at Tufts University.
Queer loveis a nuanced experience written into literature around the world.
Varun Chaudhry, PhD, assistant professor of womens, gender, and sexuality studies at Brandeis University.
Kemi Adeyemi, PhD, is an assistant professor of gender, women, and sexuality studies, at the University of Washington.
Its a story that Dr. Chaudhry says was crucial to hisself-love journey as a trans person.
[Its] a stream-of-consciousness, raw journey of a book, he says.
It made me laugh and cry and sometimes at the same time.
Within the text, Lorde expands the notion of an autobiography.
And she took it up as a lesbian novel because its one that privileges relationships between Black women.
This is another book that helped Dr. Chaudhry come to love himself.
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Kemi Adeyemi, PhD, is an assistant professor of gender, women, and sexuality studies, at the University of Washington.
