Gay Studies category: 1383 books
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
This inaugural volume of the new book series, Research in Queer Studies is a collection of memoirs or short narrative essays in which lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, intersex or queer PK12 teachers and/or administrators (either “out” or “not out”) recount their personal experiences as a queer...
Queer Lovers and Hateful Others
Regenerating Violent Times and Places
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
Berlin is once more capital of queer arts and tourism. Queerness is more visible today than it has been for decades, but at what cost? In Queer Lovers and Hateful Others, Jin Haritaworn argues that queer subjects have become a lovely sight only through being cast in the shadow of the new folk devil,...
by Dr Yvette Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
Making Space for Queer-Identifying Religious Youth charts young people's understanding of religion, investigating the experiences, choices and identities of queer - lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender - youth involved in inclusive churches. Rather than assume that sexuality and religion, and in this...
Queer Globalizations
Citizenship and the Afterlife of Colonialism
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2002
Globalization has a taste for queer cultures. Whether in advertising, film, performance art, the internet, or in the political discourses of human rights in emerging democracies, queerness sells and the transnational circulation of peoples, identities and social movements that we call "globalization"...
by Jonathan Ned Katz
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
“Heterosexuality,” assumed to denote a universal sexual and cultural norm, has been largely exempt from critical scrutiny. In this boldly original work, Jonathan Ned Katz challenges the common notion that the distinction between heterosexuality and homosexuality has been a timeless one. Building...
Same Sex Intimacies
Families of Choice and Other Life Experiments
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Our families are increasingly a matter of choice, and the choices are widening all the time. This is particularly true of the non-heterosexual world, where the last ten years have seen a popular acceptance of same sex partnerships and, to a lesser extent, of same sex parenting.
Based on extensive...
Sex, Cells, and Same-Sex Desire
The Biology of Sexual Preference
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
This fascinating new book explores the myriad aspects of biological theories of sexual preference. Sex, Cells, and Same-Sex Desire describes, reviews, and questions recent biological research on sexual preference from the point of view of knowledgeable scientists and of scholars in the social sciences...
An Argument for Same-Sex Marriage
Religious Freedom, Sexual Freedom, and Public Expressions of Civic Equality
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
The relationship between religious belief and sexuality as personal attributes exhibits some provocative comparisons. Despite the nonestablishment of religion in the United States and the constitutional guarantee of free exercise, Christianity functions as the religious and moral standard in America....
Members of His Body
Shakespeare, Paul, and a Theology of Nonmonogamy
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Building on scholarship regarding both biblical and early modern sexualities, Members of His Body protests the Christian defense of marital monogamy. According to the Paul who authors 1 Corinthians, believers would do well to remain single and focus instead on the messiah’s return. According to...
Forbidden Friendships
Homosexuality and Male Culture in Renaissance Florence
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 1998
"This is a superb work of scholarship, impossible to overpraise.... It marks a milestone in the 20-year rise of gay and lesbian studies."--Martin Duberman, The Advocate The men of Renaissance Florence were so renowned for sodomy that "Florenzer" in German meant "sodomite." In the late fifteenth century,...
Criminal Love?
Queer Theory, Culture, and Politics in India
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
**Criminal Love?**takes up the challenge of studying the wide gamut of lived reality of the Indian queer, against the backdrop of a set of theories. Written by a man who has been openly gay for the last 40 years, this book picks up issues, concepts, and theories within the realm of queer studies and...
Liberace
An American Boy
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
More people watched his nationally syndicated television show between 1953 and 1955 than followed I Love Lucy. Even a decade after his death, the attendance records he set at Madison Square Garden, the Hollywood Bowl, and Radio City Music Hall still stand. Arguably the most popular entertainer of...
The Kid
What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided to Go Get Pregnant
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2000
Dan Savage's nationally syndicated sex advice column, "Savage Love," enrages and excites more than four million people each week. In The Kid, Savage tells a no-holds-barred, high-energy story of an ordinary American couple who wants to have a baby. Except that in this case the couple happens...
Closet Queens
Some 20th Century British Politicians
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2015
Closet Queens is a fascinating study of gay men in twentieth century British politics, from Lord Rosebery and Lord Beauchamp in Edwardian times to Michael Portillo and Peter Mandelson in our own era.
As all homosexual activity was illegal until 1967, and exposure meant ruin and disgrace, such...