Gay Studies category: 1383 books
Gay Bombay
Globalization, Love and (Be)longing in Contemporary India
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008
Through a multi-sited ethnography in an online-offline community, Parmesh Shahani examines how Internet technologies, the media industry, audiences and broader socio-historical contexts shape gay identity in contemporary urban India. He realizes that the identity of a gay man in the community is negotiated...
by Rich Merritt
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
YES, IT ALL REALLY HAPPENED JUST LIKE THIS…
Here’s the story of Rich Merritt—the good son, teacher’s pet, Southern gentleman, model Christian student at Bob Jones University, Marine officer, and the not-so-anonymous poster boy for a New York Times Magazine article on gays in the military—whose...
Gay Berlin
Birthplace of a Modern Identity
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
An unprecedented examination of the ways in which the uninhibited urban sexuality, sexual experimentation, and medical advances of pre-Weimar Berlin created and molded our modern understanding of sexual orientation and gay identity.
Known already in the 1850s for the friendly company of its...
Male-Male Intimacy in Early America
Beyond Romantic Friendships
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Previously hard-to-find information on homosexuality in early America-now in a convenient single volume!
Few of us are familiar with the gay men on General Washington’s staff or among the leaders of the new republic. Now, in the same way that Alex Haley’s Roots provided a generation of...
Gay American Novels, 1870-1970
A Reader's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
Examining the development of gay American fiction and providing an essential reading list, this literary survey covers 257 works—novels, novellas, a graphic story cycle and a narrative poem—in which gay and bisexual male characters play a major role. Iconic works, such as James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s...
Homosexuality and Male Bonding in Pre-Nazi Germany
the youth movement, the gay movement, and male bonding before Hitler's rise
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This is a landmark publication featuring English translations of selections from the early gay German journal, Der Eigene. This collection, previously scattered and difficult to read in the original German, allows readers direct access to primary source material on the early gay movement. Neglected...
The Wedding Heard 'Round the World
America's First Gay Marriage
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
On September 3, 1971, Michael McConnell and Jack Baker exchanged vows in the first legal same-sex wedding in the United States. Their remarkable story is told here for the first time—a unique account of the passion and energy of the gay liberation movement in the sixties and seventies. At the...
by Colin Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2013
In a world where 76+ countries still have laws against homosexuality, a same-sex kiss can lead to a prison sentence or even death. In those countries, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people face arrest for loving the wrong people. Here, in their own words, activists tell what’s going...
by Ade Adeniji, Darren Brady, Francois Lubbe
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
‘Love Me As I Am’ is an anthology documenting the biographies and letters of 24 gay men as they reflect on the childhood experiences that shaped their lives. In sharing their life stories these men, coming from all walks of life, give the reader a bird’s eye view of...
by Amity Pierce Buxton, R. L. Pinely
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
When presumably heterosexual spouses turn out to be gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender, the unexpected revelation overshadows its devastating impact on their straight wives and husbands. Unseen-Unheard opens the window on their remarkable journeys from trauma to transformation. What would you do...
by William Meezan, James I. Martin
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Handbook of Research with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Populations provides a detailed examination of the current methods and theoretical frameworks for conducting research with LGBT populations. Introducing greater nuance in designing and implementing research models for working with these...
WHY BE GAY BLACK WOMAN?
WHAT WAS IT THAT MADE BLACK WOMEN TURN FROM MEN?
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Sexual Preferences that once was private is now the main topic in the church and social gatherings. A woman choice decades ago was her choice of abortion and voting rights. Today, it is her sexual preference and her desire to adopt and raise children as gay parents. In the black community, the conversation...
Homeboys: Gay Urban Erotica
Gay Urban Erotica
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
Shane Allison is more daring than any other gay writer today, and he pushes the boundaries further than anyone else. In Homeboys we ride shotgun with the wild and fancy-free outlaws of the streets. What happens when two horny members from LA’s notorious Crips and Bloods are involved in a secret...
Coming Out Under Fire
The History of Gay Men and Women in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
During World War II, as the United States called on its citizens to serve in unprecedented numbers, the presence of gay Americans in the armed forces increasingly conflicted with the expanding antihomosexual policies and procedures of the military. In Coming Out Under Fire, Allan Berube examines in...