Gay Studies category: 1383 books
Taking a Chance on God
Liberating Theology for Gays, Lesbians, and Their Lovers, Families, and Friends
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Taking a Chance on God explores how lesbians and gay men can claim both a positive gay identity and a fulfilling life of Christian faith.
The Moral Defense of Homosexuality
Why Every Argument against Gay Rights Fails
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2015
Chris Meyers takes the reader on a careful, rational, sustained criticism of arguments about the immorality of homosexuality. Meyers refutes anti-gay arguments by showing that they are based on unreasonable or demonstrably false ideas about the nature of morality. Working through the morality arguments...
Gay on God's Campus
Mobilizing for LGBT Equality at Christian Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
Although the LGBT movement has made rapid gains in the United States, LGBT people continue to face discrimination in faith communities. In this book, sociologist Jonathan S. Coley documents why and how student activists mobilize for greater inclusion at Christian colleges and universities. Drawing...
Queer Women in Urban China
An Ethnography
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Lala (lesbian) and gay communities in mainland China have emerged rapidly in the 21st century. Alongside new freedoms and modernizing reforms, and with mainstream media and society increasingly tolerant, lalas still experience immense family and social pressures to a degree that this book argues is...
Queer Theory
The French Response
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
In 2012 and 2013, masses of French citizens took to the streets to demonstrate against a bill on gay marriage. But demonstrators were not merely denouncing its damaging effects; they were also claiming that its origins lay in "gender theory," an ideology imported from the United States....
Sexual Minorities
Discrimination, Challenges and Development in America
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Explore the crucial issues facing the GLBT population in their struggle for acceptance in contemporary America!
Sexual Minorities: Discrimination, Challenges, and Development in America examines the stumbling blocks that prevent gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and trangenders from living wholesome,...
Bi Men
Coming Out Every Which Way
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
A moving and pioneering celebration of the male bisexual self that addresses biphobia in our society
In today’s sexual world, both straight and gay and lesbian communities still often refuse to accept the reality of bisexuality. Bi Men: Coming Out Every Which Way confronts head-on the limiting...
Queering India
Same-Sex Love and Eroticism in Indian Culture and Society
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Queering India is the first book to provide an understanding of same-sex love and eroticism in Indian culture and society. The essays focus on pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial gay and lesbian life in India to provide a comprehensive look at a much neglected topic. The topics are wide-ranging,...
by Dennis Rhodes
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2014
In his first two books, Spiritus Pizza and Entering Dennis, poet Dennis Rhodes trained his singular voice and keen eye on the challenges of coming of age in a world overshadowed, if not defined, by HIV. His subjects were people and places on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and fabled Commercial Street...
Queer Identities and Politics in Germany
A History, 1880–1945
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Germany in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries witnessed key developments in LGBT history, including the growth of the world's first homosexual organizations and gay and lesbian magazines, as well as an influential community of German sexologists and psychoanalysts. Queer Identities...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
In the twenty-first century, Canada has a reputation for being one of the most gay friendly nations on earth, a pioneer in legalizing same-sex marriage and home to enormously popular Pride parades. Yet Canada was not always so hospitable to its gay and lesbian citizens. Homosexuality was only decriminalized...
Cherry Grove, Fire Island
Sixty Years in America's First Gay and Lesbian Town
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
First published in 1993, the award-winning Cherry Grove, Fire Island tells the story of the extraordinary gay and lesbian resort community near New York City. This new paperback edition includes a new preface by the author.
Fundamentals of LGBT Substance Use Disorders
Multiple Identities, Multiple Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
?In this new book, the successor to the classic in the field Counseling Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Substance Abusers: Dual Identities by Dana G. Finnegan and Emily B. McNally, Michael Shelton reviews the empirical literature and synthesizes what we know about the prevalence of LGBT substance...
Modern Families
Stories of Extraordinary Journeys to Kinship
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015
A personal, intimate account of the extraordinary ways that today’s families are being created.
From adoption and assisted reproduction, to gay and straight parents, coupled and single, and multi-parent families, the stories in Modern Families explain how individuals make unconventional families...