This research guide highlights books about LGBTQ2S+ art and artists in the collection.
Click through the tabs above to see some of our titles about LGBTQ2S+ artists, art, literature, history, theory, and politics, including catalogues of exhibitions, artist biographies, graphic novels, queer theory, photography collections, fiction, poetry, and more.
We have so many resources about LGBTQ2S+ artists and topics that this guide is not comprehensive. Beyond books, we have ebooks and online journal articles. Using the search box below you can search all OCAD U library books, ebooks, and journal databases.
Try keywords like "lesbian", "gay", "transgender", "bisexual", "sexual minorities", "two-spirit," "homosexual", "homosexuality", "queer", "gender identity", 'intersex", "transsexual."
You can search different keywords together by using AND or OR in all-caps.
Use quotation marks to search phrases, like "sexual minorities."
Here are some example searches:
(lesbian OR gay OR transgender) AND art
("sexual minorities" OR bisexual) AND "graphic novels"
Cruising Utopia : the then and there of queer futurity by 
Disidentifications : queers of color and the performance of politics by 
Gay artists in modern American culture : an imagined conspiracy by 
Hidden histories : 20th century male same sex lovers in the visual arts by 
The Importance of Being Iceland : travel essays in art by 
Lesbian Art : an encounter with power by 
Otherwise : imagining queer feminist art histories by 
Outlaw representation : censorship & homosexuality in twentieth-century American art by 
Pictures and Passions : a history of homosexuality in the visual arts by 
Queer and trans artists of color : stories of some of our lives by 
The Queer Encyclopedia of the Visual Arts by 
Queering visual cultures : re-presenting sexual politics on stage and screen by 
The Sexual Perspective : homosexuality and art in the last 100 years in the west by 
Speaking for vice : homosexuality in the art of Charles Demuth, Marsden Hartley, and the first American avante-garde by 
Unruly visions : the aesthetic practices of queer diaspora by 
Eileen Gray and the design of Sapphic modernity : staying in by 
A queer history of fashion : from the closet to the catwalk by 
Queer threads : crafting identity and community by 
Anna Klumpke : a turn-of-the-century painter and her world by 
David Hockney : the biography, 1937-1975 : a rake's progress by 
Deborah Kass : before and happily ever after by 
Francis Bacon : studies for a portrait : essays and interviews by 
Interpellations : three essays on Kent Monkman by 
Keith Haring : the political line by 
Love revealed : Simeon Solomon and the Pre-Raphaelites by 
Marsden Hartley and the West : the search for an American modernism by 
Mickalene Thomas - Origin of the Universe by 
Out/lines : underground gay graphics from before Stonewall by 
Peter Flinsch : the body in question by 
Tom of Finland. Volume II, Bikers by 
Boys with needles : David Grenier, Neil MacInnis, Thomas Roach, Patrick Traer.
The culture of queer : a tribute to J.B. Harter by 
"Our Kind of Movie" : the films of Andy Warhol by 
Bike boys, drag queens & superstars : avant-garde, mass culture, and gay identities in the 1960s underground cinema by 
The celluloid closet : homosexuality in the movies by 
Chroma : a book of color - June 93 by 
How Do I Look? : queer film and video by 
Now You See It : studies on lesbian and gay film by 
The Perils of Pedagogy : the works of John Greyson by 
The Romance of Transgression in Canada by 
You Only Live Twice: sex, death, and transition by 
Fire in the belly : the life and times of David Wojnarowicz by 
Glamour is theft : a user's guide to General Idea, 1969-1978 by 
Henrik Olesen: Some Faggy Gestures by 
Jasper Johns : seeing with the mind's eye by 
Larry Rivers : art and the artist by 
Merce Cunningham : fifty years by 
The Salivation Army Black Book by 
Will Munro : history, glamour, magic by 
Elmgreen and Dragset: Performances 1995-2011 by 
Catherine Opie : American photographer by 
Daniel Schumann : international orange by 
Disavowals : or, cancelled confessions by 
Gilbert & George : the complete pictures, 1971-2005: in two volumes ; with an introduction by Rudi Fuchs. by 
Hard to imagine : gay male eroticism in photography and film from their beginnings to Stonewall by 
Her Tongue on My Theory : images, essays and fantasies by 
Man to Man : a history of gay photography by 
Nan Goldin : The Other Side, 1972-1992 by 
The Passionate Camera : photography and bodies of desire by 
Robert Mapplethorpe - the Photographs by 
Ruth Bernhard : the eternal body : a collection of fifty nudes by 
Stolen Glances : lesbians take photographs by 
Fire Island Pines : polaroids, 1975-1983 by 
Zoe Leonard : photographs, Fotomuseum Winterthur by 
Charles Ray : sculpture 1997-2014 by 
Show and Tell: A Chronicle of Group Material by 
Studiolo : the collaborative work of Martha Fleming and Lyne Lapointe by 
Moods 28.04 - 24.06.2007 by 
