Against the backdrop of Covid 19 this edited volume will utilize a gendered lens to explore the United Nation s Sustainable Development Goals SDGs with a clear focus on challenging the omission of sexuality in relation to the SDGs as well as analyzing the ways in which the SDGs are also equally relevant for Western countries While acknowledging the importance of these goals contributors unpack the exclusion of marginalized genders and sexualities as well as how popular media and social media contribute to the wider understanding of issues of gender and sexuality and the SDGs This volume also dispels assumptions about the irrelevance of SDGs to countries in the West with a particular focus on the UK Chapters examine a variety of topics including HIV AIDS sex work global migration climate change and environmental sustainability poverty education and sexual harassment This collection will be of interest to scholars researchers and students across Sociology Gender Sexuality Studies Education Development Studies and Sustainability Studies