Joshua G. Adair is an associate professor of English at Murray State University, where he also serves as coordinator of Gender & Diversity Studies. Adair's work, whether in literary, historical, or museum studies, examines the ways we narrate - and silence - gender and sexuality; it has appeared in over fifty scholarly and creative nonfiction journals.

I. Frameworks; 1. Introduction: Museums, Sexuality, and Gender Activism, Amy K. Levin; 2. Chicana Feminism, Anzalduian Borderland Practices, and Critiques of Museology, Amanda K. Figueroa; 3. Warning! Heteronormativity: A Question of Ethics, Nikki Sullivan and Craig Middleton; II. Dismantling the Master's House?; A. Major Institutions; 4. Sex and Sensitivities: Exhibiting and Interpreting Shunga at the British Museum Stuart Frost; 5. Activists on the Inside: the Victoria and Albert Museum LGBTQ Working Group, Zorian Clayton and Dawn Hoskin; 6. Remolding the Museum: In Residence at the V&A, Matt Smith; B. Alternate Spaces; 7. Pop-up or Permanent? The Case of the Mardi Gras Museum, Tuan Nguyen; 8. Emptied, Displaced, Assimilated: Spatial Politics of Gender in Ankara Ulucanlar Prison Museum, Özge Kelekçi and Meral Akbä; 9. Death of a Museum Foretold? On Sexual Display in the Time of AIDS in India, Rovel Sequeira; 10. Lost Objects and Missing Histories: HIV/AIDS in the Netherlands, Manon S. Parry and Hugo Schalkwijk; III. Bodies in the Museum?; A. Indigenous Bodies; 11. Kent Monkman's Shame and Prejudice: Artist Curation as Queer and Decolonial Practice, Ann Cvetkovich; 12. All that Moves Us: Bodies in Land, Camille Georgeson-Usher; B. Bodies of Ambiguity; 13. The Future of Museological Display: Chitra Ganesh's Speculative Encounters, Natasha Bissonauth; 14. Nonbinary Di¿erence: Dionysus, Arianna, and the Fictive Arts of Museum Photography, Åsa Johannesson and Clair Le Couteur; IV. Acts of Resistance; A. Unruly Women; 15. The Absent History of Female Volunteers at the Art Gallery of Toronto, Irina D. Mihalache; 16. From Handmade Underwear to the Labor Movement: Women's History at Digital Museum, Jana Sverdljuk; 17. Recording Change: Collecting the Irish Abortion Rights Referendum, 2018, Brenda Malone; B. Problematic Narratives; 18. Never Going Underground: Community Coproduction and the Story of LGBTQ+ Rights, Catherine O'Donnell; 19. Curating Gertrude Stein: Identity Politics in the Exhibition Catalogue, Hayden Hunt; 20. "[A] Battlefield All their Own": Selling Women's Fictions as Fact at Plantation Museums, Joshua G. Adair; V. Thinking Outside the Binary Box; 21. On Gender Fluidity and Photographic Portraiture, Michael Petry; 22. Never A Small Project: Welcoming Transgender Communities into the Museum, Mirjam Sneeuwloper, Amy Levin, Colline Horstink, and Yvo Manuel Vas Dias; 23. "A Museum Can Never Be Queer Enough": The Van Abbemuseum as a Testing Ground for Institutional Queering, Anne Rensma, Daniel Neugebauer, and Olle Lundin; 24. Conclusion, Joshua G. Adair

Museums, Sexuality, and Gender Activism examines the role of exhibitionary institutions in representing LGBTQ+ people, cisgender women, and nonbinary individuals.