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Book SynopsisThis is the first introductory textbook intended for transgender/trans studies at the undergraduate level. The book can also be used for related courses in LGBTQ, queer, and gender/feminist studies.It encompasses and connects global contexts, intersecting identities, historic and contemporary issues, literature, history, politics, art, and culture. Ardel Haefele-Thomas embraces the richness of intersecting identities—how race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, class, nation, religion, and ability have cross-influenced to shape the transgender experience and trans culture across and beyond the binary. Written by an accomplished teacher with experience in a wide variety of higher learning institutions, this new text inspires readers to explore not only contemporary transgender issues and experiences but also the global history of gender diversity through the ages.Introduction to Transgender Studies features:-A welcoming approach that creates a safe space for a wide range of students, from those who have never thought about gender issues to those who identify as transgender, trans, nonbinary, agender, and/or gender expansive.-Writings from the Community essays that relate the chapter theme to the lived experiences of trans and LGB people and allies from different parts of the world.-Key concepts, film and media suggestions, topics for discussion, activities, and ideas for writing and research to engage students and serve as a review at exam time.-Instructors’ resources that will be available that include key teaching points with discussion questions, activities, research projects, tips for using the media suggestions, PowerPoint presentations, and sample syllabi for various course configurations.Intended for introductory transgender, LGBTQ+, or gender studies courses through upper-level electives related to the expanding field of transgender studies, this text has been successfully class-tested in community colleges and public and private colleges and universities.Trade ReviewNamed a top ten book of 2020 by the Over the Rainbow committee of the American Library Association * Over the Rainbow committee of the American Library Association *I can’t imagine a better textbook introducing students to transgender studies. Ardel Haefele-Thomas lucidly explains the complexities of gender nonconformity using clear analysis, together with rich and nuanced historical examples. These are elucidated further with the delightful details they deserve. -- Paisley Currah, coeditor of Transgender Studies QuarterlyThis is a groundbreaking textbook and significant development in transgender studies. Students will relate to all aspects of each chapter, including the personal stories, rich histories, interactive questions, inspiring trans figures, and much more. This is a must read and a truly intersectional accomplishment. -- Breana Bahar Hansen, City College of San Francisco and University of San FranciscoThe cultural historian, queer theorist, and trans activist Ardel Haefele-Thomas has written an indispensable textbook on gender and sexuality for schools and universities. I have field-tested it with students across ethnicities and nationalities. They are invariably drawn to the well-researched multicultural histories, precise definitions of LGBTQ+, and the very personal stories of members of the community that the author has assembled. This volume will further transgender tolerance and challenge the binary as much as any single work can do. -- Regenia Gagnier, University of ExeterArdel Haefele-Thomas has done a commendable job presenting what transgender has meant up to our present moment, thereby giving the rising generation a generous gift to use as they see fit for the ongoing project of creating a less straitjacketed, more expansive sense of what a human life can be. It offers a useful place to start thinking about basic concepts like sex and gender, sexual orientation, and identity. -- Susan Stryker, University of Arizona, from the forewordIt makes me so honored and happy to write the introduction to Ardel Haefele-Thomas’s groundbreaking and profoundly important Introduction to Transgender Studies. A book like this matters to everybody. -- Jo Clifford, independent playwright, poet, and performer and former professor of theater at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, ScotlandPragmatic, philosophical, urgent, and inclusive, Introduction to Transgender Studies is a crucial introduction to an important area of study. . . . With high-level theories that often tie into current-day examples—like bathroom discrimination and the concerning rate of violence against trans people––Introduction to Transgender Studies is a powerful work and a constant reminder that what we learn is significant to real lives, every day. * Foreword Reviews *A must-read for anyone needing an education on transgender history. * Advocate *Table of ContentsPrefaceForeword, by Susan StrykerIntroduction, by Jo CliffordA Note on Language1. Sex and Gender: Stories and Definitions2. Sexual Orientation: Stories and Definitions3. Modern Sexology: The Science of Objectification, or the Science of Empowerment?4. Direct Action, Collective Histories, and Collective Activism: What a Riot!5. Navigating Binary Spaces: Bathrooms, Schools, Sports6. Navigating Government Documents, Work, and Healthcare: I'll Need to See Some I.D. with That7. Global Gender Diversity throughout the Ages: We Have Always Been with You8. Four Historical Figures Who Cross-Dressed: The Adventurer, the Ambassador, the Surgeon, and the Seamstress9. Cross-Dressing and Political Protest: Parasols and Pitchforks10. Gender Diversity in Artifacts, Art, Icons, and Legends from Antiquity to the Middle Ages: Classically Trans11. Trans Literature, Performing Arts, Music, and Visual Art: The Art of Resistance/The Art of Empowerment12. The Importance of Archives: Hearing Our Own VoicesIndex

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Book SynopsisPresents the cultural and literary history of black dandyism from the 1700s to the 1960s.Trade Review“Miller’s study incites a much-needed dialogue between existing scholarship on the figure of the dandy—particularly its performative queering of modern narratives of masculinity and nationhood—and the legacies of imperialism and slavery that attest to the constant, if silent, presence of race and racializing discourse in those same narratives. . . . [A]n absorbing and timely study of the black dandy.” - Jaime Hanneken, Comparative Literature“Encompassing the genres of drama, fiction, photography, film, and sculpture, Miller's study highlights the ways in which diaspora can be located in the image and the imagination of the body and its garments. . . . The value of Miller's text is in its historical range.” - Alisa K. Braithwaite, Modern Fiction Studies“Monica L. Miller's book is the first of its kind: a lengthy written study of the history of black dandyism and the role that style has played in the politics and aesthetics of African and African American identity. She draws from literature, film, photography, print ads, and music to reveal the black dandy's underground cultural history and generate possibilities for the future. . . . [U]ncanny feats of scholarship that illustrate ways in which the figure of the black dandy has been an elephant-in-the-room — albeit a particularly well-dressed one.” - D. Scot Miller, San Francisco Bay Guardian“A model for cultural studies, Slaves to Fashion brings the rich,interdisciplinary scholarship of the black dandy into the twenty-first century, serving the fields of both black and American studies.” - Pamela J. Rader, MELUS“Miller has performed a cultural excavation, sifting through fragments of visual and literary culture to trace a history of black style and assemble the first history of black dandyism. Her work deserves a place among the finer recent contributions to black performance studies. . . .” - Kristin Moriah, Callaloo“Monica L. Miller’s close readings dazzle, and her historical reach—confident and unforced—is as long as the transnational arc of black dandyism here is wide. Arresting, discerning, responsible, and urgent, Slaves to Fashion is path-breaking. Literary criticism, visual history, and black Atlantic studies never looked so good.”—Maurice O. Wallace, author of Constructing the Black Masculine: Identity and Ideality in African American Men’s Literature and Culture, 1775–1995“Revising and augmenting scholarship on minstrelsy, literary representations of blackness, and black sartorial aesthetics and visual culture, Slaves to Fashion is an impressive and meticulously researched treatise on the history of the black dandy. It fills a gap in the scholarship on the cultural politics of black self-fashioning.”—E. Patrick Johnson, author of Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity“Encompassing the genres of drama, fiction, photography, film, and sculpture, Miller's study highlights the ways in which diaspora can be located in the image and the imagination of the body and its garments. . . . The value of Miller's text is in its historical range.” -- Alisa K. Braithwaite * Modern Fiction Studies *“Miller has performed a cultural excavation, sifting through fragments of visual and literary culture to trace a history of black style and assemble the first history of black dandyism. Her work deserves a place among the finer recent contributions to black performance studies. . . .” -- Kristin Moriah * Callaloo *“Miller’s study incites a much-needed dialogue between existing scholarship on the figure of the dandy—particularly its performative queering of modern narratives of masculinity and nationhood—and the legacies of imperialism and slavery that attest to the constant, if silent, presence of race and racializing discourse in those same narratives. . . . [A]n absorbing and timely study of the black dandy.” -- Jaime Hanneken * Comparative Literature *“Monica L. Miller's book is the first of its kind: a lengthy written study of the history of black dandyism and the role that style has played in the politics and aesthetics of African and African American identity. She draws from literature, film, photography, print ads, and music to reveal the black dandy's underground cultural history and generate possibilities for the future. . . . [U]ncanny feats of scholarship that illustrate ways in which the figure of the black dandy has been an elephant-in-the-room — albeit a particularly well-dressed one.” -- D. Scot Miller * San Francisco Bay Guardian *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Stylin' Out 1 1. Mungo Macaroni: The Slavish Swell 27 2. Crimes of Fashion: Dressing the Part from Slavery to Freedom 77 3. W. E. B. Du Bois's "Different Diasporic Race Man 137 4. "Passing Fancies": Dandyism, Harlem Modernism, and the Politics of Visuality 176 5. "You Look Beautiful Like That": Black Dandyism and the Histories of Black Cosmopolitanism 219 Notes 291 Bibliography 347 Index 371

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Book SynopsisShows the capacities of film and video to bear witness to the cultural, political, and psychological imperatives of the AIDS crisis. This book explains how queer films and videos made in response to the AIDS epidemics in North America, Europe, Australia, and South Africa challenge assumptions about historical trauma and politics of gay visibility.Trade Review“And although he does a solicitous and richly nuanced job of situating these works in the ever-shifting cultural dynamics of their production and reception, Reframing Bodies does much more than provide a descriptive and historicist re-appraisal of these video/film texts (although in this enterprise it is both detailed and insightful). Beyond the particularity of Hallas’ interest in AIDS, homosexuality and representation, Reframing Bodies will also be essential reading for scholars and students of both memory/trauma studies and film/media studies more generally.” -- Dion Kagan * Screening the Past *“And although he does a solicitous and richly nuanced job of situating these works in the ever-shifting cultural dynamics of their production and reception, Reframing Bodies does much more than provide a descriptive and historicist re-appraisal of these video/film texts (although in this enterprise it is both detailed and insightful). Beyond the particularity of Hallas’ interest in AIDS, homosexuality and representation, Reframing Bodies will also be essential reading for scholars and students of both memory/trauma studies and film/media studies more generally.” - Dion Kagan, Screening the Past“Hallas looks at reframings of film and video conventions like autobiography, home movies, song, museum installations, and news reports. . . . It is wonderful to see attention given to this important archive. One wishes these were all on DVD and that Hallas could offer commentary as one viewed them! In his thoroughness, Hallas collects a wide range of voices in a kind of fraternity, but one based in a n embrace of complexity and difference and never denying the multifaceted trauma of AIDS. Taken together, they say something different than what each could say alone.” -- Chael Needle * A&U Magazine *“Hallas looks at reframings of film and video conventions like autobiography, home movies, song, museum installations, and news reports. . . . It is wonderful to see attention given to this important archive. One wishes these were all on DVD and that Hallas could offer commentary as one viewed them! In his thoroughness, Hallas collects a wide range of voices in a kind of fraternity, but one based in a n embrace of complexity and difference and never denying the multifaceted trauma of AIDS. Taken together, they say something different than what each could say alone.” - Chael Needle, Art & Understanding“This book presents an original and intriguing re-evaluation of queer film and videos made between the mid-1980’s and the early 2000’s in response to the AIDS epidemic. . . . Reframing Bodies expands our understanding of the political importance of visual media to the act of witnessing and the ongoing efforts of AIDS activism.” - James Polchin, Gay and Lesbian Review/ Worldwide“This book presents an original and intriguing re-evaluation of queer film and videos made between the mid-1980’s and the early 2000’s in response to the AIDS epidemic. . . . Reframing Bodies expands our understanding of the political importance of visual media to the act of witnessing and the ongoing efforts of AIDS activism.” -- James Polchin * Gay & Lesbian Review *“This excruciating, tender and evocative book not only produces a timeline of politicized queer corporeal action but peels back the intrinsic value between intersubjectivity and representation. Reframing Bodies explores the boundaries of visuality and visibility through an archive of AIDS activism and queer social history that leaves no rock unturned.” -- Stephanie Rogerson * Fuse Magazine *“With Reframing bodies, Roger Hallas has written a complex yet accessible book that manages to recapture the sense of urgency animating earlier queer AIDS media. But it is not nostalgic. It is also a moving work that reminds us that the AIDS crisis is far from over and that our duties to those afflicted have not abated.” - David Caron, Culture, Health & Sexuality“This is an important, informative, persuasive and timely book. . . . Reframing Bodies is a significant testament and testimony, itself bearing witness to a criminally unrecorded and underexamined time in our lives.” - Monica B. Pearl, Screen“This is an important, informative, persuasive and timely book. . . . Reframing Bodies is a significant testament and testimony, itself bearing witness to a criminally unrecorded and underexamined time in our lives.” -- Monica B. Pearl * Screen *“This excruciating, tender and evocative book not only produces a timeline of politicized queer corporeal action but peels back the intrinsic value between intersubjectivity and representation. Reframing Bodies explores the boundaries of visuality and visibility through an archive of AIDS activism and queer social history that leaves no rock unturned.” - Stephanie Rogerson, Fuse Magazine“With Reframing bodies, Roger Hallas has written a complex yet accessible book that manages to recapture the sense of urgency animating earlier queer AIDS media. But it is not nostalgic. It is also a moving work that reminds us that the AIDS crisis is far from over and that our duties to those afflicted have not abated.” -- David Caron * Culture, Health & Sexuality *“Roger Hallas ensures that HIV/AIDS activist media receives its critical due by showing not only its historical importance but also its formal complexity. Through his passionate engagement, keen sensitivity to shifting contexts of reception, and sophisticated account of the testimonial function of the moving image, he keeps this body of activist media, and its political and memorial legacies, alive for the future. ”—Ann Cvetkovich, author of An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures“Roger Hallas is perhaps today’s leading expert on AIDS and the ‘queer moving image,’ and with Reframing Bodies he takes AIDS cultural studies in a variety of new, compelling directions. He makes important contributions about the practices and politics of homosexuality’s cultural visibility, the representational strategies mobilized around AIDS as a historical trauma experienced by gay men, and the ways that queer moving images allow us to rethink spectatorship, bearing witness, and trauma.”—Alexandra Juhasz, author of AIDS TV: Identity, Community, and Alternative Video“In this incisive and well-written volume, Hallas argues that ‘reframing’ is fundamental to the success of AIDS films and videos in bearing witness to tragedy and trauma while putting forward or holding open alternative imaginings of social existence.” -- Steven Epstein * GLQ *Table of ContentsIllustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1. Historical Trauma and the Performance of Talking Heads 35 2. The Embodied Immediacy of Direct Action: Space and Movement in AIDS Video Activism 77 3. Related Bodies: Resisting Confession in Autobiographical AIDS Video 113 4. Queer Anachronism and the Testimonial Space of Song 151 5. Gay Cinephilia and the Cherished Body of Experimental Film 185 6. Sound, Image, and the Corporeal Implication of Witnessing 217 Afterword 241 Notes 253 Bibliography 291 Index 307

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Book SynopsisWinner, 2019 ATHE Outstanding Book Award, given by the Association for Theatre in Higher EducationWinner, 2018 Errol Hill Award in African American theater, drama, and/or performance studies, presented by the American Society for Theatre ResearchA new manifesto for performance studies on the art of queer of color worldmaking. After the Party tells the stories of minoritarian artists who mobilize performance to produce freedom and sustain life in the face of subordination, exploitation, and annihilation. Through the exemplary work of Nina Simone, Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas, Danh Vo, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Eiko, and Tseng Kwong Chi, and with additional appearances by Nao Bustamante, Audre Lorde, Martin Wong, Assata Shakur, and Nona Faustine, After the Party considers performance as it is produced within and against overlapping histories of US colonialism, white supremacy, and heteropatriarchy. Building upon the thought of José Esteban MTrade ReviewAfter the Party is indeed a manifesto: transparent in its politics and elegant in its prose, it takes the temperature of contemporary politics and offers 'a tactical manual' for survival and transformation … After the Party is a love letter to performance, excavating its efficacy beyond commodification and toward sustenance. With gorgeous prose and unapologetic politics, the author offers this book as a gift … Chambers-Letson invites us to the party, to commit to the transformative and embodied labor of performance that might bestow 'more life.' * Kareem Khubchandani, Global Performance Studies *After the Party is a necessary and fearlessly original text, which pushes against the conventions of the academic monograph, suggesting something closer to a ‘travel guide’ or ‘tactical manual.’ * This Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory *The book is exactly what we need after a year and an uprising that brought increased attention to systemic racism and the unequal distribution of life and death. It is a “travel guide and…tactical manual” (5) that could be called prophetic—but only if you have not been paying attention. This is not an indictment, but a compliment to Chambers-Letson’s work [...] Museum, memorial, and memento mori, After the Party challenges readers to imagine creative ways of living through this moment, and meaningful ways of honoring those we have lost, those we are losing, those we are going to lose. * The Black Scholar *A luminous reflection on mourning, care, and being together. Through deft and intimate analyses, Chambers-Letson assembles a group of insurgents, minoritarian performers whose meditations on survival, death, and collectivity provide the basis for a new theory of communism. These performers show us snippets of space where the violences of neoliberalism, racism, and homophobia are met with howls, defiance, and a turn toward community. These are moments where life persists and this book brings you there. -- Amber Jamilla Musser, author of Sensational Flesh: Race, Power, and MasochismJoshua Chambers-Letson invites us to the party in his beautifully written consideration of the collective functions of performance for more livable black and brown, queer and trans worlds. In a series of cogent readings of various forms of performance across the twentieth century, from Nina Simone to Tseng Kwong Chi, After the Party is a treatise and a handbook for queer and trans of color survival. A timely book and an urgent read! -- C. Riley Snorton, author of Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans IdentityThis is the ongoing process of survival and sustenance that propels Chambers-Letson’s rich theorizations of minoritarian performance, which continuously labours towards 'More Life' in the ongoing work of getting free and bringing your loved ones with you while doing it, even if they have passed on. * Asian Diaspora Visual Cultures and the Americas *Chambers-Letson takes up Muñoz’s work and expands on this to focus on how to deal with the overwhelming death of queer and trans people of color. * Journal of American Culture *

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Book SynopsisKnowing that queer voices have been making themselves heard in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria decades before Stonewall, editors Gary Schmidt and Merrill Cole curated thrilling snapshots of prose fiction from more than twenty contemporary writers whose work defies stereotypes, disciplines, and expectations.Trade ReviewQuertext reveals the startling breadth of gay, lesbian, bi, trans, and queer experiences in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria today. From coming out and gay bashing to queer marriage and parenting and caring for the elderly, this collection emphasizes the diversity of queer life in central Europe." - Robert Tobin, Clark University

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Book SynopsisThis book aims to productively engage the pioneering work of Queer theorists and point toe way towards a new sociological Queer studies. First book to bring the works of theorists and researchers in the social sciences to Queer theory which is distinctively dominated by the Humanities. Uses classic sociological essays that shaped lesbian, gay and bisexual studies and recent original works and applies these to the discursive approach of Queer Theory to create a productive dialogue between the disciplines. Table of ContentsSeries Editor's Preface. Acknowledgements. Introduction by Steven Seidman. Part I: Sociological Perspectives on Homosexual Desire:. 1. The homosexual role: Mary McIntosh. 2. The construction of homosexuality: Jeffrey Weeks. 3. Symbolic interactionism and the forms of homosexuality: Ken Plummer. 4. Capitialism, bureaucracy, and male homosexuality: David Greenburg and Marcia Bystryn. 5. Structural foundations of the gay world: Barry Adam. Part II: Sociology/Queer Theory: A Dialogue:. 6. I can't even think straight: queer theory and the missing sexual revolution in sociology: Arlene Stein and Ken Plummer. 7. A queer encounter: sociology and study of sexuality: Steven Epstein. 8. The heterosexual imaginary: feminist sociology and theories of gender: Crys Ingraham. 9. The politics of inside/out: queer theory, poststructuralism, and a sociological approach to sexuality: Ki Namaste. 10. A place in the rainbow: theorizing lesbian and gay culture: Jancie Irvine. Part III: Queer Sociological Approaches: Identity & Society: . 11. Maiden voyage: excursion into sexuality and identity politics in Asian America: Dana Takagi. 12. A certain swagger when I walk: performing lesbian identity: Kristin Esterberg. 13. Containing AIDS: Magic Johnson and post (Reagan) American: Cheryl Cole. 14. The dilemma of identity: bisexuality in the heterosexual matrix: Amber Ault. Part IV: Queer Sociological Approaches: Identity & Politics:. 15. Postmodernism and queer identities: Scott Bravmann. 16. Contested membership: black gay identities and the politics of AIDS: Cathy Cohen. 17. Must identity movements self destruct? A queer dilemma: Joshua Gamson. 18. The depoliticization of Dutch gay identity of why Dutch gays aren't queer: Jan Willem Duyvendak. Index.

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Book SynopsisBased on extensive archival work, Stormtrooper Families combines stormtrooper personnel records, Nazi Party autobiographies, published and unpublished memoirs, personal letters, court records, and police-surveillance records to paint a picture of the stormtrooper movement as an organic product of its local community, its web of interpersonal relationships, and its intensely emotional internal struggles. Extensive analysis of Nazi-era media across the political spectrum shows how the public debate over homosexuality proved just as important to political outcomes as did the actual presence of homosexuals in fascist and antifascist politics. As children in the late-imperial period, the stormtroopers witnessed the first German debates over homosexuality and political life. As young adults, they verbally and physically battled over these definitions, bringing conflicts over homosexuality and masculinity into the center of Weimar Germany's most important political debates. Stormtrooper Families chronicles the stormtroopers' personal, political, and sexual struggles to explain not only how individual gay men existed within the Nazi movement but also how the public meaning of homosexuality affected fascist and antifascist politics-a public controversy still alive today.Trade ReviewDetailed, well informed, and highly readable-an important and most welcome contribution to the still relatively small number of SA histories, and Wackerfuss has undertaken a huge amount of research into local primary sources. -- Daniel Siemens, University College London A fascinating picture of the private lives of the SA, both as individuals and in their close-knit groups. Many studies concentrate on the SA leadership and its trials and tribulations, but Wackerfuss shines a light on individual units, which were by no means a united front but sometimes fraught with infighting. Beyond that, he peers into the life and minds of individual SA men to see what motivated them to join this violent organization and how it became instrumental in winning support for Adolf Hitler. -- Geoffrey Giles, University of Florida Stormtrooper Families is a much needed addition to the vast collection of books on the Third Reich and its history. Books by Meri Stormtrooper Families offers a much-needed historical reckoning... bringing lucid scholarship to a neglected area in the history of the Nazi regime. -- Karl Wolff New York Journal of Books It is a rare achievement indeed to tell us something new about Nazism. Through its in-depth exploration of 'everyday' life within Hamburg's Sturmabteiling (SA), the Nazi Party's paramilitary group, Andrew Wackerfuss' rich and readable book does just that. -- Victoria Harris Times Higher Education A fascinating study of a history that many textbooks have ignored. -- Darrell Scheidegger Jr. Outword A fascinating, well-researched and well-written book, this one is a keeper. -- Angel Curtis OutSmart A very readable history of the Sturmabteilung (SA), or stormtroopers, one of the earliest wings of Nazism... Highly recommended. Choice Wackerfuss brings a very perceptive eye to his subject... Academic readers will find his contribution to our knowledge of the SA, and especially his perceptive analysis of the psychology of some of its members, immensely useful, while more casual readers will surely find his account, quite simply, very enjoyable to read. -- Alex Burkhardt H-German Wackerfuss provides a welcome addition to our understanding of the early SA movement, and a thoughtful commentary on postwar notions of Nazi sexuality and homoeroticism. -- Tiia Sahrakorpi German History Stormtrooper Families reveals intimate details about the lives of the men who served in the famously cliquish, violent, and chaotic German military unit known as Sturmabteilung (a.k.a. "SA" or "Stormtroopers"). -- Jacob Anderson-Minshall The Advocate A very readable book that offers a window on daily life in the SA as well as a provocative argument about homosexuality and Nazism. -- Laurie Marhoefer American Historical ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Fathers and Forefathers 2. Shattered Sons 3. Stormtroopers Confront The Criminal 4. The Battle of Sternschanze 5. Community and Violence 6. Bloody Sundays 7. The SA Takes Power 8. Long Knives Epilogue. From Sodom to Gomorrah: Hamburg in Ruins Acknowledgments Glossary Index

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Book SynopsisHow do we represent the experience of being a gender and sexual outlaw? In Queer Forms, Ramzi Fawaz explores how the central values of 1970s movements for women's and gay liberationincluding consciousness-raising, separatism, and coming out of the closetwere translated into a range of American popular culture forms. Throughout this period, feminist and gay activists fought social and political battles to expand, transform, or wholly explode definitions of so-called normal gender and sexuality. In doing so, they inspired artists, writers, and filmmakers to invent new ways of formally representing, or giving shape to, non-normative genders and sexualities. This included placing women, queers, and gender outlaws of all stripes into exhilarating new environmentsfrom the streets of an increasingly gay San Francisco to a post-apocalyptic commune, from an Upper East Side New York City apartment to an all-female version of Earthand finding new ways to formally render queTrade ReviewThis is the book I have been waiting for: fearless, brilliant, and filled with love for feminist and queer cultural forms. Rather than fetishizing formlessness as the pinnacle of freedom, Ramzi Fawaz assembles and mines a rich and moving archive of feminist and queer cultural forms that have given us tools to practice intimacy, radical vulnerability, friendship, and worldmaking. Queer Forms was written out of a deep affection for the visionary work of feminist and queer cultural producers, offering us a blueprint for allowing feminist and queer worlds to take shape. * Jennifer C. Nash, author of Birthing Black Mothers *An invigorating work of queer feminist political theory and imagination. Defying the received demand that instances of nonnormative gender identity remain fluid and formless, Ramzi Fawaz dares to present subversive examples of gender and sexual outlaws whose actions track an unfinished project of freedom. In a range of brilliant readings across political movements and cultural texts, he advances new figures of the thinkable and democratic worldmaking that inspire free action in the present. * Linda Zerilli, University of Chicago *Parting ways with queer theory’s preference for the ephemeral, Queer Forms feels the touch and re-touch of shapeshifting forms as it sets queer studies in new and dynamic relation to its objects in the world. In one of his signal claims, Fawaz uses the materiality of form to rethink the pervasive and privileged association of queerness with formlessness and fluidity. Thus, he argues that feminist and queer ideas become meaningful as they take material shape within the realm of popular cultural production, where they change audiences in ways that neither a pedantic politics nor a moralizing theory can. * Matt Brim, author of Poor Queer Studies: Confronting Elitism in the University *An inspirational history of queer and feminist cultural politics forged in the 1970s and extending to the 1990s. Ramzi Fawaz brilliantly maps the forms of relationality that feminist, lesbian, and gay communities invented to visualize themselves and their futures. In an argument that is both crystalline and capacious, he has discerned patterns across a wide range of popular cultural texts, objects, and images, and he demonstrates how radical change has been—and can be—imagined and enacted. Queer Forms is generously both history and manifesto. It calls on us to ask with each other how we want to see our future take shape. * David J. Getsy, author of Abstract Bodies: Sixties Sculpture in the Expanded Field of Gender *With Queer Forms, Ramzi Fawaz has examined gender and sexual formlessness illustrated by queer and feminist film, literature and visual culture. This 'shapeshifting' allows for greater evolution, authenticity and intimacy for all. -- Karla Strand * Ms. Magazine *Including detailed footnotes, a thorough bibliography, and illustrative images, this volume will interest and engage those working in the field of women's and gender studies. -- R. Stone (Mt. St. Joseph University) * CHOICE *

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Book SynopsisThe US military has done an about-face on gender and sexuality policy over the last decade, ending Don't Ask, Don't Tell, restrictions on women in combat, and transgender exclusion. Contrary to expectations, servicemembers have largely welcomed cisgender LGB individualsyet they continue to vociferously resist trans inclusion and the presence of women on the front lines. In the minds of many, the embodied deficiencies of cisgender women and trans people of all genders puts othersand indeed, the nationat risk. In this book, Cati Connell identifies the homonormative bargain that underwrites these uneven patterns of receptiona bargain that comes with significant concessions, upholding and even exacerbating race, class, and gender inequality in the pursuit of sexual equality. In this handshake deal, even the widespread support for open LGB service is highly conditional, revocable upon violation of the bargain. Despite the promise of inclusivity, in practice, the military has made room only Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction: The Dawning of a Kinder, Gentler US Military Part 1 Repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell 1. “The Hard Work to Get Me in the Door”: A History of the Gay Ban 2. “What They Do in Their Private Life, I Couldn’t Care Less”: Striking the Homonormative Bargain 3. “He Acts Straight but He Has This One Thing . . .”: Open LGB Service and Queer Social Control Part 2 Ending Combat Exclusion 4. “When You Want to Create a Group of Male Killers, You Kill the Woman in Them”: Feminine Abjection and the Impossibility of Women Warriors 5. “My Problem’s Not That I’m Gay; My Problem Is That I’m a Woman”: The Patriotic Paternalism of Combat Exclusion Part 3 Removing Medical Restrictions on Transgender Service 6. “Once He Saw Them as Soldiers, I Knew We Had It”: The Trans Ban Tug of War 7. “You Can’t Have Three Bathrooms at a Forward Operating Position”: Gender Panic in the Transgendering Organization Part 4 Conclusion 8 . We Will Be Greeted as Gay Liberators? Methodological Appendix A Methodological Appendix B Methodological Appendix C Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisShows how L. Frank Baum exploited the freedoms of children's literature, in its carnivalesque celebration of a world turned upside-down, to reimagine the meanings of gender and sexuality in early twentieth-century America and to re-envision them for the future.

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Book SynopsisAppalachians are known for their love of place, yet many gays and lesbians from the mountains flee to urban areas in search of greater freedom. Jeff Mann tells his story as one who left and then returned, who insists on claiming and celebrating both regional and sexual identities.Trade Review“It is hard to overstate the importance of Jeff Mann’s Loving Mountains, Loving Men for hillbilly queers. So many of us were raised with the false dichotomy that we could be culturally Appalachian and give up our gayness, or we could be culturally gay and give up our mountain ways. In his beautifully crafted essays, Mann delivers the joyous news that identity is not a matter of either/or but both and.”“Gay Appalachian writers existed before Jeff Mann, but few could be out. Jeff knocked open the door. Mann’s essays and poems, his honesty and courage, have inspired, emboldened, affirmed, and electrified countless LGBTQ Appalachians after him. Jeff Mann is the godfather of queer Appalachian literature, and Loving Mountains, Loving Men is an urtext.”"Mann’s groundbreaking memoir has not aged in the nearly two decades since its first publication. His seamless mixture of prose and poetry continues to inform with relevance and insight what it means to be a gay man in Appalachia. Although Mann’s talent as a poet is notable not only in the poems but also in the prose, I am reminded rereading the collection that he’s also a truly gifted storyteller who transforms memoir into a page turner blending ‘loveliness and ferocity.’”“With a nod to deconstruction, Jeff Mann artfully explodes socially constructed identity binaries, in his case that of being both a proud Appalachian and a gay man. He weaves the story of his life with poetry and prose, revealing vulnerability and fierceness. As an educator, I have witnessed the profound impact of Loving Mountains, Loving Men on all of my students, but in particular, my gay students.”“A unique testimonial to the role of place in defining the self. No other author considered here captures both the pains and joys of being Appalachian so adeptly." * Journal of Appalachian Studies *“The sheer beauty of the prose in the memoir and the language of the poetry is incredible. This is one of the great watershed books of Appalachian literature. Its contribution to the fields of Appalachian studies and gay/gender studies is significant.”“A persistent theme is the familiar Appalachian love of the land and of traditional folkways. Through Mann’s eyes, we see those features, and Appalachian masculinity, anew.” * West Virginia History *

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Book SynopsisAn American's journey of profound self-discovery in Japan, and an exquisite tale of cultural and physical difference, sexuality, love, loss, mortality, and the ephemeral nature of beauty and art.Table of Contents Prologue: In the Province of the Gods . Floating One: Genkan Two: Fortune Three: Barrier Free Four: Foreign Affairs Five: Mono no Aware Six: Physical Facts Seven: A Mountain of Skulls and Candlelit Graves Eight: An Infected Throat and a Healing Tree Nine: Borrowing the Hills II. Away One: Before Two: After III. World One: Survivals Two: A Pair of One-Winged Birds Three: History Being Created, or What the Leech Child Says Four: Rare and Uncommon Beings Five: Bubbling Water Six: My Japan Seven: Before and After Eight: Positive Effects Nine: New Stories in an Ancient Land Epilogue: Procession Acknowledgments Suggested Readings

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Book SynopsisDraws on feminist theory, African American and Latino/a cultural theories, composition studies, film and television studies, and theories of globalization and counter-globalization. This book articulates the central concerns of crip theory and considers how such a perspective might impact cultural and historical inquiry in the humanities.Trade Review"This well-annotated text invites the uninitiated reader to become involved, to reimagine previously held perceptions of what may be considered ‘otherness,’ to welcome disabilities, to access collectively other worlds and future possibilities." * Journal of American Studies *"A wonderful combination of humor, theory, intellectual, and personal insights . . . A valuable and well-written study." * Disability Studies Quarterly *"A compelling case that queer and disabled identities, politics, and cultural logics are inexorably intertwined, and that queer and disability theory need one another…. Makes clear that no cultural analysis is complete without attention to the politics of bodily ability and alternative corporealities." -- Elizabeth Freeman, author of The Wedding Complex"Important and significant for its attempt to find the common ground between disability studies and queer studies. This deftly written and very readable book will appeal to a wide range of readers who are increasingly fascinated by the biocultural interplay between the body, sexuality, gender, and social identity." -- Lennard Davis, author of Bending Over Backwards"The members of the Committee were especially impressed by McRuers original intervention in the area of queer studies, one that not only sheds light on the important new area of disability studies, but brings it into conversation with a variety of disciplinary perspectives, from composition studies to performance art. McRuers book combines the public and the private work of queer studies in surprisingly new ways." -- Ed Madden * Gay and Lesbian Caucus for the MLA *"McRuer charts new intersections for disability studies, queer studies, and American studies. His work is [at its] most vertiginous and rich . . . as he moves swiftly from cinema to street gangs to coming out Crip." * American Quarterly *"Engaging, expansive, and generous." * Sex Roles *Table of ContentsForeword: Another Word Is Possible, by Michael Berube Acknowledgments Introduction: Compulsory Able-Bodiedness and Queer/Disabled Existence 1 Coming Out Crip: Malibu Is Burning 2 Capitalism and Disabled Identity: Sharon Kowalski, Interdependency, and Queer Domesticity 3 Noncompliance: The Transformation, Gary Fisher, and the Limits of Rehabilitation 4 Composing Queerness and Disability: The Corporate University and Alternative Corporealities 5 Crip Eye for the Normate Guy: Queer Theory, Bob Flanagan, and the Disciplining of Disability Studies Epilogue: Specters of Disability Notes Works Cited IndexAbout the Author

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Book SynopsisLonglisted for the Polari First Book Prize 2020Life's a drag... Why not be a queen?'Stories like the one where you shagged a 79-year-old builder and knocked over his sister's ashes while feeding him a Viagra. Or the time you crashed your car because you were giving a hand job in barely moving traffic and took your eye off the car in front. That's the kind of dinner-party ice-breaker I'm talking about.'Northern, working-class and shagging men three times her age, Crystal writes candidly about her search for 'the one'; sleeping with a VIP in an attempt to become a world famous journalist; getting hired and fired by a well-known fashion magazine; being torn between losing weight and gorging on KFC; and her need for constant sexual satisfaction (and where that takes her).Charting her day-to-day adventures over the course of a year, we encounter tucks, twists and sucks, heinous overspending and endless nights spent sprinting from problem to problem in a full face of make-up. This is a place where the previously unspeakable becomes the commendable - a unique portrayal of the queer experience.(c) 2019, Crystal Rasmussen (P) 2019 Penguin AudioTrade ReviewA riotous portrayal of the contemporary queer experience * Dazed *Truthful, revealing and obscenely hilarious […] Strident and unapologetic but really sweet, too. * Attitude *A proud voice for the non-binary community * Gay Times *This book honestly changed my life. Tom’s honesty, vulnerability and fearlessness jumps out of every page and every word. It is the queer bible I’ve always needed and I don’t remember life BT (before Tom) * Sam Smith *Diary of a Drag Queen is a heartfelt memoir of queerness and non-conformity * Vogue *

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Book Synopsis'If you stay alive long enough, people eventually catch up' Born in rural Georgia in 1947, Jayne moved to New York and became part of the 60s art scene surrounding Andy Warhol's Factory. Jayne's story follows the arc of LGBT liberation in the US - she came of age living hand-to-mouth, faced off against police at Stonewall and came out as a trans woman while she was touring Europe with her band. She went everywhere and met everyone and lived to tell the tale. Man Enough to Be a Woman is the funny, fierce memoir of Jayne's extraordinary journey, now including a new epilogue where she reflects on how the world has (almost) caught up with her.Trade ReviewRead this book! Live and learn, suckers -- Debbie HarryFull of insights ... an enjoyable alternative to stories that prioritise a desire to fit into bourgeois norms. * Guardian *Rock's first openly trans singer. Jayne County took part in the Stonewall uprising and influenced artists like David Bowie, The Ramones and Patti Smith. * Stonewall's List of 13 LGBT Heroes You Should Know About *The saga of a true rock & roll eccentric ... hilariously brash, this autobiography offers a raw and raunchy tour of the underground music scene. * Publishers Weekly *I implore you, dear readers, think of all the things you could have been, if Jayne County were your mother. * Alternative Press *A rollickin' time capsule that reads like a dishy who's who of freakdom ... Inspired, intelligent storytelling ... spellbinding. Testifies to County's unflagging and inspirational courage. * Rolling Stone *Jayne County's autobiography is intelligent and thoughtful. Only she expresses compassion for the casualties of that era. * Guardian *A masterpiece of transsexual healing, a rock-and-roll Naked Civil Servant.' -- Tony ParsonsAn utterly shameless read, packed solid with superstar cameos ... a captivating, though often disturbing read. Probably the most honest, in-your-face rock book ever written. * Manchester Evening News *It's one of the most extraordinary sagas in rock history: you read her autobiography with your mouth hanging open, not least because, throughout it all, County never really stopped wrecking. No matter where she fetches up, she somehow manages to end up shocking not just the solids, but the other people intent on shocking the solids. -- Alexis Petridis * Guardian *Her revealing memoir Man Enough To Be A Woman moves through the most exciting counter-cultural scenes in the 20th century... fulfils its promise as an enthralling, riotous memoir by a truly radical individual. * Dazed *County wants to be herself, wants you to be yourself, and wants you to be so without apologizing or self-censoring. Man Enough to Be a Woman offers an alternative, less respectable, more punk blueprint for a new kind of trans and gender non-conforming liberation. -- Sam Moore * Frieze *Intimate storytelling from trailblazing trans singer ... inspiring, absorbing * Mojo magazine *

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Book SynopsisNow that The love that dare not speak its name' may be bolder, this collection aims to restore Stein's short, queer works to the canon, and to burnish her status as an early queer icon.

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Book SynopsisBeyond the Lesbian Vampire is a groundbreaking dive into the pervasive cinematic archetype of the violent lesbian, examining this historically problematic figure within cultural and cinematic imagination from witch to vampire to murderer and identifying her resurgence in seven popular and critically acclaimed films of the late 2010s. Each case study depicts unpunished multidimensional lesbian characters trending toward more justifiable narrative reasons for violence; additionally, they reference past iterations of this archetype's innate' desire for violence, particularly so for the lesbian vampire. The combination of excessive citation alongside narrative shift gestures towards a reclamation of the lesbian vampire within queer horror, as the author weaves textual analysis and scholarly debate around lesbianism's queerness and homonormativity to reveal the cultural salience of the violent lesbian, and of the queer fears and pleasures she evokes. Beyond the Lesbian Vampire is a vital contribution to lesbian studies, horror studies, queer studies and feminist studies.

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Book Synopsis'everything i do kills you. i don't know if i love you because i have to or because i can't help it… i don't know if both of those things are bad.' It's one of those hot April evenings that feel like summer, and the heat is stifling in Sissy's London flat as she dances, unrestrained, beautiful, alive… But when sixteen-year-old Eshe arrives, powerful emotions come to the surface – and the two women are locked in a dance where freedom clashes with duty. babriye bukilwa's play …cake is a psychological drama that asks if the cycle of generational trauma can ever be broken. Can queer, Black femmes find love and belonging when the soil beneath them – and the climate around them – is hostile? It was first performed at Theatre Peckham, London, in 2021, directed by the venue's Associate Director, malakaï sargeant.Trade Review'Claustrophobic and thrilling... babirye bukilwa's two-hander explores themes of race, class and sexuality with extraordinary subtlety' * Independent *'Stunning' * The Stage *'A devastating and necessary watch... Never before have I seen such a real portrayal of the trauma that is passed between generations' * A Younger Theatre *'Raw, uncompromising... A dark, twisted psychological drama' * London Theatre 1 *

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Book SynopsisLarry Kramer's passionate, polemical drama, set during the early days of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s. The Normal Heart traces the story of one man who, while his friends are dying around him, strives to break through a conspiracy of silence, indifference and hostility from public officials and the gay community, and gain recognition for a virus that threatens to change everything. The play received its British premiere at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 1986. Thirty-five years after that premiere, the play's prescience and its searing emotional power are beyond doubt. It was revived on Broadway in 2011 (winning the Tony Award for Best Revival) and adapted for television in 2014 (receiving the Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie). This new edition of the play is published alongside a major revival at the National Theatre, London, in 2021, directed by Dominic Cooke. It features the definitive text of the play, extensive supplementary material including a new introduction by critic and broadcaster David Benedict, and tributes to Larry Kramer by Russell T Davies, Tony Kushner and Matthew López, all of whom have also contributed to the canon of dramatic work about HIV/AIDS – with, respectively, It's A Sin, Angels in America and The Inheritance.Trade Review'Burning, argumentative, witty and contentious play about the political and emotional consequences of the AIDS crisis' * Observer *'Informative, heart-rending, witty, revelatory, poleaxing, a work of utter topicality and transcendent power' * The Listener *'An epic piece of reportage' * The Times *'[A] shattering evening of theatre' * Whatsonstage *'A glorious, wrenching watch... It's a talky play from an era when things weren't talked about, with a rock-solid emotional core and a leavening seam of dark humour. It's terribly, terribly moving' * Evening Standard *'Other plays about the period would follow... But they stood on the shoulders of this one. It demands our consideration' * Telegraph *'Captures the terror, fear, shame and fury of the moment... Kramer's play is living history, written without the benefit of hindsight, and it remains undimmed by time' * The Stage *

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Book SynopsisA Sociology of Sex and Sexuality offers an historical sociological analysis of ideas about expressions of sexual desire, combining both primary and secondary historical and theoretical material with original research and popular imagery in the contemporary context.While some reference is made to the sexual ideology of Classical Antiquity and of early Christianity, the major focus of the book is on the development of ideas about sex and sexuality in the context of modernity. It questions the widespread assumption that the anxieties and fears associated with old sexual mores have been overcome in the late twentieth century context, and asks whether the discourses of Queer sexual politics have successfully fractured the binary categories of heterosexuality and homosexuality.A Sociology of Sex and Sexuality will be of interest to students in the fields of sociology, sexual history, gender studies and cultural studies.Table of ContentsSeries editor's prefaceThe specialness of sexSex and modernityEnlightenment pleasures and bourgeois anxietiesThe science of sexPlanning sexPleasurable sexLiberalizing heterosexuality?Subverting heterosexualityFinal thoughts and questionsIndex.

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Book SynopsisWhile homosexual men are legion in the history of French literature and criticism, until now no critic writing in French or English has given the same sort of attention to lesbians. Waelti-Walters covers two hundred years of fiction, beginning with the publication of Diderot''s The Nun in 1796 and ending with present-day lesbian writers Jocelyne François, Mireille Best, Hélène de Monferrand, and the authors connected to Geneviève Pastre''s lesbian publishing house. While she deals with renowned authors such as Violette Leduc and Monique Wittig, including their respective literary and personal relationships with Simone de Beauvoir and Hélène Cixous, many of the writers discussed will be unknown to most readers. Their novels vary from the extraordinarily powerful to the utterly trite; by providing the first comprehensive guide to this body of work Waelti-Walters sheds light on French literary and cultural history. Waelti-Walters shows how the lTrade Review"Damned Women is an inspiring and enlightening book, a must for anyone interested in the challenging and intriguing role lesbians play as a symbol through which women, as a gender, are culturally feared, despised, and valued. It is a gripping account of the origin of the lesbian as a literary character in French fiction since Diderot's La Religieuse and analyses brilliantly the mix of cliche, censorship, fascination, and desire that go into the creation of lesbian characters." Nicole Brossard

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Book SynopsisA passionate argument for LGBTQ equality within religious communities—“a book for our times and a book for the ages” (EDGE)The myth that the Bible forbids homosexuality—the myth of “God versus Gay”—is behind some of the most divisive and painful conflicts of our day. In this provocative and game-changing book, scholar and activist Jay Michaelson shows that the Bible does not prohibit same-sex intimacy but does quite the opposite. In fact, the vast majority of the Bible’s teachings support the full equality and dignity of LGBTQ people, from the first flaw it finds in creation (“It is not good for a person to be alone”) to the way religious communities grow through reflection and conscience. Michaelson argues passionately for equality—not despite religion, but because of it.With close readings of the Hebrew Bible and New Testament, the latest data on the science of sexual orientation, and a sy

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Book SynopsisAn accurate picture of the LGBTQ rights movement’s achievements is incomplete without this surprising history of how corporate America joined the cause.Legal scholar Carlos Ball tells the overlooked story of how LGBTQ activism aimed at corporations since the Stonewall riots helped turn them from enterprises either indifferent to or openly hostile toward sexual minorities and transgender individuals into reliable and powerful allies of the movement for queer equality. As a result of street protests and boycotts during the 1970s, AIDS activism directed at pharmaceutical companies in the 1980s, and the push for corporate nondiscrimination policies and domestic partnership benefits in the 1990s, LGBTQ activism changed big business’s understanding and treatment of the queer community. By the 2000s, corporations were frequently and vigorously promoting LGBTQ equality, both within their walls and in the public sphere. Large companies such as American Airlines, Apple

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Book Synopsis2014 Lambda Literary Award Finalist: LGBT NonfictionBreaks down the most commonly held misconceptions about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and their lives   In “You Can Tell Just by Looking” three scholars and activists come together to unpack enduring, popular, and deeply held myths about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people, culture, and life in America. Myths, such as “All Religions Condemn Homosexuality” and “Transgender People Are Mentally Ill,” have been used to justify discrimination and oppression of LGBT people. Others, such as “Homosexuals Are Born That Way,” have been embraced by LGBT communities and their allies. In discussing and dispelling these myths—including gay-positive ones—the authors challenge readers to question their own beliefs and to grapple with the complexities of what it means to be queer in the broadest social, political, and

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Book SynopsisWritten by two developmental psychologists, this book reports the findings of The Gay and Lesbian Family Study, an American survey that asked gay parents detailed questions about the way they parent.Trade ReviewServes to advance the understanding of lgbt families in the U.S. today, and helps provide guideposts for members of same-sex households as they pioneer new family formations. -- Terry Boggis,Director, Center Kids, The family program of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Community Center, New YorkSkillfully moves the dialogue from whether or not we should have children to how it is we actually, actively do this thing of being families. . . . Makes important distinctions between the health of our families internally and the effects of the outside world on our development as parents and on our children's development. Johnson and O'Connor engage readers to objectively view our families, the bonds we form, and the egalitarian models that we create for our children without apology and with clarity and respect for this generation of intentional families that has the potential to change the world. -- Aimee Gelnaw,Executive Director, Family Pride CoalitionPerhaps many heterosexual couples with children and less than harmonious households could learn something. * New York Times *An effortless how-to book that would be recommended hand-me-down reading for prospective same-sex parents from those who've fingered the pages within. * Metapsychology Online Book Review *

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Book SynopsisThis introductory volume examines the relationship between same-sex legal issues, public opinion, and legislation since the late 1800s and explores the ways in which the American legal system has advanced -- and hindered -- the civil rights of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender individuals.

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Book SynopsisThe LGBTI community in Turkey face real dangers. In 2015, the Turkish police interrupted the LGBTI Pride march in Istanbul, using tear gas and rubber bullets against the marchers. This marked the first attempt by the authorities to stop the parade by force, and similar actions occurred the following year. Here, Fait Muedini examines these levels of discrimination in Turkey, as well as exploring how activists are working to improve human rights for LGBTI individuals living in this hostile environment. Muedini bases his analysis on interviews taken with a number of NGO leaders and activists of leading LGBTI organisations in the region, including Lambda Istanbul, Kaos GL, Pembe Hayat, Social Policies, Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation Studies Association (SPoD), and Families of LGBT''s in Istanbul (LISTAG). The original information provided by these interviews illuminate the challenges facing the LGBTI community, and the brave actions taken by activists in their attempts to challengeTable of Contents1. Islam, public opinion, and homosexuality in Turkey and the 'Muslim world'; 2. The history of human rights abuses against the LGBTI community in Turkey; 3. The lack of legal protections for the LGBTI community in Turkish law; 4. LGBTI advocacy methods and approaches: looking at the wider field; 5. The use of media in promoting sexual minority rights in Turkey; 6. Political, electoral, and legislative strategies for LGBTI rights; 7. Other forms of LGBTI rights based advocacy; 8. Challenges facing the LGBTI movement in Turkey; 9. Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisWhile millions feel politically marginalized, there is evidence that democracy is evolving into a conversation-based, public-centered practice called deliberative democracy. In this new form of democracy, public discussion, conscious reflection, and collective choice drive democratic governance and have the power to override democratic dysfunction. Illustrating this emerging possibility with examples from 28 years of US public engagement on LGBT equality, this book offers a practical model for the growth of deliberative democracy in which everyone can take part. It identifies the necessary social catalysts, the role of social networks and technology, and key pathways to addressing unconscious bias, hidden fears, and identity based polarization as they were overcome in the LGBT case. It demonstrates how each person can gain voice and influence in a deliberative democracy in which people once again become the true source of political power. This book will interest anyone who cares about the future of democracy.Trade Review'This book is well written, well argued, and theoretically informed. It adds an important contribution to the growing literature on deliberative democracy and public reason. Barvosa argues that the evolution of public thinking and policy on LGBT issues in the US over the past several decades is an instance of public reasoning / deliberative democracy at work. Scholars have been skeptical that the idea of deliberative democracy is at all plausible for large-scale democracies with deep diversity, such as the US. This book responds to those criticisms directly through a grounded, qualitative study of public deliberation over LGBT issues. In addition to examining LGBT rights discourse as an example of deliberative systems at work through law, media, the economy, etc., the author also elaborates in convincing detail on the mechanisms of such discourse. This book is not only highly original but also instructive for more work of a similar kind in the future.' Lori Watson, University of San DiegoTable of ContentsIntroduction. Deliberative systems and the problem of scale; 1. Theoretical overview: deliberative systems at work; 2. Three catalysts of a deliberative system; 3. Social networks in deliberative system growth and implementation power; 4. Overcoming cognitive obstacles: implicit bias, identity threats and fear; 5. Hidden quandaries and implications for deliberative democracy; Conclusion: large-scale deliberative democracy: possible if chosen.

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Book SynopsisThis Companion provides a guide to queer inquiry in literary and cultural studies. The essays represent new and emerging areas, including transgender studies, indigenous studies, disability studies, queer of color critique, performance studies, and studies of digital culture. Rather than being organized around a set of literary texts defined by a particular theme, literary movement, or demographic, this volume foregrounds a queer critical approach that moves across a wide array of literary traditions, genres, historical periods, national contexts, and media. This book traces the intellectual and political emergence of queer studies, addresses relevant critical debates in the field, provides an overview of queer approaches to genres, and explains how queer approaches have transformed understandings of key concepts in multiple fields.Trade Review'The collection is both an invaluable and authoritative resource for scholars and an excellent teaching tool for use in the classroom.' A. J. Ramirez, ChoiceTable of ContentsPart I. Genealogies; 1. Genealogies of Queer Theory Kadji Amin; 2. Queer Writing, Queer Politics: Working Across Difference Keguro Macharia; Part II. Confluences; 3. Convergence, Dissymmetry, Duplicities: Enactments of Queer of Color Critique Chandan Reddy; 4. Transgender Studies, or How to Do Things With Trans* Cáel Keegan; 5. Queer Indigenous Studies, or Thirza Cuthand's Indigequeer Film June Scudeler; 6. Queer Disability Studies Alison Kafer; 7. Queer Ecologies Nicole Seymour; Part III. Representation; 8. Queer Poetics: Deviant swerves, in three Ren (Rachel) Ellis Neyra; 9. Queer Narrative Anne Mulhall; 10. Trace a Vanishing: or, Queer Performance Study Nadia Ellis; 11. Queer and Trans Studies in Pop Culture: Transgender Tripping Points in the Carceral State Erica Rand; 12. Queer Digital Cultures Kate O'Riordan; Part IV. Key Words; 13. Queer Diasporic Crossings and the Persistence of Desire in The Book of Salt Martin Joseph Ponce; 14. Diaspora, Displacement, and Belonging: The Politics of Family and the Future of Queer Kinship Richard T. Rodríguez; 15. Queer Critical Regionalism J. Samaine Lockwood.

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Book SynopsisAccording to David Halperin, sexuality in our time is typified by a crisis in contemporary sexual definition. What is sexuality? What does it mean to have a sexual identity or orientation? What is the relationship between sexuality as a knowledge construct, on one hand, and the often messy flows of desire and practices of love, on the other? How and why are some sexual, erotic, and intimate practices normalized and others marginalized? Queer Theory has emerged in the West as one of the most provocative analytical tools in the humanities and social sciences. It scrutinizes identity and social structures that take heteronormativity for granted that do not question the social construction of heterosexuality as normative in relation to its oppositional binary, homosexuality. At the same time, bisexuality is a practice, identity, and orientation that challenges the binary logic around which cultural notions of sexuality are organized. It is a portal to the imagination of aTable of Contents1. Introduction: Bisexuality and Queer Theory: Intersections, Diversions, and Connections, Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio and Jonathan Alexander Part I: Theories 2. Playing with Butler and Foucault: Bisexuality and Queer Theory, April S. Callis 3. Queerying Theory and Politics: The Epistemic (Dis)Location of Bisexuality within Queer Theory, Maria Gurevich, Helen Bailey and Jo Bower 4. Reclaiming Sexual Difference: What Queer Theory Can’t Tell Us About Sexuality, Susan Feldman 5. Bisexuality In Psychoanalytic Theory: Interpreting the Resistance, Esther Rapoport Part II: Readings 6. Queering Queer Theory, or Why Bisexuality, Matters, Laura Erickson-Schroth and Jennifer Mitchell 7. Refusing Butler’s Binary: Bisexuality and Performative Melancholia in Mrs. Dalloway, Nowell Marshall 8. Plural Happiness: Bi- and Poly-Triangulation in Balasko’s French Twist, Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio Part III: Socialities 9. ‘All the world is queer save thee and me…’: Defining Queer and Bi at a Critical Sexology Seminar, Meg Barker, Christina Richards and Hellen Bowes-Catton 10. Adjusting the Borders: Bisexual Passing and Queer Theory, Jessa Lingel 11. Compulsory Bisexuality? The Challenges of Modern Sexual Fluidity, Breanna Fahs Part IV: Responses 12. Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Bisexual, David Halperin

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Book SynopsisFrom Gay to Z: A Queer Compendium is a celebration of the rich legacy of LGBTQIA+ culture, told through the letters of the alphabet, based on the five-part show The gAybcs.

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Book Synopsis*SHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL CHRISTOPHER BLAND PRIZE 2023**SHORTLISTED FOR THE POLARI FIRST BOOK PRIZE 2023*''I read the book in one go. I laughed and cried like a baby, and was transported back to a time of innocence, clouded by the enormity of the harsh reality . . . Just amazing'' CATHERINE ZETA JONES''As it happens, I was also a Jill in the eighties - but not half as good a Jill as real Jill'' DAWN FRENCH''Jill met the crisis head on . . . She held the hands of so many men. She lost them, and remembered them, and somehow kept going'' RUSSELL T DAVIESA heartbreaking, life-affirming memoir of love, loss and cabaret through the AIDS crisis, from IT''S A SIN''s Jill NalderWhen Jill Nalder arrived at drama school in London in the early 1980s, she was ready for her life to begin. With her band of best friends - of which many were young, talented gay men with big dreams of their own - she grabbed London Trade ReviewI could not put [Jill's] book down. She guides us through her career and her life, and what leaps off the page is her strength, her compassion and her unswerving loyalty to people who were sometimes afraid to live their real lives. I am so pleased that Jill has had the chance to tell her story. We should all 'Be More Jill' -- Lesley Joseph, actor and broadcasterA beautiful, raw, tender book remembering friendships in the eye of the storm -- Russell T Davies, creator of Channel 4's IT'S A SINAs it happens, I was also a Jill in the eighties - but not half as good a Jill as real Jill * Dawn French *Engrossing, heart-breaking and inspiring, this is the perfect companion piece to IT'S A SIN * MATT CAIN, author of THE SECRET LIFE OF ALBERT ENTWISTLE *Took me right back. [Jill has] brought it all to life. A wonderful, wonderful work . . . Thank God for people like [Jill] who got up, stood up and said, "We need to do something about this." . . . I cannot recommend this book highly enough. Obviously very sad, but bloody funny as well! -- Michael BallLove From the Pink Palace is a beautiful yet emotional rollercoaster... Jill writes with ease, this makes it surprising this is her first book. Each chapter is filled with light and dark. They appear so close to each other that you go from crying to full-on belly laughing. * Richard Angell, Campaigns Director - Terrence Higgins Trust *

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Book Synopsis Previous surveys of the gay theatrical repertoire have concentrated on plays produced on Broadway or in London''s West End. This comprehensive guide goes well beyond these earlier studies by introducing productions from Off Broadway, from regional theaters in the U.S. and U.K., and from Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. Also included are Puerto Rican, Indian and Filipino plays written in English, as well as translations from other languages. Well over half of the works discussed here appear for the first time in such a study.

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