LGBTQ+ Studies

In the fall of 2017, the internationally acclaimed underground theatre troupe Belarus Free Theatre took New York by storm for a production of their harrowing anti-torture, anti-Putin play Burning Doors. Joined by Maria Alyokhina, a member of Russian punk...

Early Andean historiography reveals a subaltern history of indigenous gender and sexuality that saw masculinity and femininity not as essential absolutes. Third-gender ritualists, Ipas, mediated between the masculine and feminine spheres of culture in...

Queer Disappearance in Modern and Contemporary Fiction breaks with appearance-based models of queer performativity and argues for the experiential richness and political potentials of recessive tendencies in twentieth and twenty-first-century queer...

The phrase 'LGBT community' is often used by policy-makers, service providers, and lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) people themselves, but what does it mean? What understandings and experiences does that term suggest, and ignore? Based on a...

The nineteenth century was a golden age for those people known variously as sodomites, Uranians, monosexuals, and homosexuals. Long before Stonewall and Gay Pride, there was such a thing as gay culture, and it was recognized throughout Europe and America...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780943595337Author Jack RicardoFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Leyland Publications,U.S.Publisher Leyland Publications,U.S.Weight(grams) 240g

Offering readers a valuable resource for thinking through a contentious issue, this timely book by award-winning author Kevin DeYoung summarizes the Bible's teaching on homosexuality and responds to popular objections raised by Christians and...

This book is a contemporary account of a spiritual journey by a sober, gay, ex-Jesuit clinician and community leader writing at the complicated intersection of faith, psychology, sexuality, culture, and exponential social change. The book's themes are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262544894Author Reina GossettFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

In this book, Moira Kenney makes the case that Los Angeles better represents the spectrum of gay and lesbian community activism and culture than cities with a higher gay profile. Owing to its sprawling geography and fragmented politics, Los Angeles lacks...

Named one of the Best Photo Books of the Year by SmithsonianA stunning full-color collection of photographs, old and new, by the renowned photographer and LGBTQIA+ activist Lola Flash Working at the forefront of genderqueer visual politics, celebrated...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629637846Author Adrian ShankerFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press

Winner, 2014 Lambda Literary Award in LGBT StudiesSince the 1970s, a key goal of lesbian and gay activists has been protection against street violence, especially in gay neighborhoods. During the same time, policymakers and private developers declared...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944934606Author Kaye McLellandFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Thorntree Press, LLCPublisher Thorntree Press, LLCWeight(grams) 532g

Now You See It, Richard Dyer's groundbreaking study of films by and about lesbians and gay men, has been revised for a second edition, and features an introduction by Juliane Pidduck outlining developments in lesbian and gay cinema since 1990. Now You...

Examine the cultural and political implications of male-to-female gender performance! The Drag Queen Anthology: The Absolutely Fabulous but Flawlessly Customary World of Female Impersonators examines the phenomena of male-to-female gender performance and...

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

A film that transcends time, Sally Potter's Orlando follows its titular character through nearly four hundred years of British history. Orlando starts life as a young man in the 1600s and then, mid-film, becomes a woman in the 1800s. Plot, production,...

This groundbreaking work draws on a vast range of research into human sexuality to demonstrate that homosexuality is not a phenomenon limited to a small minority of society, but is an aspect of a complex sexual harmony that the human race inherited...

If I continue to tour for another twenty years, as I have for the last twenty-one, I will end up sleeping in at least 1000 hotel beds in my lifetime. For maximum poetic oomph, let's say 1001 beds...They symbolize a life and art dedicated to reaching out...

Femme seeks to redress the ways that femme identities have been elided, idealized, or not fully historicized in a productive reconsideration of lesbian and butch-femme history, of feminism, and of queer thought. As a feminist project, Femme offers an...

Our families are increasingly a matter of choice, and the choices are widening all the time. This is particularly true of the non-heterosexual world, where the last ten years have seen a popular acceptance of same sex partnerships and, to a lesser...

In Paris in 1954, a young man named Andre Baudry founded Arcadie, an organization for 'homophiles' that would become the largest of its kind that has ever existed in France, lasting nearly thirty years. In addition to acting as the only public voice for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939445018Author Dave JacksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Castle Rock Creative, Inc.Publisher Castle Rock Creative, Inc.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781896559490Author Richard HarroldFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Sumeru Press Inc.Publisher Sumeru Press Inc.Weight(grams) 222gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

J. Edgar Hoover, Joseph McCarthy, and Roy Cohn were titanic figures in midcentury America, wielding national power in government and the legal system through intimidation and insinuation. Hoover's FBI thrived on secrecy, threats, and illegal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915406521Author Leslie TateFormat PaperbackPage Count 227Imprint Eyewear PublishingPublisher Eyewear PublishingWeight(grams) 231gDimensions(mm) 198mm *...

For decades, history ignored the Nazi persecution of gay people. Only with the rise of the gay movement in the 1970s did historians finally recognize that gay people, like Jews and others deemed "undesirable," suffered enormously at the hands of the Nazi...

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and freely available to read online. How do we prepare for the penultimate stage of life? This is a crucial question now facing the ageing post-war generation. ...

This expert guide to working with transgender and gender variant youth offers ways to make positive change to service provision for practitioners working with this group. Based on the latest research, the recommendations made by the author are backed up...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955988004Author , MarquesateFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Camouflage PressPublisher Camouflage PressWeight(grams) 222gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

In Sailors and Sexual Identity, author Steven Zeeland talks with young male sailors--both gay- and straight-identified--about ways in which their social and sexual lives have been shaped by their Navy careers.Despite massive media attention to the issue,...

Using a cross-cultural perspective, The Everyday Makings of Heteronormativity: Cross-Cultural Explorations of Sex, Gender, and Sexuality examines the conceptual formulation of heteronormativity and highlights the mundane operations of its construction in...

A masterful history of the LGBT workforce in AmericaWorkplaces have traditionally been viewed as "straight spaces" in which queer people passed. As a result, historians have directed limited attention to the experiences of queer people on the job. Queer...

In its own words, the mission of the International Competition Network (the ICN) is to advocate the adoption of "superior standards and procedures in competition policy around the world, formulate proposals for procedural and substantive convergence, and...

Whether one thinks homosexuals are born or made, they generally are not born into gay families, nor are they socialized to be gay by their peers or schools. How then do people become aware of homosexuality and, in some cases, integrate into gay...

Queering the Color Line transforms previous understandings of how homosexuality was "invented" as a category of identity in the United States beginning in the late nineteenth century. Analyzing a range of sources, including sexology texts, early cinema,...

'We were always here a constellation of hearts beating all over the world. Our stories matter. Don't let anyone tell you any differently.' In an empty library, under a blanket of watchful stars, four friends come together after suffering a...

The contributors to Turning Archival trace the rise of "the archive" as an object of historical desire and study within queer studies and examine how it fosters historical imagination and knowledge. Highlighting the growing significance of the archival...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615253565Author Ph. D., G. G. BolichFormat HardbackPage Count 540Imprint Psyche's PressPublisher Psyche's PressWeight(grams) 960gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...