LGBTQ+ Studies

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307473134Author Robert BeachyFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 283gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 131mm...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE POLARI BOOK PRIZE 2020'Staggeringly visionary' ATTITUDE'Essential reading' CHARLIE CRAGGS'Not to be missed' AMELIA ABRAHAM'An absolute gem' FOX FISHER'Beautiful' CHRISTINE BURNS'All those layers of expectation that are thrust upon us;...

On 23 May 1988, Paul Baker sat down with his family to eat cake on his sixteenth birthday while The Six O'Clock News played in the background. But something was not quite right. There was muffled shouting - 'Stop Section 28!' - and a scuffle. The morning...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648994817Author Lianyu TanFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint Shattered Scepter PressPublisher Shattered Scepter PressWeight(grams) 133g

We all know it takes guts to fight injustice and inequality. But how often do we bring those same values into our most intimate relationships? In this inspiring self-help handbook, luminary trans activist and author of Mutual Aid Dean Spade dares us to...

A radical reappraisal of homosexuality in Ancient Greece, by a young historian described as 'the best thing to happen to ancient history for decades' (Andrew Roberts, MAIL ON SUNDAY)Kenneth Dover's 1978 GREEK HOMOSEXUALITY remains the most recent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551526560Author Ivan CoyoteFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Arsenal Pulp PressPublisher Arsenal Pulp Press

How Sex Changed is a fascinating social, cultural, and medical history of transsexuality in the United States. Joanne Meyerowitz tells a powerful human story about people who had a deep and unshakable desire to transform their bodily sex. In the last...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995180710Author Cheryl B EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Cheryl B. EvansPublisher Cheryl B. EvansWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

The BBC and HBO series Gentleman Jack brought Anne Lister to international attention, awakening tremendous interest in her diaries, which run to nearly five million words and are partly written in her secret code. They record in intimate detail Anne's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839012600Author Theo AronsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Lume BooksPublisher Lume Books

LONGLISTED FOR THE POLARI FIRST BOOK PRIZE 'Honest, raw, moving' CHRISTINE BURNS 'Radical vulnerability at its finest' OWL FISHER'Highly recommended' SAN FRANCISCO REVIEW OF BOOKSThis is the deeply personal and witty account of growing up as the kid who...

Recovering Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) relationality and belonging in the land, memory, and body of Native Hawai'i Hawaiian "aloha 'aina" is often described in Western political terms-nationalism, nationhood, even patriotism. In Remembering Our...

Countersexual Manifesto is an outrageous yet rigorous work of trans theory, a performative literary text, and an insistent call to action. Seeking to overthrow all constraints on what can be done with and to the body, Paul B. Preciado offers a...

How old is the oldest chat-up line between men? Who was the first 'lesbian'? Were ancient Greek men who had sex together necessarily 'gay'? And what did Shakespeare think about cross-dressing? A Little Gay History takes objects ranging from Ancient...

This immersive, accessible and thought-provoking book takes the reader on a journey to explore the pros and cons, the myths and realities of life for LGBTQ+ people today.Shortlisted for the Polari First Book Prize 2020 'Eloquent, empathetic and...

This ground-breaking anthology features the compelling and courageous memoirs of eighteen queer Arab writers - some internationally bestselling, others using pseudonyms. heart-warming connections and moments of celebration sit alongside essays exploring...

A compelling portrait of composer-performer Julius Eastman's enigmatic and intriguing life and music. Composer-performer Julius Eastman (1940-90) was an enigma, both comfortable and uncomfortable in the many worlds he inhabited: black, white, gay,...

"THIS BOOK IS A GIFT TO ANYONE WHO HAS EVER FELT UNDERESTIMATED." ELIZABETH UVIEBINENE, bestselling co-author of Slay in Your Lane and Loud Black Girls"IF YOU WANT TO FEEL INSPIRED, READ THIS NOW." JAMEELA JAMIL, actress, model, and writerFrom a black,...

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...

Homosexuality is anathema to Islam - or so the majority of both believers and non-believers suppose. Throughout the Muslim world, it is met with hostility, where state punishments range from hefty fines to the death penalty. Likewise, numerous scholars...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780471021520Author Amity Pierce BuxtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)...

RECOMMENDED AS ONE OF THE TIMES' BEST SCIENCE BOOKS OF 2021'With all the talk about testosterone in sex, sports and politics, we need a good explanation of the science and its implications, and this one is outstanding.' STEVEN PINKER, bestselling author...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262539548Author Ben BarresFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Long awaited after No Future, and making queer theory controversial again, Lee Edelman's Bad Education proposes a queerness without positive identity-a queerness understood as a figural name for the void, itself unnamable, around which the social order...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532610691Author Brandan J RobertsonFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

With an introduction from RuPaul's Drag Race winner Sasha VelourTheir greatest act of resistance was simply existing In 1950s New York, a group of drag pioneers found work in a small number of Lower East Side clubs. They occupied the margins of society,...

'We stand on the shoulders of giants. Now we learn their names.' THE QUEER BIBLE is a collection of essays written by queer icons, about the queer trailblazers throughout history who inspired them. From Elton John on Divine to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584351993Author Herve GuibertFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher AutonomediaDimensions(mm) 203mm * 137mm * 6mm

'Boisterous and uncompromising ... An important argument' The Times Only a few years ago, it seemed that the fight for gay rights was won in the UK: legal equality was achieved, prejudice rapidly dying out. Mission accomplished, right? Wrong, argues...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684515011Author Mary Margaret OlohanFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Regnery Publishing IncPublisher Regnery Publishing IncWeight(grams)...

Can a boy be "trapped" in a girl's body? Can modern medicine "reassign" sex? Is our sex "assigned" to us in the first place? What is the most loving response to a person experiencing a conflicted sense of gender? What should our law say on matters of...

'An accessibly written distillation of two centuries worth of reproductive class struggle; a revived vision of revolutionary 'beloved community' for an age of climate catastrophe. Spread this book around, and start communizing care!' Sophie Lewis, author...

In August 1934, young Cyril L. wrote to his friend Billy about all the exciting men he had met, the swinging nightclubs he had visited, and the vibrant new life he had forged for himself in the big city. He wrote, "I have only been queer since I came to...

Attitudes toward homosexuality in the premodern Arab-Islamic world are commonly depicted as schizophrenic - it was visible and tolerated on one hand, prohibited by Islam on the other. Khaled El-Rouayheb argues that this apparent paradox is based on the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316444972Author Cyrus DunhamFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Back Bay BooksWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 206mm * 137mm *...

NOMINATED FOR THE H.R.F. KEATING AWARD, 2022. 'My New Year's Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of memories, with which I do battle - may they never give me...

One of the few books to address the horror film from any kind of critical position.. Unique - The first history of the horror film to approach it from a queer perspective.. Written with detail and thoroughness - covers all eras of the horror film and...

Tom of Finland (born Tuoko Laaksonen, 1920-1991), was an iconic and ground-breaking artist who rose to cult status in the international queer community and beyond for his work celebrating the male figure and masculinity during a time when being...

"Drag embodies the queer possibility that exists within each of us-the infinite ways in which gender, good taste, and art can be lived." -Sasha VelourThis book is a quilt, piecing together memoir, history, and theory into a living portrait of an artist...