Books in the Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance series

Focuses on drag and transgender performance and activism in Puerto Rico and its diaspora. Arguing for its political potential, Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes explores the social and cultural disruptions caused by Latin American and Latinx 'locas' and the various forms of violence that queer individuals in Puerto Rico and the US are subjected to.

20 years after Paris Is Burning, a rare look at Ballroom culture--from the inside

Subverting assumptions that American musical theatre is steeped in nostalgia, cheap sentiment, misogyny, and homophobia, this book shows how musicals of the 1950s and early 1960s celebrated strong women characters who defied the era's gender expectations.

Employs theories of postcolonial cultural studies to examine the notion of mestizaje - the mixing of races, and specifically indigenous people with European colonizers - and how this phenomenon manifests itself in three geographically diverse spaces: the US, Latin America, and the Philippines.