Honoring LGBTQ History Month with Visibility and Connection
As LGBTQ History Month comes to a close, we’ve appreciated the additional opportunity to celebrate queer histories, identities, and cultures. University of Michigan Press is proud to publish books that illuminate LGBTQ stories. Below are just a few of our most recent titles (and you can browse more, here).
Featured Books
A Queer History of Flamenco: Diversions, Transitions, and Returns in Flamenco Dance (1808–2018)
Translated by Ryan Rockmore
By Fernando López Rodríguez
Intersex Figures in Modern Japanese Literature and Art
By Leslie Winston
Transformismo: Performing Trans/Queer Cuba
By M. Myrta Leslie Santana
Queer Chimerica: A Speculative Auto/Ethnography of the Cool Child
Shana Ye
Greasepaint Puritan: Boston to 42nd Street in the Queer Backstage Novels of Bradford Ropes
By Maya Cantu
Homosaurus Terms
As part of our commitment to making LGBTQ scholarship and storytelling more visible, we’ve begun tagging relevant titles with Homosaurus subject terms. The Homosaurus is an international linked data vocabulary of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer terms. Libraries, archives, museums, and other institutions are encouraged to use the Homosaurus to support LGBTQ research by enhancing the discoverability of their LGBTQ resources. Homosaurus is supported by Backstage Library Works, (our vendor for MARC records) which makes it easier for libraries to ingest this subject information, and we’ve also added it as a supported vocabulary for Fulcrum, our digital publishing platform.
By using these specialized Homosaurus subject tags on our website and in discovery systems, we hope to help readers find these books that might otherwise be hidden under broader or outdated subject headings. It’s a small but significant step toward more inclusive metadata and a more connected scholarly ecosystem.
LGBTQ History Month reminds us that visibility matters in the stories and voices we publish, and also in the systems that help readers find them.
