GLR January-February Supplement 2024

New books from Duke University Press

Platinum Bible of the Public Toilet Ten Queer Stories CUI ZI’EN PETRUS LIU and LISA ROFEL, editors “Artist, activist, pioneer, and provocateur, Cui Zi’en is known for shaking up the world of Chinese queer cinema and standing at the forefront of the queer rights movement in China. Now, for the fi rst time, a selection of his avant-garde literary works is available in English. This collection reveals Cui Zi’en’s strange literary universe, brimming with the uncanny, the philosophical, and the beautiful.”— Michael Berry , author of Enter the Clowns: The Queer Cinema of Cui Zi’en The Bars Are Ours Histories and Cultures of Gay Bars in America, 1960 andAfter LUCAS HILDERBRAND “ The Bars Are Ours is a joy to read. Lucas Hilderbrand is able to insert himself into his narrative in ways that make it come alive and, at the same time, steps back and analyzes. The stories are so compelling! Some made me laugh, some left me teary-eyed, and some offered eye-opening insights into a history that is shamefully undertold and underappreciated.”— John D’Emilio , author of Memories of a Gay Catholic Boyhood: Coming of Age in the Sixties

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