Gay Studies category: 1383 books
Place at the Table
The Gay Individual in American Society
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Bruce Bawer exposes the heated controversy over gay rights and presents a passionate plea for the recognition of common values, "a place at the table" for everyone.
God vs. Gay?
The Religious Case for Equality
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
Does the Bible prohibit homosexuality? No, says Bible scholar and activist Jay Michaelson. But not only that: Michaelson also shows that the vast majority of our shared religious traditions support the full equality and dignity of LGBT people. In this accessible, passionate, and provocative book, Michaelson argues for equality, not despite religion but because of it.
Beyond Acceptance
Parents of Lesbians & Gays Talk About Their Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
"Mom, Dad, I'm gay." When a parent hears these words, the initial shock is often followed by feelings ranging from anger and denial to fear and guilt. It's also the beginning of a difficult journey that, with understanding and emotional support, can lead to acceptance and beyond.
Now...
Active Duty
Gay Military Erotic Romance
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
These fierce stories of love on the front lines grab and hold readers’ attention as they travel the world with these soldier on Active Duty. In the wake of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell and the Defense of Marriage Act getting repealed, Neil Plakcy brings the two issues together into heart-pounding vignettes...
The Remedy
Queer and Trans Voices on Health and Health Care
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2016
Winner, Lambda Literary Award (LGBT Anthology)
The Remedy invites writers and readers to imagine what we need to create healthy, resilient, and thriving LGBTQ communities. This anthology is a diverse collection of real-life stories from queer and trans people on their own health-care experiences...
Queer Images
A History of Gay and Lesbian Film in America
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2005
Queer Images chronicles representations of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer sexualities over one hundred years of American film. The most up-to-date and comprehensive book of its kind, it explores the ever-changing images of queer characters onscreen as well as the work of queer filmmakers and the...
Imagining Transgender
An Ethnography of a Category
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2007
Imagining Transgender is an ethnography of the emergence and institutionalization of transgender as a category of collective identity and political activism. Embraced by activists in the early 1990s to advocate for gender-variant people, the category quickly gained momentum in public health, social...
Straights
Heterosexuality in Post-Closeted Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Since the Stonewall Riots in 1969, the politics of sexual identity in America have drastically transformed. It’s almost old news that recent generations of Americans have grown up in a culture more accepting of out lesbians and gay men, seen the proliferation of LGBTQ media representation, and witnessed...
Finally Out
Letting Go of Living Straight
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Dr. Loren A. Olson has frequently been asked two questions: How could you not know that you were gay until the age of forty? Wasn't your marriage just a sham to protect yourself at your wife's expense? In Finally Out, Dr. Olson answers these questions by telling the inspiring story of his evolving...
Gym Boys
Gay Erotic Stories
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
Gym Boys examines what takes place behind the closed doors of the locker room. This book is a tribute to the body beautiful, where men who look like Greek gods are worshiped for their outsized attributes. Editor and Gaybie Award–winner Shane Allison takes us into the erotic world of hard-working...
by Amin Ghaziani
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2014
Gay neighborhoods, like the legendary Castro District in San Francisco and New York's Greenwich Village, have long provided sexual minorities with safe havens in an often unsafe world. But as our society increasingly accepts gays and lesbians into the mainstream, are "gayborhoods" destined to disappear?...
No Future
Queer Theory and the Death Drive
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2004
In this searing polemic, Lee Edelman outlines a radically uncompromising new ethics of queer theory. His main target is the all-pervasive figure of the child, which he reads as the linchpin of our universal politics of “reproductive futurism.” Edelman argues that the child, understood as innocence...
by Andrew Sullivan
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2009
With same-sex marriage igniting a firestorm of controversy in the press and in the courts, in legislative chambers and in living rooms, Andrew Sullivan, a pioneering voice in the debate, has brought together two thousand years of argument in an anthology of historic inclusiveness and evenhandedness....