Gay Studies

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...

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

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,...

A much-needed exploration of the history and philosophy of scientific research into male homosexuality. Questions about the naturalness or unnaturalness of homosexuality are as old as the hills, and the answers have often been used to condemn...

In this fascinating book, Jacques Balthazart presents a simple description of the biological mechanisms that are involved in the determination of sexual orientation in animals and also presumably in humans. Using scientific studies published over the...

Amputation need not always signify castration; indeed, in Jack London's fiction, losing a limb becomes part of a process through which queerly gendered men become properly masculinized. In her astute book, Vulnerable Constitutions, Cynthia Barounis...

From cabarets and candlelight vigils to full-scale Broadway productions such as Angels in America and Rent, over the past 15 years public performances and dramatic texts have shaped, and been shaped by, the history of AIDS. Author David Roman examines...

The attraction of a wink, a nod, a discarded snapshot - such feelings permeate our lives, yet we usually dismiss them as insubstantial or meaningless. With "The Logic of the Lure", John Paul Ricco argues that it is precisely such fleeting, erotic and...

Gay pornography, online and onscreen, is a controversial and significantly under-researched area of cultural production. In the first book of its kind, Gay Pornography: Representations of Sexuality and Masculinity explores the iconography, themes and...

A major text for clinicians and researchers who have an interest in homosexuality and homosexual patients with mental disorders, this book is an up-to-date review as well as a handbook covering the full range of affirmative treatments and therapies for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312302245Author Professor Will RoscoeFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781920590499Format PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Modjaji BooksPublisher Modjaji BooksWeight(grams) 370g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781715246044Author Elisa RolleFormat PaperbackPage Count 468Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 621gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 24mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Lambda Literary Awards (Anthology) 2014.Book InformationISBN 9781937420420Author Megan VolpertFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Sibling Rivalry Press,...

We are all caught up in one another, Scott Lauria Morgensen asserts, we who live in settler societies, and our interrelationships inform all that these societies touch. Native people live in relation to all non-Natives amid the ongoing power relations of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781613739358Author Jim ElledgeFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint Chicago Review PressPublisher Chicago Review PressWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

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...

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...

As the first full-length study of the history of sexuality in America, "Intimate Matters" offered trenchant insights into the sexual behavior of Americans from colonial times to the present. Now, twenty-five years after its first publication, this...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785371165Author Grainne HealyFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion Press

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 9789888528066Author Travis S.K. KongFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Hong Kong University PressPublisher Hong Kong University Press

When Goethe christened the 1700's "the Century of Winckelmann" and Kant dubbed it "the Century of Frederick the Great," they invoked two notorious figures in gay history. This collection of twelve essays reclaims "the Age of Goethe"-To call upon a...

Queer subjects have become acceptable in society only through being cast in the shadow of the new folk devil, the 'homophobic migrant' who is rendered by society as hateful and disposable. This book explores this concept of 'queer regeneration'...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802866950Author William Stacy JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615190546Author Tess AyersFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint The Experiment LLCPublisher The Experiment LLC

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 *...

Queer Diasporas presents essays that explore how sexuality and sexual identity change when individuals, ideologies, and media move across literal and figurative boundaries. Speaking from a diverse range of ethnic, racial, and national sites, the...

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. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781571745750Author Myrna LambFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Hampton Roads Publishing CoPublisher Hampton Roads Publishing CoWeight(grams) 1g

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,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781931875073Author Alan BellFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint West Beach Books,U.S.Publisher West Beach Books,U.S.Weight(grams) 320gDimensions(mm) 216mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781291265781Author EckieFormat PaperbackPage Count 265Imprint Lulu Press IncPublisher Lulu Press Inc

Who are queers and what do they want? Could it be that we are all queers? Beginning with such questions, William B. Turner's lucid and engaging book traces the roots of queer theory to the growing awareness that few of us precisely fit standard...