Gay Studies category: 1383 books

The Most Beautiful Rot is a secret peek into the backyards and living rooms of young queer america. It’s a testament to the act of digging through the bleakness of everyday life to find something beautiful growing underneath, something that you weren’t expecting. This book is also about overflowing...

Homosexuality, Christianity, the Bible, and the Church: Homosexual Marriage and Other Issues by Robert Alan King is a booklet with over 3,800 words. King discusses homosexuality from a biblical perspective, examining homosexual relationships, homosexual marriage and homosexual clergy. He also takes...

How should the overarching message of Christianity inform our response to the moral issues of our time? This book challenges the belief that homosexuality is incompatible with Christian teachings, providing intelligent, witty and meticulous study of the contextual and historical background...

Told in their own voice, this is the story of two women who took their struggle for marriage equality all the way to the Supreme Court--and won. Kris Perry and Sandy Stier are the lead plaintiffs in the team that sued the state of California to restore marriage equality. By 2008, when Californians...

Same-sex marriage is here, presenting unique challenges and opportunities. How do those who follow Christ faithfully answer the standard talking points for same-sex marriage? And how can they best articulate the case for one-man, one-woman marriage in everyday conversation? Sean McDowell and...

As a young man I have been wise enough to understand that a decision has to be made if I intend to find fulfilment and complete satisfaction from a lifestyle considered to be wrong by my religion yet to me seems to be an ideal lifestyle to express my personality and how I wish to spend the rest of my...

The Queer Art of Failure is about finding alternatives—to conventional understandings of success in a heteronormative, capitalist society; to academic disciplines that confirm what is already known according to approved methods of knowing; and to cultural criticism that claims to break new ground...

“No, you’re on a cruise liner in the middle of the Pacific Ocean so I seriously doubt you’re getting home. What you’re doing now is going back to your suite. You do know what suite you’re staying in don’t you?” “Of course I do,” she lied, “how could I not know that we’re on a...

Since the middle of the last century, views on gender norms have shifted dramatically. Reflecting these changes, storylines that involve cross-dressing and transgender characters have frequently appeared in detective fiction—characters who subvert the conventions of the genre and challenge reader...

In the wake of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court's historic Goodridge decision, a reissue of the bible of the same-sex marriage movement Will same-sex couples destroy "traditional" marriage, soon to be followed by the collapse of all civilization? That charge has been leveled...

In Pre-Revolutionary France, sodomy (in all its different meanings) was, in theory, a capital crime, whether practiced between men (sodomites), women (tribads), heterosexual couples or (since it included masturbation) alone. In practice, most sodomy cases involved men, though this collection includes...

The second time Emma goes home with Wren, they’re both far too drunk. Emma’s night started with shots, alone, at a bar she’d never been to before because she couldn’t bear to run into Cam or Steve. It was just her luck that Wren showed up and sidled over to her with two shots in hand. They both...

Billie Simone self-publishes her final installment to the SUITE 69: BLACK LESBIAN EROTICA series. The series begin in 1999, and is a cult favorite among lesbians of color.

Teacher Education programs have largely ignored the needs of LGBTIQ learners in their preparation of pre?service teachers. At best in most of such programs, their needs are addressed in a single chapter in a book or as the topic of discussion in a single class discussion. However, is this minimal discussion...