... and the distributional price of exceeding the Law in settler normativities. It pivots on the claim that the general availability of intensified potential, like the general availability of enjoyment, doesn't negate the specific social (dis)orderings that differentiate and then treat different bodies differently. It asks...

...Gabriel Rosenberg The article explores the history and structure of American laws criminalizing sexual contact between humans and animals to demonstrate how the ecological conditions of late capitalism are remaking sexual taxonomies, practices, and identities. It notes that the majority...

...Donovan O. Schaefer Abstract Is there a queer Darwin? It is often assumed that Darwinian biology is an ally of conservative approaches to sexuality and gender. The Christian legal framework known as natural law philosophy, for instance, reads Darwin as a champion of heterosexual coupling, proving...

... is exchanged for money and livelihood. These efforts to “draw the line” between disapproved and expected forms of exploitation and inequality (sexual and nonsexual) are filled with contradiction and incoherence, particularly in regard to the sexual culpability of men or women. Recent international law (2000...

...Eithne Luibhéid Focusing on the U.S. campaign to secure recognition of same-sex couple relationships within immigration law, this article brings the scholarship about the social construction of undocumented immigration into critical conversation with queer studies. Challenging neoliberal...

...Jules Gill-Peterson This article elucidates the connection between anti-trans and anti-abortion political movements, looking closely at laws banning gender-affirming care in the wake of the Supreme Court's Dobbs v. Jackson decision in 2022. In particular, the article claims, “anti-abortion and anti...

...Daniel Heath Justice Recent laws against same-sex marriage in the Cherokee Nation provide the backdrop for this analysis of alternative models of Cherokee sexual diversity. Rather than seek identifiable historical precedent that is largely unavailable in the historical record and vehemently denied...

... was introduced to recognize nonfamilial migration. Same-sex migration has been hailed as reflecting Australia's progressive sexual law reform and modernizing Australia's immigration history. Since 1991, more than 7,500 permits have been issued. Between 1991 and 2005, gay Asian migrants made up the largest group...

..., one that sought to uncover, explore and archive same-sex intimacies worldwide. Utilizing travel writing, ethnographic studies and personal memoirs homophiles produced a popular anthropological account of homosexuality, one they implicitly linked to Cold War human rights discourse, liberal law reform...

... have atypical genital development or intersex conditions. Julie Greenberg is a professor of law whose work on gender and sexual identity has been influential both within the United States and internationally. Del LaGrace Volcano is a visual artist whose work engages with gender variance. Katrina Roen...

... to set the outer limits of sexual liberty for both children and adults. Next, the essay looks back to the early work of queer theorists, legal scholars, and lawyers to unearth a more promising vision of law's relationship to children's queerness. By juxtaposing how two judges approached the possibility...

... recent scholarship that examines marriage, as well as the law/legal infrastructure and language that offer conjugal rights, that is, social, economic, and legal rights, and confers statuses of personhood to those who have access to them. Bride , regardless of the specific gendered status and personhood...

...Eben Kirksey Abstract The experiment in China that produced the world's first babies with “edited” DNA comes out of an international research program aimed at producing an HIV cure. An atmosphere of secrecy surrounded this experiment at the edge of the law. Volunteers who signed up...

... that lesbians and gay men constitute one of the last groups of excluded “minorities” to be denied full citizenship under the law. Such a view tends to rely on an optimistic reading of the history of civil rights in the twentieth-century United States, a reading that moves gradually from dis- crimination...

... is not only gay rights but the history of marriage law and U.S. citizenship. I then ask that we reconsider the campaign for same-sex marriage and related appeals to the state in a way that takes queer-theoretical critiques more seriously. While it is no surprise that mainstream...

... to the U.S. Supreme Court as it considered the constitutionality of Texas’s “homosexual conduct law” in the case of Lawrence v. Texas. The Court cited the brief in the decision it issued on June 26, 2003, which overturned that law and the rest of the nation’s sodomy laws. Although legal observers...

...-Merrill, 1962 . Black , Henry Campbell . Handbook on the Construction and Interpretation of the Laws . 2nd ed. St. Paul, MN: West Publishing Co., 1911 . Conkle , Daniel O. “The Second Death of Substantive Due Process.” Ind. L. J . 62 ( 1987 ): 215 -242. Connolly , William E...

...Peter Boag Arresting Dress: Cross-Dressing, Law, and Fascination in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco . Sears Clare . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2015 . x + 202 pp. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Books in Brief PRODUCING CROSS-­DRESSERS . . . AND MORE...

... in societies in which the meanings of rights and implications of law function differently. This difference lies in the fact that gay activists in Singapore do not enjoy the luxury of civil-­political liberties accessible to individuals in liberal democracies (7). Hence, to advance their cause, gay...