LGBTQ+ Studies / topics Books

How the Personal became Political brings together new research on the feminist and sexual revolutions of the 1970s in Australia. It addresses the political and theoretical significance of these movements, asking how and why did matters previously...

In this honest, timely and provocative book, Jarel Robinson-Brown argues that there is deeper work to be done if the body of Christ is going to fully accept the bodies of those who are black and gay. This is a vital call to the Church and to the world...

Rooted in extensive archival research and personal interviews, A Queer Capital is the first history of LGBT life in the nation's capital. Revealing a vibrant past that dates back more than 125 years, the book explores how lesbians, gay men, and bisexuals...

In November 1993 voters in Cincinnati, Ohio passed Issue 3, an amendment to the City Charter eliminating gay, lesbian, and bisexual persons' legal protection against discrimination and prohibiting their recognition as a group or class. This Christian...

Heterosexuality is a largely 'silent' set of practices and identities - it is assumed to be everywhere and yet often remains unnamed and unexplored. Despite recent changes in the theoretical understanding and representation of sexuality, heterosexuality...

Adriana Books: The Complete Blog, 2010-2021, Volumes 1 & 2, contain all of the posts to the blog on Adriana Books, written by Dwight Cathcart. They are prompted by the huge changes in the lives of LGBTQ people during this recent decade and by the...

This is a children's book for unique and beautiful families.LGBTQ+ parents ,friends and familily will be able to read this book to their children as it can reflects their own lives and show different family dynamics promoting both understanding and...

How are new relationalities formed? By what methods are kinship/family claims made? How are gender and race made relevant to subjectivities? How does state welfare discipline parenting? Are new forms of intimacy possible? This book investigates such...

This ground-breaking book explores the experiences of gay men and their understanding of what it meant to be gay in the 20th Century: from when homosexuality was illegal through the less repressed but no less difficult eras of gay liberation and the...

This book studies the growing number of lesbian women embarking on parenthood after coming out. Theoretical debates about lesbian motherhood often consider its assimilative or transgressive dimensions. The author proposes a different approach,...

This critical introduction to gay and lesbian identity within the media explores the concept of 'new storytelling.' The case studies look at film, television and online media, focusing on the narrative potential of individual storytellers who, as...

This book seeks to contest the emerging thesis that non-heterosexual young people are increasingly living their lives beyond 'traditional' sexual categories. The main contention of post-gay theorists is that sexuality is becoming unfettered from the...

Mapping Intimacies: Relations, Exchanges, Affects explores the shifting terrain of intimate life through diverse contemporary studies, asking what is 'exchanged' in relating, what and who is made 'intimate' and how can intimacy be re-mapped, personally...

With new and updated materials!This timely collection provides high-quality interdisciplinary essays which address lesbian and bisexual representation in popular television shows such as The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, E.R., Queer as...

Queer Commodities is the first study of same-sexuality and consumer capitalism in contemporary US fiction. Drawing upon a diverse range of novels by Edmund White, Samuel Delany, Jane DeLynn, Lynn Breedlove, and Michelle Tea, Guy Davidson proposes that...

This Companion covers a range of receptions of ancient Greek and Roman gender and sexuality. It explores ancient representations of these concepts as we define them today, as well as recent perspectives that have been projected back onto antiquity...

Taking the reader on a journey through queer manifestations in games, this book advocates for video games as a rich, political and cultural medium, which provides us with tools to navigate the future of gaming.Situated at the intersection of New Media,...

A fun look at aussie blokes in their speedos and footy shorts. This photo book will help you see the real aussie blokes in all their glory.

A sexy photo journal that showcases the men of the land downunder in their speedos and footy shorts.

If you love a bloke in footy shorts, and or a sexy redneck guy then this little photo journal is sure to add some sexy time to your collection, enjoy this fun little book and add some real man to your life.

A sexy and fun collection of sexy blokes in footy shorts for you to enjoy.

A fun and sexy look at men who love to be themselves in their short shorts, and hang out with their straight blokey mates.

Peter Slater brings you a photo journal of blokes being real men. This sexy photo journal is sure to please you and your bloke desires.

A look at men from Australia, this sexy photo journal. The second in the series this book shows you that aussie men love their footy shorts and speedos.

A sexy and fun look at a very sexy and fun christmas with a bunch of naked Gay Blokes.

A sexy and fun little photo journal that celebrates the joy of a daddy in his skimpy little speedos.

An inspirational and stunning photo journal that celebrates yoga, men, and speedos. Work on your pose, and be inspired by a toned bloke who knows how to flex it.

If you like your daddies in speedos this fun and beautiful photo journal is sure to please, add some dilf to your book collection with this fun little photo journal.

A sexy photo journal that explores the joys of Speedos and the men who like to wear them, enjoy this cool little photo book and add some male to your collection.

A fun and sexy look at Aussie blokes in their short footy shorts, living life and being sexy. These straight tradies and bogans will inspire you to don a pair of sexy footys.

A sexy and cute photo book of men who love to don their sexy speedos. This fun little photo book is a must have,.

Queer Kinship on the Edge? Families of Choice in Poland explores ways in which queer families from Central and Eastern Europe complicate the mainstream picture of queer kinship and families researched in the Anglo-American contexts. The book...

The Routledge Handbook of Queer Rhetoric maps the ongoing becoming of queer rhetoric in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, offering a dynamic overview of the history of and scholarly research in this field.The handbook features...

In this series of provocative essays on culture, art, and film, former Screen editor Mandy Merck explores the paradoxes of sexual representation. Whether writing on romantic fiction or hardcore pornography, on robots or sex goddesses, Radclyffe Hall or...

Japan's first professionally produced, commercially marketed and nationally distributed gay lifestyle magazine, Barazoku ('The Rose Tribes'), was launched in 1971. Publicly declaring the beauty and normality of homosexual desire, Barazoku electrified the...

How I Became The Love of My Life, is a memoir of one queer woman's self-excavation and voyage into a new life. After her world implodes the night her wife admits to cheating, Labris begins to trust her gut again. She finds the strength to leave her...