LGBTQ+ Studies / topics Books

Gossip from the US to the UK from 1996 to 2005 focused on gays and others who were non-believers - humanists, atheists, agnostics, humanities humanists

Used as a prop in a John Waters movie; is sociological to some, pornographic to others; titillating to all; documented study of movie theaters and grinder houses in Times Square, New York City, 1940s to 1980s;

On July 19, 2000 a chance encounter changed my life, reshaped my perspectives and took me in new directions I had never dreamed possible. Part memoirs, part socio-political and cultural history, Everything I Know about Being a Girl I Learned from a Drag...

"The Three Red Lines" takes four New Yorkers on a psychedelic trip through tattoo parlors, shared dreamscapes, haunted visions, forbidden feelings, and exotic Mardi Gras-inspired fantasies. There's sex, there's drugs, there's Bauhaus. This completely...

Eva sagte, sie sei eine Frau. Die Psychiatrie, sie sei ein geisteskranker Mann! Eva, sie hätte einen Geburtsfehler. Die Aerzte, sie sei verrückt! Eva wollte Chirurgie. Das System bot Psychotherapie an! Eva wollte die Chirurgie trotzdem...Als es endlich...

The Sinophone framework emphasises the diversity of Chinese-speaking communities and cultures, and seeks to move beyond a binary model of China and the West. Indeed, this strikingly resembles attempts within the queer studies movement to challenge the...

An observation of the black transgender movement through history, bringing attention to the wide variety of resources and research used to such a marginalized group. Heavily relying on archival, alchemy, resources, examples of the author's own personal...

Premiering at Sundance in 2014, Desiree Akhavan's acclaimed debut feature, Appropriate Behavior, introduced the indie film world to the deadpan, irreverent wit that had already won over fans of her trailblazing LGBTQ web series The Slope.The first volume...

Queer community sports leagues, by their sheer numbers, are changing the energy and space of school gyms and community recreational spaces. Some leagues are well-established - having been in existence for over twenty-five years - whereas others are...

Sexuality and gender have long been influential in understanding the construction of domestic space, its meanings, often revealing a binary division of private and public, female and male. By reconstructing the foundation of queer critiques of space and...

Après avoir cofondé la première revue homosexuelle canadienne, la poète Elsa Gidlow, 21 ans, décide de quitter Montréal en 1920, déçue par le manque de possibilités amoureuses que lui offre alors la ville. Le réseau d'amis masculins homosexuels qu'elle a...

It's Jay's turn now... Months later it's Jay's turn to tell her story. She has a couple of Lesson's to Learn...

This groundbreaking study, among the earliest syntheses on female homosexuality throughout Antiquity, explores the topic with careful reference to ancient concepts and views, drawing fully on the existing visual and written record including literary,...

This book examines sex, sexuality, gender and health in the Pacific with a focus on three key sets of issues: young people, culture and education; sexual and reproductive health and well-being; and belonging, connectedness and justice. Bringing together...

Focusing on reproductive and sexual justice, this important book explores in detail both the challenges that trans people face when negotiating reproductive and sexual health in restrictive social contexts, and their agency in advocating for change...

The phrase 'LGBT community' is often used by policy-makers, service providers, and lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) people themselves, but what does it mean? What understandings and experiences does that term suggest, and ignore? Based on a...

Museums, Sexuality, and Gender Activism examines the role of exhibitionary institutions in representing LGBTQ+ people, cisgender women, and nonbinary individuals. Considering recent gender and sexuality-related developments through a critical lens, the...

Si tratta di una ricerca Promossa dall'Associazione Nazionale Yoga Educazione che ha coinvolto una rete di quattro scuole pugliesi e La cattedra di pedagogia sperimentale diretta dal prof. Michele Baldassarre dell'Università di Bari.La metodologia di...

At a time when the issue of homosexuality is polarising the Churchon an unprecedented scale, Micheal Ford meets gay and lesbian Christians from the UK, US and Africa to explore the dynamics of being gay and spiritual in the twenty-first century. Through...

The Queer Biopic in the AIDS Era offers a new account of the AIDS crisis and the emergence of New Queer Cinema. Author Laura Stamm asks why queer filmmakers repeatedly produced biographical films of queer individuals living and dead throughout the years...

This book demonstrates Case's continued dominance of the field of lesbian performance studies.... Case's dense, rich, and complex work very likely will be a central text for anyone interested in debating the changing theoretical landscape for performance...

In "The Lesbian Love Companion," Marny Hall, Ph.D., a psychotherapist with twenty years' experience counseling lesbian couples, explores and celebrates lesbian relationships in all their complexity - and humor. Based on the idea that the key to healthy...

A memoir of a proud gay man; one who was not proud or out for most of his life... Nowadays, I am that proud, strong, and out, gay man! I am now unapologetically me. I have an amazing partner, an awesome daughter, and I am blessed with a happy and...

The village of Godiche in France's Vendée Province is celebrating the summer solstice, as they have done for centuries. Gay couple Alex and Laurent are hosting an odd gathering of friends and family in their restored manor house. When a fully-loaded A380...

A year after the Stonewall riots in New York, the Gay Liberation Front of Washington, D.C., held its first meeting on June 30, 1970.GLF-DC's activities included protests, publications and communal living experiments.Although the group faded quickly, in...

What do you get when you mix two sexy Atlanta studs, a basketball court, a pimp, a revealing game of Blackjack, a Mississippi redneck, a threesome, and a G-Spot? You get Strapped, the story of two friends with common interests who develop an uncommon...

Queer Jews describes how queer Jews are changing Jewish American culture, creating communities and making room for themselves, as openly, unapologetically queer and Jewish. Combining political analysis and personal memoir, these essays explore the...

This book reveals the inadequacy of a unified "gay" identity in studying the lives of queer college men. Instead, seven types of identities are discernible in the lives of non-heterosexual college males, as the author shows.

Premodern Sexualities offers rigorous new approaches to current problems in the historiography of sexuality. From queer readings of early modern medical texts to transcribing and interrogating premodern documents of sexual transgression, the contributors...

For around a hundred years up to the Stonewall riots, the word used for gay men was 'queers'. Here Richard Dyer traces the contours of queer culture, examining the differences and continuities with the gay culture which succeeded it.

This book analyses queer cultural production in contemporary China to map the broad social transformations in gender, sexuality and desire. It examines queer literature and visual cultures in China's post-Mao and postsocialist era to show how these...

All men hold secrets. It's in our nature. This is a collection of homoerotic secrets told as short stories by artist-writer Nicolas Mann. Some stories are set in 21st century Chicago, while others are told from another time and place. The characters...