Gay Lesbian category: 1095 books
Beyond the Closet
The Transformation of Gay and Lesbian Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Gay life has become increasingly open in the last decade. In Beyond the Closet , Steven Seidman, a well-known author and leading scholar in sexuality, is the first to chronicle this lifestyle change and to look at the lives of contemporary gays and lesbians to see how their "out" status...
Categorically Famous
Literary Celebrity and Sexual Liberation in 1960s America
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2019
The first sustained study of the relations between literary celebrity and queer sexuality, Categorically Famous looks at the careers of three celebrity writers—James Baldwin, Susan Sontag, and Gore Vidal—in relation to the gay and lesbian liberation movement of the 1960s. While none of these writers...
Creating a Place For Ourselves
Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Community Histories
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Creating a Place For Ourselves is a groundbreaking collection of essays that examines gay life in the United States before Stonewall and the gay liberation movement. Along with examining areas with large gay communities such as New York, San Francisco and Fire Island, the contributors also consider...
Passionate Communities
Reading Lesbian Resistance in Jane Rule's Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1999
In this new full-length study of Jane Rule's life and work, Marilyn Schuster argues that Rule's novels provide a way of "writing and reading lesbian" that resists and subverts dominant discourses of gender and sexuality-both those of mainstream culture and of political and sexual subcultures.
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Hear Us Out
Conversations with Gay Novelists
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2004
The author of the acclaimed Gay Fiction Speaks brings us new interviews with twelve prominent gay writers who have emerged in the last decade. Hear Us Out demonstrates how in recent decades the canon of gay fiction has developed, diversified, and expanded its audience into the mainstream. Readers...
by Tara L. Molina
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2005
This book will take you on a spiritual journey into the life of the authors experiences of being gay and Christian in America. It will focus on the taboos associated with homosexuality and the Bible based on the authors own personal opinions, and offer ways of overcoming societys negative views on...
Feeling Backward
Loss and the Politics of Queer History
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2009
Feeling Backward weighs the costs of the contemporary move to the mainstream in lesbian and gay culture. While the widening tolerance for same-sex marriage and for gay-themed media brings clear benefits, gay assimilation entails other losses--losses that have been hard to identify or mourn, since...
A Queer Romance
Lesbians, Gay Men and Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2005
It's here and it's queer - popular culture inhabits all our lives, whether it comes in the form of movies or magazines, TV or shopping. A Queer Romance brings together critics, writers and artists to debate the possibilites of popular culture for lesbians and gay men.
In a collection that is in-yer-face...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by Q. Kelly
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2018
Three previously published novellas star in this collection.
LOVE'S SPELL
Ava Van Dorn doesn’t believe in magic, but she believes in possibilities. So, she figures trying a love spell her grandmother left her won’t hurt. Worst case: Her life will stay the same. Best case: Her fellow second-grade...
Prologue of Seduction
12 Historical Erotic Short Stories
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Prologue of Seduction is the third short story collection from erotica author Kellie Granier. Containing twelve tales of historical gay, lesbian & erotic romance, this collection will take the reader throughout a variety of time periods and pairings, including five gay pairings, four M/F pairings,...
by Mark Oppenheimer
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
There are many Dan Savages: the author of the Savage Love advice column, syndicated around the country; the radio essayist beloved by This American Life fans; the author of a best-selling book about his gay marriage, and another about his son’s open adoption; the prankster who ruined Rick Santorum’s...
It's Not Over
Getting Beyond Tolerance, Defeating Homophobia, & Winning True Equality
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
The author of Queer in America offers “brilliant advice” for safeguarding the future of gay rights (The Advocate).
Marriage equality is the law of the land. Closet doors have burst open in business, entertainment, and even major league sports. But as Michelangelo Signorile argues in his...
The Dictionary of Homophobia
A Global History of Gay & Lesbian Experience
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
"Tin's Dictionary of Homophobia is so sweeping in its scope that one can dip into it again and again and learn something, or confront an idea in which even the most well-read queer will find fresh intellectual nourishment and historical illumination."—Gay City News
Based on the...