Gay category: 32802 books
by J Jerry Bigner
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Gain a better understanding of the special therapeutic issues and needs of GLBT families
In terms of research, GLBT families constitute a neglected segment of society. Gender and sexual orientation can make the issues in family studies even more difficult to work through. An Introduction to...
by Tim Strong
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
When Gerry finds out that he has been assigned to interview rock legend Remmy Fine for his college newspaper, he cannot believe his luck. Remmy has a reputation for his hard-living, hard-partying lifestyle, and Gerry hopes he might learn something about how to improve his luck with women from him....
After Love
Queer Intimacy and Erotic Economies in Post-Soviet Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
Focused on the intimate effects of large-scale economic transformations, After Love illuminates the ways that everyday efforts to imagine, resist, and enact market reforms shape sexual desires and subjectivities. Anthropologist Noelle M. Stout arrived in Havana in 2002 to study the widely publicized...
by Bonnie Kaye
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
Bonnie Kaye M.Ed. is the nationally acclaimed counseling expert in the field of straight/gay marriages. She explains in her introduction how these marriages happen and she concludes the book with her own personal words of encouragement. This book explores the lives of 27 women who are part of Bonnie...
Being Homosexual
Gay Men and Their Development
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010
Richard Isay was the first person to challenge the homophobia of the psychoanalytic community and prove, through his own story and those of his patients, that homosexuality is an innate characteristic rather than a learned pathology. Now revised and updated for the 21st-century, the groundbreaking...
Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?
Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Gay culture has become a nightmare of consumerism, whether it's an endless quest for Absolut vodka, Diesel jeans, rainbow Hummers, pec implants, or Pottery Barn. Whatever happened to sexual flamboyance and gender liberation, an end to marriage, the military, and the nuclear family? As backrooms are...
Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
With thorough documentation of the oppression of homosexuals and biographical sketches of the lesbian and gay heroes who helped the contemporary gay culture to emerge, Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities supplies the definitive analysis of the homophile movement in the U.S. from 1940 to 1970. John...
The Un-Natural State
Arkansas and the Queer South
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
The Un-Natural State is a one-of-a-kind study of gay and lesbian life in Arkansas in the twentieth century, a deft weaving together of Arkansas history, dozens of oral histories, and Brock Thompson's own story. Thompson analyzes the meaning of rural drag shows, including a compelling description of...
Pathways of Desire
The Sexual Migration of Mexican Gay Men
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
With Pathways of Desire, Héctor Carrillo brings us into the lives of Mexican gay men who have left their home country to pursue greater sexual autonomy and sexual freedom in the United States. The groundbreaking ethnographic study brings our attention to the full arc of these men’s migration...
Forcing the Spring
Inside the Fight for Marriage Equality
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
**A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
A Washington Post Best Book of the Year (Nonfiction)
A Kirkus Best Book of the Year
“[A] riveting legal drama, a snapshot in time, when the gay rights movement altered course and public opinion shifted with the speed of a bullet train...Becker's...
The Dictionary of Homophobia
A Global History of Gay & Lesbian Experience
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
"Tin's Dictionary of Homophobia is so sweeping in its scope that one can dip into it again and again and learn something, or confront an idea in which even the most well-read queer will find fresh intellectual nourishment and historical illumination."—Gay City News
Based on the...
The Challenges of Being a Rural Gay Man
Coping with Stigma
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
Gay men often face struggles in the conservative world of rural life, due to the pervasive social stigmas associated with homosexuality and the lack of anonymity in a small-town setting. In this book, Preston and D’Augelli present the results of in-depth interviews and surveys with rural gay men,...
The Lavender Vote
Lesbians, Gay Men, and Bisexuals in American Electoral Politics
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1996
In the quarter century since the Stonewall riots in New York City's Greenwich Village launched the national gay-rights movement in earnest, LGB voters have steadily expanded their political influence. The Lavender Vote is the first full- length examination of lesbians, gay men, and bisexuals as a...
by Kyell Gold
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
The playoffs are here, and Dev Miski's life has never been busier. If the Chevali Firebirds want to win their first championship, he'll need to play the best football of his life. But, as the only gay professional football player, he's beset by distracting demands for commercials and interviews....