Contemporary Perspectives on LGBTQ Advocacy in Societies
Contemporary Perspectives on LGBTQ Advocacy in Societies is a cross-disciplinary book series that provides a dedicated venue for exploring issues affecting LGBTQ people across the lifespan—from education and the arts to science, spirituality, and social policy. The series aims to advance scholarship, advocacy, and practice by publishing works that interrogate and illuminate how sociocultural, institutional, and economic systems shape queer lives.
This series welcomes scholarly monographs, edited collections, creative nonfiction, and applied texts that examine critical topics, including intersectionality, health and aging, representation in media, leadership, education, faith communities, and global LGBTQ movements. It also encourages personal narratives, testimonies, and creative works that shed light on the lived experiences of identity, belonging, and transformation.
By engaging with diverse authors, researchers, and practitioners, the series seeks to amplify advocacy efforts that support justice, equity, and inclusion across societies. Ultimately, the goal is to reveal the unseen and unheard, connecting readers to the complexities and triumphs of LGBTQ existence in multiple cultural, political, and generational contexts. It encourages contributions that:
Center queer and intersectional voices (queer persons of color, older queer adults, rural & global communities, nonbinary and trans perspectives, life span issues related to queer individuals, etc.).
Move across domains — aging, education, arts, science, health, religion/spirituality, policy, public culture — and examine how queer lives are lived, negotiated, resisted, and transformed in these spaces.
Employ diverse genres and methodologies: qualitative, narrative, autoethnographic, mixed methods, creative scholarship, arts-informed work, policy analyses, institutional case studies.
Offer practical insight and advocacy orientation: institutional change strategies, curriculum design, program models, community practices, public policy suggestions, and design of inclusive systems.
Engage global and comparative perspectives, including diasporic, Indigenous, and non-Western queer experiences.
