Gay Studies category: 1383 books
by David M. Halperin
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
A pioneer of LGBTQ studies dares to suggest that gayness is a way of being that gay men must learn from one another to become who they are. The genius of gay culture resides in some of its most despised stereotypes—aestheticism, snobbery, melodrama, glamour, caricatures of women, and obsession with mothers—and in the social meaning of style.
by Mitchell Gold,Mindy Drucker Gold
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
A mental health crisis faces American teens right now—and it is one we can solve. Hundreds of thousands of gay teens face traumatic depression, fear, rejection, persecution, and isolation—usually alone. Studies show they are 190 percent more likely to used drugs or alcohol and four times...
by Miriam Smith
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2008
Lesbian and gay citizens today enjoy a much broader array of rights and obligations and a greater ability to live their lives openly in both the U.S. and Canada. However, while human rights protections have been exponentially expanded in Canada over the last twenty years, even basic protections in...
Queer in Russia
A Story of Sex, Self, and the Other
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 1999
In Queer in Russia Laurie Essig examines the formation of gay identity and community in the former Soviet Union. As a sociological fieldworker, she began her research during the late 1980s, before any kind of a public queer identity existed in that country. After a decade of conducting interviews,...
Standing Out, Standing Together
The Social and Political Impact of Gay-Straight Alliances
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Just a decade ago, requests by students to establish groups to support gay and lesbian students were rare and generally met with shock and confusion by school administrators and local communities. Today there are more than 1600 gay straight alliances (GSAs) across the country. Standing Out, Standing...
Freedom to Differ
The Shaping of the Gay and Lesbian Struggle for Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1998
Many of us have grown up with the language of civil rights, yet rarely consider how the construction of civil rights claims affects those who are trying to attain them. Diane Miller examines arguments lesbians and gay men make for civil rights, revealing the ways these arguments are both progressive--in...
Queer Aging
The Gayby Boomers and a New Frontier for Gerontology
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2016
As the first generation of gay men enters its autumn years, these men's responses to the physical and emotional tolls of aging promise to be as revolutionary as their advances in AIDS and civil rights activism. Older gay men's approaches to friendship, caregiving, romantic and sexual relationships,...
The Masculine Marine
Homoeroticism in the U.S. Marine Corps
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
This exciting book was listed as #1 on The Advocate’s (ital) bestseller list for December 1996! In The Masculine Marine, author Steven Zeeland records, for the first time ever, what active-duty Marines have to say about what it means to be a man, to be a Marine, and to desire other men.
As...
The Mandates
25 Real Rules for Successful Gay Dating
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
How do you win the dating game if you’re a gay man?
After many years of serial monogamy, Dave Singleton went to the front lines to find out, exploring the lives of other gay men who found themselves on the dating fast track with guys they’d met from work, at the gym or bars, and, increasingly,...
The Joy of Gay Sex
Fully revised and expanded third edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
For a new century and a new generation of readers comes a fully revised and expanded edition of a classic guide to gay sex, love, and life.
Invaluable as a sex guide, a resource on building self-esteem, and a trusted aid for coming out of the closet, The Joy of Gay Sex covers the ins and outs...
by Thom Nickels
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2002
The diverse landscape of gay and lesbian Philadelphia is a story of highs and lows. From rustic post-Civil War days when Camden poet Walt Whitman crossed the Delaware River on a ferry or caroused Market Street "eyeing" the grocery boys, to the beginnings of ACT UP more than one hundred years later, the...
by Bonnie Kaye
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2007
How I Made My Husband Gay is a self-help book for women who learn or suspect that they may be married to a gay/bisexual man. Compiled, edited, and contributed to by Bonnie Kaye, M. Ed., the international expert in the field of straight/gay marriages, this book helps women by revealing the signs and patterns...
Tacit Subjects
Belonging and Same-Sex Desire among Dominican Immigrant Men
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2011
Tacit Subjects is a pioneering analysis of how gay immigrant men of color negotiate race, sexuality, and power in their daily lives. Drawing on ethnographic research with Dominicans in New York City, Carlos Ulises Decena explains that while the men who shared their life stories with him may self-identify...
Out in All Directions
A Treasury of Gay and Lesbian America
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2009
"FASCINATING...PROVOCATIVE AND FUNNY." - Contax Guide
There has never been a better time to show the world - both gay and nongay - the depth and breadth of the people, the history, and the communities that have been created by gay men and lesbians.
Out in All Directions presents...