Gay Studies category: 1383 books
Law and the Gay Rights Story
The Long Search for Equal Justice in a Divided Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
For much of the 20th century, American gays and lesbians lived in fear that public exposure of their sexualities might cause them to be fired, blackmailed, or even arrested. Today, they are enjoying an unprecedented number of legal rights and protections. Clearly, the tides have shifted for gays and...
Gay New York
Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
The award-winning, field-defining history of gay life in New York City in the early to mid-20th century
Gay New York brilliantly shatters the myth that before the 1960s gay life existed only in the closet, where gay men were isolated, invisible, and self-hating. Drawing on a rich trove of diaries,...
Middlebrow Queer
Christopher Isherwood in America
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
How could one write about gay life for the mainstream public in Cold War America? Many midcentury gay American writers, hampered by external and internal censors, never managed to do it. But Christopher Isherwood did, and what makes his accomplishment more remarkable is that while he was negotiating...
Up from Invisibility
Lesbians, Gay Men, and the Media in America
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2001
A half century ago gay men and lesbians were all but invisible in the media and, in turn, popular culture. With the lesbian and gay liberation movement came a profoundly new sense of homosexual community and empowerment and the emergence of gay people onto the media's stage. And yet even as the mass...
by Marc Stein
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
Rethinking the Gay and Lesbian Movement provides a new narrative history of U.S. gay and lesbian activism, drawing on primary research in the field and the best scholarship on the history of the gay and lesbian movement.
Focusing on four decades of social, cultural, and political change in...
The Gay Archipelago
Sexuality and Nation in Indonesia
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2005
The Gay Archipelago is the first book-length exploration of the lives of gay men in Indonesia, the world's fourth most populous nation and home to more Muslims than any other country. Based on a range of field methods, it explores how Indonesian gay and lesbian identities are shaped by nationalism...
When Gay People Get Married
What Happens When Societies Legalize Same-Sex Marriage
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Winner of the 2010 Distinguished Book Award from the American Psychological Association's 44th Division (the Society for the Psychological Study of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Issues)The summer of 2008 was the summer of love and commitment for gays and lesbians in the United States....
So Famous and So Gay
The Fabulous Potency of Truman Capote and Gertrude Stein
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) and Truman Capote (1924–1984) should not have been famous. They made their names between the Oscar Wilde trial and Stonewall, when homosexuality meant criminality and perversion. And yet both Stein and Capote, openly and exclusively gay, built their outsize reputations...
Homosexuality in Cold War America
Resistance and the Crisis of Masculinity
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 1997
Challenging widely held assumptions about postwar gay male culture and politics, Homosexuality in Cold War America examines how gay men in the 1950s resisted pressures to remain in the closet. Robert J. Corber argues that a form of gay male identity emerged in the 1950s that simultaneously drew on...
Stories of Gay and Lesbian Immigration
Together Forever?
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Share the personal stories of gay and lesbian couples who immigrated to Australia!
This fascinating book examines the Australian government’s innovative immigration program for same-sex couples. Covering the time from the early 1980s to 2000, Stories of Gay and Lesbian Immigration: Together...
Bringing Lesbian and Gay Rights Into the Mainstream
Twenty Years of Progress
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
A lively memoir of LGBT activist Steve Endean-one of the most influential political strategists ever to lobby Washington DC!
Bringing Lesbian and Gay Rights Into the Mainstream: Twenty Years of Progress is the spirited and provocative memoir that blows the lid off the complex machinations of...
How It Feels to Have a Gay or Lesbian Parent
A Book by Kids for Kids of All Ages
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Sometimes I fantasize about having a magic wand. How awesome it would be to wave it and completely eliminate prejudice, hate, and ignorance. Just imagine what it would be like to live in a world like that.
How It Feels to Have a Gay or Lesbian Parent: A Book by Kids for Kids of All Ages gives...
Up from Invisibility
Lesbians, Gay Men, and the Media in America
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2001
A half century ago gay men and lesbians were all but invisible in the media and, in turn, popular culture. With the lesbian and gay liberation movement came a profoundly new sense of homosexual community and empowerment and the emergence of gay people onto the media's stage. And yet even as the mass...
Bigger Than Life
The History of Gay Porn Cinema from Beefcake to Hardcore
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
Hardcore porn-both the straight and gay varieties-entered mainstream American culture in the 1970s as the sexual revolution swept away many of the cultural inhibitions and legal restraints on explicit sexual expression. The first porn movie ever to be reviewed by Variety, the entertainment industry's...