Gay Studies category: 1383 books
by Michael Bronski
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
Winner of a 2012 Stonewall Book Award in nonfiction
The first book to cover the entirety of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender history, from pre-1492 to the present.
In the 1620s, Thomas Morton broke from Plymouth Colony and founded Merrymount, which celebrated same-sex desire,...
Finding True Love in a Man-Eat-Man World
The Intelligent Guide to Gay Dating, Sex. Romance, and Eternal Love
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2011
Nelson draws both on his interviews with other men and on his own experiences in the gay dating scene to present this revealing and often humorous guide. From breaking down psychological blocks to surviving a breakup, Nelson explores the key issues in gay male relationships and the baggage left over from adolescence.
Virtual Equality
The Mainstreaming of Gay and Lesbian Liberation
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2015
Since the decade to lift the ban on gays in the military, the emergence of gay conservatives, and the onslaught of antigay initiatives across America, the gay and lesbian community has been asking itself tough questions: Where should the movement go? What do we want? In Virtual Equality, veteran...
"You Can Tell Just By Looking"
And 20 Other Myths about LGBT Life and People
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
**2014 Lambda Literary Award Finalist: LGBT Nonfiction
Breaks down the most commonly held misconceptions about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and their lives**
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In “You Can Tell Just by Looking” three scholars and activists come together to unpack enduring, popular,...
Since My Last Confession
A Gay Catholic Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012
Scott Pomfret serves as a lector at St. Anthony Shrine in Boston. He also writes gay porn. His boyfriend is a flaming atheist, and his boyfriend’s Protestant grandmother considers Catholicism a sin worse than sodomy. From Pentecost to Pride, from the books of the Bible to the articles of the Advocate,...
by Linda lgunderman@comcast.net
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
God does exist, and he does not create throwaway people. He does not condemn gays and lesbians. The gay and lesbian “establishment” that many take their queues from has been derelict in the way they present God. It has become apparent to me over the years just by observing the statements and actions...
Violence against Queer People
Race, Class, Gender, and the Persistence of Anti-LGBT Discrimination
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2015
Violence against lesbians and gay men has increasingly captured media and scholarly attention. But these reports tend to focus on one segment of the LGBT community—white, middle class men—and largely ignore that part of the community that arguably suffers a larger share of the violence—racial...
Homo Economics
Capitalism, Community, and Lesbian and Gay Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Homo Economics is the first honest account of the tense relationship between gay people and the economy. This groundbreaking collection brings together a variety of voices from the worlds of journalism, activism, academia, the arts, and public policy to address issues including the recent economic...
L.A. Plays Itself/Boys in the Sand
A Queer Film Classic
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
A Queer Film Classic on two groundbreaking gay arthouse porn films from 1972, both examples of the growing liberalization of social attitudes toward sex and homosexuality in post-Stonewall America. Where Fred Halsted's Boys in the Sand is a frothy romp at a gay beach resort community, Wakefield Poole's...
El sexo entre hombres
Más allá del tabú y de la cultura gay
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 30, 2015
En este ensayo el autor señala la falsedad de la noción de "comunidad homosexual", desmentida por la radical heterogeneidad de la relaciones eróticas entre los hombres, del todo idéntica a la que se observa entre los heterosexuales, quienes obviamente tampoco constituyen una comunidad....
A Family and Friend's Guide to Sexual Orientation
Bridging the Divide Between Gay and Straight
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
A Family and Friend's Guide to Sexual Orientation helps individuals and families to bridge the divide between gay and straight, to heal wounds that often accompany individuals and families' negative feelings about lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, and transgendered persons. Consisting of thirty stories...
Why Marriage Matters
America, Equality, and Gay People's Right to Marry
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Why Marriage Matters offers a compelling and clear discussion of a question at the forefront of our national consciousness. It is the work of a brilliant civil rights litigator who has dedicated his life to the protection of individuals' rights and our Constitution's commitment to equal justice under...
Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage
Valuing All Families under the Law
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
The debate over marriage equality for same-sex couples rages across the country. Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage boldly moves the discussion forward by focusing on the larger, more fundamental issue of marriage and the law. The root problem, asserts law professor and LGBT rights activist Nancy...
The Gay Past
A Collection of Historical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
Fascinating reading on the plight of gay men and women through the ages. The contributors to this compassionate book document how society has made life difficult and even dangerous for homosexual people. Through narrative history as well as biography, these essays trace the legal, social, and physical consequences of this oppression.