
Sarah Schulman
Author · 19 books
Sarah Schulman is a longtime AIDS and queer activist, and a cofounder of the MIX Festival and the ACT UP Oral History Project. She is a playwright and the author of seventeen books, including the novels The Mere Future, Shimmer, Rat Bohemia, After Delores, and People in Trouble, as well as nonfiction works such as The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination, My American History: Lesbian and Gay Life during the Reagan/Bush Years, Ties That Bind: Familial Homophobia and Its Consequences, and Stagestruck: Theater, AIDS, and the Marketing of Gay America. She is Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at The City University of New York, College of Staten Island.
Series
Books

The Child
2007

Ties That Bind
Familial Homophobia and Its Consequences
2009

Stagestruck
Theater, AIDS, and the Marketing of Gay America
1998

Rat Bohemia
1995

Let the Record Show
A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993
2021

Conflict Is Not Abuse
Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair
2016

The Sophie Horowitz Story
1984

Girls, Visions and Everything
1986

Maggie Terry
2018

The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity
2025

The Cosmopolitans
2016

Shimmer
1998

Israel/Palestine and the Queer International
2012

The Mere Future
2009

The Gentrification of the Mind
Witness to a Lost Imagination
2012

Dump Trump
Legacies of Resistance
2018

After Delores
1988

Empathy
1992

People in Trouble
1990