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This advanced seminar examines the anthropological study of sexuality, gender diversity, and queer lives through an interdisciplinary lens, engaging scholarship from queer studies, gender studies, sociology, psychology, and philosophy. Rather than treating sexuality and gender as fixed identities, the course emphasizes ethnographic and comparative approaches that attend to social practice, power, and historical and political context. Students develop advanced analytic tools for critically examining how sexuality and gender are produced, regulated, and contested across cultural settings. Topics include the emergence of sexuality as an analytic category; queer and trans epistemologies; intersectionality; regimes of normativity; intimacy, embodiment, and sexual economies; activism; and the politics of visibility and recognition.