Gay Studies category: 1383 books

‘Autogynephilia’ is an important guide to understanding and living with femephilia. Not only is it of existential importance for a femephiliac to understand their sexuality and what it means, but it can become crucial for their mental health should they face a gender identity crisis. The book deals,...

“In Beauty of the Father one of the American theater’s most promising voices rings true and strong.”—Lynn Jacobson, Variety “Cruz conducts arias with his pen. He is a writer of ideas, who fills the stage with a kind of lush dramatic literature . . . Beauty of the Father brings to...

Conservative thinkers of the early Middle Ages conceived of sensual gratification as a demonic snare contrived to debase the higher faculties of humanity, and they identified pagan writing as one of the primary conduits of decadence. Two aspects of the pagan legacy were treated with particular distrust:...

In persuading the Supreme Court that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry, the LGBT rights movement has achieved its most important objective of the last few decades. Throughout its history, the marriage equality movement has been criticized by those who believe marriage rights were...

A marriage of mystery fiction and queer concerns, queer crime literature celebrates the pairing of the political and the sexual. Queer crime fiction is a subgenre in which sex, gender and sexuality are among the mysteries to be solved. Its writers use boundary-crossing identities and desires to express...

At the height of the Red Scare, Angela Calomiris was a paid FBI informant inside the American Communist Party. As a Greenwich Village photographer, Calomiris spied on the New York Photo League, pioneers in documentary photography. While local Party officials may have had their sus-picions about her...

This book is based on the idea that a transgender person's interpretation of concepts like 'femininity' and 'transgender' can either increase or reduce gender dysphoria. As Conrad demonstrates, theories such as feminine essence - while seeming helpful - add an urgency and intensity to dysphoria and create...

Read the short story that started it all. Karen and Necia enjoy Atlanta's life while making a new friend. This is the beginning of Necia's new way of thinking. It also has Karen viewing the green grass in her neighbor's yard.

In just five short years, Dr. Shea McKinnon and Officer Sarah Sparks felt like they had the world at their feet. They had weathered many storms right from the beginning, and their love and commitment to each other had been tested. Sarah had survived being shot in the line of duty, and Shea was a breast...

With a new beginning for the men new opportunities open up. While work flourishes and opens up new contacts a foster opportunity ends up with offering a bit more than expected. With a teen from a dark past and a colourful double life the men find they have opened up their home to more than just a...

Sixteen smokin' hot sermons served up steaming by Sister Carolyn of the Sisterhood of the Sacred Synapse! Hilarious, fierce, provocative, and lesbianic to the bone. If you can't take the heat, you'll be missing out on some nourishing fare!

Collection of one-act plays and adaptations by Carolyn Gage, including: The Greatest Actress Who Ever Lived, Souvenirs from Eden,Planchette, Lace Curtain Irish,Little Sister,The Countess and the Lesbians,‘Til The Fat Lady Sings,Deep Haven, and Since I Died.

A lesbian and her heterosexual best friend get into a fight over a guy while eating pizza.

A one-act about the lesbian relationship between legendary lighting designer Jean Rosenthal and her assistant Miki (Marion) Kinsella. The play explores the pain of losing a life partner, and the challenges of loving a committed artist.