Queer True Crime: A Reading List at CrimeReads

“Queer people have always had a relationship to crime—often by force rather than choice. Our very existence has been outlawed, criminalized, medicalized. Our status as citizens put into question, or made a subject of legal debate. Which is why the contemporary popularity and evolution of the true crime genre opens up new possibilities to recount queer experiences and histories.

Either recovering long forgotten crimes, or creating inventive forms of storytelling, here are seven contemporary books that unsettle, illuminate, and define a queer aesthetic in true crime.”

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