LGBTQ+ Studies / topics Books

<p><strong>Celebrating queer love in all its forms, this moving collection champions the richly passionate love letters, poetry, and journals of history's queer writers.</strong></p><p>Much of the love between queer people...

EXPECT is a book written from the heart of a man who has faced his bullies, fought his fights and learned to live in freedom instead of fear. It is a book that is intended to assist young gay people into a life of freedom and love. Expect is not a...

This book was written by Jquintice Jones and is an auto biography

Frances Alice Kellor (1873 - 1952) provides an excellent LGBT role model. Provocatively, the author argues that Kellor created modern America. Kellor's amazing accomplishments include: Founding the National Urban League Using Basketball to make women...

Leaving the Confederate Closet: A Southern Lesbian's Journey is a story of survival and persistence. It's a story of a woman, born in the South during the Great Depression to a poor family with deep Confederate roots and how she instinctively knew that...

Ryan Smith is back with his fourth book, and it's his most honest and authentic book to date. His previous books Poeticman, Motives, and Thoughts of A Battered Soul and Born A Fighter showcased his passion for writing. Ryan has talked about his life's...

At the dawn of the 1980s, there was one serious name in horror and exploitation film criticism: Bill Landis. While other magazines were concerned with behind-the-scenes information, tributes, and SFX tutorials, Landis' Sleazoid Express was one part film...

Through the analysis of over seventy films and thirty television series, ranging from Shortbus, Sweet Home Alabama, and Poseidon to Noah's Arc, Brothers & Sisters, and Dawson's Creek, Goltz examines reoccurring narrative structures in popular media...

Feel free to scream directly into this book if you need to. It won't judge you, promise! This book gets grief. The good, the bad and the snotty noses. Through a healthy mix of poems, personal testimony, bad jokes and choose-your-own-journey workbook...

♥ Surprise them ♥Get Yours Now - They are worth it! Surprise and melt their heart.This funny "engaged.af" engagement journal is a funny gift idea for engagements and weddings.It also makes...

“Savannah Sipple’s debut is proof of a woman rising—up from the strung-out, Christ-haunted carcinogens and violences of a land stripped of its coal; up fromnine-hours on her feet followed by the extra work back home of picking...

Karl Tierney was born in Westfield, Massachusetts, in 1956 and grew up in Connecticut and Louisiana. He became an Eagle Scout in 1973. Poetry fascinated him, even as a teenager. He received a Bachelor’s Degree in English from Emory...

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 an Alameda county hospital's AIDS ward where...

Born to an abusive mother and a drug-dealer father, Ginelle Testa is not exactly set up for success-and her early years are just as troubled as one might expect. By the end of her thirteenth year, she's started experimenting with alcohol and drugs, has...

Here is a serious discussion of an emerging gay subculture! Take another fascinating journey into the bear's den with the latest offering from Les Wright, author of The Bear Book. The Bear Book II will show you the contrast between the media image of the...

In 1991, sixteen-year-old activist Keiko Lane joined the Los Angeles chapters of Queer Nation and ACT UP. Their members protested legislation aimed at dismantling rights for LGBTQ people, people living with HIV, and immigrants while fighting for...

Social Work Practice with LGBTQIA Populations provides an overview of key issues for social workers working with LGBTQIA clients. Each chapter considers clients' experiences in different social and interpersonal contexts. This text encourages students to...

This is the true story of a young boy living a life of extreme child abuse, identity struggles, and finding his way to survive. Set primarily in rural America, "Little Brucie" tells the story of his constant guard to save the lives of his mother and...

The Star Shiner poses the question: Can a young man from a small rural Kentucky town--fleeing a domineering mother and an abusive, alcoholic father--find recognition and happiness in New York city, working with the high-powered fashion and cosmetic...

Dancing With Them is the worlds leading wedding publication celebrating LGBTQ+ people in love. Inside Volume One, you'll find real wedding stories from gay, lesbian, transgender and queer people from across the world. 

Il linguaggio ha, per sua natura, un carattere dinamico e cangiante. Si rinnova costantemente per esprimere significati e orientamenti, utili a rappresentare tempi e spazi. Lo sport è uno di contenuti più utilizzati per raccontare i cambiamenti sociali,...

A stunningly original re-imagining of the Catholic faith by one of the most lucid and exciting theologians writing today. Alison offers an account of Christianity that is moving, liberating, and deeply perconal, yet rooted in Catholic tradition. This is...

Allen Ginsberg was not just a poet; he was one of the most recognizable and outspoken public figures of the late twentieth century. From the mid-fifties onward, Ginsberg was rarely out of the public consciousness as he raised civic and spiritual...

As both a producer and director, Merrill Brockway pioneered dance on television on the Emmy Award-winning PBS series, Dance in America. Through this series and CBS' Camera 3, Brockway brought the performing arts to the "vast wasteland" of television in...

Performance in America demonstrates the vital importance of the performing arts to contemporary U.S. culture. Looking at a series of specific performances mounted between 1994 and 2004, well-known performance studies scholar David Román challenges the...

Silk Electric is a moving collection of poems exploring the conflict between spiritual, sexual and sacred spaces, while also juxtaposing the life of Diana Ross with black gay culture. Here is a new southern poet from Mississippi who exposes his soul...

Eva said she was a woman. Psychiatry said she was a disturbed male instead! Eva wanted her body fixed. The system wanted her mind changed! Transsexuality: A physical disability or a mental illness? Who knows? Who is right? Follow Eva through a maze of...

In this bitingly funny and often surprising memoir, award-winning author and groundbreaking comedian Bob Smith offers a meditation on the vitality of the natural world--and an intimate portrait of his own darkly humorous and profoundly authentic response...

Taking into account recent historic changes, this second edition updates the essays on the Supreme Court, same-sex marriage, the Right, and trans history. Authors of several other essays have taken the opportunity to add new material and references where...

This text brings together the personal, communal, and national political strands that interweave through the author's work from its beginnings and defines his place as a contemporary artist, activist, and gay man.

Vivacious, unconventional, candid, and straight, Helen Branson operated a gay bar in Los Angeles in the 1950s America s most anti-gay decade. After years of fending off drunken passes as an entertainer in cocktail bars, this divorced grandmother...

As one of the first book-length collections of critical essays on the topic of asexuality, this book became a foundational text in the burgeoning field of asexuality studies. This revised and expanded ten-year anniversary edition both celebrates the...

Whether creating Broadway musicals, experimental dramas, or outrageous comedies, the performers, directors, playwrights, designers, and producers profiled in this collection have contributed to the representation of LGBTQ lives and culture in a variety...

“Un recurso invaluable y necesario.” – Huffington Post“No puedes pedir un recurso de educación sexual más directo, completo, divertido, y noble como éste.” –Oh Joy Sex ToySexo entre...

Hope and Healing for Families.Out of his own experience and the experience of many of those he has served in his counseling practice, Richard Cohen sets out a step-by-step plan that offers a path toward renewed family relationships grounded in love,...

Ranging from the convict settlement of Port Arthur, to the social heights of colonial Tasmanian Society, the goldrush towns of Ballarat and Bendigo, and the ballrooms of Marvellous Melbourne in the 1880s, this stranger-than-fiction book recounts the...

The Homosexual Law Reform Society (Canberra, 1969), the Daughters of Bilitis (Melbourne 1970), the Campaign Against Moral Persecution (Sydney 1970) - names that are largely unknown these days. But the movement that they founded spent its first decade in...

An anthology of two novellas and three short stories portraying the experiences of young, gay soldiers during the Vietnam War.

Unspeakable ShaXXXspeares is a savvy look at the wide range of adaptations, spin-offs, and citations of Shakespeare's plays in 1990s popular culture. What does it say about our culture when Shakespearean references turn up in television episodes of The...

Queer Rebels is a study of gay narrative writings published in Spain at the turn of the 20th century. The book scrutinises the ways in which the literary production of contemporary Spanish gay authors - José Luis de Juan, Luis G. Martín, Juan Gil-Albert,...

On June 24, 1973, a fire in a New Orleans gay bar killed 32 people. This still stands as the deadliest fire in the city's history. Though arson was suspected, and though the police identified a likely culprit, no arrest was ever made. Additionally,...

This work examines how lesbian detective and mystery fiction represents lesbian characters and experience within the confines of the genre. As this book points out, such fiction reveals the lesbian's increasing visibility in the wider society...

Charity Eleanor Sintz was born on a Wednesday and likes girls better than boys but these are the least of her problems. The year is 1972, Tricky Dick is in the White House, and four-year-old Charity is trying to puzzle out everyone's odd behavior at her...