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Sunset House is a captivating collection of essays that take readers on a journey with a Southern writer to various locations around the world. Through the lens of memoir, the essays delve into themes of survival, defiance, geopolitics, and the...

Born and raised in the evangelical Christian South of the sixties and seventies, Wayne Gregory hid his homosexuality from others and from himself for years until he was finally forced out in middle age. This story chronicles the beginnings of his...

SunKissed is a brand new collection of summer love stories from Freya Publications.Featuring original work from some of the UK's best indie writers, including Rosen Trevithick, Clare Ashton, Kiki Archer and Toni James, along with brilliant debut stories...

Maggie y Ana dos mujeres enamoradas unidas por el destino separadas por la vida.Historia de lucha y superacion donde dos mujeres se enamoran irremediablemente, donde el destino les depara cosas insospechadas, donde todo parece perfecto pero la sociedad,...

Engaging, self-reflective stories of conducting research on and with transgender, queer, and non-binary youth as they go about their everyday lives in New York City.

Examines traditional sites of binary thinking in ancient Greek texts and culture to demonstrate surprising ambiguity, especially with regard to sexual difference.

A significant contribution to anthropology, history, and gender studies that reveals the denials of homosexuality in traditional and contemporary African societies to be rooted in colonialist ideologies.

Offers a complete empirical account of US government programs, policies, and interventions outside the United States on behalf of the human rights of LGBTQ people.

Argues that queer Israeli emigrants engage in a deliberately unheroic form of resistance to Zionism.

As you read through this book, you will see a glimpse of how this journey has changed me. I would like to think that these changes are for the better.I started out confused and trying to discover who I am. From there, I suffered through Puberty 2.0 and...

Poems about lesbian love and the bond between true friends.

Kurt Smith's life should be perfect. His parents are high ranking werewolves in a stable and happy pack on the south coast of England. He's strong, dominant, good looking. His life should be great. Unfortunately Kurt is the only werewolf to have been...

lyrics/ poems written by Jacob Tobias during 1999 whilst being subjected to homophobic bullying at school.

The LGBTQ true story of Ricky Frederick Shore's journey of self-discovery to fulfill his spiritual destiny during the height of the 1980's AIDS Pandemic.Living with his sister, through visions-telling his story of his purpose for dying-helping them...

Nothing in life is ever simple, especially if you're a Delta Force instructor and an ex-Marine trying to make a new life together - not when you live under the constraints of 'Don't ask, Don't tell,' the shadow of nightmares, and a darkness that will...

For three years the author did participant-observation at three nationally prominent queer organizations in Los Angeles-Christopher Street West, which produces L.A.'s queer pride festival; the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center, a 37-year-old multi-site...

Through a curated selection of scholarship, Adi Saleem demonstrates that representations of Muslim and Jewish sexuality are often racialized and gendered in parallel ways as non-Western, deviant, and dangerous within Euro-American modernity. Contributors...

The ABCs of Barbra Streisand. An alphabet book like no other for an artist like no other. Whimsical illustrations and playful rhymes shine a spotlight on this remarkable woman and her achievements.

Homo Economics is the first honest account of the tense relationship between gay people and the economy. This groundbreaking collection brings together a variety of voices from the worlds of journalism, activism, academia, the arts, and public policy to...

Creating a Place For Ourselves is a groundbreaking collection of essays that examines gay life in the United States before Stonewall and the gay liberation movement. Along with examining areas with large gay communities such as New York, San Francisco...

Sexual Justice defends a robust a robust conception of lesbian and gay rights, emphasizing protection against discrimination and recognition of queer relationships and families. Synthesizing materials from law, philosophy, psychoanalysis and literature,...

Know who you are.Embrace what makes you different.And don't be afraid to be a little disruptive. Success stories rarely follow straight lines, something Tommy Whitehead knows firsthand. His story of climbing out of poverty to run a hugely successful...

"Did you find your real parents?" How would you react to that question if your grandmother asked you that question from her nursing home bed? That is the question that led me on a quest to find out if I really was adopted or if they were ramblings or...

Dale Perrault, born Dale Edward Sullivan, was raised in the Heartland of Florida. Dale's mother was born developmentally and physically disabled, taken advantage of by his "sperm donor", leaving him in the care of less than desirable members of his birth...

Wenn Frauen schwule Männer liebenLieschens Freundin Petra hat sich in einen homosexuellen Mann verliebt. Auf der Suche nach einem Anhaltspunkt, ob man ihn sexuell umpolen kann, taucht sie ein in die schrille, ganz normale Welt der schwulen Männer. Kann...

Steve’s life has been consumed with the quest to create a family. As a boy raised Catholic in the Midwest, he grew up thinking he was straight and would marry a woman and have children. When he was confronted with his attraction to men and the...

The Rules:Clone thyselfLearn teleportation. The sooner the better.Trust no one.These are the rules I learned as a middle school teacher, though it was the last one that drove me from the classroom forever. Like many educators, I couldn't survive the...

For over fifty years, Joan Nestle has been chronicling lesbian and queer life boldly with guts, heart, and moral suasion. A STURDY YES OF A PEOPLE gathers Nestles most influential writing into a single volume presenting her persistent involvement in...

Here, presented for the first time in paperback format, is an unabridged edition of Count Eric Stenbock’s first book of poetry, which was originally published in 1881, in a very limited number of copies, and which is now extremely scarce.

"Queer Anthropology: LGBTQ+ Perspectives on Culture, Kinship, and Belonging" is a groundbreaking exploration of the intersection between queer identities and anthropological study, covering a wide range of topics including cultural constructs of gender...

¿Es usted un católico que tiene dificultades para comprender los problemas de las personas transgénero? ¿Quieres ser sensible con las personas de la comunidad transgénero sin dejar de ser fiel a las enseñanzas católicas?¡Este libro le ayudará a hacer...

Be an Inclusion Ally brilliantly illuminates the path to becoming the most supportive Ally you can be both personally and professionally. This book is the quintessential fast, funny, and ready resource for educating yourself and others about the LGBTQ+...

A young lesbian girl grows beyond fear to fearlessness as she comes of age in the '60s amid religious, social, and legal barriers.

Grief is universal. How and whether we heal from grief is not. Joy's suicide had been the ultimate rejection but my shared death experience with Aunt Pat was the ultimate acceptance. The First signs of April is an inspirational memoir that will connect...

The history of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in Richmond, Virginia, invokes a rich but uncelebrated past. From the first recorded sodomy prosecution in America in 1624 to the fight to repeal the "crimes against nature" laws, LGBTs...

The diverse landscape of gay and lesbian Philadelphia is a story of highs and lows. From rustic post-Civil War days when Camden poet Walt Whitman crossed the Delaware River on a ferry or caroused Market Street "eyeing" the grocery boys, to the beginnings...

See how a life spent largely outdoors-in the wilds of northern Canada, the underwater wonderland of the Caribbean, and throughout the untamed Himalayas-presented the challenges that shaped a timid mother's boy into a confident yogi and ambassador for...

In Maricas Javier Fernández-Galeano traces the erotic lives and legal battles of Argentine and Spanish gender- and sexually nonconforming people who carved out their own spaces in metropolitan and rural cultures between the 1940s and the 1980s. In both...

From her world-famous dude ranch in Washington state's Yakima County, Kay Kershaw exerted tremendous influence on conservation efforts in the Pacific Northwest and, tangentially, on LGBTQ+ rights in the United States. After gaining local renown in...

Following debates surrounding the anti-social turn in queer theory in recent years, there has been a renewed interest in the role of activism, the limits of the political, and the question of normativity and ethics. Queer Futures engages with these...

Offering a model for meaningful dialogue between queer studies and environmental studies, Robert Azzarello's book traces a queer-environmental lineage in American Romantic and post-Romantic literature. Azzarello challenges the notion that reading...

A collection of ten of Gage's hardest-hitting one-act plays, including: Black Eye, The Ladies' Room, The A-Mazing Yamashita and the Millennial Gold-diggers, A Labor Play, Heterosexuals Anonymous, The Boundary Trial of John Proctor, The Evil That Men Do:...

The Homophobic Mind addresses a host of myths and fabrications that have functioned over the centuries to rationalize prejudice and discrimination affecting GLBT people. The history of homophobia does not disclose a monolithic entity; instead, it is an...

Over time, transsexuals have fought against being pressured into mandated stealth, stereotypical homosexuals, an extension of 'queer', and now into being redefined as 'trans'. Is the current interpretation of 'transness' now the true self-expression of...