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What to read after Hard by William Giancursio: 24 titles sharing themes of Gay Studies, LGBTQ+ Studies, Cultural & Social, and Anthropology, chosen for mood and literary overlap.

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Read-alikes chosen for how well they continue the mood, themes, and voice of Hard.

New Right Discourse on Race and Sexuality Britain, 1968-1990 — Anna Marie Smith

New Right Discourse on Race and Sexuality Britain, 1968-1990

Anna Marie Smith

Themes: Gay Studies • LGBTQ+ Studies • Cultural & Social

Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash Piracy, Sexuality, and Masculine Identity — Hans Turley

Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash Piracy, Sexuality, and Masculine Identity

Themes: Gay Studies • LGBTQ+ Studies • Cultural & Social

The Homo & the Negro Masculinist Meditations on Politics & Popular Culture — James J. O’Meara

The Homo & the Negro Masculinist Meditations on Politics & Popular Culture — James J. O’Meara

James J. O'Meara

Themes: Gay Studies • LGBTQ+ Studies • Cultural & Social

Queering Psychedelics From Oppression to Liberation in Psychedelic Medicine — Alex Belser

Queering Psychedelics From Oppression to Liberation in Psychedelic Medicine

Themes: Gay Studies • LGBTQ+ Studies • Cultural & Social

Queer Victimology Understanding the Victim Experience — Shelly Clevenger

Queer Victimology Understanding the Victim Experience

Shelly Clevenger

Themes: Gay Studies • LGBTQ+ Studies • Cultural & Social

Bi The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality — Julia Shaw

Bi The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality

Themes: Gay Studies • LGBTQ+ Studies • Cultural & Social

The Tolerance Trap How God, Genes, and Good Intentions are Sabotaging Gay Equality — Suzanna Danuta Walters

The Tolerance Trap How God, Genes, and Good Intentions are Sabotaging Gay Equality

Suzanna Danuta Walters

Themes: Gay Studies • LGBTQ+ Studies • Cultural & Social

Gender and the Law — Judith Bourne

Gender and the Law

Themes: Gay Studies • LGBTQ+ Studies • Cultural & Social

Islamic Homosexualities Culture, History, and Literature — Stephen O. Murray

Islamic Homosexualities Culture, History, and Literature

Stephen O. Murray

Themes: Gay Studies • LGBTQ+ Studies • Cultural & Social

AIDS in Latin America — Tim Frasca

AIDS in Latin America

Themes: Gay Studies • LGBTQ+ Studies • Cultural & Social

Fat — Deborah Lupton

Themes: Gay Studies • LGBTQ+ Studies • Cultural & Social

Out of the Shadows Reimagining Gay Men’s Lives — Walt Odets

Out of the Shadows Reimagining Gay Men’s Lives

Themes: Gay Studies • LGBTQ+ Studies • Cultural & Social

Paradise Discovered, at Last — Jon Kwame Abbott

Paradise Discovered, at Last

Jon Kwame Abbott

Themes: Gay Studies • LGBTQ+ Studies • Cultural & Social

Boy-wives and Female Husbands Studies in African Homosexualities — Marc Epprecht

Boy-wives and Female Husbands Studies in African Homosexualities

Themes: Gay Studies • LGBTQ+ Studies • Cultural & Social

Routledge International Encyclopedia of Queer Culture — David A. Gerstner

Routledge International Encyclopedia of Queer Culture

David A. Gerstner

Themes: Gay Studies • LGBTQ+ Studies • Cultural & Social

Our Caribbean A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles — Thomas Glave

Our Caribbean A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles

Themes: Gay Studies • LGBTQ+ Studies • Cultural & Social

Not Gay Sex Between Straight White Men — Jane Ward

Not Gay Sex Between Straight White Men

Themes: Gay Studies • LGBTQ+ Studies • Cultural & Social

Interrogating the Use of LGBTQ Slurs Still Smearing the Queer? — Meredith Worthen

Interrogating the Use of LGBTQ Slurs Still Smearing the Queer?

Meredith Worthen

Themes: Gay Studies • LGBTQ+ Studies • Cultural & Social

Keywords in Queer Sinophone Studies — Howard Chiang

Keywords in Queer Sinophone Studies

Themes: Gay Studies • LGBTQ+ Studies • Cultural & Social

For Goodness Sex A Sex-Positive Guide to Raising Healthy, Empowered Teens — Al Vernacchio

For Goodness Sex A Sex-Positive Guide to Raising Healthy, Empowered Teens

Themes: Gay Studies • LGBTQ+ Studies • Anthropology

The Delectable Negro Human Consumption and Homoeroticism Within US Slave Culture — Vincent Woodard

The Delectable Negro Human Consumption and Homoeroticism Within US Slave Culture

Vincent Woodard

Themes: Gay Studies • LGBTQ+ Studies • Anthropology

Radical Records Thirty Years of Lesbian and Gay History, 1957-1987 — Bob Cant

Radical Records Thirty Years of Lesbian and Gay History, 1957-1987

Themes: Gay Studies • LGBTQ+ Studies • Anthropology

Human Sexuality Biological, Psychological, and Cultural Perspectives — Anne Bolin

Human Sexuality Biological, Psychological, and Cultural Perspectives

Themes: Gay Studies • LGBTQ+ Studies • Anthropology

On Sex and Gender A Commonsense Approach — Doriane Lambelet Coleman

On Sex and Gender A Commonsense Approach

Doriane Lambelet Coleman

Themes: LGBTQ+ Studies • Cultural & Social • Anthropology

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Gay Studies, LGBTQ+ Studies, Cultural & Social — the same threads that run through Hard by William Giancursio. Among the authors featured: Anna Marie Smith, Hans Turley, James J. O'Meara, Alex Belser, and others.

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