Gay Studies category: 1383 books

"Good! I'm glad we got that out of the way. Are you ready for our next client?" "Next client?" Nikki was exhausted and in pain from the last one. "Yes, I booked a short session with a client tonight. Go upstairs and freshen up. I can't have you looking like a whore."...

Over 16,000,000 men served in the armed forces in WWII. Perhaps as many as 3%, or 480,000, had a homosexual orientation. Admittedly, several thousand were screened out before being inducted, and some later received Undesirable Discharges. 120,000 of these men saw combat action, and undoubtedly hundreds...

Active-duty LGBT soldiers share their stories of serving under "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," revealing an intimate portrait of military life Our Time marks the end of more than a decade of silence, giving voice to the LGBT men and women who served under "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." These individuals...

From the award-winning author of The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov comes the brilliantly conceived and precisely rendered novel Immaculate Blue, which explores the lives of four people — Anatole, Leigh, Chris, and Lydia — and their intermingled and unwinding desires. Set in upstate New York, the...

Doctor Kate Scannell abandoned her academic career in 1985 expecting to enter an "ordinary" medical practice in Northern California. Instead, the thirty-two-year-old physician found herself assigned to a county hospital AIDS ward where much of the medicine she has studied over many difficult...

This book maps Christopher Isherwood's intellectual and aesthetic reflections from the late 1930s through the late 1970s. Drawing on the queer theory of Eve Sedgwick and the ethical theory of Michel Foucault, Carr illuminates Isherwood's post-war development of a queer ethos through his focus on the...

Often depicted as deviant or pathological by public health researchers, psychoanalysts, and sexologists, male-with-male sex and sex work is, in fact, an increasingly mainstream pursuit. Based on a qualitative investigation of the practices involved in male-with-male—or m4m—Internet escorting,...

Entre los fenómenos de mayor resonancia actual están los relacionados con lo que genéricamente llamamos "diversidad sexual". La creciente visibilidad de los grupos LGTB (lesbianas, gays, bi, y transexuales) y su lucha por la obtención de derechos civiles acorde a la época desafían...

"Ler esta recolha de textos é perceber como mudámos. É perceber como muda a nossa linguagem, que reflete as nossas realidade, é perceber como mudam os nossos conceitos e como as nossas reivindicações evoluíram, é perceber como a impunidade da discriminação tem vindo a ser progressivamente...

What does God think of Homosexuality? After all He created it. He also created heterosexuality. This short book is an attempt to find out what God thinks and so we use as much scripture as we can to find out. Objectivity is difficult, when you are related to the subject. That has been the aim of the...

“Love has no gender - compassion has no religion - character has no race.” After giving the world three distinct works on humanism, one of twenty-first century’s most influential thinkers Abhijit Naskar rises with his fourth humanizing work of egalitarianism, in the “Humanism Series”....

In this book, Sedgwick examines texts from Europe and America such as Wilde, Nietzsche and Proust and considers the historical moment when sexual orientation came to be as important a signifier of personhood as gender had been for centuries. In doing this, Sedgwick provides a history of sexuality...

Ryan recently came out of the closet and now he's at a new school. Plenty of boys want him but he's still trying to figure himself out.

In Sexual States Jyoti Puri tracks the efforts to decriminalize homosexuality in India to show how the regulation of sexuality is fundamentally tied to the creation and enduring existence of the state. Since 2001 activists have attempted to rewrite Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, which in addition...