Gay category: 32802 books
by eBios
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2014
Harvey Milk was an American politician who became the first openly gay person to be elected to public office in California when he won a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Politics and gay activism were not his early interests; he was not open about his homosexuality and did not...
by Sarah Schulman
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
In this chronicle of political awakening and queer solidarity, the activist and novelist Sarah Schulman describes her dawning consciousness of the Palestinian liberation struggle. Invited to Israel to give the keynote address at an LGBT studies conference at Tel Aviv University, Schulman declines,...
Transcendent Vocation
Why gay clergy tolerate hypocrisy
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
Based on detailed analysis of interviews with gay clergymen, and also with retired heterosexual clergymen whose ministries span the period since the 1967 Sexual Offences Act, Transcendent Vocation provides specific examples to back up the contention that the approach of the Church of England to homosexuals...
by Benjamin Shepard
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
From the birth of the Gay Liberation through the rise of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) in 1987, the global justice movement in 1994, the largest day of antiwar protest in world history in February 2003, the Republican National Convention protests in August 2004, and the massive immigrant...
Stonewall
The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
The basis of the PBS American Experience documentary Stonewall Uprising.
In 1969, a series of riots over police action against The Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City's Greenwich Village, changed the longtime landscape of the homosexual in society literally overnight. Since then the event...
Black Like Us
A Century of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual African American Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Winner of the 2003 Lambda Literary Award for Fiction Anthology Showcasing the work of literary giants like Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, Alice Walker, and writers whom readers may be surprised to learn were "in the life," Black Like Us is the most comprehensive collection...
Gentlemen Prefer Asians
Tales of Gay Indonesians and Green Card Marriages
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
The author, a gay Indonesian who feels he is "not much of a looker," immigrates to the USA and is inundated with shirtless joggers, same-sex public displays of affection, and the constant drive to psychoanalyze. In this poignant, witty, flippant, and trenchant collection of personal essays the author...
The Up Stairs Lounge Arson
Thirty-Two Deaths in a New Orleans Gay Bar, June 24, 1973
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2014
On June 24, 1973, a fire in a New Orleans gay bar killed 32 people. This still stands as the deadliest fire in the city’s history. Though arson was suspected, and though the police identified a likely culprit, no arrest was ever made. Additionally, government and religious leaders who normally would...
Gay Marriage
The Story of a Canadian Social Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2012
A history of the fight for same-sex marriage in Canada.
Few issues have dominated recent Canadian politics like the legalization of same-sex marriage.
As a political correspondent for The Canadian Press, Sylvain Larocque had a front-row seat for this battle in the fight for gay rights in Canada....
On Brokeback Mountain
Meditations about Masculinity, Fear, and Love in the Story and the Film
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2008
On Brokeback Mountain: Meditations About Masculinity, Fear, and Love in the Story and the Film provides a close, detailed, comparative discussion of the short story and the film in relation to ways of understanding masculinity and love between men in American culture. It uses analytical ideas from...
Precious Perversions
Humor, Homosexuality, and the Southern Literary Canon
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
The tragic sentiment of Southern literature and its heteronormative perspective are foundational attributes generally accepted by both popular and scholarly audiences. Yet a pantheon of great authors ranging from like Tennessee Williams, Carson McCullers, and Truman Capote to present-day voices of...
Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality
Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2015
John Boswell’s National Book Award–winning study of the history of attitudes toward homosexuality in the early Christian West was a groundbreaking work that challenged preconceptions about the Church’s past relationship to its gay members—among them priests, bishops, and even saints—when...
When Your Spouse Comes Out
A Straight Mate's Recovery Manual
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Effective therapeutic self-help techniques for a straight mate’s recovery
One of the most traumatic events that can happen in a marriage is discovering your mate is gay. When Your Spouse Comes Out: A Straight Mate’s Recovery Manual is a comprehensive exploration of the trauma that provides...
by Giselle Renarde
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
When Chris visits Dennis and Dad this Father’s Day, his father's confusion and strange behaviour worry him. Dennis is concerned that these are more than just senior moments, but Chris' dad refuses to see a doctor. With legal issues around healthcare and hospitalization in mind, Dennis thinks it’s...