Law professor Gloria J. Browne-Marshall lays out 400 years’ worth of resistance in what is now known as the United States, starting with Indigenous Americans resisting a European invasion and landing on more recent endeavors. Using legal and government documents, archival material, and more, Browne-Marshall shows us new ways to think of protest and how each role plays its part.

When looking up books about queer history, the results often are all about the U.S.—but queer resistance has taken place and continues to happen across the globe. This is a memoir of a prominent Māori lesbian activist and academic, Ngāhuia te Awekōtuku. It follows her journey from growing up a working-class girl from the pā to becoming a founding member of Ngā Tamatoa and the Women’s and Gay Liberation movements. Her experience of being denied entry into the United States in 1972 for being a lesbian was the catalyst for the formation of several of the first Gay Liberation groups in New Zealand. —Danika Ellis