Queer, There, and Everywhere: 2nd Edition

Ages 13 And Up, Grades 8 And Up

Now updated and expanded--with three starred reviews, this groundbreaking LGBTQ history book combines riveting facts with a pop culture vibe to the lives of twenty-SEVEN influential queer figures from the Roman Empire through to the present.

World history has been made by countless lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people—and you’ve never heard of many of them. In this updated and expanded edition of Queer, There, and Everywhere, which received three starred reviews, activist Sarah Prager gives voice to twenty-seven people who invented and radicalized and trailblazed and whose stories didn’t make it into the history books. These astonishing true portraits demonstrate how rich and varied gender and sexuality have always been in every culture, in every millennium, on every continent.Our subjects include people the reader will recognize but didn’t realize were queer AND queer people readers likely have never heard of but who made huge contributions to world history. From long-ago heroes like the gender ambiguous Queen of Sweden and a transgender soldier who risked death fighting in the Civil War to modern figures like the transgender tennis player who won a court case to play as a woman and former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, who had a relationship with a woman during her marriage to FDR, this book proves that queer people have not only always existed: They have thrived.This updated and expanded second edition includes a new foreword, three new profiles, updated terminology and wording, and a refreshed cover!

About the Author

Sarah Prager is an activist, public speaker, and writer. She is the founder and director of Quist, a free mobile app that brings queer history to the world in an interesting and interactive way. She has written about LGBTQ history for the Huffington Post, the Advocate, the It Gets Better Project’s blog, and QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking. She has also spoken at major venues, including the U.S. embassy in Mexico City, the offices of Twitter and Microsoft; and more than a dozen universities in four countries, including Harvard Business School, the University of Manchester, and the Illinois Institute of Technology.Sarah came out as lesbian at the age of fourteen and, not knowing any other LGBTQ people, taught herself LGBTQ history as a means of gaining a sense of community. She has been an activist since that time, working for marriage equality, bisexual visibility, HIV prevention, sexual assault prevention, and basic LGBTQ human rights abroad. Sarah holds a BA from Boston University and a Certificate of Communications from Emerson College. She lives in Massachusetts with her wife and their child.