Gay Studies category: 1383 books
The Real-World Guide to Coming Out
From Steven Petrow’s Complete Gay & Lesbian Manners: A Workman Short
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2011
We’ve come a long way. But that doesn’t mean that the process of coming out is clear-cut or without obstacles. Introducing an e-book for today’s times—adapted from Steven Petrow’s Complete Gay & Lesbian Manners—designed to help guide men, women, and teenagers navigate what can be uncertain...
by James Orr
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Alan is straight, Sam is gay. Set in Brighton, East Sussex, the novel tells of the relationship that existed between the two of them. Set out in diary form it follows the development, the frustration on both sides and the pressures put on them. Unable to meet together at either homes, they resort to the gay cruising site up on the Downs.
by Richard L Hasbany
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Here is a comprehensive historical overview of the recent discussion in the Judeo-Christian religions regarding homosexuality. Breaking new ground in the scholarship about Judeo-Christian religion and homosexuality, this wide-ranging volume features insightful new perspectives on the relationship...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Media matter, particularly to social minorities like lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people. Rather than one homogenised idea of the ‘global gay’, what we find today is a range of historically and culturally specific expressions of gender and sexuality, which are reflected and explored...
Sudden Strangers
The Story of a Gay Son and His Father
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Sudden Strangers is the story of a gay son and his father.
Exploring LGBT Spaces and Communities
Contrasting Identities, Belongings and Wellbeing
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
The phrase ‘LGBT community’ is often used by policy-makers, service providers, and lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) people themselves, but what does it mean? What understandings and experiences does that term suggest, and ignore? Based on a UK-wide study funded by the Arts and Humanities...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Infectious Ideas
U.S. Political Responses to the AIDS Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Viewing contemporary history from the perspective of the AIDS crisis, Jennifer Brier provides rich, new understandings of the United States' complex social and political trends in the post-1960s era. Brier describes how AIDS workers--in groups as disparate as the gay and lesbian press, AIDS service...
Same Sex in the City
(So Your Prince Charming Is Really a Cinderella)
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2006
At last, a relationship book for lesbians that tells it like it is . . .
The journey from sexual curiosity to finally coming out can be confusing without proper guidance and empowering role models. In Same Sex in the City, Lauren Levin and Lauren Blitzer provide women -- gay, straight, and...
by Leila J. Rupp, Verta Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2015
It's Saturday night in Key West and the Girlie Show is about to begin at the 801 Cabaret. The girls have been outside on the sidewalk all evening, seducing passersby into coming in for the show. The club itself is packed tonight and smoke has filled the room. When the lights finally go down, statuesque...
by Glen Maxey
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
On June 23, 2011 a national reporter called Glen Maxey, the first and only openly gay state legislator in the history of Texas. Rick Perry was making noises about running for president, and the reporter asked about rumors that Perry possibly may have had homosexual sex. Glen had heard the rumors before...
by Wyatt O'Brian Evans
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
What would you do after the man of your dreams battered you because he believed you’ve been unfaithful? Could you forgive this man to whom you’ve given every piece of your heart? Desirable, wealthy gay Black celebrity Wesley (Wes) Laurence Kelly, 45, yearns for an enduring, satisfying love. Unfortunately,...
Queerying Planning
Challenging Heteronormative Assumptions and Reframing Planning Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Current planning practices have largely neglected the needs of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) community for safe urban spaces in which to live, work, and play. This volume fills the gap in the literature on the planning and development of queer spaces, and highlights some of the...
Out for Queer Blood
The Murder of Fernando Rios and the Failure of New Orleans Justice
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
On a September night in 1958, three New Orleans college students went looking for a gay man to assault. They chose Fernando Rios, who died from the beating he received. In perhaps the earliest example of the “gay panic” defense, the three defendants argued that they had no choice but to beat Rios...