Gay Studies category: 1383 books
Men of Color
A Context for Service to Homosexually Active Men
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Men of Color provides those working in the social services with an assessment framework for identifying and understanding the developmental needs of gay and bisexual men of color. By adding an ethnic dimension to the literature on homosexual conduct and identity, this book helps service providers...
The Gay Baby Boom
The Psychology of Gay Parenthood
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2002
The gay and lesbian community is experiencing a baby boom. Advances in gay rights coupled with increased availability of alternative reproduction techniques have led to an unprecedented number of openly gay and lesbian parents. Estimates are that between 6 and 14 million children in the United States...
Gay, Explained
History, Science, Culture, and Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2016
Imagine your favorite gay uncle sitting you down and explaining everything you ever wondered about gay people. That is Gay, Explained. Written for gay and straight people alike, Gay, Explained leads the reader on a journey that even the most educated may find surprising. Told in a warm and...
Growth and Intimacy for Gay Men
A Workbook
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Growth and Intimacy for Gay Men: A Workbook is an educational workbook for gay men that covers a variety of topics, including family of origin, addiction, self-image, dating and relationships, AIDS and multiple loss, and spirituality. Each chapter provides an overview of the mental health concerns...
Fat Gay Men
Girth, Mirth, and the Politics of Stigma
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
To be fat in a thin-obsessed gay culture
can be difficult. Despite affectionate in-group monikers for big gay men–chubs,
bears, cubs–the anti-fat stigma that persists in American culture at large
still haunts these individuals who often exist at the margins of gay
communities. In Fat Gay Men,...
by J Jerry Bigner
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Gain a better understanding of the special therapeutic issues and needs of GLBT families
In terms of research, GLBT families constitute a neglected segment of society. Gender and sexual orientation can make the issues in family studies even more difficult to work through. An Introduction to...
Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Issues in Education
Programs, Policies, and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Understand the challenges from the voices involved-today’s LGBT youth AND the leading educators and scholars in the field!
Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Issues in Education presents LGBT youth issues through the words of the adolescents themselves, along with clear up-to-date essays about...
The Ultimate Guide for Gay Dads
Everything You Need to Know About LGBTQ Parenting But Are (Mostly) Afraid to Ask
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
If you are thinking of becoming a gay dad ─ or if you are already a gay dad ─ this book is for you!
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Are you ready to have kids? More and more gay men are turning to adoption and surrogacy to start their own families. An estimated two million American LBGTQ people would...
Gay Widowers
Life After the Death of a Partner
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
A recent gay widower may find that once the shock and initial confusion of losing his partner is overcome, there are still many hard, lonely, and overwhelming stages of grief to be worked through. Often, the bereaved feels isolated, and looking around for comfort, realizes that he doesn’t have many...
by John Aruna Massaquoi
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
This book is a whistle blower to the world that the long uncompromising denial of gay marriage rights is now becoming a global reality. The struggle between gay activists and homophobia against samesex marriage had almost come to an end with religious groups and politicians losing the battle. This...
Chasing Adonis
Gay Men and the Pursuit of Perfection
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
What is it about some men that makes them an object of our deepest desires? And how far are we willing to go in pursuit of those desires?
Chasing Adonis: Gay Men & the Pursuit of Perfection delves into one of the most central mysteries of gay life: What is it gay men find attractive in...
Gay Men at Midlife
Age Before Beauty
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
“Those of us in our forties and fifties came of age in the 1960s and 1970s--a time when the available commentary on gay life was anything but supportive. Until 1973, homosexuality was a diagnosable mental illness.” --from the Introduction by Alan L. Ellis
Today, that literary blindness...
Gay Directors, Gay Films?
Pedro Almodóvar, Terence Davies, Todd Haynes, Gus Van Sant, John Waters
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Through intimate encounters with the life and work of five contemporary gay male directors, this book develops a framework for interpreting what it means to make a gay film or adopt a gay point of view. For most of the twentieth century, gay characters and gay themes were both underrepresented and...
Not Straight, Not White
Black Gay Men from the March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
This compelling book recounts the history of black gay men from the 1950s to the 1990s, tracing how the major movements of the times—from civil rights to black power to gay liberation to AIDS activism—helped shape the cultural stigmas that surrounded race and homosexuality. In locating the rise...