Gay Studies category: 1383 books
Not in This Family
Gays and the Meaning of Kinship in Postwar North America
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
Many Americans hold fast to the notion that gay men and women, more often than not, have been ostracized from disapproving families. Not in This Family challenges this myth and shows how kinship ties were an animating force in gay culture, politics, and consciousness throughout the latter half of...
Dad #1, Dad #2
A Queerspawn View from the Closet
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
Natalie was twelve years old. After a difficult year with multiple deaths in the family, she was sitting at the kitchen table for another family meeting. “I’m gay,” her dad declared. He moved out the next day.
Today there is a lot of talk about gay families, but twenty years ago in Boise,...
It's Not Over
Getting Beyond Tolerance, Defeating Homophobia, & Winning True Equality
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
The author of Queer in America offers “brilliant advice” for safeguarding the future of gay rights (The Advocate).
Marriage equality is the law of the land. Closet doors have burst open in business, entertainment, and even major league sports. But as Michelangelo Signorile argues in his...
Outbursts!
A Gay and Lesbian Erotic Thesaurus
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2003
Erotic slang words from Great Britain, Canada, the United States, Australia, and other English-speaking nations number well into the tens of thousands. But the history of terms used to describe the sexual activities of gays and lesbians have opposing sources: one, the discreet networks of gay men...
After Love
Queer Intimacy and Erotic Economies in Post-Soviet Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
Focused on the intimate effects of large-scale economic transformations, After Love illuminates the ways that everyday efforts to imagine, resist, and enact market reforms shape sexual desires and subjectivities. Anthropologist Noelle M. Stout arrived in Havana in 2002 to study the widely publicized...
by Bonnie Kaye
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
Bonnie Kaye M.Ed. is the nationally acclaimed counseling expert in the field of straight/gay marriages. She explains in her introduction how these marriages happen and she concludes the book with her own personal words of encouragement. This book explores the lives of 27 women who are part of Bonnie...
Being Homosexual
Gay Men and Their Development
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010
Richard Isay was the first person to challenge the homophobia of the psychoanalytic community and prove, through his own story and those of his patients, that homosexuality is an innate characteristic rather than a learned pathology. Now revised and updated for the 21st-century, the groundbreaking...
Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?
Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Gay culture has become a nightmare of consumerism, whether it's an endless quest for Absolut vodka, Diesel jeans, rainbow Hummers, pec implants, or Pottery Barn. Whatever happened to sexual flamboyance and gender liberation, an end to marriage, the military, and the nuclear family? As backrooms are...
The Marrying Kind?
Debating Same-Sex Marriage within the Lesbian and Gay Movement
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
As the fight for same-sex marriage rages across the United States and lesbian and gay couples rush to marriage license counters, the goal of marriage is still fiercely questioned within the LGBT movement. Rarely has an objective so central to a social movement’s political agenda been so controversial...
The Un-Natural State
Arkansas and the Queer South
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
The Un-Natural State is a one-of-a-kind study of gay and lesbian life in Arkansas in the twentieth century, a deft weaving together of Arkansas history, dozens of oral histories, and Brock Thompson's own story. Thompson analyzes the meaning of rural drag shows, including a compelling description of...
Forcing the Spring
Inside the Fight for Marriage Equality
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
**A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
A Washington Post Best Book of the Year (Nonfiction)
A Kirkus Best Book of the Year
“[A] riveting legal drama, a snapshot in time, when the gay rights movement altered course and public opinion shifted with the speed of a bullet train...Becker's...
The Dictionary of Homophobia
A Global History of Gay & Lesbian Experience
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
"Tin's Dictionary of Homophobia is so sweeping in its scope that one can dip into it again and again and learn something, or confront an idea in which even the most well-read queer will find fresh intellectual nourishment and historical illumination."—Gay City News
Based on the...
The Challenges of Being a Rural Gay Man
Coping with Stigma
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
Gay men often face struggles in the conservative world of rural life, due to the pervasive social stigmas associated with homosexuality and the lack of anonymity in a small-town setting. In this book, Preston and D’Augelli present the results of in-depth interviews and surveys with rural gay men,...
The Lavender Vote
Lesbians, Gay Men, and Bisexuals in American Electoral Politics
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1996
In the quarter century since the Stonewall riots in New York City's Greenwich Village launched the national gay-rights movement in earnest, LGB voters have steadily expanded their political influence. The Lavender Vote is the first full- length examination of lesbians, gay men, and bisexuals as a...