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GLQ

A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies

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Current Volume: 32

Frequency: Quarterly

Providing a much-needed forum for interdisciplinary discussion, GLQ publishes scholarship, criticism, and commentary in areas as diverse as law, science studies, religion, political science, and literary studies. Its aim is to offer queer perspectives on all issues touching on sex and sexuality.

In an effort to achieve the widest possible historical, geographic, and cultural scope, GLQ particularly seeks out new research into historical periods before the twentieth century, into non-Anglophone cultures, and into the experience of those who have been marginalized by race, ethnicity, age, social class, body morphology, or sexual practice. A notable feature is "The GLQ Archive," a special section featuring previously unpublished or unavailable primary materials that may serve as sources for future work in lesbian and gay studies.

GLQ has expanded to include Lesbian and Gay Studies Newsletter book reviews and calls for papers, and members of the GL/Q Caucus for the Modern Languages now receive a subscription to GLQ as part of their membership dues.

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Editorial Office:
GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies
Duke University Press
905 W. Main St., Suite 18B
Durham, NC 27707
831-502-7373 (fax)
dup_glq-editor@duke.edu

Editors:
Chandan Reddy, University of Washington
Juana María Rodríguez, University of California, Berkeley

Associate Editors:
Kareem Khubchandani
M. Myrta Leslie Santana
Jennifer Tyburczy
Margot Weiss

State of the Field Review Editor:
Greta LaFleur

Books in Brief Editor:
Emily R. Bock

Queer Aesthetics Editor:
Hentyle Yapp

Editorial Board:
Jafari S. Allen
Chris Berry
Jodi A. Byrd
Paisley Currah
David Eng
John Nguyet Erni
Rod Ferguson
Katherine M. Franke
Carla Freccero
Jack Halberstam
Sarah Haley
Jin Haritaworn
Neville Hoad
Sharon Holland
Tiffany Lethabo King
Keguro Macharia
Rahul Rao
C. Riley Snorton
Jackie Stacey
Eric Stanley
Deborah R. Vargas
Rinaldo Walcott

Managing Editor:
Karen Dutoi

Founding Editors:
Carolyn Dinshaw
David M. Halperin

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Submit manuscripts online at https://mc04.manuscriptcentral.com/dup-glq. Our response time is generally six to eight months. Do not submit previously published articles without the permission of the editors. Do not simultaneously offer your article to another publication. All lines should be double-spaced (including lines in the notes), with 1.5-inch left and right margins. Articles should be 8,000–10,000 words; articles exceeding 11,000 words will not be considered. To maintain anonymity in the review process, please make sure that names, affiliations, email and mailing addresses, and acknowledgments do not appear in the file. Citations to an author's own works should be made in a way that does not compromise anonymity. GLQ uses The Chicago Manual of Style, eighteenth edition, as its main reference. Articles use a reference list and in-text author-date citations for documentation. Follow Chicago, chapter 13, for the form of all citations. Send correspondence to dup_glq-editor@duke.edu. When preparing an article for submission, please refer to the journal's style guide. Please see our guidelines for special issue proposals.

GLQ does not accept unsolicited book or film/video reviews. Reviews are edited in cooperation with the GL/Q Caucus for the Modern Languages, an affiliate organization of the MLA.

GLQ Call for Papers
GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies seeks submissions, particularly those containing new research into social formations across the global South, into historical periods before the twentieth century, into non-Anglophone cultures, into colonialism, dispossession, and slavery as structures of our present, and into the experience of those who have been marginalized by race, ethnicity, age, social class, body morphology, or sexual practice.

GLQ Call for Special Issue Proposals
We especially welcome special issue proposals. Themes should be in line with those of journal issues published in recent years, including global histories of sex and sexuality, Indigenous and transhemispheric relocations of queer and trans studies, race, diaspora, postcolonial, and transnational queer critiques of area knowledges, critical theory and trans studies, environmental and nonhuman studies, affect and new ontologies of the political, and radical antihumanisms. Please see proposal guidelines. Please send queries to dup_glq-editor@duke.edu.

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ISSN: 1064-2684

e-ISSN: 1527-9375