Gay Studies category: 1383 books
I Had to Say Something
The Art of Ted Haggard's Fall
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
This is the story of the sexual relationship between Michael Forest Jones, a Denver man who worked as an escort, and the Reverend Ted Haggard, founder and pastor of the New Life Church of Colorado Springs.
As a rule, Mike never delved into the personal lives of his clients. He entertained celebrities,...
by Moises Kaufman, Tectonic Theater Project, Leigh Fondakowski
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
The Laramie Project, one of the most-performed theater pieces in America, has become a modern classic. In this expanded edition, it is joined by an essential and moving sequel to the original play.
On October 7, 1998, a young gay man was discovered bound to a fence outside Laramie, Wyoming,...
Chronicle of a Plague, Revisited
AIDS and Its Aftermath
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Andrew Holleran's Ground Zero, first published in 1988 and consisting of 23 Christopher Street essays from the earliest years of the AIDS crisis, was hailed by the Washington Post as one of the best dispatches from the epidemic's height.” Twenty years later, with HIV/AIDS long recognized as a...
Mommy Man
How I Went from Mild-Mannered Geek to Gay Superdad
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
As a teenager growing up in the 1980s, all Jerry Mahoney wanted was a nice, normal sham marriage: 2.5 kids and a frustrated, dissatisfied wife living in denial of her husband’s sexuality. Hey, why not? It seemed much more attainable and fulfilling than the alternative—coming out of the closet...
The Commitment
Love, Sex, Marriage, and My Family
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2005
Dan Savage’s mother wants him to get married. His boyfriend, Terry, says “no thanks” because he doesn’t want to act like a straight person. Their six-year-old son DJ says his two dads aren’t “allowed” to get married, but that he’d like to come to the reception and eat cake. Throw into...
Quiérete mucho, maricón
Manual de éxito psicoemocional para hombres homosexuales
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Quiérete mucho, maricón es la expresión con la que el autor se despide de los lectores en cada uno de sus artículos sobre psicología afirmativa gay. En este libro, el autor explica de manera rigurosamente científica cómo la homosexualidad es una más de todas las posibles manifestaciones de...
by Moises Kaufman
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2010
On October 7, 1998, a young gay man was discovered bound to a fence in the hills outside Laramie, Wyoming, savagely beaten and left to die in an act of hate that shocked the nation. Matthew Shepard’s death became a national symbol of intolerance, but for the people of Laramie the event was deeply...
When Brooklyn Was Queer
A History
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
The never-before-told story of Brooklyn’s vibrant and forgotten queer history, from the mid-1850s up to the present day.
"A romantic, exquisite history of gay culture." —Kirkus Reviews, starred
“[A] boisterous, motley new history...entertaining and insightful.” —The...
by Josh Lanyon
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
Lambda Award finalist Josh Lanyon takes you step-by-step through the writing process in this, her first non-fiction book: from how to find fresh ideas and strong hooks, to how to submit your carefully edited manuscript. With help from the genre's top publishers, editors, reviewers, and writers --...
I, Pierre Seel, Deported Homosexual
A Memoir of Nazi Terror
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
On a fateful day in May 1941, in Nazi-occupied Strasbourg, seventeen-year- old Pierre Seel was summoned by the Gestapo. This was the beginning of his journey through the horrors of a concentration camp.
For nearly forty years, Seel kept this secret in order to hide his homosexuality. Eventually...
by Andrew Tobias
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010
John Reid's The Best Little Boy in the World was hailed as a classic memoir of growing up gay in a straight world. But "John Reid" didn't write it. Years would pass before the writer could reveal his true identity as Andrew Tobias, America's bestselling financial guru, author of The Only...
by Peter Wildeblood
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
'This right which I claim for myself and for all those like me is the right to choose the person whom I love' Peter Wildeblood
In March 1954 Peter Wildeblood, a London journalist, was one of five men charged with homosexual acts in the notorious Montagu case. Wildeblood was sentenced to eighteen...
And Then I Danced
Traveling the Road to LGBT Equality
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
Mark Segal has long been one of the most visible -- and effective -- advocates for GLBT rights. But his work extends far beyond advocacy and delves into the nuts-and-bolts of housing for the elderly, political representation, etc.
On December 2, 1973 Mark Segal famously disrupted the live broadcast...
Secret Historian
The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2010
Drawn from the secret, never-before-seen diaries, journals, and sexual records of the novelist, poet, and university professor Samuel M. Steward, Secret Historian is a sensational reconstruction of one of the more extraordinary hidden lives of the twentieth century. An intimate friend of Gertrude...