Gay Studies category: 1383 books

Max Morris's essay represents a radical rethink of Ray Blanchard and Anne Lawrence's work on autogynephilia. By examining their theory of the sexual origins of transgender identity from the point of view of evolutionary biology, Morris comes up with the surprising conclusion that they didn't go far...

Television has historically been largely ineffective at representing queerness in its various forms. In the 21st century, however, as same-sex couples have seen increasing mainstream acceptance, and a broader range of queer characters has appeared in the media, it seems natural to assume TV portrayals...

A Queer Film Classic on 1974’s Arabian Nights by Pier Paolo Pasolini, the controversial Italian director who was murdered under mysterious circumstances in 1975.Already internationally distinguished as a poet, novelist, and outspoken social critic of the postwar period, Pasolini turned to...

What happens when a man finds himself sunk in a downward spiral of risky homosexual acts and he knows no way to escape?  And when he is about to lose his prestigious and profitable career, along with his marriage, and even his life?  The answer would have been certain tragedy for Alan Medinger...

Pinkcy: Dance it up! (Book 3) With business expanding we over reached and a flooding on a job turns out not to be covered by our insurance and we were facing a lawsuit that would turn our world upside down. Now with a good group of friends around us that have grown from fostering Ethan, now a young...

One of a small group of feminist pioneers in the historical profession, Estelle B. Freedman teaches and writes about women's history with a passion informed by her feminist values. Over the past thirty years, she has produced a body of work in which scholarship and politics have never been mutually...

Meet Karen's girlfriend Janet. Learn how they began their relationship and the things that threaten to ruin it. Meet other friends of Necia and Karen who will have recurring roles in Love To Love Atlanta's lesbian romance short story series.

A fascinating read for anyone seeking to understand the conflict between Christianity and LGBTQI individuals, this book is, as its editors proclaim, "a fearlessly wide vision of queer Christians finding a place within Christianity—and claiming their authentic experience and voice."

Jake's wife had always been a passionate woman. She appreciated life and all the pleasures that came with it. That included sex with a variety of men. When Jake met Kim, he knew she had a reputation of sleeping around. But, he didn't care. After they started dating regularly, he continued to hear...

The books commonly known as the Kinsey Report were Dr Alfred C. Kinsey’s monumental scientific publishing achievement in 1948, often compared to the atomic bomb for its impact on the American public. On the sexagennial anniversary of the publication of Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, this book...

This book will definitively answer the following questions: Were homosexuals created by God? What is the root cause of homosexuality? Does God love homosexuals? How should homosexuals be treated by society? How should the church treat homosexuals? You...

In 1975, California courts stripped a lesbian mother of her custody rights because she was living openly with another woman. Twenty years later, the Virginia Supreme Court did the same thing to another lesbian mother. In ordering that children be separated from their mothers, these courts ruled that...

In Lesbian Utopics, Annamarie Jagose surveys the construction of the lesbian and finds her in a cultural space that is both everywhere and, of all places, nowhere. The "lesbian", in other words, is symbolically central, yet culturally marginal.

Cruising the Library offers a highly innovative analysis of the history of sexuality and categories of sexual perversion through a critical examination of the Library of Congress and its cataloging practices. Taking the publication of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s Epistemologies of the Closet as emblematic...