LGBTQ+ Studies

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907585296Author Pablo FernandezFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint British Association for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF)Publisher...

A STORY OF UNSUNG BRAVERY AT A DEFINING MOMENT IN BRITAIN'S HISTORY 'Superb' Stephen Fry 'Thrillingly told' Dan Jones 'Fascinating' Neil MacGregor 'Astonishing' Peter Frankopan We like to think we know the story of how Britain went to war with...

Historians Kent Gerard and Gert Hekma make available--for the first time to an English-speaking audience--the best, most recent work on the history of male homosexuality in Early Modern Europe. The role of the male homosexual--during the pivotal era of...

The search for a "patient zero" popularly understood to be the first infected case in an epidemic has been key to media coverage of major infectious disease outbreaks for more than three decades. Yet the term itself did not exist before the emergence of...

In Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century, award-winning author Graham Robb explores the story - and history - of male and female homosexuality in the UK and US, uncovering elements from legislature, literature, medicine and day-to-day life...

Too many popular histories seek to establish heroes, pioneers and martyrs but as Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller argue, the past is filled with queer people whose sexualities and/or dastardly deeds have been overlooked. We all remember Oscar Wilde, but who...

This groundbreaking guide will take you through the city streets to uncover the scandalous, hilarious and empowering events of London's queerstory. Follow in the footprints of veteran activists, such as those who marched in London's first Pride parade in...

'If you stay alive long enough, people eventually catch up' Born in rural Georgia in 1947, Jayne moved to New York and became part of the 60s art scene surrounding Andy Warhol's Factory. Jayne's story follows the arc of LGBT liberation in the US - she...

One of bell hooks' foundational works introduced to the UK for the first time.'With the emotion of poetry, the narrative of a novel, and the truth of experience, bell hooks weaves a girlhood memoir you won't be able to put down or forget. Bone Black...

For the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, an anthology chronicling the tumultuous fight for LGBTQ rights in the 1960s and the activists who spearheaded itJune 28, 2019 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising - the most...

"Fresh, original, heartbreaking" Reni Eddo-Lodge"Devastating, hilarious, unlike anything I have ever read. Destined to be a classic" Pandora Sykes'A must-read ... as mesmerising as it is poignant' Stylist, SPRING MUST-READ BOOKS TO FEEL EMPOWERED'This...

Around the world, LGBTQ+ activists have won an unprecedented series of political victories, from marriage equality to increased representation in government. But this success has sparked a backlash. While there has been much scrutiny of the role of the...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the nine-time WNBA all-star and two-time Olympic gold medallist Brittney Griner - a raw, revelatory account of her unfathomable detainment in Russia and her journey home. On 17 February 2022, Brittney Griner...

There have always been lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) parents. But now there is a 'gayby boom'. Changes in social attitudes, the law and medical technology mean that more LGBT people are becoming parents, and living proud and open family lives...

What is gender? What should gender look like in the 21st century? This book brings together philosophy with insights from feminist and transgender theory to argue for gender pluralism: that there should be more than two genders, and that each gender term...

In the 1970s, Manhattan's west side waterfront was a forgotten zone of abandoned warehouses and piers. Though many saw only blight, the derelict neighborhood was alive with queer people forging new intimacies through cruising. Alongside the piers' sexual...

An extraordinarily brave and moving memoir from one of the world's most famous transparency activists and trans women.In 2010, Chelsea Manning was working as an intelligence analyst for the US Army in Iraq. She disclosed 720,000 classified military...

This innovative collection demonstrates the profound effects of feeling on our experiences and understanding of photography. It includes essays on the tactile nature of photos, the relation of photography to sentiment and intimacy, and the ways that...

"I find myself talking to you about all the great joys, all the agonies, all my thoughts..." Letter to Eva Konikova, 1946 Out of the thousands of letters Tove Jansson wrote a cache remains that she addressed to her family, her dearest confidantes, and...

Vera Holme, known as Jack, left a career as a jobbing actress to become Emmeline Pankhurst's chauffeur and mechanic. Evelina Haverfield was a classic beauty, the daughter of a Scottish baron and fourteen years older than Jack. They met in 1908, fell in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing 2020.Book InformationISBN 9780993563348Author Kate CharlesworthFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Myriad...

Viewing contemporary history from the perspective of the AIDS crisis, Jennifer Brier provides rich, new understandings of the United States' complex social and political trends in the post-1960s era. Brier describes how AIDS workers--in groups as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637308097Author Mo AsebiomoFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint New Degree PressPublisher New Degree PressWeight(grams) 163gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627781749Author Stephanie A. BrillFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Cleis PressPublisher Cleis PressWeight(grams) 1g

'An absolutely brilliant read with well crafted characters, a fabulous plot and the most wonderful happily every after!' Katie GingerA purrfect cure for lonely humans awaitsFive strangers meet at a cat sanctuary after each facing difficulties in their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998252117Author Brice D SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Transgress PressPublisher Transgress PressWeight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646222292Author Manuel BetancourtFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint CatapultPublisher CatapultWeight(grams) 471gDimensions(mm) 237mm * 161mm * 23mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849352345Author Eric A. StanleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 404Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 558g

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...

Charting the stories of Olympic athletes and lesbian memoirists, via Sappho, Lesbian Love Story is a genre-defying respository of sapphic romance like no other.On her quest to discovering lesbian role models overlooked by history, Amelia Possanza...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Lambda Literary Awards (Anthology) 2006.Book InformationISBN 9780807079638Author Harlyn AizleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Beacon PressPublisher...

Plastic is ubiquitous. It is in the Arctic, in the depths of the Mariana Trench, and in the high mountaintops of the Pyrenees. It is in the air we breathe and the water we drink. Nanoplastics penetrate our cell walls. Plastic is not just any material-it...

In this funny, poignant and unflinchingly honest memoir, one of the world's best-loved storytellers explains how he evolved from a conservative son of the Old South into a gay rights pioneer whose novels inspired millions to claim their own lives. It...

A new volume in ACC Art Books' London series, focusing on the capital's vibrant LGBTQ+ scene. Queer London is a timely and accessible introduction to the city through a LGBTQ+ lens, and will appeal to anyone with an interest in London's thriving queer...

God and the Body addresses the challenges to traditional Christianity by gay and lesbian Christians and their critics within the church. This controversial book will be welcomed for the radical new insights it provides into Christian arguments about the...

'The UK's most influential LGBT Power Couple' - IndependentThis is the inspiring and moving memoir of a couple in search of a normal family life. And in many ways that have found that: married, in careers they love and parents to two beautiful children...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995516243Author Phyll Opoku-GyimahFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Team Angelica PublishingPublisher Team Angelica Publishing

On August 21, 1978, a year before his seventieth birthday, Samuel Steward (1909-93) sat down at his typewriter in Berkeley, California, and began to compose a remarkable autobiography. No one but his closest friends knew the many different identities he...

Reinaldo Arenas was born to a poverty-stricken family in rural Cuba. By the time of his death in New York four decades later, he had become one of Cuba's most important poets, an outspoken critic of Castro's regime and one of the leading gay voices of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996257800Author David Michael FawcettFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint S FL Center for Counseling and Therapy, Inc.Publisher S FL Center for...