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Book SynopsisMeet the LGBTQ+ dealmakers, trailblazers, and glass-ceiling breakers in business, politics, and beyond.The people who are creating national public policy, running billion-dollar tech enterprises, and winning Olympic medals. Andrew Gelwicks interviews the leaders who have forged their own paths and changed the world, showing how you can too.From Troye Sivan to Margaret Cho, George Takei to Billie Jean King, Shangela to Adam Rippon, each person credits their queer identity with giving them an edge in their paths to success. Their stories brim with the hard-won lessons gained over their careers. You’ll learn how to:Channel anger in a positive way -- using it as rocket fuel to succeedLeverage your difference to beget new ideas and strategiesBridge generational gapsAccess resources to conquer denial, internalized homophobia, and doubtUse your sensitivity and attunement to read the room, deciding when to fit in and when to stand outFind a queer tribe and learn to help and lean on one anotherCollecting incisive, deeply personal conversations with inspirational LGBTQ+ trailblazers about how they leveraged the challenges and insights they had as relative outsiders to succeed in the worlds of business, tech, politics, Hollywood, sports and beyond, The Queer Advantage celebrates the unique, supercharged power of queerness.

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Book SynopsisA study of lesbian desire in French and Francophone films.Trade ReviewCairns provides us not only with a rich and extensive overview of her subject, but also with an apposite starting-point for future fertile debates. As a consequences, this book will be of great value for the fields of French and francophone screen and cultural studies. -- Daren Waldron Modern Language Review It forms an invaluable resource for anyone working on gay and lesbian studies in a French and/or cultural studies context. -- LISA DOWNING, UNIVERSITY OF EXETER French Studies a great resource as much for film studies as for studies in this genre -- Brigitte Rollet, University of London Institute in Paris Modern and Contemporary France Cairns provides us not only with a rich and extensive overview of her subject, but also with an apposite starting-point for future fertile debates. As a consequences, this book will be of great value for the fields of French and francophone screen and cultural studies. It forms an invaluable resource for anyone working on gay and lesbian studies in a French and/or cultural studies context. a great resource as much for film studies as for studies in this genreTable of Contents1. Lesbian Desire in Film: Coming to Terms; 2. Bad Girls: Criminality; 3. Mad Girls: Pathology; 4. Girls On The Edge: Liminality; 5. Girls On Top: Sapphology; 6. Conclusion; Annotated Filmography; Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisAn innovative study of the successful indie film Brokeback Mountain.Trade ReviewThis is an attractive volume with an appealing cover and high production values. It offers -- Sandra Burr M/C - Media and Culture The role of this series is significant in adding to the discourse in circulation. -- Rona Murray, De Montfoprt University New Review of Film and Television Studies This is an attractive volume with an appealing cover and high production values. It offers The role of this series is significant in adding to the discourse in circulation.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Genre; 3. Spectatorship and Brokeback Fever; 4. Exhibition and Reception.

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Book SynopsisFrench Queer Cinema examines the representation of queer identities and sexualities in contemporary French filmmaking. This groundbreaking volume is the first comprehensive study of the cultural formation and critical reception of contemporary queer film and video in France. French Queer Cinema addresses the emergence of a gay cinema in the French context since the late 1990s, including critical coverage of films by important contemporary directors such as François Ozon, Sébastien Lifshitz, Patrice Chéreau, André Téchiné and Christophe Honoré. Nick Rees-Roberts transposes contemporary Anglo-American Queer Theory to the study of French screen culture, drawing particular attention to issues of race and migration such as problematic fantasies of Arab masculinities in queer cinematic production. This theoretically-informed book engages with a number of fault-lines running through queer cultural representation in France including transgender dissent and the effects of AIDS and loss on the formation of queer identities and sexualities.Trade ReviewNick Rees-Roberts' volume is a welcome addition to French cinema studies. It is a thorough documentation and analysis of representations of queerness in contemporary French film and is a work that engages a wide variety of subjects including the depiction of minorities, independent and auteur films, and pornography. The author ably shows the intersections between queer subjects and AIDS, republican values, identity politics, inscriptions of sexualities in daily life, and other contemporary concerns. This volume is a valuable addition to our understanding of post-modern French culture and will be of great value to students and researchers alike. -- Professor Lawrence R. Schehr, University of Illinois Nick Rees-Roberts' volume is a welcome addition to French cinema studies. It is a thorough documentation and analysis of representations of queerness in contemporary French film and is a work that engages a wide variety of subjects including the depiction of minorities, independent and auteur films, and pornography. The author ably shows the intersections between queer subjects and AIDS, republican values, identity politics, inscriptions of sexualities in daily life, and other contemporary concerns. This volume is a valuable addition to our understanding of post-modern French culture and will be of great value to students and researchers alike.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Beur Masculinity and Queer Fantasy; 2. Down and Out: Immigrant; 3. Mauvais genres: Transgender and Gay Identity; 4: Queer Sexuality, AIDS and Loss; 5: The Emergence of Queer DIY Video.

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Book SynopsisFocusing on films from 1998 onwards, this title analyses the development of LGBTQ filmmaking and filmwatching in Spain and places this within the wider cultural context. It investigates how these films are distributed and how audiences react to them.

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Book SynopsisSince the Catalan government passed the first of Spain''s regional governmental laws on same-sex partnership in 1998, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual and queer culture in Spain has thrived. Spanish Queer Cinema assesses the impact of this significant cultural expression on Spanish Cinema and evaluates the role LGBTQ film has had in creating and shaping identity and experience.Focusing on films from 1998 to the present day, Chris Perriam skilfully analyses the development of LGBTQ filmmaking and filmwatching in Spain and places this within the wider cultural context. Covering lesbian cinema, gay and queer documentaries and short films, as well as mainstream features, the book investigates how LGBTQ films are distributed and how audiences react to them. It includes discussions of film festivals, cultural centres and social networking sites and it places the filmwatching experience within the context of other cultural activities such as television viewing, reading, surfing, downloading and festival-going. It assesses the importance and impact of Spanish queer cinema on the construction of LGBTQ identities and experiences.An informative and thought-provoking book, Spanish Queer Cinema is an essential read for students and scholars working in the fields of Film Studies, Spanish Studies and Cultural Studies.

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Book SynopsisAddresses the socio-political context informing both queer DIY video and independent gay cinema, including films such as Patrice Chereau's Ceux qui m'aiment prendront le train, Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau's Drole de Felix, Francois Ozon's Le Temps qui reste and Andre Techine's Les Temoins.

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Book SynopsisExploring the archetypal representation of the straight girl with the queer guy in film and television culture from 1948 to the present day, Straight Girls and Queer Guys considers the process of the ''hetero media gaze'' and the way it contextualizes sexual diversity and gender identity. Offering both an historical foundation and a rigorous conceptual framework, Christopher Pullen draws on a range of case studies, including the films of Doris Day and Rock Hudson, the performances of Kenneth Williams, televisions shows such as Glee, Sex and the City and Will and Grace, the work of Derek Jarman, and the role of the gay best friend in Hollywood film. Critiquing the representation of the straight girl and the queer guy for its relation to both power and otherness, this is a provocative study that frames a theoretical model which can be applied across diverse media forms.

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Book SynopsisAre gay rights "equal rights" or "special rights?" Is homosexuality immoral? While contributors to Same Sex, including the late John Boswell, David Halperin, and George Chauncey, often clash in opinion, they share a fundamental commitment to careful, rational discussion.Trade ReviewThis series of essays and responses makes for a calm, measured debate on the morality of homosexuality and of society's treatment of homosexuals . . . [and] attempts to substitute reason and scholarship for diatribe. * The Instrumentalist *This is a thoughtful book, one that provides plenty of space for reflection and drawing one's own conclusions—or seeking further information. * National Catholic Reporter *One welcomes with enthusiasm, therefore, Same Sex, a series of twenty-seven essays which gives space to arguments on both, or more, sides of many of the issues surrounding homosexuality, and genuinely seeks to engage in intellectual debate. * Times Literary Supplement *Exceptionally comprehensive, admirably balanced, endlessly thought-provoking." -- Bruce Bawer, author of A Place at the Table[An] extremely useful collection of original pieces and recent classics. -- Chesire Calhoun, Department of Philosophy, Colby College. . . lucidly distinguishes among nature/nurture, essentialist/constructionist, and determinist/voluntarist . . . -- Susan Henking, Hobart and William Smith Colleges * Religious Studies Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction Acknowledgments I. Morality and Religion 1 Why Shouldn't Tommy and Jim Have Sex? A Defense of Homosexuality 2 A Reply to Corvino 3 Law, Morality, and "Sexual Orientation" 4 Homosexual Conduct: A Reply to the New Natural Lawyers 5 The Homosexual Movement 6 A Reply to the Ramsey Colloquium 7 The Bible on Homosexuality: Ethically Neutral 8 Romans 1:26-27 and Biblical Sexuality II. Science and Identity 9 The Origins of Sexual Orientation: Possible Biological Contributions 10 The Exotic-Becomes-Erotic Theory of Sexual Orientation 11 The Ethical Relevance of Scientific Research on Sexual Orientation 12 Diversity and Variability in Women's Sexual Identities 13 Explaining Homosexuality: Who Cares Anyhow? III. Identity and History 14 Aristophanes' Speech from the Symposium Plato 15 Revolutions, Universals, and Sexual Categories 16 Sex Before Sexuality: Pederasty, Politics, and Power in Classical Athens 17 The Reproduction of Butch-Fem Roles: A Social Constructionist Approach 18 Christian Brotherhood or Sexual Perversion? Homosexual Identities and the Construction of Sexual Boundaries in the World War I Era 19 Strangers at Home: Bisexuals in the Queer Movement IV. Public Policy 20 Make Love, Not War: The Pentagon's Ban is Wise and Just 21 Dry-cleaning the Troops and Other Matters: A Critique of Don't Ask. Don't Tell 22 The Case for Outing 23 Outing, Ethics, and Politics: A Reply to Mohr 24 How Domestic Partnerships and "Gay Marriage" Threaten the Family 25 Who Needs Marriage? 26 Against Marriage 27 A Gay and Straight Agenda Notes Index About the Contributors

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Book SynopsisThe long-awaited memoir from one of the most acclaimed radical writers in American literature. Described by the London Review of Books as one of “the most brilliant critics writing in America today,” Gary Indiana is a true radical whose caustic voice has by turns haunted and influenced the literary and artistic establishments.  With I Can Give You Anything but Love, Gary Indiana has composed a literary, unabashedly wicked, and revealing montage of excursions into his life and work—from his early days growing up gay in rural New Hampshire to his escape to Haight-Ashbury in the post–summer-of-love era, the sweltering 1970s in Los Angeles, and ultimately his existence in New York in the 1980s as a bona fide downtown personality. Interspersed throughout his vivid recollections are present-day chapters set against the louche culture and raw sexuality of Cuba, where he has lived and worked occasionally for the past fifteen years. ConnoisseTrade Review"In sharing his memoirs, Gary Indiana exposes the inner turmoil, his naked truths of sexuality as a gay man and the clear and still present intuitive qualities of his distinctive and intelligent voice as a writer. . . 'I Can Give You Anything But Love' is not a breezy read and that is part of the fascination to be found in his writing style and livelihood."-EDGEMEDIANETWORK.COM"It's impossible to agree or disagree with all of Indiana's (often fearless) critical pronouncements, but it's likewise impossible to discount his tremendous style, wit, and education. Careworn copies of this long overdue memoir will change hands for the rest of the year and beyond." -FLAVORWIRE.COM "This memoir is classic Gary Indiana, waspish and gorgeous and a little wary of sharing its heart when sharing its other parts might work just as well."-openlettersmonthly.com"A graphic and funny memoir, [I Can Give You Anything But Love] finds Indiana reinventing yet another genre - this time using his own personal narrative. He becomes the connective tissue that binds together a diaspora of subcultures: the beatnik-era experimental writing and happenings of downtown New York, the 1960s co-opted counterculture gone awry, the punk movement that followed, and the art and intellectual circles of the Reagan 80s, when the AIDS crisis was wiping out a generation of young gay men like him." -THE LOS ANGELES TIMES"I Can Give You Anything But Love is discursive, impressionistic, punctuated by incisive reflections on history and culture, witty evocations of period and place, mystifying forays into character assassination, and frank descriptions of sex." -THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS

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Book SynopsisThe first book of its kind, Homosexuality and Family Relations focuses on the effects of homosexuality and being homosexual on individuals in families and on the family as a group. Edited by Frederick W. Bozett, RN, DNS, and Marvin B. Sussman, PhD, this informative and enlightening volume examines the multiple varieties of family forms in which gay men and lesbians live, addresses the ramifications of homosexuality on family relationships, and explores the countless aspects of parenthood as they are experienced by gay men and lesbians, including adoption and foster care by lesbians and gay men, and the choice of increasing numbers of lesbians to bear children through artificial fertilization. Any professional who is interested in the family--educators, clinicians, academicians, researchers, and students, as well as others interested in families and in human sexuality and men's and women's studies--family science, gay studies, nursing, medicine, law, psychology, sociology, social work--Table of ContentsContents Homosexuality and Family Relationships: Views and Research Issues Hidden Branches and Growing Pains: Homosexuality and the Family Tree Married Homosexual Men: Prevalence and Background Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner This Time? A Study of Gay Intimate Relationships and the Support for Those Relationships Adoption and Foster Parenting for Lesbians and Gay Men: Creating New Traditions in Family The Married Lesbian Lesbians and the Choice to Parent Parenting by Gay Fathers Children of Gay and Lesbian Parents Gay and Lesbian Adolescents Ethnic Minority Families and Minority Gays and Lesbians Older Lesbian and Gay People: Responding to Homophobia Institutional Religion and Gay/Lesbian Oppression AIDS: Impact on the Gay Man’s Homosexual and Heterosexual Families The Shaman: The Gay and Lesbian Ancestor of Humankind Homosexuality and Family Relations: Glossary of Terms

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