Gay Studies category: 1383 books
It's Been a Business Doing Pleasure with You
Stories of a Colt Studios Model
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2016
IT'S BEEN A BUSINESS DOING PLEASURE WITH YOU is my autobiography of being a high profile gay escort, from early military upbringing and its clashes with my young gay identity, to tales of leaving home under threat of shotgun. Going out into the world I made my way to find a niche of survival,...
Rhetorical Secrets
Mapping Gay Identity and Queer Resistance in Contemporary America
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2014
Davin Allen Grindstaff, through a series of close textual analyses examining public discourse, uncovers the rhetorical modes of persuasion surrounding the construction of gay male sexual identity. In Part One, Grindstaff establishes his notion of the "rhetorical secret" central to constructions...
For the Gay Stage
A Guide to 456 Plays, Aristophanes to Peter Gill
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2017
Previous surveys of the gay theatrical repertoire have concentrated on plays produced on Broadway or in London’s West End. This comprehensive guide goes well beyond these earlier studies by introducing productions from Off Broadway, from regional theaters in the U.S. and U.K., and from Ireland,...
by John Malone
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2001
Areas discussed are: Gay separatism vs. Gay mainstreaming; Coming out; AIDS; Marriage; Adoption; Religion; Politics; Pop culture and media; and, most importantly, what the future holds.
Blessing Same-Sex Unions
The Perils of Queer Romance and the Confusions of Christian Marriage
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
At most church weddings, the person presiding over the ritual is not a priest or a pastor, but the wedding planner, followed by the photographer, the florist, and the caterer. And in this day and age, more wedding theology is supplied by Modern Bride magazine or reality television than by any of the...
Evolution of Government Policy Towards Homosexuality in the US Military
The Rise and Fall of DADT
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2016
Throughout history, homosexuality has been a complicating factor for men and women electing to serve in the armed forces of the United States. The right to serve became increasingly complicated when the Department of Defense responded to congressional legislation in 1993 by adopting a policy that...
Critical Queer Studies
Law, Film, and Fiction in Contemporary American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Critical Queer Studies examines contemporary films and documentaries that dramatize the intersection of law and queer life, analyzing the effects of legal doctrines-jury selection, unwanted sexual advance, negligence, hate crimes, and gay marriage-on the production and reception of queer film and...
by Jacobo Schifter
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Explore the risks and rewards of seeking and having sex in public places!
Public Sex in a Latin Society is one of the first books to explore the lives of people who look for sex in public places and the dangers involved--from murder to HIV infection. The book examines why many gay men have...
by John Vaglica
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2010
My first thought when I decided to write my memoirs was to expose a bias and prejudice judge. I wanted to tell all the public reading this book how he used his personal life experience against me because I am gay. While investigating some of the facts relating to my lawsuit, against my former employer,...
The Adventures of a Happy Homosexual
Memoirs of an Unlikely Activist
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
In this funny, warm and touching book Terry Sanderson reveals how he – the most unwilling and unlikely of activists - honed his skills as a campaigner at the very beginning of the struggle for gay rights in Britain.
But this is more than just the story of an amazing social revolution, it’s...
by Bryan Carter
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2014
The best gay erotica collection to read in the privacy of your own home. Steamy sex stories, a collection of the best, most famous gay erotica you can find anywhere. Muscle men, small men, experienced men, first-time sexual encounters, large penises, small penises, one sexual partner, multiple sexual...
A Queer Geography
Journeys Toward a Sexual Self
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
What is the gay identity? Do gay people even exist? The bestselling author of The Culture of Desire journeys into the minds of gay men in America and elsewhere to discover how their lives are shaped by time, nation, and desire. In a brilliant argument, Browning shows how and why the gay movement could have only arisen in America.
The Lost Autobiography of Samuel Steward
Recollections of an Extraordinary Twentieth-Century Gay Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
On August 21, 1978, a year before his seventieth birthday, Samuel Steward (1909–93) sat down at his typewriter in Berkeley, California, and began to compose a remarkable autobiography. No one but his closest friends knew the many different identities he had performed during his life: as Samuel Steward,...
Conversaciones
Relatos por padres y madres de hijas lesbianas y hijos gay
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2001
2002 Lambda Literary Award Winner
Twenty-three Latino parents speak about their relationships with their lesbian and gay children, with frankness, humor, and love.
A Puerto Rican mother praises and supports her son, a respected police officer. An Argentinian mother attends Gay Pride with two...