LGBTQ+ Studies

"This is my personal guide to help face who you are, accept who you are and love who you are, so you can watch your dreams and accomplishments flourish...If I can do it, you can do it too."Jillian Celentano lived most of her life not accepting who she...

She's skinny, white, and blond. She's Barbie-an icon of femininity to generations of American girls. She's also multiethnic and straight-or so says Mattel, Barbie's manufacturer. But, as Barbie's Queer Accessories demonstrates, many girls do things with...

Born in the Rio Grande Valley of south Texas, independent scholar and creative writer Gloria Anzaldua was an internationally acclaimed cultural theorist. As the author of Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza, Anzaldua played a major role in shaping...

An intimate look at one of culture's most enduring taboos: public sex. Park Cruising takes a long look at the men who cruise for sex in urban parks. Human rights lawyer Marcus McCann uses park cruising as a point of departure for discussions of consent,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506479248Author Dianna E. AndersonFormat HardbackPage Count 178Imprint Broadleaf BooksPublisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 318g

David M. Halperin is one of the most eminent thinkers in the world of gay and critical studies. In this new work, he revisits and refines the argument he set forth in "One Hundred Years of Homosexuality": the idea that both hetero- and homosexuality are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143134442Author Audre LordeFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 283gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770410282Author Chris KanyonFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,CanadaWeight(grams) 662g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226322346Author Dan HealeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher The University of Chicago PressWeight(grams) 568g

This collection of case studies that model LGBTQ+ affirmative social work practice offers real-life scenarios from a range of social work scholars, educators, and practitioners, representing diverse sexualities, genders, and intersectional identities...

This book is an essential resource for those new to, developing and established in the field of trans voice. Presented in a workbook style and packed with practical exercises for the practitioner to engage with, it explores and explains how to work with...

Drawing on the experiences of older trans people and those transitioning later in life, this is a definitive guide to ageing as a trans and/or non-binary person. It covers the key health concerns and social issues affecting older trans people, including...

In Shimmering Images Eliza Steinbock traces how cinema offers alternative ways to understand gender transitions through a specific aesthetics of change. Drawing on Barthes's idea of the "shimmer" and Foucault's notion of sex as a mirage, the author shows...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780464208600Author Sir Michael HuhnFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 132gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 7mm

How do I know I am trans? Is trans feminism real feminism? What is there to say about trans women's male privilege? This collection of insightful, pithy and passionately argued think pieces from a trans-feminist perspective explores issues surrounding...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986263309Author Rigoglioso L RaymondFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Rigoglioso Inc.Publisher Rigoglioso Inc.Weight(grams) 404gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Lambda Literary Awards (Spirituality) 1999.Book InformationISBN 9780874779660Author Christian de la HuertaFormat PaperbackPage Count 233Imprint...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849351201Author Deric ShannonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 342g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551527734Author Ivan CoyoteFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Arsenal Pulp PressPublisher Arsenal Pulp Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874775662Author Tina B. TessinaFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Tarcher/Putnam,USPublisher Tarcher/Putnam,USDimensions(mm) 240mm * 156mm * 17mm

From the show's modest beginnings to its massive Emmy sweep, You're My Happy Ending tells the story of how Schitt's Creek became the surprise hit that changed the way we think about LGBTQ relationships. Cultural analyst Emily Garside shows how this...

Statue-fondlers, wanderlusters, sex magicians, and nymphomaniacs: the story of these forgotten sexualities-what Michel Foucault deemed "minor perverts"-has never before been told. In The Book of Minor Perverts, Benjamin Kahan sets out to chart the...

Marking the tenth anniversary of Tim Dean's Unlimited Intimacy, Raw returns to the question of sex without condoms, or barebacking, a timely topic in the age of PrEP, a drug that virtually eliminates the transmission of HIV. "Essential reading for anyone...

Imagining Transgender is an ethnography of the emergence and institutionalization of transgender as a category of collective identity and political activism. Embraced by activists in the early 1990s to advocate for gender-variant people, the category...

In this ferocious and tender debut, Chen Chen investigates inherited forms of love and family--the strained relationship between a mother and son, the cost of necessary goodbyes--all from Asian American, immigrant, and queer perspectives. Holding all...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780946307838Author Peter SanlonFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint The Latimer TrustPublisher The Latimer TrustWeight(grams) 84gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

"At various times, homosexuality has been considered the noblest of loves, a horrible sin, a psychological condition or grounds for torture and execution. David F. Greenberg's careful, encyclopedic and important new book argues that homosexuality is only...

We Are Having This Conversation Now offers a history, present, and future of AIDS through thirteen short conversations between Alexandra Juhasz and Theodore Kerr, scholars deeply embedded in HIV responses. They establish multiple timelines of the...

Instead of a traditional written diary, Julia Kaye has always turned to art as a means of self-reflection. So when she began her gender transition in 2016, she decided to use her popular webcomic, Up and Out, to process her journey and help others with...

In Reframing Bodies, Roger Hallas illuminates the capacities of film and video to bear witness to the cultural, political, and psychological imperatives of the AIDS crisis. He explains how queer films and videos made in response to the AIDS epidemics in...

Same-Sex Love in India presents a stunning array of writings on same-sex love from over 2000 years of Indian literature. Translated from more than a dozen languages and drawn from Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim, and modern fictional traditions, these writings...

Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography presents an interdisciplinary examination of trans and genderqueer subjects in medieval hagiography. Scholarship has productively combined analysis of medieval literary texts with modern queer theory...

Rivers host vibrant multispecies communities in their waters and along their banks, and, according to queer-trans-feminist river scientist Cleo Woelfle Hazard, their future vitality requires centering the values of justice, sovereignty, and dynamism. At...

An eye-opening exploration of the medical origins of gender in modern US history. Today, a world without "gender" is hard to imagine. Gender is at the center of contentious political and social debates, shapes policy decisions, and informs our everyday...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780895941220Author Audre LordeFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Crossing PressPublisher Crossing PressWeight(grams) 352gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 151mm *...

Same-sex marriage may be legal in America, but its still far from the accepted norm, especially in Christian circles. So where can LBGTQ Christians who desire a lifelong, covenantal relationship look for dating and marriage advice when Christian...

In the 1970s, queer people were openly despised, and drag queens scared the public. Yet this was the era when Doris Fish (born Philip Mills in 1952) painted and padded his way to stardom. He was a leader of the generation that prepared the world not just...

This book provides the first comprehensive examination of the urban phenomenon known as Ballroom culture that first gained notoriety in the documentary Paris Is Burning in 1990. Butch Queens Up in Pumps uniquely explores the ways in which Black LGBT...

The claim that LGBT rights are human rights encounters fierce opposition in many parts of the world, as governments and religious leaders have used resistance to LGBT rights to cast themselves as defenders of traditional values against neo-colonial...

For around a hundred years up to the Stonewall riots, the word used for gay men was 'queers'. In The Culture of Queers, Richard Dyer traces the contours of queer culture, examining the differences and continuities with the gay culture which succeeded it...