Gay Studies category: 1383 books
Tommy Boys, Lesbian Men, and Ancestral Wives
Female Same-Sex Practices in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2006
A vivid portrait of homosexual African women, this collection of essays examines and celebrates same-sex practices while acknowledging their taboo status in many African cultures. From Uganda to Namibia, governmental homophobia and female strength are among the thoroughly discussed issues.
Queer Chivalry
Medievalism and the Myth of White Masculinity in Southern Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013
For the U.S. South, the myth of chivalric masculinity dominates the cultural and historical landscape. Visions of white southern men as archetypes of honor and gentility run throughout regional narratives with little regard for the actions and, at times, the atrocities committed by such men. In Queer...
Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue
Essays, A Play, Two Poems and a Prayer
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1995
The first collection of writings from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angels in America. Includes Slavs!
Wild Heart: A Life
Natalie Clifford Barney and the Decadence of Literary Paris
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Born in 1876, Natalie Barney-beautiful, charismatic, brilliant and wealthy-was expected to marry well and lead the conventional life of a privileged society woman. But Natalie had no interest in marriage and made no secret of the fact that she was attracted to women. Brought up by a talented and rebellious...
by William John Stapleton
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2013
Of all the thousands of stories he had written across his lifetime, author and journalist William John Stapleton had never been happier to write the words "The End" than when he completed The Twilight Soi series with the short book "Bangkok Busted: You Go To Jail For Sure".The series...
The Un-Americans
Jews, the Blacklist, and Stoolpigeon Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2009
In a bold rethinking of the Hollywood blacklist and McCarthyite America, Joseph Litvak reveals a political regime that did not end with the 1950s or even with the Cold War: a regime of compulsory sycophancy, in which the good citizen is an informer, ready to denounce anyone who will not play the part...
by Andrew Sullivan
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
An unprecedented work from the brilliant young editor of The New Republic--who is celebrated also as an incisive defender of the equality of homosexuals--Virtually Normal is an impassioned, reasoned, subtle, and uncompromising political and moral treatise that will set the terms of the homosexuality debate for the foreseeable future.
by Kate Lynn Hibbard
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2012
“Lovers of poetry, click your heels together three times and rejoice. Queer female poets of the Midwest have shared the wide-prairie range of their imaginations in Kate Lynn Hibbard’s When We Become Weavers. We may or may not be in Kansas anymore. But read these lines, read between these lines,...
Trans
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
An extraordinary memoir of transition and transgender politics and culture
“Six weeks before sex reassignment surgery (SRS), I am obliged to stop taking my hormones. I suddenly feel very differently about my forthcoming operation.”
In July 2012, aged thirty, Juliet Jacques underwent...
No House to Call My Home
Love, Family, and Other Transgressions
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
In this lyrical debut, Ryan Berg immerses readers in the gritty, dangerous, and shockingly underreported world of homeless LGBTQ teens in New York. As a caseworker in a group home for disowned LGBTQ teenagers, Berg witnessed the struggles, fears, and ambitions of these disconnected youth as they resisted...
Live Through This
Surviving the Intersections of Sexuality, God, and Race
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
This powerful book couldn’t come at a more timely juncture. With our deep misunderstanding of racial identity, the murder of transgender women increasing at an alarming rate, and the battle of faith and sexual orientation at churches across the country, we are in a cultural war of ideologies. Overwhelming...
by Sara L. Crawley, Lara J. Foley, Constance L. Shehan
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2007
Gendering Bodies explains how the social world shapes our physical bodies and how our bodies shape the social world. In this remarkable investigation into contemporary ideas of gender, sociologists Crawley, Foley, and Shehan argue that bodies are constantly being gendered, or encouraged to participate...
Exile and Pride
Disability, Queerness, and Liberation
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
First published in 1999, the groundbreaking Exile and Pride is essential to the history and future of disability politics. Eli Clare's revelatory writing about his experiences as a white disabled genderqueer activist/writer established him as one of the leading writers on the intersections of queerness...
My Own Country
A Doctor's Story of a Town and its People in the Age of AIDS
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
The memoir and first book from the author of the beloved New York Times bestseller Cutting for Stone.
Nestled in the Smoky Mountains of eastern Tennessee, the town of Johnson City had always seemed exempt from the anxieties of modern American life. But when the local hospital treated its first...