Gay Studies category: 1383 books
Queer (In)Justice
The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
A groundbreaking work that turns a “queer eye” on the criminal legal system
Drawing on years of research, activism, and legal advocacy, Queer (In)Justice is a searing examination of queer experiences--as "suspects," defendants, prisoners, and survivors of crime. The authors unpack...
Making Trouble
Essays on Gay History, Politics, and the University
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by Mistress Dede
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2017
Have you always liked dressing up like a woman for as long as you could remember? Does dressing up in women’s clothes and putting on women’s shoes makes you feel light…as if all your stress has just melted away? You know you are not gay…but have you have always fantasized about dressing up...
PRIDE
Fifty Years of Parades and Protests from the Photo Archives of the New York Times
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
It began in New York City on June 28, 1969.
When police raided the Stonewall Inn—a bar in the Greenwich Village neighborhood, known as a safe haven for gay men—violent demonstrations and protests broke out in response. The Stonewall Riots, as they would come to be known, were the first spark...
by Peter Knegt
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Is Canada a “queer utopia”? Canada was the fourth country in the world — and the first in the Western Hemisphere — to legalize same-sex marriage. Queer people in Canada enjoy many of the same legal rights as heterosexuals, and social acceptance of homosexuality has grown exponentially. But...
Black Bull, Ancestors and Me
My Life as a Lesbian Sangoma
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Describing the dichotomy of being both revered and reviled, this memoir traces the story of a sangoma-a traditional healer-who is also a lesbian. Descriptions of traditional African healing practices and rituals are provided alongside the personalized account of one woman acting as a mirror to the daily hardships and indignities felt by members of the gay community in Africa.
Lesbian, Queer, and Bisexual Women in Heterosexual Relationships
Narratives of Sexual Identity
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
This book draws on interviews with women who left relationships with women to begin relationships with men, and uncovers how the women make sense of who they are. The women who leave female partners to begin relationships with male partners have the capacity to redefine their sexual identity. They...
Real Queer?
Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Refugees in the Canadian Refugee Apparatus
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
“How do I prove I’m gay?” This is the central question for many refugee claimants who are claiming asylum on the basis of sexual orientation persecution. But what are the inherent challenges in obtaining this proof? How is the system that assesses this predicated upon homonormative frameworks...
Tongzhi Living
Men Attracted to Men in Postsocialist China
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Tongzhi, which translates into English as “same purpose” or “same will,” was once widely used to mean “comrade.” Since the 1990s, the word has been appropriated by the LGBT community in China and now refers to a broad range of people who do not espouse heteronormativity.Tongzhi Living, the...
Out in Africa
LGBT Organizing in Namibia and South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
Visibility matters to activists—to their social and political relevance, their credibility, their influence. But invisibility matters, too, in times of political hostility or internal crisis. Out in Africa is the first to present an intimate look at how Namibian and South African lesbian, gay, bisexual,...
Queer Man on Campus
A History of Non-Heterosexual College Men, 1945-2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
This book reveals the inadequacy of a unified "gay" identity in studying the lives of queer college men. Instead, seven types of identities are discernible in the lives of non-heterosexual college males, as the author shows.
Queer Bergman
Sexuality, Gender, and the European Art Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
One of the twentieth century’s most important filmmakers—indeed one of its most important and influential artists—Ingmar Bergman and his films have been examined from almost every possible perspective, including their remarkable portrayals of women and their searing dramatizations of gender dynamics....
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Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
LGBT Psychology and Mental Health: Emerging Research and Advances brings together concise, substantive reviews of what is new or on the horizon in science and in key areas of clinical practice. It will equip professionals at institutions with mental health programs that deal with lesbian, gay, bisexual...
Just As I Am
A Practical Guide to Being Out, Proud, and Christian
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
The first openly gay man to be ordained an Episcopal priest offers lesbians and gays good news about being Christian and homosexual, discussing the positive images of homosexuality in the scriptures and more.