Gay Studies category: 1383 books
Gay Latino Studies
A Critical Reader
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2011
The authors of the essays in this unique collection explore the lives and cultural contributions of gay Latino men in the United States, while also analyzing the political and theoretical stakes of gay Latino studies. In new essays and influential previously published pieces, Latino scholars based...
Critical Essays
Gay and Lesbian Writers of Color
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This pioneering work is the first book to systematically explore the literature of gay and lesbian writers of color in the United States. Critical Essays challenges the marginalization and tokenization of gay men and lesbians of color in the dominant academic discourses by focusing exclusively on...
Gay Tourism
Culture and Context
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
The gay tourism industry-a progressive social force or a pull towards an oppressive status quo?
The pink tourism dollar is now recognized as a highly profitable niche of the tourism market. Gay Tourism: Culture and Context critically investigates the emergence of a commercial gay tourism industry...
Eclectic Views on Gay Male Pornography
Pornucopia
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
A unique, multifaceted look at the meaning (and the specifics) of gay male pornography
Open any gay lifestyle magazine (even the serious ones) or go to any gay bar, and you’re likely to encounter something related to pornography, be it an image of a porn superstar or advertisements...
by Raymond L. Rigoglioso
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
“Gay men are just like everyone else.”
“Gay men are inherently different.”
Both statements contain truths. In the drive for equal rights and social acceptance, so many in the LGBT movement have emphasized gay people’s commonalities with straights. But what if gay men’s differences...
A Hint of Homosexuality?
‘Gay' and Homoerotic Imagery in American Print Advertising
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2007
Well before the June 1969 Stonewall riots threw open the closet doors to unleash and proclaim an unmistakable gay mantra, myriad clues some subliminal, others overt clearly ingrained the notion of homosexuality in advertisements appearing on the pages of many American periodicals. Hedonistically intertwined...
Gay and Lesbian Asia
Culture, Identity, Community
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
How do Asian cultures construct queer genders, sexualities, and eroticism?
Gay and Lesbian Asia demonstrates the astonishing diversity of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered identities in countries including Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, China, India, Indonesia, Singapore, and the Philippines....
Sons of the Church
The Witnessing of Gay Catholic Men
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
The book that can help you reconcile being both gay and Catholic
Sons of the Church: The Witnessing of Gay Catholic Men spotlights testimonials from over thirty gay Catholic men to answer the question, How can you be gay and Catholic? Dr. Thomas B. Stevenson, who received degrees from the...
by Michael Luongo
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Travel beyond the fear and paranoia of 9-11 to experience Muslim culture
Gay Travels in the Muslim World journeys where other gay travel books fear to tread-Muslim countries. This thought-provoking book tells both Muslim and non-Muslim gay men's stories of traveling in the Middle East during...
Gay and Gray
The Older Homosexual Man, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
In the absence of accurate information, American culture has upheld a distorted view of what it means to be an older gay man. Gay and Gray is the first and only scholarly full-length treatment of older gay men in America today. It breaks the stereotype that older gay men are strange, lonely creatures...
Anything but Straight
Unmasking the Scandals and Lies Behind the Ex-Gay Myth
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
The real story behind ex-gay ministries and reparative therapy!
Nationally known activist Wayne Besen spent four years examining the phenomenon of ex-gay ministries and reparative therapies-interviewing leaders, attending conferences, and visiting ministries undercover as he accumulated...
by Whitney Davis
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Find original research and interpretive studies of the relations between homosexuality and the visual arts. Evidence for the role of homosexuality in artistic creation has often not survived, in part because the direct expression of homosexuality has often been condemned in Western societies. Gay...
by Gerald P Mallon
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Focusing on the pragmatic aspects of social work with gay and lesbian persons, this book offers a knowledge base of practice that will better prepare students and practitioners for working more competently and effectively with lesbians and gay men. Written by scholars and practitioners in the social...
Getting It On Online
Cyberspace, Gay Male Sexuality, and Embodied Identity
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Learn how gay men use Internet technologies to connect with others sharing their erotic desires and to forge affirming communities online!
Getting It On Online: Cyberspace, Gay Male Sexuality, and Embodied Identity examines the online embodied experiences of gay men. At once scholarly and sensual,...