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"Fascinating, thoughtful, and important. [Jeff Chu] captures the fractures and conflict at a moment when the issue of what to do with L.G.B.T. people is tearing Christian denominations apart. Does Jesus Really Love Me? deserves to be widely read." -Dan Savage, New York Times Book Review
In this timely work-part memoir, part investigative analysis-a prize-winning writer explores the explosive and confusing intersection of faith, politics, and sexuality...
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The South as a region has proven to be resistant to the idea of LGBTQ teachers. Some Southerners, including prominent politicians, have gone as far as asserting that it should be against the law for LGBTQ people to teach. This memoir chronicles the changes that Randy Fair witnessed in his over forty years of experience, both as a teacher and student, in the school systems of the South.
Fair explores his experiences of overcoming his homophobic, conservative,...
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"Winner of the 2005 Ruth Benedict Prize, Society for Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists, American Anthropological Association" Tom Boellstorff is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. He is author of A Coincidence of Desires: Anthropology, Queer Studies, Indonesia,coeditor of Speaking in Queer Tongues: Globalization and Gay Language, and editor in chief of American Anthropologist.
The Gay Archipelago is the first...
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In Comrade Loves of a Samurai, the theme of homosexual love between the samurai is explored. To the old Japanese such love among samurai was quite permissible. The sons of samurai families were urged to form homosexual alliances while youth lasted, and often these loves matured into lifelong companionships. Saikaku describes Japanese love scenes of all kinds with a frankness that has made him a favorite with expurgators, but he discusses different...
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This Leather Origin Story of investigative journalism is an eyewitness oral history about a soon-to-be-lost generation of a once-important subculture of gay pioneers. In our leather archetribe, Drummer helped create the very culture it reported on. Drummer was a revolutionary idea evolving in monthly motion. Drummer portrayed our desires to organize our thoughts to inform our practices to create our leather identity. In 214 issues from 1975 to 1999,...
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Some of North Carolina's finest fiction and nonfiction writers come together in Every True Pleasure, including David Sedaris, Kelly Link, Allan Gurganus, Randall Kenan, and more. Within the volume-featuring writers who identify as gay, trans, bisexual, and straight-are stories and essays that view the full spectrum of contemporary life though an LGBTQ lens. These writers, all native or connected to North Carolina, show the multifaceted challenges...
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One of the greatest playwrights in the English language, Oscar Wilde was also a legendary wit and a poetic provocateur. He was put on trial and sentenced to two years of hard labor for "gross indecency" by the same English society whose hypocrisy he had put on stage to great effect. His refusal to renounce his homosexuality and love for Lord Alfred Douglas ("Bosie") made him first a martyr and later an icon for free love and a myth onto himself. This...
68) Travestiario
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Travestiario es un viaje por la historia del travestismo español de la mano de quince ilustres artistas del transformismo y el cabaret, cuyos testimonios en primera persona nos descubren lo que el maquillaje y el pelucón suelen ocultar.
De los oscuros años de la criminalización y la clandestinidad hasta el tiempo presente, donde cuentan con miles de seguidores online y pueden desarrollar sus carreras más allá de los locales de ocio nocturno...
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Untangling the Knot: Marriage, Relationships & Identity, an anthology of essays and creative nonfiction, delves past the mainstream focus on marriage equality-beyond the knot- to examine the broad scope of issues facing members of the LGBTQ community. The collection sheds light on what marriage equality actually means for queer communities. By confronting the concept of tradition through personal discourse, this volume seeks to create conversation...
70) Bite Hard
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The first collection by award-winning performance artist/poet Justin Chin. In Bite Hard, Chin explores his identity as an Asian, a gay man, an artist, and a lover. He rails against both his own life experiences and society's limitations and stereotypes with scathing humor, bare-bones honesty, and unblinking detail. Whether addressing "what really goes on in the kitchen of Chinese restaurants" or a series of ex-boyfriends, all named Michael, Chin displays...
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The Marble Faun of Grey Gardens is Jerry Torre's touching and at times haunting memoir about his teenage days as caretaker of Grey Gardens, the now-celebrated mansion chronicled in the iconic documentary Grey Gardens and two feature-length films. The book is a behind-the-scenes look at "Big Edie" and "Little Edie" and their bizarre and reclusive life of squalor amidst the tremendous wealth of East Hampton, the family bond that developed between Jerry...
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In 2015, Ireland will hold a referendum on the subject of extending marriage rights to same-sex people in the State. This referendum is the culmination of one of the most rapid and transformative changes in Irish society over the last century. In this book, Una Mullally charts the development of the debate from its origins to the present day. Based on interviews with all the key figures involved, from politics and activism to journalism and the media,...
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Focusing on six major Supreme Court cases during the 1960s and 1970s, Marc Stein examines the generally liberal rulings on birth control, abortion, interracial marriage, and obscenity in Griswold, Eisenstadt, Roe, Loving, and Fanny Hill alongside a profoundly conservative ruling on homosexuality in Boutilier. In the same era in which the Court recognized special marital, reproductive, and heterosexual rights and privileges, it also upheld an immigration...
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Even as substantial legal and social victories are being celebrated within the gay rights movement, much of working-class America still exists outside the current narratives of gay liberation. In Steel Closets, Anne Balay draws on oral history interviews with forty gay, lesbian, and transgender steelworkers, mostly living in northwestern Indiana, to give voice to this previously silent and invisible population. She presents powerful stories of the...
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El cine clásico ha dado innumerables personajes que aún perduran en la memoria colectiva. Muchos de ellos hicieron míticas las películas de un Hollywood que constituía una fábrica de sueños. Sin embargo, la sexualidad que algunos encarnaban se topó con la censura que de forma férrea representaba el Código Hays desde 1934.
El propósito de Rompiendo el Código. Personajes y sexualidades latentes en el Hollywood clásico es la reflexión...
76) Suicide in Intersex, Trans and Other Sex and/or Gender Diverse Groups: A Health Professional's Guide
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This book contains a review of the incidence of suicidal thoughts, attempts and successful suicides in people from sex and/or gender diverse (SGD) groups.
These are people who are intersex, androgynous, trans, non-binary and more. It offers information into the experiences of people from SGD groups, the discrimination and abuse they have encountered and the many reasons why they might contemplate, attempt, or succeed in ending their own lives.
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En tiempos en que se documenta a lo vivo hasta el último resquicio de las vidas privadas y de los rituales colectivos de ese infierno que son los otros, un libro como Estados del deseo nos recuerda que hasta hace no mucho las sociedades contemporáneas convivíamos con un bien en vías de extinción: el misterio. Vilipendiada, demonizada y perseguida, la cultura gay constituía (aun en los Estados Unidos) una terra incognita que merecía, y exigía,...
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For a new century and a new generation of readers comes a fully revised and expanded edition of a classic guide to gay sex, love, and life.
Invaluable as a sex guide, a resource on building self-esteem, and a trusted aid for coming out of the closet, The Joy of Gay Sex covers the ins and outs of gay life alphabetically from "anus" to "wrestling." Noted psychologist Dr. Charles Silverstein has collaborated once again with critically acclaimed novelist...
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La política pública LGBT en Bogotá es un instrumento relevante como puente entre la sociedad civil y el Estado, a fin de reivindicar los derechos de lesbianas, gais, bisexuales y transgéneros. Surge del trabajo de ambos estamentos e intenta responder a las necesidades de este colectivo, darle visibilidad y posicionarlo positivamente en el entramado social. La participación ciudadana ha sido crucial en este sentido. El presente trabajo analiza...
80) Park Cruising
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An intimate look at one of culture's most enduring taboos: public sex.
In these surprisingly poetic essays, lawyer Marcus McCann uses park cruising-the practice of men visiting public parks in search of sexual connection-as a way of discussing consent, empathy, gay culture, policing, and public space. Along the way, the book delves into queer Covid responses, the entangled relationship between civic infrastructure and gayness, and a deeply thoughtful...
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