Gay Studies category: 1383 books
Gay Men Living with Chronic Illnesses and Disabilities
From Crisis to Crossroads
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Understand gay men’s unique health issues beyond the incomplete focus of HIV to include the concerns of those living with a broad range of chronic illnesses and disabilities
Gay Men Living with Chronic Illnesses and Disabilities: From Crisis to Crossroads is the groundbreaking book that comprehensively...
The Mentor
A Memoir of Friendship and Gay Identity
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
Examine a moving, personal narrative about growing up gay in the south!
Students, teachers, and anyone interested in gay studies and experiences will find that The Mentor: A Memoir of Friendship and Gay Identity (a 2001 Lambda Literary Foundation Gay Male Biography/Autobiography Award finalist)...
by Grant Andrews
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2015
What does the Bible really say about homosexuality?
Is it a sin to be gay or to be in a same-sex relationship?
Many people struggle with reconciling religion and homosexuality. You might have a gay friend or family member, or be gay yourself, and not know what God would say about your...
Muscle Boys
Gay Gym Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2010
What was once a lifestyle for a small number of gay men in big cities has become a way of life for many, and the gay gym is now a culture on its own. Muscle Boys: Gay Gym Culture explores the evolution and current structure of this gay subculture that surfaced in San Francisco, West Hollywood, and...
by Didier Eribon, Michèle Aina Barale, Jonathan Goldberg
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2004
A bestseller in France following its publication in 1999, Insult and the Making of the Gay Self is an extraordinary set of reflections on “the gay question” by Didier Eribon, one of France’s foremost public intellectuals. Known internationally as the author of a pathbreaking biography of Michel...
The Soul Beneath the Skin
The Unseen Hearts and Habits of Gay Men
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2002
This surprising and thought-provoking book begins with the obvious fact that Stonewall happened 30 years ago, and the perhaps less obvious fact that in the 30 years since an enormous number of social science studies have been done on gay men. Dave Nimmons proceeds to synthesize that information to...
Gendered Outcasts and Sexual Outlaws
Sexual Oppression and Gender Hierarchies in Queer Men's Lives
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
A candid re-examination of what it means to be a gay man
Gendered Outcasts and Sexual Outlaws: Sexual Oppression and Gender Hierarchies in Queer Men’s Lives explores the impact and effects of sexual oppression and power relationships within the gay male community. This controversial book...
Gay Men and Anal Eroticism
Tops, Bottoms, and Versatiles
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Gay men reveal their preference-and the reasons behind it!
Gay Men and Anal Eroticism: Tops, Bottoms, and Versatiles is a no-holds-barred examination of one of society's most persistent taboos. In a remarkably candid collection of frank and forthright interviews, 21 gay men talk about the role...
Reclaiming the Sacred
The Bible in Gay and Lesbian Culture, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
The second edition of Reclaiming the Sacred: The Bible in Gay and Lesbian Culture continues the groundbreaking work of the original, exploring the territory between gay/lesbian studies, literary criticism, and religious studies. This much-anticipated follow-up examines the appropriation and/or subversion...
Gay Men and Childhood Sexual Trauma
Integrating the Shattered Self
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
Learn powerful techniques for healing the scars of early sexual abuse in gay men!
The first book of its kind, Gay Men and Childhood Sexual Trauma: Integrating the Shattered Self addresses the specific therapeutic needs of gay men in recovery. All too often, gay men hide their childhood memories...
What Do Gay Men Want?
An Essay on Sex, Risk, and Subjectivity
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010
“Compelling, timely, and provocative. The writing is sleek and exhilarating. It doesn’t waste time telling us what it will do or what it has just done—it just does it.”
—Don Kulick, Professor of Anthropology, New York University
How we can talk about sex and risk in the age of barebacking—or...
Geisha of a Different Kind
Race and Sexuality in Gaysian America
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
In gay bars and nightclubs across America, and in gay-oriented magazines and media, the buff, macho, white gay man is exalted as the ideal—the most attractive, the most wanted, and the most emulated type of man. For gay Asian American men, often viewed by their peers as submissive or too ‘pretty,’...
by Jean K Quam
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Social Services for Senior Gay Men and Lesbians is an important new reference that provides those in the helping professions with practical information on how to work with the older gay and lesbian population. Although older gays and lesbians are the same in many ways as their heterosexual counterparts,...
Sociological Analysis of Aging
The Gay Male Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Sociological Analysis of Aging: The Gay Male Perspective is an exploratory study of the life changes homosexual and bisexual men experience as they age. This unique book presents in-depth, qualitative interviews with gay men, aged 55 and older, focusing on their physical, mental, and social needs....