Gay Studies category: 1383 books
Homintern
How Gay Culture Liberated the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
A landmark account of gay and lesbian creative networks and the seismic changes they brought to twentieth-century culture
In a hugely ambitious study which crosses continents, languages, and almost a century, Gregory Woods identifies the ways in which homosexuality has helped shape Western...
by Marvin B Sussman
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
The first book of its kind, Homosexuality and Family Relations focuses on the effects of homosexuality and being homosexual on individuals in families and on the family as a group. Edited by Frederick W. Bozett, RN, DNS, and Marvin B. Sussman, PhD, this informative and enlightening volume examines...
by David M. Halperin
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 1, 2016
"¿Por qué no intentas tratarme con el respeto con que merezco que me trates?" Espeta Joan Crawford (interpretada por Faye Dunaway) a su hija adoptiva antes de abalanzarse sobre ella hecha una furia. A través del estudio de este y otros momentos del acervo gay, Halperin presenta en este...
A Recent History of Lesbian and Gay Psychology
From Homophobia to LGBT
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
This ground-breaking text explores the contemporary history of how psychological research, practice, and theory has engaged with gay and lesbian movements in the United States and beyond, over the last 50 years. Peter Hegarty examines the main strands of research in lesbian and gay psychology that...
The Mayor of Castro Street
The Life and Times of Harvey Milk
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2008
The Mayor of Castro Street is Shilts's acclaimed story of Harvey Milk, the man whose personal life, public career, and tragic assassination mirrored the dramatic and unprecedented emergence of the gay community in America during the 1970s.
Known as "The Mayor of Castro Street" even...
by Bonnie Kaye
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2008
The Gay Husband Checklist for Women Who Wonder is Bonnie Kaye's revised updated version of her first book "Is He Straight? A Checklist for Women Who Wonder." The book offers a clear, concise perspective on the topic of straight/gay marriages based on Kaye's own experience plus 25 years of counseling...
The Crimson Letter
Harvard, Homosexuality, and the Shaping of American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
In a book deeply impressive in its reach while also deeply embedded in its storied setting, bestselling historian Douglass Shand-Tucci explores the nature and expression of sexual identity at America's oldest university during the years of its greatest influence. The Crimson Letter follows the gay...
Out For Good
The Struggle to Build a Gay Rights Movement in Ame
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
With a New Preface Written in 2016 by Adam Nagourney
This is the definitive account of the last great struggle for equal rights in the twentieth century. From the birth of the modern gay rights movement in 1969, at the Stonewall riots in New York, through 1988, when the gay rights movement...
Homintern
How Gay Culture Liberated the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
In a hugely ambitious study which crosses continents, languages, and almost a century, Gregory Woods identifies the ways in which homosexuality has helped shape Western culture. Extending from the trials of Oscar Wilde to the gay liberation era, this book examines a period in which increased visibility...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
"Even on the printed page these speeches retain their power." — The Gay & Lesbian Review
This comprehensive anthology traces the rhetoric of the gay rights movement from the late nineteenth century to the present. It chronicles the progression from its deeply clandestine beginnings...
Fit to Serve
Reflections on a Secret Life, Private Struggle, and Public Battle to Become the First Openly Gay U.S. Ambassador
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
“A great American story”—The memoir of a man who went from a small Midwestern town to being the first openly gay US ambassador (Richard North Patterson).
James C. Hormel grew up feeling different not only because his family owned the Hormel “empire,” but because he was gay in a small...
by Bonnie Kaye
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2008
Bonnie Kaye's Straight Talk is a collection of her best monthly newsletters from 2001 - 2008. These are the newsletters that her support network members call their "lifeline" when unraveling the complexities of their marriages to their gay husbands. In Kaye's own words, "This is the best survival guide...
by Lou Kief
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2013
The journey to gay freedom began on roads and at airports all across America and around the world. It was time to go someplace and “be gay”. The problem was some of us didn’t know what we were supposed to do differently. The only way to be gay most of us had ever known was to be silent, invisible,...
M4M
For an Hour or Forever--the Gay Man's Guide to Finding Love Online
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2007
AND -- FOR BETTER OR WORSE -- THERE'S NO LAST CALL.
Millions of gay men are searching for love. And the vast majority of them are now searching online. But while the Internet helps bring people together, its anonymity, lack of rules, and easy stage for false advertising often result in disappointing...