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Announcing the arrival of a major new talent, an astonishing work of social history which captures Black gay Britain as never before.'In this seminal book Okundaye gives us juicy dialogue, tears and laughter, and vivid landscapes of memory.'MENDEZ,...

Discover the rich and complex history of LGBTQ+ people around the world - their struggles, triumphs, and cultural contributions.Exploring and explaining the most important ideas and events in LGBTQ+ history and culture, this book showcases the breadth of...

"A beautiful, beguiling journey to the ultimate queer utopia" - Olivia Laing "Clued-up but insatiably thirsty, poignant, packed with literary intrigue, Fire Island is a beaming beach read" - Jeremy Atherton Lin --- Fire Island: a slim strip of...

'A brilliantly written and incisive account of gay life' Colm Toibin 'Each page made me yearn for the dance floor... I'm so glad that someone has written this definitive book about gay bars' Amelia Abraham, author of Queer Intentions Propulsive...

Explores queer craft and the material cultures of LGBTQ+ activism in Britain since the 1980s. From handmade clothing and protest banners to radical self-published zines and manifestos, there is a long history of using craft and DIY processes to explore...

How can we change the conversation around gender, become better allies, challenge misconceptions and make the world a better place?Anti-transgender legislation is being introduced across the world in record-breaking numbers. Trans people are under attack...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312671938Author David R CarterFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Saint Martin's Griffin,U.S.Publisher Saint Martin's Griffin,U.S.Weight(grams) 426g

'Remarkable and compelling. I loved this book' EDMUND DE WAAL'An exemplary sleuth, both astute and open-minded . . . Manera Sambuy writes with impassioned style and insight' TELEGRAPHA lost princess and a vanished world: a remarkable true story that...

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...

As a child, Luke Turner was obsessed with the Second World War. He spent hours watching Sunday war films, poring over stories of derring-do and relishing in birthday trips to air museums. Lying in bed beneath Airfix fighter planes suspended from his...

Photography - A Queer History examines how photography has been used by artists to capture, create and expand the category 'Queer'. It bookmarks different thematic concerns central to queer photography, forging unexpected connections to showcase the...

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH BOOK DESIGN AND PRODUCTION AWARDS 2023*'A fascinating, whistle-stop tour of LGBTQIA+ icons and allies from across the globe and throughout history... This will be a great LGBTQIA+ reference book for years to come.' Peter...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623543518Author ANTHONY UZAROWSKIFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Imagine Publishing, IncPublisher Charlesbridge Publishing,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648230349Author Nicholas BlairFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint powerHouse Books,U.S.Publisher powerHouse Books,U.S.

Hidden in the margins of history books, classical literature, and thousands of years of stories, myths and legends, through to contemporary literature, TV and film, there is a diverse and other-worldly super community of queer heroes to discover, learn...

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Many of the hundreds of thousands of Syrians who immigrated to the US beginning in...

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...

Long before people identified as transgender or lesbian, there were female husbands and the women who loved them. Female husbands - people assigned female who transed gender, lived as men, and married women - were true queer pioneers. Moving deftly from...

Queer premises provide vital social and cultural infrastructure - a queer infrastructure - connecting different generations and locations, facilitating the movement of resources, across and beyond the city. Queer Premises offers evidence for how...

The Townhouse Bar, midtown, July 1992: The piano player seems to know every song ever written, the crowd belts out the lyrics to their favorites, and a man standing nearby is drinking a Scotch and water. The man strikes the piano player as forgettable. ...

In just six years, ACT UP, New York, a broad and unlikely coalition of activists from all races, genders, sexualities, and backgrounds, changed the world. Armed with rancor, desperation, intelligence, and creativity, it took on the AIDS crisis with an...

'Holds rich and deep insights' - Sarah Schulman Who cares about working-class queers in Britain today? Are queers marginal to the study of class, and are the working-classes marginal to queer studies? Yvette Taylor critically engages with the...

'Remarkable and compelling. I loved this book' EDMUND DE WAAL'An exemplary sleuth, both astute and open-minded . . . Manera Sambuy writes with impassioned style and insight' TELEGRAPHA lost princess and a vanished world: a remarkable true story that...

A look at the history of psychiatry's foundational impact on the lives of queer and gender-variant people. In the mid-twentieth century, American psychiatrists proclaimed homosexuality a mental disorder, one that was treatable and amenable to cure. ...

'All profound relationships have the quality of being a folie a deux; an intimate departure from reality, an imaginative creation of a world apart; perhaps this is a way of calling forth meaning - the merging of senseless subjectivities.' In 1950s...

In Queer City, the acclaimed Peter Ackroyd looks at London in a whole new way-through the complete history and experiences of its gay and lesbian population. In Roman Londinium, the city was dotted with lupanaria ("wolf dens" or public pleasure houses),...

In Abundance, Anjali Arondekar refuses the historical common sense that archival loss is foundational to a subaltern history of sexuality, and that the deficit of our minoritized pasts can be redeemed through acquisitions of lost pasts. Instead,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783982389462Author Samuel Clowes HunekeFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Floating Opera PressPublisher Floating Opera Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781955826174Author Rick KarlinFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Rattling Good Yarns Press, LLCPublisher Rattling Good Yarns Press, LLCWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781962256872Author Henry H BucherFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Booktrail PublishingPublisher Booktrail PublishingWeight(grams) 209g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781778901126Author Megan DennisFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Matti CharltonPublisher Matti CharltonWeight(grams) 159g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781955826167Author Rick KarlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Rattling Good Yarns Press, LLCPublisher Rattling Good Yarns Press, LLCWeight(grams) 216g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781955826419Author Owen KeehnenFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Rattling Good Yarns Press, LLCPublisher Rattling Good Yarns Press, LLCWeight(grams) 236g

Under Spain's twentieth-century dictators, state agents not only censored, eradicated, and attempted to prevent the circulation of obscenity, but also contradictorily engaged in curation and even restoration initiatives that have bequeathed us an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781890834616Author Jack FritscherFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Palm Drive PublishingPublisher Palm Drive PublishingWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm)...

Under Spain's twentieth-century dictators, state agents not only censored, eradicated, and attempted to prevent the circulation of obscenity, but also contradictorily engaged in curation and even restoration initiatives that have bequeathed us an...

This deeply-reported narrative illuminates the battle for LGBTQ+ inclusion in the Boy Scouts of America, a decades-long struggle led by teenagers, parents, activists, and everyday Americans.Weaving in his own experience as a scout and journalist, Mike De...

This is a love letter to the pioneers of solidarity and coalition. It's a new global look at those bold moments where marginalised voices came together to say 'enough is enough'. It's the story of those who sacrificed individual gains to fight for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541601741Author June ThomasFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Seal Press (CA)Publisher Seal Press (CA)Weight(grams) 413g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781929647767Author Harlan GreeneFormat PaperbackPage Count 354Imprint Consumer Publications, LLCPublisher Consumer Publications, LLCWeight(grams) 472g