Gay Studies category: 1383 books
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Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Aficionados of music, dance, opera, and musical theater will relish this volume featuring over 200 articles showcasing composers, singers, musicians, dancers, and choreographers across eras and styles.
Read about Hildegard of Bingen, whose Symphonia expressed both spiritual and physical desire...
Double Bubble - Inside Britain's Prisons
The Chemsex Trilogy, #3
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
**BOOK THREE IN **
'THE CHEMSEX TRILOGY'
Arrest, Trial, Incarceration
Double Bubble is the third book of 'The Chemsex Trilogy', and details what can happen to you after a period of continuous Chem fuelled sex parties, when you finally find yourself to the windward of the...
by David Bell, Gill Valentine
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
This is the first book to explore sexualities from a geographical perspective. The nature of place and notions of space are of increasing centrality to cultural and social theory. Mapping Desire presents the rich and diverse world of contemporary sexuality, exploring how the heterosexual body has...
Inside/Out
Lesbian Theories, Gay Theories
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Lesbians and gays have gone from "coming out," to "acting up," to "outing," meanwhile radically redefining society's views on sexuality and gender. The essays in Inside/Out employ a variety of approaches (psychoanalysis, deconstruction, semiotics, and discourse theory)...
by Karlon Cruse
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2004
This book is about one gay-mans life and struggles to find meaning in it. Indeed, it is about healing oneself and in the process, perhaps helping to heal others. It is also about using the pen to persuade. In this book, I hope to lend support to family, friends and loved ones with their own struggle...
For the Love of Women
Gender, Identity and Same-Sex Relations in a Greek Provincial Town
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
This extraordinary book opens up the strange world of the 'parea' - a lesbian secret society based in a small-town bar outside Athens, whose members meet clandestinely to drink, dance and flirt. Though conducting intense sexual affairs under the noses of other customers, the parea's members - many...
Sexual Justice
Democratic Citizenship and the Politics of Desire
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Sexual Justice defends a robust a robust conception of lesbian and gay rights, emphasizing protection against discrimination and recognition of queer relationships and families. Synthesizing materials from law, philosophy, psychoanalysis and literature, Kaplan argues that sexual desire is central...
by Shokti Lovestar
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
Take a journey with Shokti, AiDS survivor who awoke to the spiritual realms while sick in the 1990s. Poetry and prose to make you think about the role gay/queer people play in the human story, plus inspiration from queer ancestors, prophets and teachers.
Eating Fire
Family Life on the Queer Side
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2001
Eating Fire follows in the steps of Riordon’s popular 1996 book Out our way, on gay and lesbian life in the country (BTL, 1996). This new set of tales examines the range in living patterns and relationships among queer families across Canada.
Eating Fire illuminates the rich diversity in...
Same-Sex Domestic Violence
Strategies for Change
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 1999
This comprehensive resource book examines a broad range of issues that confront the victims of same-sex domestic violence and those who offer them services. Chapters include topics of practical concern, HIV, same-sex domestic violence, establishing safe-home networks for battered gay men, courtroom advocacy, coalition building and dating violence prevention.
Against the Current
Coming out in the 40'S
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2004
Against the Current, set in the 1940s, is the story of how a young woman, Jan, comes to acknowledge and accept her lesbianism and find a place for herself in the world. Jan first begins to explore gay life while a student at the University of California at Berkeley. Jan had expected to earn a teaching...
Are We Thinking Straight?
The Politics of Straightness in a Lesbian and Gay Social Movement Organization
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2006
This book highlights the strategic deployment of a straight identity by an LGBT organization. Cortese explores the ways in which activists strategically use a "straight" identity as a social movement tool in order to successfully achieve the movement objectives.
Love Undetectable
Notes on Friendship, Sex, and Survival
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
"I intend to be among the first generation that survives this disease." That was former New Republic editor Andrew Sullivan's first public statement about his HIV diagnosis. Speaking to heterosexual and homosexual audiences alike, this book is about the first steps in that journey of survival.
If...
Becoming a Woman
A Biography of Christine Jorgensen
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Discover the remarkable woman behind the legend.
Discover Christine Jorgensen’s remarkable, inspirational journey to become the woman she always knew she should have been. Becoming a Woman: A Biography of Christine Jorgensen provides fascinating insights about the woman who opened doors—and...