LGBTQ+ Studies / topics Books

The art of female impersonation is a phenomenon in the GLBTQI community. Adorned with beautiful photos, the legendary entertainers talk about a culture still fighting for equal rights. They remind us when being gay was less appealing; a time when it was...

As an adult, Virginia Carr wanted nothing to do with Grant's Hill or Leticia, her high school sweetheart. But Virginia can't escape her past. A claim that Leticia has committed murder and Virginia's father's refusal of medical treatment draw Virginia and...

Continuing journal of an old transsexual man living in poverty in San Francisco. He is a fine arts painter, writer, and spiritual seeker.

Comprehensive analysis and case-study by a medically diagnosed Transsexual who completed gender reassignment surgery. An honest account of what life was like growing up with Gender Identity Disorder. Photographs are included, showing progress including...

No·vi·ti·ate (nō-vish'ē-it,-āt') n. The period of being a novice.Ten stories, ten waypoints, ten steps along a path.The stories collected in Novitiate represent the first leg of C.C. Williams' journey from a sometime storyteller to a published writer...

JAIMIE KELTON and ROBIN HOPKINS, the creators and hosts of the popular podcast If These Ovaries Could Talk, realized the world needed to know there was more than one way to make an LGBTQ family. Each of their families came about in different ways, so how...

Alternate Channels explores the fight for lesbian and gay visibility on 20th-century American television, as gay activists faced off with powerful, often vicious "traditional values" crusaders, with TV executives caught in the crossfire.It...

From Shooting heroin in the slums of Staten Island to boating and building beach houses in the Bahamas, Slipping Into Darkness Blinded by the Light is a story of trials and triumphs, despair and faith, pride and shame. Once you embark upon this spiritual...

Originally written for an academic journal, If you look at it long enough... is primarily a personal account of Paul Hallam’s recollections of “self-abuse” through the consumption of porn over several decades. Challenging the familiar...

Shortlisted for the 2024 Queensland Literary Awards Premier's Award for a Work of State SignificancePart provocateur, part seducer, this young gay man's account of life offers one of the freshest takes on Australia and the world today.Honouring poets of...

In Washed and Waiting, Wesley Hill writes for gay Christians and those who love them. Part-memoir, part theological reflection, he shares the struggles that gay Christians face as they seek to live faithful to God's "no" to homosexuality. This updated...

Scoprite "Amori Divini: Un Viaggio LGBT nelCuore del Pantheon Greco", un romanzoche trascende i confini del tempo e dellospazio per esplorare le profonditàdell'amore in un contesto antico emitologico. In un'epoca dominata da dei emiti, Alessandro e...

How many lives can one person live? Shane Phelan has stopped counting. Big Queer Nun is a powerful narrative of trauma, addiction, and recovery, of the search for a God who loves us as we are and invites us into more than we can imagine. From...

"'[W]hat does it mean to crave the land?' Stephen S. Mills asks in this ambitious book of poems that imbricates 18th- and 21st-century narratives, domestic tension and national strife, profligate sex and the accountability of gay marriage,...

Walt Whitman, author of Leaves of Grass, was born in 1819. The Stonewall riots happened 150 years later. On the bicentennial of Whitman’s birth and the 50th anniversary of Stonewall, over 80 poets pay homage to not only Walt Whitman, but also to...

"Queer Migration Studies: LGBTQ+ Experiences in Global Migration and Diaspora" offers a comprehensive exploration of the historical, social, and policy dimensions of queer migration, highlighting the intersections of gender, sexuality, and immigration...

"Tomboy Chic: Embracing Your True Self" is a comprehensive guide that empowers individuals to confidently express their authentic tomboy style through fashion, behavior, and grooming, while celebrating their unique identity.

"Queer Criminology: Exploring LGBTQ+ Experiences in the Criminal Justice System" delves into the historical and contemporary issues faced by LGBTQ+ individuals within the criminal justice system, providing a comprehensive analysis of their experiences,...

Mambo Lips is an honest, heartfelt, and often hilarious memoir about growing up seeing the world through the authors Latin culture. Joie Lamar tells us the awkward, sometimes painful, and extraordinary stories of her childhood as she discovers that she...

"You. The Real State of Life," by Austin Bergman, Realist and Luxury Real Estate Mogul, provides a shockingly honest account of his life after he finally said two words: "I'm gay." It's easy to shrink into someone else's expectations of who YOU should be...

When Cat and Jim return from eloping, they dive headfirst into married life. Despite her best efforts to play the role of Jim's perfect wife, their early marriage is doomed from the start. Travel across the country with Firecat, through her adventures of...

One hundred percent made in China, Nick (Yu) grew up in an environment where being gay was not an option. The expectation from his parents and pressure from the society molded him into the “best student” and “best employee.” He...

A brooch. A violin. A genealogical mystery. An unfinished portrait.Lady with a Brooch begins with a simple question: who was the arresting, enigmatic woman portrayed in Edvard Munch's famous...

Takedown. Definition 1: 'To get into one's hands control or possession.' The portraits of artist Larry Stanton, (website larrystanton.net), display his eventual mastery of crayon, pen, and brush as he confronted opportunities to record what he saw,...

In recent years, San Francisco has been synonymous with gay and lesbian pride, and the various achievements of the gay and lesbian community are personified in the city by the bay. The tumultuous and ongoing struggles for this community's civil rights...

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...

South Africa remains a global leader in the legislative protection of individuals who engage in same-sex relations, and is the only country in Africa where the rights of these individuals are explicitly recognized and protected by the constitution. Yet...

At the center of leather life for 50 years, Peter Fiske whips up leather history in his delightfully conversational new memoir of his “been-there/met-everyone” nights around the Stonewall Inn, the Mineshaft, the Catacombs, The 15 Association,...

THE PINK MARINE is set in the Marine Corps in the 1980s. Our unlikely hero is a gay teen who joins the Corps with his straight best friend. And yes, it's insanely dangerous for both of them. But as fate would have it, turns out the Few and the Proud...

Derek Jarman's films explore the possibilities and limitations of same-sex love and self-expression during various historical eras, ranging from ancient Egypt to present times. His work covers a millennium of sexual repression and efforts to escape it...

In the past, representations of alternative lifestyles on film were, even in their most explicit forms, faint and ambiguous, and the television industry was even more conservative. But in more recent years, thanks in part to the success of such films...

In questa narrazione, seguiamo i percorsi di due anime destinate a intrecciarsi: Aiden, cresciuto in una cultura che celebra l'apertura e la diversità, ma che ancora nasconde pregiudizi sotto una superficie lucida; e Zara, la cui vita è stata segnata...

Annette Stanton is NOT crazy.Does she think there's an angry sleep demon trying to kill her? Maybe.But that's not the point.Annette has always had sleep troubles, though nothing as sinister as after her family's big move. Her dad assures her it's only...

Attracted to both men and women from an early age, McCormack found alcohol as a teenager to be the path to sexual liberation and to social confidence until it became a problem for him as a young professional in New York.This is the story of his journey...

Es un lindo cuento de cómo dos canguros, Jack y Sam, una pareja gay, tienen su propio bebe por medio de un óvulo donado y subrogación.Acompañados por canguros, los niños pueden entender fácilmente los métodos relacionados con la concepción e una manera...

Seminar paper from the year 2018 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, University of Münster, language: English, abstract: The level of tolerance towards all types of Otherness has increased during the past...

Ensayo del año 2018 en eltema Psicología - Psicología general, Nota: -, , Idioma: Español, Resumen: En el texto pretendo realizar una exploración bibliográfica de las principales revisiones de investigaciones realizadas sobre la adopción por parte de...

In the embroidery of mankind's set of experiences, civil rights developments stand apart as strings that wind around together the goals of minimized networks, advocates for fairness, and the people who rock the boat. The fight against imbalance has been...

Henry James wrote, "We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art." In this spirit comes After This We Go Dark, the definitive collection of poems from...

There are 525,600 minutes in a non-leap year. That makes 31,536,000 seconds in every year. So: 31,536,000 divided by 248,300 comes to one sexual assault every 127 seconds, or about one every two minutes. In 2006, Dustin Brookshire was raped by a former...

Sergeant Dave Van Norman served with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police from 1947 to 1964. His 17-year RCMP career was defined by his love of Canada's north and his respect for the Inuit he met and worked with during his service. Sergeant Van Norman's...

A Beautiful Man is a biographic collection of poetry by Julian Marlon Gibson-Serrette (JMGS). These poems examine moments in his life as he navigated his way through his transition from female to male gender identified. The poems explore his relationship...

Muscle Boys: Gay Gym Culture is an inside look at the secret world of exercise and fitness that's become one of the country's fastest growing and most influential gay subcultures. The author, a personal trainer on the San Francisco gym scene for more...