Gay Studies category: 1383 books
Dating the Greek Gods
Empowering Spiritual Messages on Sex and Love, Creativity and Wisdom
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2003
From the author of the highly successful and influential Finding the Boyfriend Within comes an inspirational guide for gay men seeking spiritual fulfillment.
When Brad Gooch began promoting his self-help book Finding the Boyfriend Within, the first of its kind directed toward a gay readership, he...
Navigating Differences
Friendships Between Gay and Straight Men
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Navigating Differences: Friendships Between Gay and Straight Men is a one-of-a-kind cross-sexual study that shows you how today’s gay and straight men build, maintain, and foster true friendships. In this activist, participatory study, you’ll get a day-in-the-life look at 44 pairs of cross-sexual...
by Moshe Morad
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
The ‘Special Period’ in Cuba was an extended era of economic depression starting in the early 1990s, characterized by the collapse of revolutionary values and social norms, and a way of life conducted by improvised solutions for survival, including hustling and sex-work. During this time there...
Whistling Women
A Study of the Lives of Older Lesbians
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Gain first-hand knowledge of how today's lesbians aged 60 and over survived the 20th century!
I didn’t know we were lesbians. We lived together 13 years!
Whistling Women is a unique, candid collection of the life experiences of 44 lesbians between 62 and 82 years of age. This book...
Identity Envy Wanting to Be Who We're Not
Creative Nonfiction by Queer Writers
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Gay men and lesbians present humorous and hard-hitting accounts of the need to belong . . . somewhere
Why would a lesbian raised in a Jewish home have a sudden desire to be a tough-talking Catholic girl? And why would a gay man travel to Ireland in a desperate attempt to escape his hillbilly...
Together Forever
The Gay Man's Guide to Lifelong Love
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
A loving, lasting, committed relationship
One of the greatest challenges that gay men face today is deciding to be in a long-term committed relationship and then learning how to make it work. Dr. Kantor busts the myths that exist in the gay community about relationships and gives gay men a...
by Matthew Todd
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
'This is an essential read for every gay person on the planet' - Elton John
WINNER BOYZ BEST LGBT BOOK 2017
SHORTLISTED FOR THE POLARI BOOK PRIZE 2017
Straight Jacket is a revolutionary clarion call for gay men, the wider LGBT community, their friends and family. Part memoir, part ground-breaking...
Conduct Unbecoming
Gays & Lesbians in the U.S. Military
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
“A thoroughly researched and engrossingly readable history” of gay men and women in the American armed forces by the author of And the Band Played On (The New York Times Book Review).
Published during the same year the American military instituted Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, and eighteen...
by Michigan State University School of Journalism, David Gushee, Susan Horowitz
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2018
This clear, introductory guide answers 100 of the basic questions people ask about people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or who have other sexual orientations. The questions come from interviews with gay people who say these are issues they frequently get asked about or wish people knew more about....
Pathways of Desire
The Sexual Migration of Mexican Gay Men
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
With Pathways of Desire, Héctor Carrillo brings us into the lives of Mexican gay men who have left their home country to pursue greater sexual autonomy and sexual freedom in the United States. The groundbreaking ethnographic study brings our attention to the full arc of these men’s migration...
What God Has Joined Together
The Christian Case for Gay Marriage
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Gay marriage has become the most important domestic social issue facing twenty-first-century Americans -- particularly Americans of faith. Most Christians are pro-marriage and hold traditional family values, but should they endorse extending marriage rights to gays and lesbians? If Jesus enjoined...
Feeling Backward
Loss and the Politics of Queer History
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2009
Feeling Backward weighs the costs of the contemporary move to the mainstream in lesbian and gay culture. While the widening tolerance for same-sex marriage and for gay-themed media brings clear benefits, gay assimilation entails other losses--losses that have been hard to identify or mourn, since...
by Deshi
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
If You Fall Down Seven Times Get Up Eight: Aspects of Practice for Gay and Lesbian Buddhists offers both male and female, beginner and veteran a discussion of those aspects of Buddhist practice which benefit gay people and which address current issues of prejudice and homophobia. It outlines clearly...
A Queer Romance
Lesbians, Gay Men and Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2005
It's here and it's queer - popular culture inhabits all our lives, whether it comes in the form of movies or magazines, TV or shopping. A Queer Romance brings together critics, writers and artists to debate the possibilites of popular culture for lesbians and gay men.
In a collection that is in-yer-face...