Gay Studies category: 1383 books
Vapid
A Decadent Adult Gay Fantasy About Hollywood at the Beginning of the Aids Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2008
Vapid A Decadent Adult Gay Fantasy about Hollywood At the Beginning of the AIDS Crisis SYNOPSIS Vapid is a dark comedy/satire about the decadent underworld of gay Hollywood in the early 1980s as the AIDS epidemic was on the rise. Its protagonists and antagonists are colorful caricatures of the show...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Conversations with Edmund White brings together twenty-one interviews with an author known for chronicling gay culture. Ranging from a 1982 discussion of his early works to a new and unpublished interview conducted in 2016, these interviews highlight White's predilections, his major achievements,...
Sweet Tea
Black Gay Men of the South
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Giving voice to a population too rarely acknowledged, Sweet Tea collects more than sixty life stories from black gay men who were born, raised, and continue to live in the South. E. Patrick Johnson challenges stereotypes of the South as "backward" or "repressive" and offers a window into the ways...
Circulating Queerness
Before the Gay and Lesbian Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
A new history of the queer novel shows its role in constructing gay and lesbian lives
The gay and lesbian novel has long been a distinct literary genre with its own awards, shelving categories, bookstore spaces, and book reviews. But very little has been said about the remarkable history of...
Daring Hearts
Lesbian and Gay Lives of 50s and 60s Brighton
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2015
This is a collection of life stories of people who are members of the gay and lesbian community in the Brighton area. The book is based on taped interviews with forty lesbian and gay men who spoke openly about their lives in and around Brighton. In the fifties and sixties the town enjoyed a national...
Becoming Gay
The Journey to Self-Acceptance
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010
Now revised and updated for the 21st-century, Becoming Gay is the classic guide on how to accept one's homosexuality. By exploring the psychological development of gay men through personal case histories—including his own—Dr. Isay shows how disguising one's sexual identity can induce anxiety,...
Is It a Choice? 3rd ed.
Answers to Three Hundred of the Most Fre
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
The answers to all the questions you've ever had about homosexuality but were afraid to ask are finally in one book, Is It a Choice?
In this newly revised and updated edition, Eric Marcus provides insightful, no-nonsense answers to hundreds of the most commonly asked questions about homosexuality....
Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
With thorough documentation of the oppression of homosexuals and biographical sketches of the lesbian and gay heroes who helped the contemporary gay culture to emerge, Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities supplies the definitive analysis of the homophile movement in the U.S. from 1940 to 1970. John...
Oye Loca
From the Mariel Boatlift to Gay Cuban Miami
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
During only a few months in 1980, 125,000 Cubans entered the United States as part of a massive migration known as the Mariel boatlift. The images of boats of all sizes, in various conditions, filled with Cubans of all colors and ages, triggered a media storm. Fleeing Cuba’s repressive government,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2017
Although the vast majority of LGBT persons are healthy, resilient, and hardy individuals who do not seek social work intervention, some have been or will be clients in social work agencies. The third edition of Social Work Practice with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People updates this classic...
The Morality of Gay Rights
An Exploration in Political Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
In The Morality of Gay Rights, Ball presents a comprehensive exploration of the connection between gay rights and political philosophy. He discusses the writing of contemporary political and legal philosophers-including Rawls, Walzer, Nussbaum, Sandel, Rorty and Dworkin-to evaluate how their theoretical...
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...
Dear Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, And Transgender Teacher
Letters Of Advice To Help You Find Your Way
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Dear Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, And Transgender Teacher: Letters Of Advice To Help You Find Your Way is full of the voices of queer educators and calls for educational leaders to be allies in their social justice leadership roles. Queer professionals write personal letters to junior queer colleagues answering...
Defiant Desire
Gay and Lesbian Lives in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Defiant Desire records the lives of lesbian and gay South Africans of all races as they have lived in the face of censure, denial and oppression. The history of gay identity in South Africa is here in its past and present aspects: from a drag salon in Woodstock to a gay "shebeen" in kwaThema;...