Gay Studies category: 1383 books
Queer Words, Queer Images
Communication and the Construction of Homosexuality
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1994
In many arenas the debate is raging over the nature of sexual orientation. Queer Words, Queer Images addresses this debate, but with a difference, arguing that homosexuality has become an issue precisely because of the way in which we discuss, debate, and communicate about the concept and experience...
by David Drake
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2011
David Drake's smash hit one-man show tells the story of his call to gay pride and activism through a series of vignettes exploring thoughts and emotions shared by a whole generation of gay men and women.
by O. Og
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
We were created equal, unique and beautiful. We crave freedom.
The Culture of Desire
Paradox and Perversity in Gay Lives Today
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Is there such a thing as an American gay culture--a set of styles, values, and behaviors that arises not from ethnicity or religion but from sexual orientation? How is that culture transmitted? And how is it likely to survive the depradations of homophobia and AIDS? These questions are explored by Browning, a reporter for NPR.
Every True Pleasure
LGBTQ Tales of North Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
Some of North Carolina's finest fiction and nonfiction writers come together in Every True Pleasure, including David Sedaris, Kelly Link, Allan Gurganus, Randall Kenan, and more. Within the volume—featuring writers who identify as gay, trans, bisexual, and straight—are stories and essays that...
Tourist Attractions
Performing Race and Masculinity in Brazil's Sexual Economy
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
While much attention has been paid in recent years to heterosexual prostitution and sex tourism in Brazil, gay sex tourism has been almost completely overlooked. In Tourist Attractions, Gregory C. Mitchell presents a pioneering ethnography that focuses on the personal lives and identities of male...
by Jerry Bigner, Joseph L. Wetchler
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Use new knowledge of the LGBT culture to ably counsel same-sex couples!
Relationship Therapy with Same-Sex Couples provides psychologists, therapists, social workers, and counselors with an overview of the array of treatment issues they may face when working with couples from the LGBT community....
Queer Theory and Communication
From Disciplining Queers to Queering the Discipline(s)
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Get a queer perspective on communication theory!
Queer Theory and Communication: From Disciplining Queers to Queering the Discipline(s) is a conversation starter, sparking smart talk about sexuality in the communication discipline and beyond. Edited by members of The San Francisco Radical...
Sexual Orientation and Gender Expression in Social Work Practice
Working with Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender People
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
This volume offers an invaluable resource for both social work educators and practitioners working with gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) clients and their families. It is the first such work to specifically address issues affecting bisexual and transgender people as well as the larger...
Perversion for Profit
The Politics of Pornography and the Rise of the New Right
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2010
While America is not alone in its ambivalence toward sex and its depictions, the preferences of the nation swing sharply between toleration and censure. This pattern has grown even more pronounced since the 1960s, with the emergence of the New Right and its attack on the "floodtide of filth"...
A Time to Embrace
Same-Sex Relationships in Religion, Law, and Politics, 2nd edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
In A Time to Embrace William Stacy Johnson brilliantly analyzes the religious, legal, and political debates about gay marriage, civil unions, and committed gay couples. This new edition includes updates that reflect the many changes in laws pertaining to civil unions / same-sex marriage since 2006.
The Intermediate Sex
A Study of Some Transitional Types of Men and Women
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2018
“Anyone who realizes what Love is, the dedication of the heart, so profound, so absorbing, so mysterious, so imperative, and always just in the noblest natures so strong, cannot fail to see how difficult, how tragic even, must often be the fate of those whose deepest feelings are destined from the...
From the Closet to the Courtroom
Five LGBT Rights Lawsuits That Have Changed Our Nation
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
The advancement of LGBT rights has occurred through struggles large and small-on the streets, around kitchen tables, and on the Web. Lawsuits have also played a vital role in propelling the movement forward, and behind every case is a human story: a landlord in New York seeks to evict a gay man from...
by Claytoven Walker
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2011
At the age of 21, Clay Walker, a gay African American male decides to leave the confines of a religious community he’s inhabited for four years. He returns to his family and familiar surroundings only to find he has changed. He is no longer the same as the family members with whom he grew up. Clay...