Gay Studies category: 1383 books
Major Conflict
One Gay Man's Life in the Don't-Ask-Don't-Tell Military
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
A book that will move hearts and open minds, Jeffrey McGowan’s memoir is the first personal account of a gay man’s silent struggle in the don’t-ask-don’t-tell military, from a cadet who rose to the rank of major, left as a decorated Persian Gulf hero, and whose same-sex marriage was the first...
Making Gay History
The Half-Century Fight for Lesbian and Gay Equal Rights
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
From the Boy Scouts and the U.S. military to marriage and adoption, the gay civil rights movement has exploded on the national stage. Eric Marcus takes us back in time to the earliest days of that struggle in a newly revised and thoroughly updated edition of Making History, originally published in...
The Empress Is a Man
Stories from the Life of José Sarria
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
You may be familiar with the tremendous life achievements of José Sarria, an integral player in the gay rights movement, but never before have you heard the intimate details of his incredible life as they are portrayed here. In The Empress Is a Man: Stories from the Life of José Sarria (winner of...
Oddly Normal
One Family's Struggle to Help Their Teenage Son Come to Terms with His Sexuality
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
A heartfelt memoir by the father of a gay teen, and an eye-opening story for families who hope to bring up well-adjusted gay adults.
Three years ago, John Schwartz, a national correspondent at The New York Times, got the call that every parent hopes never to receive: his thirteen-year-old son,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
Meet the out crowd that’s really “in”—the gay and lesbian stand-up comics who’ve come out of the closet and stormed the mainstream with the hippest and wittiest comedy acts of the last three decades.
In A Funny Time to Be Gay, Ed Karvoski Jr. traces the evolution of gay and lesbian...
Steven Petrow's Complete Gay & Lesbian Manners
The Definitive Guide to LGBT Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
A big book of manners for the more than 15 million lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people in the United States and Canada and the people who love them, work with them, and live with them. Written by Steven Petrow, the go-to authority on the subject—he’s the same-sex wedding expert at The...
Can You Be Gay and Christian?
Responding With Love and Truth to Questions About Homosexuality
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
The question of how the church deals with homosexuality has become the great moral and spiritual issue of this generation.
How do we respond to gay people who tell us how much they love the Lord and experience God’s power? How do we answer them when they say that the greatest law is the law of love,...
by M.W. Sphero
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2012
What does the Bible really say about homosexuality? The answer may very well surprise you. Did you know:* The Old Testament does not prohibit homosexuality as we see it today. Don't believe it? The Torah never forbids homosexuality whenexamining original language and historical context;...
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by Toby Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2018
In this companion volume to his critically acclaimed, Lambda Literary Award-winning title Gay Spirituality, Toby Johnson further explicates his visionary stance that gay people's nature as outsiders gives them a uniquely powerful perspective on the nature of God and religion. By living outside gender...
Risking Grace
Loving Our Gay Family and Friends Like Jesus
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
As someone who helped write a book advocating reparative therapy for gay people back in 1987, it was with gut-wrenching love that my wife and I did not let our daughter go when she came out 16 years ago. We first prayed that God would change her, then that he would work out his purpose in her life,...
Tongzhi
Politics of Same-Sex Eroticism in Chinese Societies
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Tongzhi: Politics of Same-Sex Eroticism in Chinese Societies examines Chinese societies where the family-kinship system, rather than sexuality, is taken as the basis of an individual's identity. With Tongzhi, you will come to understand the variations of same-sex erotica in different Chinese societies....
When It's Time to Leave Your Lover
A Guide for Gay Men
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
When It's Time to Leave Your Lover: A Guide for Gay Men is for people who need help ending a gay male relationship that is no longer viable or for friends and family who want to support a gay man experiencing a breakup. This book provides tips on how to successfully cope with the post-breakup period...
Pride Parades
How a Parade Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
On June 28, 1970, two thousand gay and lesbian activists in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago paraded down the streets of their cities in a new kind of social protest, one marked by celebration, fun, and unashamed declaration of a stigmatized identity. Forty-five years later, over six million people...
Out in Sport
The experiences of openly gay and lesbian athletes in competitive sport
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
Research has shown that since the turn of the millennia, matters have rapidly improved for gays and lesbians in sport. Where gay and lesbian athletes were merely tolerated a decade ago, today they are celebrated.
This book represents the most comprehensive examination of the experiences of...