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Publisher
Duke University Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xxv, 435 pages 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Gay bars have operated as the most visible institutions of the LGBTQ community in the United States for the better part of a century, from before gay liberation until after their assumed obsolescence. In The Bars Are Ours Lucas Hilderbrand offers a panoramic history of gay bars, showing how they served as the medium for queer communities, politics, and cultures. Hilderbrand cruises from leather in Chicago and drag in Kansas City to activism against...
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English
Description
As a little girl, Stephen Gordon always felt different. A talent for sport, a hatred of dresses and a preference for solitude was not considered suitable for a young lady of the Victorian upper-class. But when Stephen grows up and falls passionately in love with another woman, her standing in the county and her place at the home she loves become untenable. Stephen must set off to discover whether there is anywhere in the world that will have her.
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Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
464 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
From the lush feather boas that adorned early female impersonators to the sequined lip syncs of barroom queens to the drag kings that have us laughing in stitches, drag has played a vital role in the creative life of New York City. But the evolution of drag in the city, as an art form, a community and a mode of liberation, has never before been fully chronicled. Now, for the first time, journalist and drag historian Elyssa Maxx Goodman unearths the...
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Publisher
White Lion Publishing
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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Loud and Proud is an inspirational collection of speeches from the LGBTQ+ community and its allies that have changed our world, and the conversation.
A sister volume to So Here I Am: Speeches by Great Women to Empower and Inspire, Loud and Proud places the voices of the vibrant LGBTQ+ community centre stage in the first-ever anthology of LGBTQ+ speeches. From equal marriage to the AIDS crisis, bullying to...
A sister volume to So Here I Am: Speeches by Great Women to Empower and Inspire, Loud and Proud places the voices of the vibrant LGBTQ+ community centre stage in the first-ever anthology of LGBTQ+ speeches. From equal marriage to the AIDS crisis, bullying to...
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Series
Publisher
Duke University Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xi, 238 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"On the Inconvenience of Other People is Lauren Berlant's follow up to Cruel Optimism (2011). In that book, Berlant focused on the reasons why, under the contemporary condition of constant crisis, people stay attached to objects that wear them out mentally, politically, materially, and physically. In this new book, Berlant turns attention to the impasse of attachment in a different way; rather than thinking about how we might lose such draining objects,...
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Publisher
Metropolitan Books
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xi, 480 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The first comprehensive history of homophobia-from ancient Athens to the halls of Congress-this bold, original work is certain to become a classic.
It is the last acceptable prejudice. In an age when racial and ethnic name-calling are viewed with distaste, and physical epithets are frowned upon, hatred of homosexuals remains rife. Now, in a tour de force of historical and literary research, Byrne Fone chronicles the evolution of homophobia through...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
xii, 193 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A Positive View of LGBTQ starts a new conversation about the strengths and benefits of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGTBQ) identities. Positive LGBTQ identities are affirmed through inspiring firsthand accounts. Focusing on how LGTBQ-identified individuals can cultivate a sense of wellbeing and a personal identity that allows them to flourish in all areas of life, the authors explore a variety of themes. Through personal stories...
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New York University Press
Pub. Date
c2009
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xi, 303 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A lyrical and meticulously researched mapping of the ways in which diverse societies have shaped female same-sex sexuality across time and geograhy
From the ancient poet Sappho to tombois in contemporary Indonesia, women throughout history and around the globe have desired, loved, and had sex with other women. In beautiful prose, Sapphistries tells their stories, capturing the multitude of ways that diverse societies have shaped female same-sex...
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Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
c1994
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
309 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tender and passionate autobiographical essays by National Book Award winner Paul Monette. "Does it go too fast?" Monette asks about life at the beginning of one piece. The answer is a resounding "yes" for the individuals who populate this stunning work of nonfiction. These ten autobiographical essays memorialize those whose lives have been claimed by AIDS. Following Becoming a Man and Borrowed Time, Last Watch of the Night is Monette's third and final...
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Publisher
Arsenal Pulp Press
Language
English
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"What can we hope for at the end of the world? What can we trust in when community has broken our hearts? What would it mean to pursue justice without violence? How can we love in the absence of faith? In a heartbreaking yet hopeful collection of personal essays and prose poems, blending the confessional, political, and literary, acclaimed poet and essayist Kai Cheng Thom dives deep into the questions that haunt social movements today. With the author's...
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English
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"When Richie Jackson's son born through surrogacy comes out to him at the age of 18, Richie - now in his 50s, a successful producer and happily married - feels compelled to write him a letter. Gay Like Me is both a celebration of gay identity and a sorrowful warning. Jackson talks of his own progress and growth as a gay man coming of age through decades of political and cultural change. We've come a long way, he argues: discrimination is now outlawed...
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
175 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
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Description
Rainbow Revolution' is a collection of vibrant portraits that celebrate the expanding spectrum of queer identity and visibility. Starting with an empty white box, renowned photographer Magnus Hastings invites members of the LGBTQIA+ community to creatively envision the space. Funny, political, personal, racy, magical, and matter-of-fact-each individual presents themselves as they would like to be seen.
Author
Publisher
The Experiment
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
3rd ed., rev. and updated.
Physical Desc
xv, 287 p. : illus. 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Wedding planning is never easy{8212}but for gay and lesbian couples, it presents unique challenges. On top of watching the budget and wrangling your family, you may be wondering: How should we word the invitations? Who can perform the ceremony? What should we say to those who ask, z...why?y.
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Publisher
Weiser Books, an imprint of Red Wheel/Weiser, LLC
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xvii, 205 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Tarot archetypes provide the reader with a window into present circumstances and future potential. But what if that window only opened up on a world that was white, European, and heterosexual? This book explores themes of sexuality, coming out, gender and gender-queering, sources of oppression and empowerment, and many other topics especially familiar to "not-straight" folks"--
Author
Publisher
Bold Type Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
vii, 422 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"By the late 1980s, the AIDS pandemic was deeply impacting gay and lesbian communities in America, and disinformation about the disease was running rampant. Out of the activist group ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), an art collective that called itself Gran Fury was formed, to create graphics and media that campaigned against corporate greed, government inaction, and public indifference to AIDS. In It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful, writer...
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xvii, 363 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A passionate, powerful memoir by a trailblazing Black transgender activist, tracing her life of transformation and her work towards collective liberation. In 2017, Raquel Willis took to the National Women's March podium just after the presidential election of Donald Trump, primed to tell her story as a young Black transgender woman from the South. Despite having her speaking time cut short, the appearance only deepened her commitment to speaking...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A personal and culture-driven exploration of the most pressing questions facing the transgender community today, from a leading activist, musician, and academic. In Trans Like Me, CN Lester takes readers on a measured, thoughtful, intelligent yet approachable tour through the most important and high-profile narratives around the trans community, turning them inside out and examining where we really are in terms of progress. From the impact of the...
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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
c1980
Physical Desc
xviii, 424 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
John Boswell's National Book Award–winning study of the history of attitudes toward homosexuality in the early Christian West was a groundbreaking work that challenged preconceptions about the Church's past relationship to its gay members-among them priests, bishops, and even saints-when it was first published thirty-five years ago. The historical breadth of Boswell's research (from the Greeks to Aquinas) and the variety of sources consulted make...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
307 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Allen takes us on a cross-country road-trip stretching all the way from Provo, Utah to the Rio Grande Valley to the Bible Belt to the Deep South. Her motto for the trip: "Something gay every day." Making pit stops at drag shows, political rallies, and hubs of queer life across the heartland, she introduces us to scores of extraordinary LGBT people working for change, from the first openly transgender mayor in Texas history to the manager of the only...
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Publisher
Abrams Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
ix, 262 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Peter Ackroyd is our preeminent chronicler of London. In Queer City, he looks at the metropolis in a whole new way - through the history and experiences of its gay population. In Roman Londinium the penis was worshipped and homosexuality was considered admirable. The city was dotted with lupanaria ('wolf dens' or public pleasure houses), fornices (brothels) and thermiae (hot baths). Then came the Emperor Constantine, with his bishops and clergy, monks...
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