Drawing on autotheoretical methods, this insightful volume explores how LGBTQ+ scholars, practitioners, and scholar-practitioners exist within and negotiate an insider/outsider paradox within higher education, highlighting issues of affect, legibility, and embodiment.

1. Introduction: Unpacking the Insider/Outsider Paradox and the Concept of Queerness as Being. 2. It Has Occasional Costs to Your Soul: Ministering to LGBTQIA+ Communities in Higher Education. 3. Persistance: Finding Support for LGBTQIA+ Identities in the Field. 4. Doubling-Down: Emotional Double-Burdens in LGBTQ+ Professionals' Practice. 5. Promises of Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity: A Conversation of Cruel Optimism Between Two Feminist Queer Latinas. 6. We Got Work to Do: Testimonios of Queer Black and Latinx Practitioner-Scholar-Advocates Navigating the Insider/Outsider Paradox within the Ivory Tower. 7. So, How Exactly do I "Bring my Full Self" to the Profession? Queer, Latino, and Undocumented in Student Affairs. 8. Unapologetically Trans, Apologetically Masculine: A Paradox of Uncertainty. 9. An Outsider Within: Navigating the Internal Insider/Outsider Paradox. 10. Caricature of the Queer Hegemony: Reflections on Insitutional Prestige, Career Advancement, and Community. 11. Cripping the Insider/Outsider Paradox: The Experiences of a Disabled QT Educator. 12. Impressions of the (Gay and Autistic) Scholar in the Glass: An Emerging Academic's Journey. 13. Too Queer for the Country, Too Country for College: It's Hard to Find Home as a Queer, Rural Kid. 14. Finding our Place...Again: An Autoethnography of Sexually Minoritized Mid-Level Practitioners Beginning Doctoral Studies. 15. The InBetweeners: Queer and Allied Insider/Outsider Experiences and Perspectives from Higher Education in an Evolving Ireland. 16. Conclusion: Insights on the Insider/Outsider Paradox as LGBTQ+ Scholars and Practitioners.