Gay Studies category: 1383 books
Lust Unearthed
Vintage Gay Graphics From the DuBek Collection
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2012
On the heels of his bestselling and award-winning book Out/Lines: Underground Gay Graphics From Before Stonewall, Thomas Waugh offers more historic and erotically charged drawings, depicting aspects of gay male sexuality that were once hidden from public view. The more than 200, never-before-published...
Gay Fandom and Crossover Stardom
James Dean, Mel Gibson, and Keanu Reeves
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2001
Why and how does the appeal of certain male Hollywood stars cross over from straight to gay audiences? Do stars lose their cachet with straight audiences when they cross over? In Gay Fandom and Crossover Stardom Michael DeAngelis responds to these questions with a provocative analysis of three famous...
by Tracy Luchetta, Patricia L Pardie
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Discover new information and perspectives on why today’s culture holds prejudice toward gay men and lesbians!
The Construction of Attitudes Toward Lesbians and Gay Men explores the pervasiveness and widespread social acceptance of heterosexism in the United States by analyzing existing social...
Sons Talk About Their Gay Fathers
Life Curves
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Examine the impact of disclosure on sons whose fathers are gay!
In this book, Andrew Gottlieb, author of Out of the Twilight: Fathers of Gay Men Speak, explores yet another side of the impact of homosexuality on families. He now looks at how sons react to learning that their fathers are gay,...
Side by Side
On Having a Gay or Lesbian Sibling
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
How would you react if your brother or sister came out to you?
*I'm proud to have been the first to know.
My conservative upbringing contributed to the notion that John’s behavior was sinful. The first thought I had about it was that my brother had somehow been misdirected, involving...
Fatherhood for Gay Men
An Emotional and Practical Guide to Becoming a Gay Dad
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
Get the inside story on a single gay man's struggle to adopt!
Fatherhood for Gay Men: An Emotional and Practical Guide to Becoming a Gay Dad is the story of one man's journey down the road less traveled-a single gay man adopting and raising his two sons. Author Kevin McGarry recounts his passage...
Smearing the Queer
Medical Bias in the Health Care of Gay Men
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Discover how gay men’s health care can be improved!
Smearing the Queer: Medical Bias in the Health Care of Gay Men explores how social prejudices embedded in scientific research and practice often act as a detriment to gay men’s health. This book provides an agenda for addressing heterosexism...
Our Legacies
Writings from Chicago’S Older Gay Men
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
Together, the six authors in this anthology paint a diverse and multivocal portrait of gay male aging, gay history, and gay culture. Through a collection of poems, prose, and essays, these men examine and narrate the experience of being an older gay male in the new millenium. As members of Chicagos...
Why Straight Guys Love Their Gay Guys
Reviving the Roots of Male Sexuality
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2018
After fifty years of progress and the advent of gay marriage, statistics on the well-being of gay men are as grim as ever. Rates of suicide, alcoholism, and drug abuse have not budged. Anxiety, depression, loneliness, and poor health are just as widespread. Studies have shown that gay men who live...
by John Arthur Maddux, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
This book is intended for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and non-gay readers. It is divided into three sections: “On Being Gay,” “On Being Politically Correct,” and “On Being Gay in the Real World.” Section I, “On Being Gay,” focuses almost exclusively on what it means to be gay,...
Commitment and Healing
Gay Men and the Need for Romantic Love
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2010
"What's love got to do with it? Everything, according to Richard Isay's informed and illuminating look at the role of romance in modern gay life. I highly recommend this book for people of any generation and partnership status."
--Dean H. Hamer, Ph.D., author of The Science of Desire and...
Gay Guerrilla
Julius Eastman and His Music
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Composer-performer Julius Eastman (1940-90) was an enigma, both comfortable and uncomfortable in the many worlds he inhabited: black, white, gay, straight, classical music, disco, academia, and downtown New York. His music, insistent and straightforward, resists labels and seethes with a tension that...
by Aaron Goodfellow
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
While the topic of gay marriage and families continues to be popular in the media, few scholarly works focus on gay men with children. Based on ten years of fieldwork among gay families living in the rural, suburban, and urban area of the eastern United States, Gay Fathers, Their Children, and the...
Gay Conservatives
Group Consciousness and Assimilation
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Discover why LGBT voters support conservative political platforms that don’t benefit the LGBT community
Recent studies show that the vast majority of the LGBT community considers itself politically liberally. Yet nearly 25% of all LGBT voters helped re-elect George W. Bush in 2004-who are...