Gay Studies category: 1383 books
God Believes in Love
Straight Talk About Gay Marriage
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
From the Bishop of the Diocese of New Hampshire in the Episcopal Church, the first openly gay person elected (in 2003) to the historic episcopate and the world's leading religious spokesperson for gay rights and gay marriage—a groundbreaking book that lovingly and persuasively makes the case for...
by Duane Simolke
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2010
This short eBook includes the gay love poem Home, the strange story of The Gardener, and the comical Angels and Razors, as well as thirty other poems.
Complete list of poems in this book: Chasing Seagulls, Home, Album, Children in the Streets, The Gardener, Friday Afternoon Spectrum, Reception,...
by Reverend Bonnie Kelly
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
Honest, faithful people are wondering if the Bible is really telling them to hate gay people. This book is a reasoned response to that inquiry. It deals with the Scriptures most often cited to justify homophobia and provides a more loving interpretation. Six lesbians tell their story and how the Church...
Queer Sites
Gay Urban Histories Since 1600
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002
There are areas which can be described as gay space in that they have many lesbians and gays in the population. Queerspace: A History of Urban Sexuality, edited by David Higgs, offers a history of gay space in the major cities form the early modern period to the present. The book focuses on the changing...
Unspeakable Love
Gay and Lesbian Life in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2011
Homosexuality is a taboo subject in the Arab world. While cleri denounce it as a heinous sin, newspapers write cryptically of 'shameful acts' and 'deviant behaviour'. Amid the calls for reform in the Middle East, homosexuality is one issue that almost everyone in the region would prefer to ignore....
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Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
Best Gay Erotica 2015 is filled to the page-turning brim with fantastic tales of fire dancers and TV repairmen, of hunky painters and electricians and magicians, solo sex, duo sex, and sweat-soaked triple onslaughts. Heck, throw in an alien and a priest, and you’ll soon see why this anthology is...
by Dan Ginsberg
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Imaginative, intriguing images of attraction, meeting, romance and relationship, featuring gay men. Barely X-rated, the original images feature a wide array of realistic modern and classic scenes of gay romantic life, from that first catch of the eye to romantic bliss, and all the stages of relationship in between.
Silent Lives
How High a Price?: For Personal Reflections and Group Discussions about Sexual Orientation
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2004
This book is a valuable resource that combines autobiographical sources, personal interviews, and questions for reflection to explore issues relevant to everyone's sexual orientation and gender status, be they heterosexual, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, or intersexual. Its readily accessible...
The Book of Matt
Hidden Truths About the Murder of Matthew Shepard
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
“Methamphetamine was a huge part of this case . . . It was a horrible murder driven by drugs.” — Prosecutor Cal Rerucha, who convicted Matthew Shepard's killers
What role did crystal meth and other previously underreported factors play in the brutal murder of gay college student Matthew...
Gay Skins
Class, Masculinity and Queer Appropriation
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
Since their birth in the late 1960’s as a working class subcultural response to what was seen as a feminised, bourgeois-hippy parent culture, the skinhead has since held a semi-mythological status amongst the UK’s street tribes. But from the off, queer undercurrents inevitably ran through skinhead...
The Arena of Masculinity
Sports, Homosexuality, and the Meaning of Sex
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Sports are perhaps the most visible expression of the ideals of masculinity in our society, and figure as a training ground on which young boys are taught what it means to be a man. Given the involvement of sports with masculinity, the homosexual athlete becomes a paradox, and the recent explosive...
Out in the World
Gay and Lesbian Life from Buenos Aires to Bangkok
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
A journalistic account of gay and lesbian life in the diverse gay communities of Thailand, Germany, Argentina, South Africa, Australia, and other locales, sheds light on the cultural, political, and social factors influencing gay life.
by Richard Dyer
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Revised for this second edition, Now You See It, Richard Dyer’s groundbreaking study of films by and about lesbians and gay men, now includes an outline of developments in queer cinema since 1990.
Placing the book within lesbian and gay film history, Dyer examines familiar titles such as...
by Vincent Terrace
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2015
Created around the world and available only on the Web, internet “television” series are independently produced, mostly low budget shows that often feature talented but unknown performers. Typically financed through crowd-funding, they are filmed with borrowed equipment and volunteer casts and...