Gay Studies category: 1383 books
The Gay Liberation Youth Movement in New York
'An Army of Lovers Cannot Fail'
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2007
Between 1966 and 1975 North American youth activists established over 35 school- and community-based gay liberation youth groups whose members sought control over their own bodies, education, and sexual and social relations. This book focuses on three groundbreaking New York City groups -- Gay Youth...
The Straight Line
How the Fringe Science of Ex-Gay Therapy Reoriented Sexuality
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
To be taken seriously, therapies that claim to “cure” homosexuality wrap themselves in lab coats. Even though the fit is bad, and such therapies and their theorists now inhabit the scientific fringe, the science of sexuality has made some adjustments, too, Tom Waidzunas tells us in this provocative...
Gay Artists in Modern American Culture
An Imagined Conspiracy
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2007
Today it is widely recognized that gay men played a prominent role in defining the culture of mid-twentieth-century America, with such icons as Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber, Montgomery Clift, and Rock Hudson defining much of what seemed distinctly "American"...
The Handbook of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Public Health
A Practitioner's Guide to Service
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Get the comprehensive resource for LGBT public health issues!
Public health services for sexual minorities have suffered from practitioners’ lack of knowledge about sexual or gender orientation, specific health concerns, and inherent system homophobia and heterosexism. The Handbook of Lesbian,...
Gay and Lesbian Aging
Research and Future Directions
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2003
The year 2003 marks the 30th anniversary of the landmark "declassification" of homosexuality as a disease by the American Psychiatric Association--a watershed in the lives of gays and lesbians in the United States. For the first time in history, a generation of self-identified lesbians,...
Sexual Identity on the Job
Issues and Services
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
Sexual Identity on the Job provides academics and practitioners with a solid resource for addressing sexual identity concerns and issues in the workplace. It offers corporate trainers, managers, and policymakers suggestions for creating a positive psychological environment of inclusion for all workers...
by Mistress Dede
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2017
How do you know whether you are gay or not? In fact, how can anyone know whether they are homosexual or heterosexual or bisexual?
If this is the question that’s bothering you, the first thing that you need to do is let go off the stereotypes. Just because you are not as macho as your college football...
Created Equal
Why Gay Rights Matter to America
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
Why should Americans who are not gay care about gay rights? In Created Equal, Michael Nava and Robert Dawidoff argue that the movement for gay equality is central to the continuing defense of individual liberty in America. Beginning with an examination of the determined assault on gay issues by the...
Against My Better Judgment
An Intimate Memoir of an Eminent Gay Psychologist
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Against My Better Judgment: An Intimate Memoir of an Eminent Gay Psychologist is an extraordinary and moving account of the life of a gay man in his late 60s after he loses his companion of 40 years to cancer. A leading professor of psychology at Harvard University, Roger Brown bravely comes forth...
The Therapist's Notebook for Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Clients
Homework, Handouts, and Activities for Use in Psychotherapy
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Most therapy is set up in a heterosexist context. Explore the issues facing your gay, lesbian, and bisexual clients--and how to deal with them!
The Therapist's Notebook for Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Clients offers therapists treating lesbian, gay, and bisexual clients innovative, practical...
The Path to Gay Rights
How Activism and Coming Out Changed Public Opinion
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
An innovative, data-driven explanation of how public opinion shifted on LGBTQ rights
The Path to Gay Rights is the first social science analysis of how and why the LGBTQ movement achieved its most unexpected victory---transforming gay people from a despised group of social deviants into a minority...
Out of the Shadows
Reimagining Gay Men's Lives
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
A moving exploration of how gay men construct their identities, fight to be themselves, and live authentically
It goes without saying that even today, it’s not easy to be gay in America. While young gay men often come out more readily, even those from the most progressive of backgrounds still...
How the Homosexuals Saved Civilization
The Time and Heroic Story of How Gay Men Shaped the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2005
A cultural history of the customs, fashions, and figures of gay life in the twentieth and the early twenty-first centuries-and how they have changed us for the better.
How the Homosexuals Saved Civilization presents a broad yet incisive look at how an unusual "immigrant" group, homosexual...
Gods and Monsters
A Queer Film Classic
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
“This series will be a significant, valuable contribution to the history and literature of gay cinema. Each of these works will be valuable additions for academic and popular students of film and gay culture.”—Library Journal
Gods and Monsters, one of three inaugural titles in Arsenal...