Gay Studies category: 1383 books
by Christopher Shinn
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
"Mr. Shinn is among the most provocative and probing of American playwrights today."-The New York Times
"Chris Shinn explores politics and ethics without moralizing and finds justice and beauty in intimate life, keenly observed and rendered scrupulously, unapologetically, fearlessly...
Depression
A Public Feeling
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
In Depression: A Public Feeling, Ann Cvetkovich combines memoir and critical essay in search of ways of writing about depression as a cultural and political phenomenon that offer alternatives to medical models. She describes her own experience of the professional pressures, creative anxiety, and political...
Mama's Boy, Preacher's Son
A Memoir of Growing Up, Coming Out, and Changing America's Schools
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2006
Long before Kevin Jennings began advocating to end anti-LGBT bias in schools, he was a victim of it. In Mama's Boy, Preacher's Son, Jennings traces the roots of his activism to his elementary school days in the conservative South, where "faggot" became more familiar to him than his own name....
by Stevan Eldred-Grigg
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
**A clever and compelling novel about illicit love and raw passion with unexpected twists and poignant depth.**Manfred Morse has just hit fifty, and also the wall. Life seems empty. His marriage is long since over, his leathery old father is in his tenth year of dying of cancer, while his colleagues...
Lifting the Spiritual Self-Esteem of the Lgbt Community
A Critique of Fabricated, Discriminatory, Judgmental, and Sexist World Religions
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2012
Lifting the Spiritual Self-Esteem of the LGBT Community is written for all peoplewhether heterosexual or members of the LGBT communitywho are disgusted with the judgmental and discriminatory way that religions project and impose their beliefs onto the lives of others in the self-righteous name of...
by Alfredo Duran Chad Duran
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2011
November 4, 2008 was a time when many GLBT in California lost their rights to marry. It was a time when Judge Vaughn Walker from San Francisco overturned Prop 8 in November 4, 2010.
Settler Common Sense
Queerness and Everyday Colonialism in the American Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
In Settler Common Sense, Mark Rifkin explores how canonical American writers take part in the legacy of displacing Native Americans. Although the books he focuses on are not about Indians, they serve as examples of what Rifkin calls “settler common sense,” taking for granted the legal and political...
by Joanne Borden
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
This book explains the transgender phenomenon in an easy to understand and simple way to explain it to others. Also included are over 50 different speeches that are loaded with arguments and ideas for lobbying for transgender civil rights at all levels of government and may be useful for lobbying...
Untangling the Knot
Queer Voices on Marriage, Relationships & Identity
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
Untangling the Knot: Marriage, Relationships & Identity, an anthology of essays and creative nonfiction, delves past the mainstream focus on marriage equality—beyond the knot—to examine the broad scope of issues facing members of the LGBTQ community. The collection sheds light on what marriage...
Bad Boys and Tough Tattoos
A Social History of the Tattoo With Gangs, Sailors, and Street-Corner Punks 1950-1965
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Explore the dark subculture of 1950s tattoos!
In the early 1950s, when tattoos were the indelible mark of a lowlife, an erudite professor of English--a friend of Gertrude Stein, Thomas Mann, Andre Gide, and Thornton Wilder--abandoned his job to become a tattoo artist (and incidentally a researcher...
Nobody Passes
Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2010
An anthology exploring the act of passing-as the "right" gender, race, class, sexuality, age, ability, body type, ethnicity, and beyond
Nobody Passes is a collection of essays that confronts and challenges the very notion of belonging. By examining the perilous intersections of identity,...
by Derekica Snake
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
The Devil is dead...or is he The World rejoiced when the word spread like wildfire that 'The Devil' had finally been vanquished. Little did they know that sometimes it better to deal with the Devil himself than his Advocate. The World quickly learned that the only currency the Advocate wallowed in...
by Andre Gide
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
This is the major autobiographical statement from Nobel laureate André Gide. In the events and musings recorded here we find the seeds of those themes that obsessed him throughout his career and imbued his classic novels **The Immoralist *and The Counterfeiters. *
Gide led a life of uncompromising...
by Jane Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2014
Jen gets a call from her best friend to come hang out at the pool with her. She is excited, so she gets her bikini that Tiff, her best friend talked her into buying and heads straight to Tiff house. When she gets there, Tiff is wrapped up in a towel, so Jen goes to the bedroom to change into her swimsuit....