Queer Intercultural Communication helps to expand the field of queer studies to consider cultural difference and how it affects everyday communication across the globe. Authoritative essays present cases of LGTBQ people in and across race, ethnicity, gender, culture, nation, and bodies.

Shinsuke Eguchi is Associate Professor of Intercultural Communication in the Department of Communication and Journalism at the University of New Mexico. Their research interests focus on global and transcultural studies, queer of color critique, race, gender and intersectionality, Asian/Pacific/American studies, and performance studies. Their mostly recent work has appeared for publication inCritical Studies in Media Communication,Popular Communication,Howard Journal of Communication,Departures in Critical Qualitative Research, andJournal of Homosexuality.Bernadette Marie Calafellis Inaugural Department Chair and Professor of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at Gonzaga University. Her research is focused on queer of color theories, women of color feminisms, critical rhetoric, performance studies, and monstrosity. She is author ofMonstrosity, Performance, Race in Contemporary CultureandLatina/o Communication Studies: Theorizing Performance.

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction - Reorienting Queer Intercultural CommunicationShinsuke Eguchi, University of New MexicoBernadette Marie Calafell, Gonzaga UniversityTheme 1: RelationalitiesChapter 1- Relationalities in/through Difference: Explorations in Queer Intercultural CommunicationGust A. Yep, San Francisco State UniversityFatima Zahrae Chrifi Alaoui, San Francisco State UniversityRyan M. Lescure, San Francisco State UniversityChapter 2- Revisiting a Letter for Someday: Writing Toward a Queer Iranian Diasporic PotentialityShadee Abdi, San Francisco State UniversityChapter 3 - Embracing the Criminal: Queer and Trans Relational Liberatory PedagogiesBenny LeMaster, Arizona State UniversityMeggie Mapes, University of KansasChapter 4 - Chinese Top, British Bottom: Becoming a Gay Male Internet Celebrity in ChinaTianyang Zhou, University of SussexTheme 2: SpatialitiesChapter 5 -Calaveras,Calacas, and Cultural Production: The Queer Politics of Brown Belonging at U.S. Día de Los Muertos CelebrationsMegan Elizabeth Morrissey, University of North TexasChapter 6 - Aint My First Rodeo in Homonormative Whiteness:Queer Intercultural Lessons from the International Gay Rodeo CommunityDawn Marie D. McIntosh, Independent ScholarChapter 7 - Intercultural Queer Slippages and TranslationsAhmet Atay, College of WoosterChapter 8 - Queerly Ambivalent: Navigating Global and Local Normativities in Postcolonial GhanaGodfried Asante, Drake UniversityTheme 3: Praxis and Social JusticeChapter 9 - How Queer (of Color) is Intercultural Communication? Then and There,Joteríathe Game as a Praxis of Queerness, Advocacy, and Utopian AestheticsRobert Gutierrez-Perez, University of Nevada, RenoLuis Manuel Andrade, Santa Monica CollegeChapter 10 - Queerying Race, Culture and Sex: Examining HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Social Marketing for African American and Latinx Gay and Bisexual MenAndrew Spieldenner, California State University San MarcosDeion Hawkins, Emerson CollegeChapter 11- (Re)defining Boundaries and The Politics of Belonging in the film PariahSheena Howard, Rider UniversityChapter 12 - Mobilizing Allies for Black Transgender Women: Digital Stories, Intersectionality, and #SayHerNameNicole Files-Thompson, Lincoln UniversityMelina McConatha, Lincoln UniversityChapter 13 - Dialoguing About the Nexus of Queer Studies and Intercultural CommunicationBernadette Marie Calafell, Gonzaga UniversityThomas K. Nakayama, Northeastern UniversityClosing Thoughts - The Future of Queer Intercultural CommunicationShinsuke Eguchi, University of New MexicoSophie Jones, University of New MexicoHannah Long, University of New MexicoAnthony Rosendo Zariñana, University of New Mexico