This book contributes to current debates about ¿queer outsides¿ and ¿queer outsiders¿ that emerge from tensions in legal reforms aimed at improving the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and queer people in the United Kingdom. LGBTIQ people in the UK have moved from being situated as ¿outlaws¿ ¿ through prohibitions on homosexuality or cross-dressing ¿ to respectable ¿in laws¿ ¿ through the emerging acceptance of same-sex families and self-identified genders. From the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality in the Sexual Offences Act 1967, to the provision of a bureaucratic mechanism to amend legal sex in the Gender Recognition Act 2004, bringing LGBTIQ people ¿inside¿ the