Struggles for LGBT rights and the security of sexual and gender minorities are ongoing, urgent concerns across the world. For students, scholars, and activists who work on these and related issues, this handbook provides a unique, interdisciplinary resource.
In chapters by both emerging and senior scholars, the Oxford Handbook of Global LGBT and Sexual Diversity Politics introduces key concepts in LGBT political studies and queer theory. Additionally, the handbook offers historical, geographic, and topical case studies contexualized within theoretical frameworks from the sociology of sexualities, critical race studies, postcolonialism, indigenous theories, social movement theory, and international relations theory. It provides readers with up-to-date empirical material and critical assessments of the analytical significance, commonalities, and differences of global LGBT politics. The forward-looking analysis of state practice, transnational networks, and historical context presents crucial perspectives and opens new avenues for debate, dialogue, and theory.

Michael J. Bosia is Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Saint Michael's College.
Sandra M. McEvoy is Clinical Associate Professor of Political Science and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Boston University.
Momin Rahman is Professor of Sociology at Trent University.

Introduction: Sexual and Gender Diversity Politics 50 Years after Stonewall
Michael J. Bosia
Part I. Theories and Origins of Contemporary Sexual and Gender Diversity Politics

1. What Makes LGBT Sexualities Political? Understanding Oppression in Sociological, Historical, and Cultural Contexts
Momin Rahman
2. Political Economy, Sexuality, and Intimacy
Barry Adam
3. Early Advocacy for the Public Recognition of Sexual Diversity
David Rayside
4. Gender Identity and Transgender Rights in Global Perspective
Elijah Edelman
5. Making LGBT Rights into Human Rights
Anthony J. Langlois
6. Global LGBT Politics at Scale: Memory and Rights in Early Twenty-First Century Peru
Justin Perez
7. Intergovernmental Organizations and Nongovernmental Organizations: The Development of an International Approach to LGBT Issues
Erin Aylward
8. Queering Scholarship? LGBT Politics as an Analytical Challenge for Political Science and International Relations
Markus Thiel
Part II. Case Studies in Global Sexual and Gender Diversity Politics
9. LGBTQ Politics in Anglo-American Democracies
Miriam Smith
10. Europe and LGBT Rights: A Conflicted Relationship
Phillip Ayoub and David Paternotte
11. Decolonizing Indigenous Sexualities: Between Erasure and Resurgence
Manuela L. Picq
12. The Expansion of LGBT Rights in Latin America and the Backlash
Javier Corrales
13. Africa and the Contestation of Sexual and Gender Diversity: Imperial and Contemporary Regulation
Monica Tabengwa and Matthew Waites
14. LGBT Politics in South Asia: Ground Rules, Underground Movements
Ahmad Qais Munhazim
15. LGBT Rights in the Former Soviet Union: The Evolution of Hypervisibility
Cai Wilkinson
16. LGBT Rights, Sexual Citizenship, and Blacklighting in the Anglophone Caribbean: What Do Queers Want, What Does Colonialism Need?
Cornel Grey, Nikoli A. Attai
17. The State of Being LGBT in the Age of Reaction: Post-2011 Visibility and Repression in the Middle East and North Africa
Mehmet Sinan Birdal
18. Global Norms, State Regulations, and Local Activism: Marriage Equality and Same-Sex Partnership, Sexual Orientation, and Gender Identity Rights in Japan and Hong Kong
Diana Khor, Denise Tse-Shang Tang, and Saori Kamano
19. The Global HIV/AIDS and LGBT Movements
Jeremy Youde
20. Beyond Belief? The Rapid Expansion of Same-Sex Marriage
Julie Hollar
21. Learning Sexuality and Gender: Issues in Childhood Education Transnationally
Ryan R. Thoreson
Part III. Critical Understandings of Global Sexual and Gender Diversity
22. Theorizing Visibility in Global Queer Politics
Emil Edenborg
23. Heretical Falsification and the Challenge of Theorizing LGBT Politics from the South
S. N. Nyeck
24. Research on Diversity in Sexual Identities: Beyond Binaries
Pawan Singh
25. Debating Imperial Violence and the Production of Sexualities
Jacqueline Stevens and V Varun Chaudhry
26. Queer Muslim Challenges to the Internationalization of LGBT Rights: Decolonizing International Relations Methodology through Intersectionality
Momin Rahman
27. Global Sexual Diversity Politics and the Trouble with LGBT Rights
Michael J. Bosia
28. Academia versus Activism
Dennis Altman