The LGBTQIA+ community is not isolated to country, yet many voices within are not heard often enough.

Different Rainbows  gives a sample of some of the most interesting work being done around the world, and raises some of the fundamental issues posed for scholars and activists. For far too long, writing and theorising about the experiences of eroticism, activism and movements within the queer community has been dominated by the theories and accounts generated in the west, then imposed on and exported to the rest of the world. It is important that literature expresses them, as it is done here.

Published by the Gay Man's Press, these essays focus on Brazil, Mexico, Kenya, South Africa, India and China, by authors including Dennis Altman, Margaret Randall and Mark Gevisser.