Queer Generations: LGBTQ Growing Up, Belonging and Sexual Citizenship

Book info: Queer Generations: LGBTQ Growing Up, Belonging and Sexual Citizenship (Hardcover, 216 pages) – Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. Language: English.

Queer Generations offers a groundbreaking study of sexual citizenship, based on the coming of age narratives of two social generations of LGBTQ people in Australia. The open access book’s assembly and analysis of narrative accounts demonstrates the differences contained in people’s experiences of LGBTQ youth sexual citizenship. It is the first book to provide a robust empirical account of the diverse ways in which sexual citizenship is experienced and understood by different social generations of LGBTQ people growing up. By so doing, Queer Generations offers a unique analysis of ongoing contestations over the place of sexual and gender diversity in relation to citizenship. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Bloomsbury Open Collections Library Collective. Editorial Reviews Review “In this absorbing and uniquely intergenerational research project, Queer Generations, Marshall, Hegarty, Cover, Newman, Rasmussen, and Aggleton do superb work contextualizing the development of youth sexual citizenship in across temporally shifting understandings of what it means to live against the normative grain of sexuality and gender. As strong in its methodology and theory as it is in its nuanced reporting on key lens that continue to provide resources for and shape the experiences of LGBTQ+ people, this is book is an exceptional resource for youth studies, education, gender studies, history, and more.” ―Cris Mayo, University of Vermont, USA About the Author Daniel Marshall is Associate Professor and Enterprise Fellow in Sexualities and Genders at the University of South Australia. Daniel has previously been Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Creative Arts and Convenor of Gender and Sexuality Studies at Deakin University, a Visiting Scholar at the Center for LGBTQ Studies (City University of New York) and at the Weeks Centre for Social and Policy Research (London South Bank University), and President of the Australian Queer Archives.

Benjamin Hegarty is a McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Melbourne. Prior to commencing at the University of Melbourne, he was a Research Fellow in Gender and Sexuality Studies at Deakin University. He has been a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Irvine.

Rob Cover is Professor of Digital Communication and Director of the Digital Ethnography Research Centre at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. He leads a number of major funded research projects on young people, health and wellbeing and digital and broadcast media. The author of around one hundred journal articles and chapters, he publishes widely on topics related to digital cultures in the context of social identities, young people, suicide prevention and resilience. Rob is the author of ten books, including: Identity in the COVID-19 Years (Bloomsbury, 2024), Identity and Digital Communication: Concepts, Theories, Practices (2023), Fake News in Digital Culture (2022), Emergent Identities: New Sexualities, Gender and Relationships in a Digital Era (2019), Digital Identities: Creating and Communicating the Online Self (2016), and Queer Youth Suicide, Culture and Identity: Unliveable Lives? (2016). He is a co-editor of several anthologies including: Queer Studies in Education (2024), The Routledge Handbook of Gender, Sexuality and Human Rights (2024) and is co-editor of The Elgar Encyclopedia of Queer Studies (2025).

Christy Newman is Professor at the Centre for Social Research in Health, where they conduct social research on health, gender and sexuality. Their impacts are most evident in the fields of sexual and reproductive health, blood borne virus prevention and care, and sexual and gender diversity.

Mary Lou Rasmussen is Professor of Sociology at Australian National University, Australia.