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Introduction to LGBTQ+ Studies offers accessible, academically sound information on a wide range of topics, including history, culture, and Queer Theory; an exploration of LGBTQ+ relationships, families, parenting, health, and education; and how to conduct research on LGBTQ+ topics. The book explores LGBTQ+ issues from the ancient world to contemporary global perspectives.
Employing an intersectional analysis, the textbook highlights how sexuality...
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Seeking Sanctuary brings together poignant life stories from fourteen lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) migrants, refugees and asylum seekers living in Johannesburg. The stories, diverse in scope, chronicle each narrator's arduous journey to South Africa, and their corresponding movement towards self-love and self-acceptance. The narrators reveal their personal battles to reconcile their faith with their sexuality and gender identity,...
3) Hasta que el amor les dure: Debates en torno a las parejas del mismo sexo en el contexto colombiano
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Hasta que el amor les dure: debates en torno a las parejas del mismo sexo en el contexto colombiano presenta un panorama general de los principales debates y discursos relacionados con la visibilidad, existencia y subjetividad de las parejas del mismo sexo. Para esto, se analizaron más de 300 notas de prensa publicadas en los principales diarios de circulación nacional en Colombia en el periodo 2007-2010, en las cuales se representaran tales uniones....
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Un recorrido por la historia de la autoaceptación de la homosexualidad, que nos transportará a los inicios del franquismo para descubrir cómo la sociedad es a veces, tan o más opresora que la propia legislación. Un ensayo que sustituye los convencionalismos por historias de vida, una fuente inagotable de experiencias que nos conduce hasta la realidad de nuestros días. En estas páginas no encontrarás respuestas ni guiones preestablecidos, sino...
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Luis Alegre ha escrito un libro divertido y riguroso, inteligente y mordaz. Un libro terapéutico y liberador para homosexuales y heterosexuales por igual. Más de diez semanas en la lista de libros más vendidos de no ficción del diario El Mundo y de la prestigiosa librería La Central.
La Edad de Oro de la heterosexualidad está tocando a su fin, y esto es motivo de celebración para todos. También para los heterosexuales, que hasta ahora se...
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Celebrate the LGTBQ community with this small but perfectly formed guide to Pride.
What began as a protest for gay rights following the Stonewall riots of 1969 in New York has grown to become a global celebration of LGBTQ culture. In the 50-odd years since the original protest, and what is now widely accepted to be the first Pride march—Christopher Street Liberation Day, 1970—Pride events are now attended by millions each year, celebrating how...
8) Daddy Boy
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In 2017, Emerson Whitney was divorcing the woman they'd been with for ten years-a dominatrix they called Daddy. Living in a tent in the backyard of their marital home, Emerson was startled to realize they didn't know what it meant to be an adult. "We often look to our gender roles as a sort of map for aging," they write. "I wanted to know what the process looked like without that: not man-ness, not-woman-ness." Dizzied by this realization, they turned...
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During the Obama administration, Christian conservatives insisted that securing human rights for LGBTI people abroad diminished human rights protections for people of faith. During the 2016 presidential election, the Christian right backed Donald Trump and demanded an end to sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) foreign policy. Did the Trump administration move to terminate US advocacy for SOGI human rights? Did Christian conservative US officials...
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I HAVE NO SOUL. MY SOUL WAS RIPPED OUT OF ME A LONG TIME AGO.
There has never been an easier time to be gay. As they emerge from a past of perceived sin and illegality, gay men today are increasingly, viewed as legitimate equal citizens and there is a very real sense that social values and attitudes towards gay men have changed for the better.
But, the development of a gay sexual identity is a complex and often difficult process and there remain...
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Beyond Homophobia: Centring LGBTQ Experiences in the Anglophone Caribbean aims to disrupt the conventional rendering of the Caribbean as uniquely and deeply homophobic by focusing on the experiences and agency of LGBTQ people in the region.
Presenting a wide range of perspectives and approaches, this book grew out of presentations at two groundbreaking events on the Jamaican campus of the University of the West Indies: a symposium discussing LGBTQ...
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"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1994" "Named an Outstanding Book by the Gustavus Meyers Center for the Study of Human Rights in North America for 1998" Marc Wolinsky is a partner of the New York law firm of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, and co-counsel to Joseph C. Steffan in association with Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund. Kenneth Sherrill is Professor of Political Science and Chair of the College Senate at Hunter College,...
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Why should Americans who are not gay care about gay rights? In Created Equal, Michael Nava and Robert Dawidoff argue that the movement for gay equality is central to the continuing defense of individual liberty in America. Beginning with an examination of the determined assault on gay issues by the religious right, the authors show how this sectarian movement to legislate private religious morality into law undermines the purpose of American constitutional...
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«No sabría deciros muy bien de qué va mi libro porque trata de muchas cosas. En él analizo de qué manera los discursos de señores como Freud nos siguen afectando; también es un trabajo de recuperación de una historia necesaria para muchas, de defensa de la bisexualidad como herramienta de desestabilización y como identidad política. Y, por supuesto, este libro va de feminismo y de teoría queer, de mantener luchas hermanas y de generar alianzas...
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¿Qué es la universidad desde la experiencia del estudiantado LGBT? Esta pregunta construye el presente libro y a través de ella discurren sus derroteros y sus páginas. Hablar de inclusión y diversidades no es una moda, es ya un imperativo impostergable, y en tal sentido, esta es una obra novedosa que no se concentra en reportar las violencias experimentadas por estudiantes con identidad genérica no hegemónica, sino que se recuperan esas vivencias...
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Pour les minorités sexuelles, Internet est devenu un puissant moyen de s'organiser, d'informer et d'intervenir dans le champ de la santé. Des chercheurs et des intervenants font état des recherches et des projets entourant les sites Web visant l'amélioration de la santé mentale et physique des lesbiennes, gais, bisexuels et transgenres.
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In 2012 and 2013, masses of French citizens took to the streets to demonstrate against a bill on gay marriage. But demonstrators were not merely denouncing its damaging effects; they were also claiming that its origins lay in "gender theory," an ideology imported from the United States. By "gender theory" they meant queer theory in general and, more specifically, the work of noted scholar Judith Butler. Now French opponents to gay marriage, supported...
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A beautiful series of full-color portraits of LGBTQ people over the age of fifty
Even with the extraordinary strides the LGBTQ movement has made in civil rights, acceptance, and visibility over the past half century, a growing portion of the community remains largely invisible, its concerns relegated to the margins.
In the latest in a groundbreaking series of beautiful photobooks on LGBTQ communities around the world-from Russia to Mexico to Japan-French-Senegalese...
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Lo queer es la tentación desorientada de leernos, en última instancia, como cuerpos vivos. Una afirmación utópica de redistribución, una apuesta por la horizontalidad radical y una tentativa de reapropiación del texto.
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El escritor y activista Víctor Mora presenta en este ensayo una aproximación a lo queer, sus orígenes, derivas y potencialidades, desde una perspectiva teórica a la vez que encarnada con sus propias vivencias en...
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A cisgender woman and her trans spouse learn, change, and grow together, navigating the transition, the communities they found, and the hostility they faced.
"The person I married, who I am still married to and remain very much in love with, is now a woman, legally named Venus de Mars. But to get to that point was a journey of decades. At the time we didn't know where it would lead, we had no real role models and made it up as we went. Most of this...
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