Gay Studies category: 1383 books
Queer Astrology for Men
An Astrological Guide for Gay Men
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
A hilariously and startlingly insightful astrology guide for gay men.
Jill Dearman is a breakthrough astrologer for our time. No one has approached the stars with her sass and class ever before! Her guide to astrology for gay men is lively, revealing-- and naughty!
Sections include:...
by Amanda Udis-Kessler
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
The United Methodist Church has been in conflict over lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender inclusion issues since 1972. That year, in response to the gay liberation and gay rights movements, wording was added to the UMC Book of Discipline (the compilation of denominational policies and doctrines) characterizing...
God Hates Fags
The Rhetorics of Religious Violence
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
2007 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
At the funeral of Matthew Shepard—the young Wyoming man brutally murdered for being gay—the Reverend Fred Phelps led his parishioners in protest, displaying signs with slogans like “Matt Shepard rots in Hell,” “Fags Die God Laughs,” and “God Hates...
by Michail Takach
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
Over the past 75 years, gays and lesbians have experienced tremendous social change in America. Gay and lesbian culture, once considered a twilight world that could not be spoken of in daylight, has become today's rainbow families, marriage equality victories, and record-breaking pride celebrations....
"Don't Be So Gay!"
Queers, Bullying, and Making Schools Safe
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Recent cases of teen suicide linked with homophobic bullying have thrust the issue of school safety into the national spotlight. In "Don't Be So Gay!" Queers, Bullying, and Making Schools Safe, Donn Short considers the effectiveness of safe-school legislation. Drawing on interviews with queer youth and...
by eBios
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2014
Harvey Milk was an American politician who became the first openly gay person to be elected to public office in California when he won a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Politics and gay activism were not his early interests; he was not open about his homosexuality and did not...
Queering Creole Spiritual Traditions
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Participation in African-Inspired Traditions in the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
What roles do queer and transgender people play in the African diasporic religions? Queering Creole Spiritual Traditions: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Participation in African-Inspired Traditions in the Americas is a groundbreaking scholarly exploration of this long-neglected subject. It...
Transcendent Vocation
Why gay clergy tolerate hypocrisy
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
Based on detailed analysis of interviews with gay clergymen, and also with retired heterosexual clergymen whose ministries span the period since the 1967 Sexual Offences Act, Transcendent Vocation provides specific examples to back up the contention that the approach of the Church of England to homosexuals...
by Benjamin Shepard
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
From the birth of the Gay Liberation through the rise of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) in 1987, the global justice movement in 1994, the largest day of antiwar protest in world history in February 2003, the Republican National Convention protests in August 2004, and the massive immigrant...
Stonewall
The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
The basis of the PBS American Experience documentary Stonewall Uprising.
In 1969, a series of riots over police action against The Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City's Greenwich Village, changed the longtime landscape of the homosexual in society literally overnight. Since then the event...
Gentlemen Prefer Asians
Tales of Gay Indonesians and Green Card Marriages
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
The author, a gay Indonesian who feels he is "not much of a looker," immigrates to the USA and is inundated with shirtless joggers, same-sex public displays of affection, and the constant drive to psychoanalyze. In this poignant, witty, flippant, and trenchant collection of personal essays the author...
The Up Stairs Lounge Arson
Thirty-Two Deaths in a New Orleans Gay Bar, June 24, 1973
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2014
On June 24, 1973, a fire in a New Orleans gay bar killed 32 people. This still stands as the deadliest fire in the city’s history. Though arson was suspected, and though the police identified a likely culprit, no arrest was ever made. Additionally, government and religious leaders who normally would...
Gay Marriage
The Story of a Canadian Social Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2012
A history of the fight for same-sex marriage in Canada.
Few issues have dominated recent Canadian politics like the legalization of same-sex marriage.
As a political correspondent for The Canadian Press, Sylvain Larocque had a front-row seat for this battle in the fight for gay rights in Canada....
Precious Perversions
Humor, Homosexuality, and the Southern Literary Canon
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
The tragic sentiment of Southern literature and its heteronormative perspective are foundational attributes generally accepted by both popular and scholarly audiences. Yet a pantheon of great authors ranging from like Tennessee Williams, Carson McCullers, and Truman Capote to present-day voices of...