Gay Studies category: 1383 books

Proud, happy, grateful—gay youth describe their lives in terms that would have seemed surprising a generation ago. Yet many adults, including parents, are skeptical of this sea change—coming out is supposed to involve struggle. This is the kind of thinking, say the honest, humorous young men in Ritch Savin-Williams’s new book, that needs to change.

PEEK: Inside the Private World of Public Sex is an up close and personal look at impersonal sex, exploring where-to, how-to, and when-to have sex in public. This educational and instructive guide reveals the steamy world of sex in bathhouses, gyms, parks, peep shows, swinger’s clubs, men’s rooms,...

Oublier. Oublier sa rupture avec Matthew, oublier que sa famille l’a rejeté, en se lançant à corps perdu dans ses recherches, voilà le plan de Lucien lorsqu’il revient à Oxford pour rédiger sa thèse. Mais sa rencontre avec Andrew Knight, pop star d’un groupe mondialement connu, vient...

This study on sexual orientation and U.S. military policy, requested by the Senate Armed Services Committee and the Secretary of Defense in order to weigh repeal of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, examines public and military opinion on allowing gay men and lesbians to serve without restriction;...

A sweeping account of the way lesbian, gay, and bisexual people have challenged and changed society In this provocative book, Jeffrey Escoffier tracks LGBT movements across the contested terrain of American political life, where they have endured the historical tension between the homoeroticism...

Minerva feels like a misfit in her family and at high school. If it weren’t for her best friend, Tim Wells, an outstanding, popular athlete, she’d be totally isolated. Tim needs a cover and Minerva is the only one he trusts. Of course she knows he’s using her, but she's a loyal friend. Minerva...

Queering Urban Justice foregrounds visions of urban justice that are critical of racial and colonial capitalism, and asks: What would it mean to map space in ways that address very real histories of displacement and erasure? What would it mean to regard Queer, Trans, Black, Indigenous, and People...

What are the consequences when international actors step in to protect LGBT people from discrimination with programs that treat their sexualities in isolation from the "facts on the ground"? Robert Lorway tells the story of the unexpected effects of The Rainbow Project (TRP), a LGBT rights program...

Il y a quatre ans, deux mois et dix-huit jours, Yohan rencontrait Thomas, dragueur invétéré et flippé notoire de l’engagement. Aussitôt, il en tombait éperdument amoureux. Un coming-out, des ruptures, des retrouvailles et une dernière séparation plus tard, Yohan n’est toujours pas remis...

LGBTQ kids reveal what it’s like to be young and queer today Growing Up Queer explores the changing ways that young people are now becoming LGBT-identified in the US. Through interviews and three years of ethnographic research at an LGBTQ youth drop-in center, Mary Robertson focuses on the...

Negli anni '70 la nascita del movimento gay in Italia ha cambiato tutto: gli omosessuali, consapevoli e "fieri", rivendicano diritti e ottengono un maggiore riconoscimento sociale e politico. Ma com'era prima di allora la vita degli omosessuali italiani? "Quando eravamo froci"...

An enlightening, entertaining look at what the term “lesbian” really means-and what it means to be a lesbian Twenty-First Century Lesbian Studies focuses on the field’s institutionalization into the humanities and social sciences, examining how the term “lesbian” is used in activist,...

The follow-up to the groundbreaking Black Queer Studies, the edited collection No Tea, No Shade brings together nineteen essays from the next generation of scholars, activists, and community leaders doing work on black gender and sexuality. Building on the foundations laid by the earlier volume, this...

This collection brings together cutting-edge work by established and emerging scholars focusing on key societies in the East Asian region: China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, North and South Korea, Mongolia and Vietnam. This scope enables the collection to reflect on the nature of the transformations...