LGBTQ+ Studies

Winner, ASR Best Africa-Focused Edited Collection by the African Studies Review Recent years have seen increased scholarly and media interest in the cross-border movements of LGBT persons, particularly those seeking protection in the Global North ...

Leo Bersani, known for his provocative interrogations of psychoanalysis, sexuality, and the human body, centers his latest book on a surprisingly simple image: a newborn baby simultaneously crying out and drawing its first breath. These twin...

Straight Parents, Gay Children is Robert Bernstein's moving account of how he came to terms with his daughter's homosexuality and how the experience has enriched his life. Bernstein - winner of the 1996 Award for Best Scholarship on the Subject of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Lambda Literary Awards (Humor) 1996.Book InformationISBN 9780684813585Author Judy CarterFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Fireside BooksPublisher Simon &...

Ever since the 1969 Stonewall Riots, 'gay pride' has been the rallying cry of the gay rights movement and the political force behind the emergence of the field of gay and lesbian studies. But has something been lost, forgotten, or buried beneath the...

In The Queer Games Avant-Garde, Bonnie Ruberg presents twenty interviews with twenty-two queer video game developers whose radical, experimental, vibrant, and deeply queer work is driving a momentous shift in the medium of video games. Speaking with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807079577Author Patrick MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 312g

'Properly analytical ... always entertaining' TIME OUT'Should tempt both those generally familiar with Andy Warhol and, even more, young people who have trouble imagining how popular art can challenge the status quo' L A TIMESPainter, filmmaker,...

Margaret Mead Made Me Gay is the intellectual autobiography of cultural anthropologist Esther Newton, a pioneer in gay and lesbian studies. Chronicling the development of her ideas from the excitement of early feminism in the 1960s to friendly critiques...

Sinners and Citizens explores how sexual habits changed in Sweden during its development from an agrarian society into a modern welfare state. Jens Rydstroem examines the history of homosexuality and bestiality in that country to consider why these...

Focused on the intimate effects of large-scale economic transformations, After Love illuminates the ways that everyday efforts to imagine, resist, and enact market reforms shape sexual desires and subjectivities. Anthropologist Noelle M. Stout arrived in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781937627287Author Kevin BentleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Chelsea Station EditionsPublisher Chelsea Station EditionsWeight(grams)...

The internet origins of the American transgender movement The Two Revolutions explores how the rise of the internet shaped transgender identity and activism from the 1980s to the present. Through extensive archival research and media archeology, Avery...

Running from 1990 to 1999, the annual OutWrite conference played a pivotal role in shaping LGBTQ literary culture in the United States and its emerging canon. OutWrite provided a space where literary lions who had made their reputations before the gay...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807079393Author Will RoscoeFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

Today, AIDS has been indelibly etched in our consciousness. Yet it was less than twenty years ago that doctors confronted a sudden avalanche of strange, inexplicable, seemingly untreatable conditions that signaled the arrival of a devastating new disease...

On a daily basis, author and LGBTQ advocate Amber Cantorna receives emails asking the same question: How does one reconcile their sexuality with their faith? Depression, despair, and thoughts of suicide often haunt LGBTQ Christians as they feel unable to...

A stunning collection of photographs of the LGBTQ community in Thailand, from one of the world's most renowned photographers Steve McCurry is the artist behind some of the most iconic images in contemporary photography. His 1984 portrait...

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 *...

By analysing research into links between low psychological wellbeing and sexual risk-taking behaviours that occur in men who have sex with men (MSM), this book demonstrates what impact social and psychological interventions could have on MSM at risk of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679773153Author Andrew SullivanFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 217gDimensions(mm) 202mm...

A terrible sin, a gift from the gods, a mental illness, a natural human variation--over the centuries homosexuality has been defined in all these ways. Now, in a generous work which synthesizes research in biology, history, psychology, and politics,...

Ten years ago, Samantha Allen was a suit-and-tie-wearing Mormon missionary. Now she's a senior Daily Beast reporter happily married to another woman. A lot in her life has changed, but what hasn't changed is her deep love of Red State America, and of...

John D'Emilio is one of the leading historians of his generation and a pioneering figure in the field of LGBTQ history. At times his life has been seemingly at odds with his upbringing. How does a boy from an Italian immigrant family in which everyone...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999294390Author Jaimie KeltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint Lit Riot Press, LLCPublisher Lit Riot Press, LLCWeight(grams) 467gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Lambda Literary Awards (Anthology) 2013.Book InformationISBN 9781936833153Author Keith BoykinFormat PaperbackPage Count 354Imprint Querelle PressPublisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645036654Author Hugh RyanFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Bold Type BooksPublisher Bold Type BooksWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 138mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635901139Author Paul B. PreciadoFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher Semiotext (E)Weight(grams) 666gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 137mm...

Gay Christian author and activist Chris Glaser believes that sexual minorities, often denied their churches' traditional sacraments, have found unique access to the sacred in their lives: coming out of the closet. Glaser persuasively argues that coming...

Since the early 2000s, the phenomenon of the "down low"-black men who have sex with men as well as women and do not identify as gay, queer, or bisexual-has exploded in news media and popular culture, from the Oprah Winfrey Show to R & B singer R. Kelly's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781447874614Author Robbie OrnigFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint Lulu Press IncPublisher Lulu Press IncWeight(grams) 354g

Popular narratives cite religion as the driving force behind homophobia in Africa, portraying Christianity and LGBT expression as incompatible. Without denying Christianity's contribution to the stigma, discrimination, and exclusion of same-sex-attracted...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438459042Author Amy L. StoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 372Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

Before the 1969 Stonewall Riots, LGBTQ life was dominated by the negative image of "the closet"--the metaphorical space where that which was deemed "queer" was hidden from a hostile public view. Literary studies of queer themes and characters in crime...

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416916321Author BlitzerFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Simon Spotlight EntertainmentPublisher Simon & Schuster

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781738121120Author Caffyn JesseFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint ErospiritPublisher ErospiritWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 8mm

"Martin Duberman is a national treasure."-Masha Gessen, The New Yorker The past fifty years have seen significant shifts in attitudes toward LGBTQ people and wider acceptance of them in the United States and the West. Yet the extent of this progress,...

SHORTLISTED FOR 2024 LGBTQ NON-FICTION LAMMY AWARDThe coming out process for LGBTQIA+ adolescents can be a terrifying moment, not only for themselves, but also for their family and friends. When intense emotions are running the gamut of concern, shock,...