Gay Studies category: 1383 books
Perverts by Official Order
The Campaign Against Homosexuals by the United States Navy
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
This candid book documents for the first time the U.S. Navy’s use of entrapment in pursuit of homosexuals in and around Newport, Rhode Island, during the early twentieth century. This most extensive systematic persecution of gays in American history occurred with the approval of Navy Secretary Josephus...
One of the Boys
Masculinity, Homophobia, and Modern Manhood
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
One of the Boys: Masculinity, Homophobia, and Modern Manhood takes a fresh look at the formation of modern male sexual identities. You will find that homophobia is not only widespread, but that it takes diverse forms and has far-reaching behavioral and social consequences. The new concept of “homophobic...
The Queer Uncanny
New Perspectives on the Gothic
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2012
The Queer Uncanny: New Perspectives on the Gothic investigates the diverse roles that the uncanny, as defined by Sigmund Freud, Helene Cixous and other theorists, plays in representing lesbian and male gay sexualities and transgender in a selection of contemporary British, American and Caribbean fiction...
Family Pride
What LGBT Families Should Know about Navigating Home, School, and Safety in Their Neighborhoods
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
An invaluable portrait and roadmap on how to thrive as an LGBT family
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The overwhelming success of Dan Savage’s “It Gets Better” YouTube project aimed at queer youth highlighted that despite the progress made in gay rights, LGBT people are still at high risk of being victimized. While...
Making Out in the Mainstream
GLAAD and the Politics of Respectability
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Making Out in the Mainstream is the first full-length study of LGBT media activism, revealing the daily struggle to reconcile economic and professional pressures with conflicting personal, organizational, and political priorities. Documenting the rise and evolution of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against...
by Margaret Cruikshank
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Homosexual Rites of Passage
A Road to Visibility and Validation
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Homosexual Rites of Passage: A Road to Visibility and Validation will help you, as a gay or lesbian individual, work through identity issues, come out, and become visible in a healthy and safe manner. You will find this unique book to be an excellent resource for validation and support during your...
Pride & Joy
Taking the Streets of New York City
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
A celebration of the New York City Pride Parade documented in a dazzling series of photographs, with a major introductory essay by comedian and activist Kate Clinton
More than forty years have passed since members of the LGBTQ community took to the streets of New York City on the first anniversary...
by Esther D Rothblum
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
Classics in Lesbian Studies takes a major step in giving the lesbian experience its own unique voice within scholarship and the larger world society. Thus, it is devoted exclusively to the lesbian experience and serves as a vehicle for the promotion of scholarship and commentary on lesbianism from...
by Allison Moon
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Devin and James have been friends since they were young. Around teenage years they started dating, and now they're headed to college. A college legendary for it's gay fraternity, Gamma Alpha Psi. The eternal frat party of never ending gay sex. Sounds like a dream, but will ГАΨ break the couple apart or make them better? Who are they kidding will they make it through pledging?
Lesbians, Gays, and Bisexuals Becoming Parents or Remaining Childfree
Confronting Social Inequalities
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
This book recognizes that intense public battles are being waged in the U.S. over the rights of LGB people to form legally and culturally recognized families. Their families are under a kind of sociopolitical scrutiny at this historical moment that compels us all to take stock of our strategies of...
The Kids
The Children of LGBTQ Parents in the USA
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
New York Times/Guardian article: The book builds on photographs featured in the New York Times in 2015 as part of an article written by Gabriela Herman for the Sunday Review Exposures column called "What Could Gay Marriage Mean for the Kids?" The photos were also featured in a cover story for The...
Queercore
Queer Punk Media Subculture
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
Queercore is a queer and punk transmedia movement that was instigated in 1980s Toronto via the pages of the underground fanzine ("zine") J.D.s. Authored by G.B. Jones and Bruce LaBruce, J.D.s. declared "civil war" on the punk and gay and lesbian mainstreams, consolidating a subculture...
Is Heaven for Real
Suicide Driven by Faith
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
"A chilling exposé of youth suicide driven by faith." Tony Frost, Tribune
Child and teen suicide is no stranger to this author:
"I recall gazing at the stillness of my childhood friend in a coffin and the nun telling me that God had taken him back because he had been...