Gay Studies category: 1383 books

The past fifty years are conventionally understood to have witnessed an uninterrupted expansion of sexual rights and liberties in the United States. This state-of-the-art collection tells a different story: while progress has been made in marriage equality, reproductive rights, access to birth control,...

Queer Jews describes how queer Jews are changing Jewish American culture, creating communities and making room for themselves, as openly, unapologetically queer and Jewish. Combining political analysis and personal memoir, these essays explore the various ways queer Jews are creating new forms of...

Before the rise of celebrities like Ellen DeGeneres and k.d. lang, lesbians were rarely in the limelight and the few that were often did not fare well. Times have changed and today's famous lesbians are popular icons. Entertaining Lesbians charts the rise of lesbians in the public eye, proposing that...

The Murder In The Dell tells the true story of what happened to me in New York City's Central Park on Mother's Day Night,1999 when a handsome young male stranger stood in front of me in the gray dense fog shrouded Ramble section, and was then found a half hour later face down and dead in...

This erotic/romantic short story is about a woman named Jamie who has finally found someone she can call her best friend. From living a life all to herself from being shy and having a low self esteem, this woman has found her inner and outer beauty with the help of her new best friend. Realizing that...

The last time we left Kim and Jake, they had come to an understanding and agreement that Jake would be the submissive cuckold husband and Kim would be the dominant wife. Kim's insatiable thirst and hunger for sex became an issue in their marriage when Jake had walked in on her having an extramarital...

Richard gets involved in the forced prostitution and people trafficking that exists on the borders of Thailand and Burma. He discovers corruption on both sides of the border. Yet, he finds time to fall in love.

Annie finds an old steamer trunk in the attic of her partner Lisa Cannon's family home. The trunk, she learns, belonged to Lisa's aunt Star, a traveling nightclub performer who died under mysterious circumstances. While reading Star's diary, Annie becomes obsessed with learning more about this unconventional...

Two reports issued by the Pentagon on November 30, 2010 on issues associated with the repeal of DADT, including the separate implementation plan, structured much like a military operations order, laying out the Comprehensive Review Working Group’s recommendations. Working Group Report: The risks...

Beth and Lori had taken Steve and dressed him up as a woman, took him over to his friend’s house and told them that “Cherry”, Steve’s whore name, was a whore in training and needed critique on “her” techniques. Little did Steve’s three best friends know that it was, in fact, their long...

Sexuality was critical to how individuals experienced, learned, and contested their place in early America. Regulating Passion shows the sweeping changes that affected the social and political morass centered on sexual behavior during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in Massachusetts-even...

Human Sexuality: Biological, Psychological, and Cultural Perspectives is a unique textbook that provides a complete analysis of this crucial aspect of life around the world. Utilizing viewpoints across cultural and national boundaries, and deftly weaving evolutionary and psychological perspectives,...

Queer Tracks describes motifs in popular music that deviate from heterosexual orientation, the binary gender system and fixed identities. This exciting cutting-edge work deals with the key concepts of current gender politics and queer theory in rock and pop music, including irony, parody, camp, mask/masquerade,...

The editors have gathered essays that not only make a major contribution to the effort to replace homophobic discourse, but also speak persuasively to all readers interested in literature or literary history, contemporary theory, and popular culture.