This collection of critical essays on LGBTQ literature features an overview of the genre and critical readings of selected works and authors.

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LGBTQ Literature: 1890û1969 -- LGBTQ Literature: 1969 to the Present -- An Overview of Contemporary Guides to LGBTQ Literature -- Critical Pluralism and Politics: Amy Lowell's “Orientation” -- “The Battle over the Battlefield: Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, and How They Saw the War They Saw” -- “a figure thatà in spite of its present dress, seemed to belong quite as much to one sex as to the other”: Cross-Dressing in James Fenimore Cooper's Jack Tier -- Melville's Sexualities -- Homoeroticism in Rockwell Kent's Illustrations of Melville's Moby-Dick -- “New” Gay Poems by Cavafy -- E. M. Forster's Maurice: A Roadmap to the First “Gay” Novel in English -- The Queer Collaboration: Angelina Weld Grimké and the Birth Control Movement -- Djuna Barnes: Uncollected Writings on Gender and Cross-Dressing -- The Homoerotic Poetry of Wilfred Owen: Survey and Assessment -- The Homosocial, Homoerotic Poetry of Robert Francis -- “To Croon—Weird sweet melodies”: The Fugitive Erotic in the Poetry of Mae V. Cowdery -- Gloria Anzaldúa's Ecocritical Vision: A Spiritual Journey -- The Stray Greatness of Vikram Seth: Sexuality and Form in The Golden Gate and Beyond -- Trans/Forming Girlhood: Transgenderism, the Tomboy Formula, and Gender Identity Disorder in Sharon Dennis Wyeth's Tomboy Trouble -- Works in the LGBTQ Literature Genre.