Gay Studies category: 1383 books
Gay Men Pursuing Parenthood through Surrogacy
Reconfiguring Kinship
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Dean Murphy analyses how relatedness is enacted in the context of gay men pursuing parenthood and a child of one’s own’ through both domestic and transnational surrogacy arrangements. Drawing on data collected from in-depth interviews with gay men living in Australia and the United States, and...
Gay Personality And Sexual Labeling
Critical Clinical Issues
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Are scientists--who by definition are supposed to be objective and clinical in their theories--actually assuming common cultural prejudices and moral standards when it comes to their research on homosexuality? Some of the best minds in sexual liberation take a hard look at how homosexuality is still...
Gay Men, Identity and Social Media
A Culture of Participatory Reluctance
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
This book explores how the social and technical integration of mainstream social media into gay men’s digital cultures since the mid 2000s has played out in the lives of young gay men, looking at how these convergences have influenced more recent iterations of gay men’s digital culture. Focusing...
Not Gay
Sex between Straight White Men
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
A straight white girl can kiss a girl, like it, and still call herself straight—her boyfriend may even encourage her. But can straight white guys experience the same easy sexual fluidity, or would kissing a guy just mean that they are really gay? Not Gay thrusts deep into a world where straight...
A Queer Capital
A History of Gay Life in Washington D.C.
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
Rooted in extensive archival research and personal interviews, A Queer Capital is the first history of LGBT life in the nation’s capital. Revealing a vibrant past that dates back more than 125 years, the book explores how lesbians, gay men, and bisexuals established spaces of their own before and...
by Terry Angel Mason
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2009
Love Wont Let Me Be Silent is a collection of writings, short stories, and poems, exploring the experiences and trials of parenthood from an African-American gay male perspective and sensitively chronicles Masons search for love and self-hood. These masterfully creative writings express candidly the...
Gay Parenting
Complete Guide for Same-Sex Families
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
Parenting is never easy. Gay and lesbian couples face special questions and concerns. Should they adopt, use surrogates, artificial insemination or conception by one partner? How will the two partners handle the traditional roles of mother and father? How can gay and lesbian parents help their growing...
Male to Male
Sexual Feeling Across the Boundaries of Identity
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Explore the feelings of men toward other men without the pigeonholing found in terms like “gay” and “straight”!
Male to Male: Sexual Feeling Across the Boundaries of Identity starts with the evidence that most studies on male sexuality have ignored--the same-sex feelings of men whose...
Bi America
Myths, Truths, and Struggles of an Invisible Community
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Gain an in-depth understanding of the unique struggles of the bisexual community!
To me the gay and straight worlds are exactly the same; equally limited, judgmental, and bourgeois . . . just mirror images of each other. I truly like and overlap with some of the gay world, but my roots refuse...
Blowing the Lid
Gay Liberation, Sexual Revolution and Radical Queens
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
The Gay Liberation Front founded in 1970 urged gay men and gay women to unite around a simple set of demands among which were calls for an end to discrimination against homosexuals in employment, in sex education, in the age of consent and in being treated as sick by the medical establishment. GLF saw...
Speaking for Our Lives
Historic Speeches and Rhetoric for Gay and Lesbian Rights (1892-2000)
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Read the words they risked everything for!
This landmark volume collects more than a hundred years of the most important public rhetoric on gay and lesbian subjects. In the days when homosexuality was mentioned only in whispers, a few brave souls stood up to speak for the rights of sexual minorities....
Sex and the Sacred
Gay Identity and Spiritual Growth
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
A down-to-earth look at the spiritual power of sex
Sex and the Sacred examines the spiritual dimension of human sexuality in a way that is free of religious affiliation but still open to traditional religion and belief in God. Dr. Daniel Helminiak, author of the best-selling What the Bible...
Judging the Boy Scouts of America
Gay Rights, Freedom of Association, and the Dale Case
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
As Americans, we cherish the freedom to associate. However, with the freedom to associate comes the right to exclude those who do not share our values and goals. What happens when the freedom of association collides with the equally cherished principle that every individual should be free from invidious...
by James Orr
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2014
Do you really know who you are talking to on the gay apps messaging services? Meet Alan, a married man who enjoys gay sex and his jilted lover. Set in Brighton, East Sussex centred around two of the most popular gay cruising areas. Find out how he used the apps to locate Alan's position, and how he...