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Book SynopsisChoosing Family: A Memoir of Queer Motherhood and Black Resistance is a brilliant literary memoir of chosen family and chosen heritage, told against the backdrop of Chicago’s North and South Sides. As a multiracial household in Chicago’s North Side community of Rogers Park, race is at the core of Francesca T. Royster and her family’s world, influencing everyday acts of parenting and the conception of what family truly means. Like Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts, this lyrical and affecting memoir focuses on a unit of three: the author; her wife, Annie, who’s white; and Cecilia, the Black daughter they adopt as a couple in their 40s and 50s. Choosing Family chronicles this journey to motherhood while examining the messiness and complexity of adoption and parenthood from a Black, queer, and feminist perspective. Royster also explores her memories of the matriarchs of her childhood and the homes these women created Trade Review“Affecting . . . Insightful and reflective, this is a moving tribute to the power of chosen family.” * Publishers Weekly *“Memorable and fluid, professor Francesca T. Royster’s memoir Choosing Family blends her family’s history with her story of adopting an infant girl, juxtaposing personal life with political life and allowing each to illuminate the other. . . . In the lyrical memoir, the personal and political unite in a queer, interracial couple’s celebration of choosing to adopt an infant.” * Foreword Reviews *“The book builds on an intergenerational lineage of powerful women whose strength Royster brings to her own mothering. . . . A potent love letter to community in all its forms.” * Kirkus Reviews *“[An] evocative, memorable memoir . . . This reflection on family dynamics is an important addition to reading material on queer parenting, motherhood, and racial dynamics in modern society.” * The Bay Area Reporter *“The latest book by Francesca Royster will have you Feeling. The. Love. This insightful memoir celebrates the author’s chosen family, which includes her white wife and their Black adopted daughter, and illustrates the ups and downs of adoption, parenthood and queer, interracial relationships.” * Ms. Magazine *“Francesca Royster’s moving memoir is a testament to creating the life and the family that you want . . . The book wonderfully illustrates that readers can give themselves permission to live life on their own terms and that family is what you make it.” * Sisters from AARP *“Choosing Family is a memoir as a chorus. Not only do we hear the stories of generations of Black people in Chicago, mothers and grandmothers, who fought to make their way in the world, but Royster shows us how she survived and thrived when her very being as a queer Black woman pushed her to the margins. It turns out that chosen families are the key, and the diversity, dignity, and care they provide save lives and make remarkable storytelling.” * Salamishah Tillet, Pulitzer Prize–winning writer and author of In Search of The Color Purple: The Story of an American Masterpiece *“Royster’s evocative and profound memoir will make you believe in love again. It will make you know that love—in its ethical, courageous, vulnerable, and committed forms—can lead us to freedom. And for that reason, this book is absolutely necessary and right on time. I’m grateful.” * Imani Perry, National Book Award–winning author of South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation *“In Choosing Family, Royster explores the rich legacies of queer connection, storytelling, and survival enacted by Black mothers. Eschewing dominant narratives of the nuclear family as an ideal, she joins her story with a chorus of others in the past. Her memoir reaches into history and beyond it to testify to the beautiful, varied, and profound traditions of Black love and family-making.” * Anna Malaika Tubbs, New York Times bestselling author of The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcom X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation *“This is the most beautiful love story I’ve read in a long time. Royster describes and cultivates a love that moves across generations, across loss, across doubt, across every social construct of separation [and] dwells in the lessons of the small and large revolutionary choices involved in being a daughter, a partner, an aunt, a community member, and a seeker.” * Alexis Pauline Gumbs, coeditor of Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines *“A joyful and compassionate memoir. . . . A beautifully written work of personal reflection, Choosing Family is actually a guide to life for those of us who are interested in learning the meaning of resilience and finding happiness wherever we land.” * Emily Bernard, author of Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother’s Time, My Mother’s Time, and Mine *“In this powerful, incisive, and deeply personal memoir, Royster explores the beauty and challenges of creating family and the tenets of community necessary to sustain and nurture said family. With precision and heart-wrenching details, she calls into question everything one thinks about generational wisdom, queerness, partnering, parenting, and the consummate fear and the proportional courage that shadow it all. I savored every word.” * Cheryl L. West, award-winning playwright of Fannie, Pullman Porter Blues, Before It Hits Home, and Jar the Floor *“In her memoir, Choosing Family, Royster places herself in conversation with both familial ancestors and intellectual muses in order to make an honest reckoning of her own experiences as a queer Black woman and an adoptive parent. Aptly named, this book highlights the power of choice, particularly when it comes to building family and community of all kinds, and making meaning that serves the future while honoring the past.” * Nishta J. Mehra, author of Brown White Black: An American Family at the Intersection of Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Religion *“DePaul University professor Francesca Royster provides a look at what family really means . . . Parenthood is complex, and readers will feel Royster’s anticipation, joy and deep love, along with her fear. Her writing style has a smooth cadence and makes you feel like you’re with her every step of the way as she raises her daughter in a family that is Black, queer and chosen.” * BookPage *

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Book SynopsisConsiders the issues that impact healthcare for LGBTQ+ Americans today and the negative influences that disproportionately affect the well-being of these communities, and presents a path forward to making needed improvements.The health of LGBTQ+ Americans is affected by many historical achievements and failures, societal influences, economic disparities, cultural shifts, and political divisions that can greatly impact the world of medicine, especially given the COVID-19 pandemic. Each chapter examines these issues to identify the systemic factors and enduring consequences impacting these communities. First-hand accounts from LGBTQ+ individuals impacted by healthcare challenges are included between chapters through "In their Words" perspective essays. An extensive chronology of relevant people, events, and legislation places this topic in historical context and outlines the evolution of healthcare challenges as they relate to sexuality and gender identity. Intended to be an encompassing reference for high school students, college students, and general readers alike, this overview not only explores the historical and contemporary complexities of this topic, but also proposes solutions for improvement and pathways to advocacy.

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Book SynopsisBorn in 1940, Lillian Faderman is the only child of an uneducated and unmarried Jewish woman, who, along with her sister, left their shtetl in Latvia to seek a better life in America. However, her mother''s family were murdered by Nazis and their home destroyed in the war. Her mother, racked by guilt at having left her family behind, suffered from a terrible psychosis. The only relief she had from this, and her brutal sweatshop job, was her daughter, Lilly.Lilly grows into Lil, a beautiful young woman who learns that her deepest erotic and emotional connections are with other women, and who finds herself in a dangerous but seductive world of addicts, pimps, prostitutes and sham-marriages.Desperately seeking to make her life meaningful and to redeem her mother''s suffering, she studies at University of California, Berkeley; paying her way by working as a pin-up model and burlesque stripper, and hiding her lesbian love-affairs from the outside world. At last she becomeTrade ReviewLillian Faderman's portrait of her mother and aunt, lone survivors of their slaughtered family, who have come to America laden with hope, is full of tenderness and candor and sharp, often hilarious wit. It is her unsparing portrait of herself, however, that makes this book so riveting. She is serious and ambitious, loving and stubborn. She is ready to risk everything for knowledge. She also writes beautiful sentences, and her book is likely to become a classic self-portrait in a time of change in America -- Colm TóibínA startling, dark, and wryly eloquent retelling of the American Dream. Who'd have thought a professor's life could be such a gripping page-turner? -- Emma Donoghue, author of ROOM and SLAMMERKINHow one woman used her good looks to land the girl of her dreams, and found a career where she could use her brains instead of her breasts. Today Lillian Faderman is a distinguished academic; her early days among Holocaust-scarred relatives and lesbian pimps on Sunset Strip are a testament to a personal vision in the face of historical struggle -- Sarah Schulman, author of THE COSMOPOLITANS, RAT BOHEMIANS and MY AMERICAN HISTORYA remarkable tale of emergence, bold and exciting, and wonderfully told -- Vivian Gornick, author of FIERCE ATTACHMENTSThis riveting autobiography is vivid, honest, generous, compassionate, and sensuous all at once. Its strength lies in its understanding of historical moments that are important to all women and its ability to make them come alive in a very personal way for each one of us -- Chitra Divakaruni, author of THE VINE OF DESIRE and THE UNKNOWN ERRORS OF OUR LIVESAn incredible memoir of a damaged mother and her observant daughter. Lillian Faderman has written with an amazing voice, a clear-eyed view, and wisdom on how we both save and surmount the past. Hers is a life that is truly worth recording and sharing with all of us. The photos alone are worth the price of admission. -- Amy Tan, author of THE VALLEY OF AMAZEMENT, THE BONESETTER'S DAUGHTER and THE JOY LUCK CLUBTable of ContentsForeword Part One: Lilly 1 How I Became an Overachiever 2 Going Crazy in East L.A. 3 Crushed 4 Men I 5 Shedding Part Two: Lil 6 Hollywood 7 My Movie-Actress Nose 8 The Open Door 9 Getting the Gift of Wisdom 10 Kicked Out 11 A Jewish Prince 12 A Married Woman Part Three: Lillian 13 Higher Education 14 How I Became a Burlesque Queen 15 Men II 16 Professor Faderman 17 How I Became a College Administrator 18 Sheaves of Oats 19 Epilogue Afterword Acknowledgements About the Author

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Book SynopsisThe New York Times Bestseller[An] earth-shaking exposé of clerical corruption. - National Catholic ReporterIn the Closet of the Vatican exposes the rot at the heart of the Vatican and the Roman Catholic Church today. Now in a revised translation and with updated material, this brilliant piece of investigative writing is based on four years'' authoritative research, including extensive interviews with those in power. The celibacy of priests, the condemnation of the use of contraceptives, the cover up of countless cases of sexual abuse, the resignation of Benedict XVI, misogyny among the clergy, the dramatic fall in Europe of the number of vocations to the priesthood, the plotting against Pope Francis--all these issues are clouded in mystery and secrecy.In the Closet of the Vatican is a book that reveals these secrets and penetrates this enigma. It derives from a system founded on a clerical culture of secrecy wTrade Review[An] earth-shaking exposé of clerical corruption [...] What Martel does, quite masterfully, is to connect the dots that reveal an ecclesial system in profound decay [...] In the Closet of the Vatican examines in impressive detail the double lives led by many of the church's prelates [...] Without question, [the book] is a truly remarkable publishing event * National Catholic Reporter [US] *A truly shocking theory about the Vatican; the largest gay community in the world * Il Giornale [Italy] *I urge every Catholic to read it, however difficult that may be […] The book did not surprise me, as such, but it still stunned, shocked, and disgusted me. You simply cannot unread it, or banish what is quite obviously true from your mind […] This may seem like hyperbole, but in my view, the last drops of moral authority the Vatican might hope to have evaporate with this book. -- Andrew Sullivan * New York Magazine *Probably one of the best books by a journalist ever written * Gazeta Wyborcza [Poland] *Martel’s conversational style is that of the raconteur […] he tells a captivating story * Catholic Herald *Stunned may be a much-overused word, but it's the best one I know to describe my wonderment at the dimensions of what has come into view […] All this builds up to the realisation that you are seeing something which, once seen cannot be unseen. By anyone who has seen it. Once it is seen, it is known as a fact about the Church's institutional working that cannot be got around. To pretend otherwise is a sign of delusion. -- James Alison * ABC.net.au *A glimpse of the poisonous world that Frédéric Martel, himself gay, has spent five years researching for this book -- Andrew Brown, * Guardian *An important revelation * Daily Telegraph *Sensational … this is much, much more than an expose of some taffeta-clad hypocrites…fascinating * Sunday Times *Explosive … Pope Francis seems to be … determined to reform the Vatican … If Martel’s book proves anything, it is that this is now seriously overdue … It would be a mistake to rubbish this book … [Martel is] a highly intelligent and honest journalist and the Church will need courage to respond to his revelations fruitfully * The Tablet *A remarkable feat of investigation … Any friend of the Roman Catholic Church needs to take this book’s message seriously. -- Diarmaid MacCulloch * The Times *When God died, the official cause was elderly enfeeblement; after reading Frederic Martel’s expose of infamy in the Catholic church, I suspect that the old boy committed suicide in remorse, aghast at the crimes and un-Christian sins of organised religion * Observer *Table of ContentsNote from the author and the publishers Prologue PART I: FRANCIS 1 Domus Sanctae Marthae 2 Gender theory 3 Who am I to judge? 4 Buenos Aires 5 The Synod 6 Roma Termini PART II: PAUL 7 The Maritain Code 8 Loving friendship PART III: JOHN PAUL 9 The sacred college 10 The Legion of Christ 11 The ring of lust 12 The Swiss Guard 13 The crusade against gays 14 The pope's diplomacy 15 Strange househld 16 Rouco 17 CEI 18 Seminarians PART IV: BENEDICT 19 Passivo e biano 20 The vice-pope 21 Dissidents 22 Vatileaks 23 The abdication Epilogue Acknowledgements

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Book SynopsisThrough an astonishing series of interviews, Gay Men's Style will take you on a dizzying journey through shops, bars, clubs, gyms, workplaces and global city streets. Based on the lived experience of gay men of all ages from the UK, USA, Europe, Australia and Japan, Shaun Cole calls for a more nuanced understanding of gay male dress and style.Gay male identities in the 21st century are increasingly intersectional, fluid and flexible, from hyper-masculinity and muscularity seen in clubs and on the pages of gay magazines to self-knowing drag culture and androgynous gender play in the fashion industry. Gay Men's Style explores these multiple identities and the ways in which gay men self-identify and present themselves to the world through dress. This analysis is set alongside seismic shifts in technology, global communication and gay rights to redress and readdress the subject of gay men's style in a time of social and sexual upheaval.Trade ReviewFills a notable gap in the growing literature surrounding dress and sexualities and will provide an invaluable reference for future researchers. * Fashion Theory *Gay Men’s Style addresses both sexuality and culture. Through an astonishing series of interviews, the author takes us on a dizzying spin through shops, bars, clubs, gyms, workplaces and streets of global cities around the world. Always placing the emphasis on real lives and experiences, this important work makes us reconsider how gay men’s dress is continually remade to create looks, desires, communities and a sense of self for work and leisure in a world that remains challenging and normative. -- Peter McNeil, Distinguished Professor, University of Technology Sydney, AustraliaTable of ContentsPreface Introduction Identities, subject positions and Intersectionality Defining Style, Fashion and Dress Methodological approaches Chapter arrangement 1. What’s the difference?: Situating Gay Men in the New Millennium ‘How to spot a millennial homo: differences in gay and straight men’s dress Well-dressed gay men – a stereotype What is gay style? ‘… made me gay’: Cultural Influences on gay men’s dress choices Hipster / Metrosexual /Homosexual – where is the gay/straight border? 2. Gender[ed] play Femininity, effeminacy and drag Gay masculinities and ‘butch’ styles of dress Gender ambiguities in gay men’s dressed appearance 3. Millennial Gay bodies Mesomorphic bodies, muscularity and the gym Ectomorphic Skinny and Slim Bodies Endomorphic Bigger, Heavier, Fatter Bodies Body Modifications: Tattoos Bodily presentations on social media 4. Coming out and first gay styles Thinking about coming out Teenage coming out and effeminacy Punk, goth and emo as a defining teenage gay style Coming out and adopting gay styles of dress Coming out – an ongoing process Coming out in later life 5. Bars, clubs and scenes Comparing categories of bars, clubs and scenes (might need a better title) Muscularity on the global circuit party scene Bear Scene (sub)culture Alternative Queer scenes Loss of gay scenes and spaces 6. Dressing in and for relationships Dressing to pick up Dressing like the object of desire Sexual Attraction and masculinity and femininity Feeling attractive and looking sexy Hair and Sexual attraction Dressing for dates Coupledom: shared wardrobes and similar styles The influence of partners and relationships on personal style Shopping together and gifting clothes in relationships 7. Creating the gay wardrobe Physical wardrobe and clothing arrangements Choosing in the morning Assembling outfits Smart versus casual Variety versus uniformity Dress codes and regulations 8. We’re Here, We’re Queer, Are We Going Shopping? From High street to High-end designer Following Fashion Trends? The Price is Right Physical stores or online retailers? Vintage and Second Hand 9. Dressing for Work Formality at work Uniformity in Retail and Sales? Fashionability at work Artistic and Creative Performance as work, work as performance 10. Comfort and fit Baggy, loose and comfortable Close-fitting and Tailored Comfort and Confidence Fashionability, Integrity and Authenticity Well-fitting garments and age-appropriate comfort 11. Ambiguities of Age and Ageing Awareness of age and ageing Changing with age Age-appropriate choices Ageing and hair Age and Health concerns Ageing capital Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis book investigates the different ways gender and sexuality intersect with nationhood and national forms of belonging, and explores the role of queerness within the constitution of an Irish national culture.

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Book SynopsisShame proposes a new form of political action that shows how 19th century activists denaturalise conventional beliefs about sexuality and gender, and challenge strong asymmetries of power.

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Book SynopsisElizabeth English explores the aesthetic dilemma prompted by the censorship of Radclyffe Hall's novel The Well of Loneliness in 1928. Faced with legal and financial reprisals, women writers were forced to question how they might represent lesbian identity and desire.

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Book SynopsisExamines the emergence of gay male and female heterosexual alliances within contemporary media.

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Book SynopsisPeter Goodrich looks beyond Judge Schreber's mental health to evaluate his jurisprudential theory. Goodrich analyses Schreber's Memoirs, interpreters and intellectual context to show how Schreber challenges the legal thought of his era and opens up a potentially vital approach to contemporary jurisprudence.

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Book SynopsisExplores a series of unsung and sometimes counterintuitive resonances between second-wave feminism and queer theory in both Anglophone and Francophone contexts.Table of ContentsIntroduction, Lara Cox and Lisa Downing; Articles: The Queer Body of MLF Literature, Anne Emmanuelle Berger; `Wittig and Davis, Woolf and Solanas (…) simmer within me’: Reading Feminist Archives in the Queer Writing of Paul B. Preciado, Elliot Evans; Fucking the body, rewriting the text: Proto-queer embodiment through textual drag in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando (1928) and Monique Wittig’s Le Corps lesbien (1973), Kayte Stokoe; Decolonial Queer Feminism in Donna Haraway’s `A Cyborg Manifesto’ (1985), Lara Cox; Queering Sexism and Whiteness with Marilyn Frye, Ulrika Dahl; Anticommunal, Antiegalitarian, Antinurturing, Antiloving: Sex and the `Irredeemable’ in Andrea Dworkin and Catharine MacKinnon, Alex Dymock; Antisocial Feminism? Shulamith Firestone, Monique Wittig, and Proto-Queer Theory, Lisa Downing; Interviews: Interview with Paola Bacchetta; Interview with J. J. Halberstam; Interview with Clare Hemmings.

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Book SynopsisBogdan Popa brings together Ranciere's techniques of disrupting inequality with a queer curiosity in the performativity of shame to show how 19th-century activists embraced certain forms of shame to denaturalise conventional beliefs about sexuality and gender..

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Book SynopsisAs the first book-length study about Dolan, with case studies of key films like Mommy (2014), Tom at the Farm (2013) and It's Only the End of the World (2016), this volume explores the global reach of small national and subnational cinemas.

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Book SynopsisThis vibrant collection of essays reveals the intimate politics of how people with a wide range of relationships to war identify with, and against, the military and its gendered and racialised norms.

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Book SynopsisThis pioneering interdisciplinary collection works across mainstream and alternative spaces such as Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, Grindr and gay men's health websites. These digital platforms are then situated within the socio-political situation in India, offering a new way of understanding queerness and Indian-ness.

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Book SynopsisAnalyses how far Shakespeare succeeds in reconciling two polarised areas in the early modern period: sexual desire, or will, and idealised approaches to romantic love.

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Book SynopsisAnalyses how far Shakespeare succeeds in reconciling two polarised areas in the early modern period: sexual desire, or will, and idealised approaches to romantic love.Trade Review"Joan Lord Hall opens a kaleidoscope in this riveting book, which combines sharp historical focus with a vista onto the endlessly moveable erotic possibilities in the poems and plays. This is a true labour of love, the distillation of a lifetime thinking through Shakespeare in his time and our own." -Richard Wilson, Kingston University

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Book SynopsisA definitive history and celebration of the ground breaking show RuPaul's Drag Race in its first decade, from a Burbank basement set all the way to the Emmy's, and every weave in-between, as told by its stars, producers and fans.Told over the first ten years of a television mainstay, And Don't F&%k It Up tells a cultural history through the stories of the people who lived it: the creators of the RuPaul's Drag Race, the contestants, the crew, the judges, and even some key (famous) fans. It begins with RuPaul's decades-long friendship and business relationship with World of Wonder Productions, the entertainment company that helped launch him into superstardom, and later talked him into giving a drag reality show a chance. From there, it follows the growth and evolution of the show-and its queens-through a decade of gag-worthy seasons, serving up all kinds of behind-the-scenes realness. With a history as shady and funny as it is dramatic and inspiring, And Don't F&%k It Up shows how RuPaul's Drag Race is a mirror reflecting the cultural and political mores of our time. Its meteoric rise to becoming a once-in-a-generation success story is explored here as never before, in intimate, exuberant, unfettered detail.

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Book SynopsisThe translation of Dictionnaire de L'Homophobie, published to great acclaim in France by University Press of France, the book is the work of 70 researchers and writers in 15 countries and includes over 175 essays on various aspects of gay and lesbian history, specifically that of gay rights and homophobia.

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Book SynopsisA frank and personal collection of essays exploring the politics of gender, identity and race from out gay academic Terry Goldie.

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Book SynopsisTThe follow up to First Person Queer: A collection of non-fiction essays all told from the second person perspective.

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Book SynopsisCelebrating the iconic image of the muscular American male from 1860 to 1970.

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Book SynopsisFocusses on Trash, the most accomplished film produced for Andy Warhol by Director Paul Morrissey.

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Book SynopsisWitty, informed and eloquent essays on queer and trans life by the acclaimed author of Butch is Noun.

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Book SynopsisA Queer Film Classic on 1974's Arabian Nights by Pier Paolo Pasolini, the controversial Italian director who was murdered under mysterious circumstances in 1975

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Book SynopsisThe final title in the Queer Film Classics series, on Kenneth Anger's remarkable 1963 film about a gay biker gang.

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Book SynopsisOne of the Boys: Masculinity, Homophobia, and Modern Manhood takes a fresh look at the formation of modern male sexual identities. You will find that homophobia is not only widespread, but that it takes diverse forms and has far-reaching behavioral and social consequences. The new concept of “homophobic passage,” which is part of the development of all young men, will enlighten you as to the proposed “causes” of homosexuality and heterosexuality. One of the Boys will help you discover how the passage of young males from childhood to adulthood plays an important role in formation of the modern adult male self in gay and straight men. As a result, this knowledge will allow you to offer relevant services to clients who are struggling with societal stereotypes and identity issues. From this informative book, you will discover how homophobia plays a role in the increase in violence experienced by gay men and lesbians in our culture today. To help you offer improved services, One of the Boys discusses why homophobia is widespread, takes diverse forms, and has far-reaching behavioral and social consequences by: examining the school playground and its many effects on children’s peer groups to discover how profoundly names like “crybaby” and “poofter” can impact a child’s development learning that children often cannot escape harmful labels and stereotypes at home and realizing how it impacts a child’s developing sense of self discovering the media’s influence on role models and realizing the important role television and magazines play in providing information about homosexuality and homophobia realizing the heavy pressure homophobia exerts on men and how it shapes their relationships with women and other men, how emotionally close they allow themselves to get to people, how affectionate they are, and with whom they have sexual relations Through One of the Boys, you will gain valuable insight into the masculinity of the men interviewed and how it was shaped in order for you to develop a greater understanding of men and the many influences of society as a whole. This unique study investigates the development of homophobia and the meanings and significances people associate with it to help you understand how and where homophobia originates in our society. Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: The Homophobic Puzzle Defining Homophobia Clarifying the Terms of Reference The ‘Epidemiology’ of Homophobia: Studies of Homophobic Violence The Significance of Homophobia: Evidence from Twentieth Century Public Life Chapter 2: Swearing Allegiance Homophobic Meanings Cataloging Homophobic Meanings Evolving Homophobic Meanings: ‘Onion Skinning’ The Power of Homophobic Words Homophobia and ‘Otherness’ Conclusions Chapter 3: Separating the Men From the Boys School The Divided School Ground The Classroom Home The Media Conclusion Chapter 4: Fashioning the Male ‘Self’ Homophobia Prior to Adult Sexual Identity: Pressures Which Shape Boys’ Behavior Homophobic Pressures from a Nonhomosexual Perspective Homophobia and Being Homosexual Homophobia and Identity Conclusions Chapter 5: Regulating Male Intimacy Physical Engagement: Sport Manhood Exposed: The Change Rooms Putting Those Fears to Bed: Sleeping Together Knowing When to Get Off: Sexual Restraint and Transgression Friendships, Relationships, and Being Homosexually Active Conclusions Chapter 6: On the Origins of the Sexual Species Homophobic Logic: Mobile Differences and Consistent Negative Bias Between Suppression and Expression Taming Polymorphous Perversity Homophobic Passage: The Orderer of Things Conclusions Appendix A: Methods Choice of Methods Methodological Theory Sampling Recruitment Interview Structure Analysis: Interpretation, Validity, and Wider Significance Conclusions Appendix B: Sample Participant Profiles Conclusions Appendix C.: ATLG Scores References Index References Notes Included

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Book SynopsisAn illustrated punk memoir about growing up queer and Cuban.

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Book SynopsisSpeaking OUT: Queer Youth In Focus is a photographic essay that explores a wide spectrum of experiences told from the perspective of a diverse group of young people, ages 14 to 24, identifying as queer.

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Book SynopsisKrys Malcolm Belc''s visual memoir-in-essays explores how the experience of gestational parenthood—conceiving, birthing, and breastfeeding his son Samson—eventually clarified his gender identity.Krys Malcolm Belc has thought a lot about the interplay between parenthood and gender. As a nonbinary, transmasculine parent, giving birth to his son Samson clarified his gender identity. And yet, when his partner, Anna, adopted Samson, the legal documents listed Belc as “the natural mother of the child.”   By considering how the experiences contained under the umbrella of “motherhood” don’t fully align with Belc’s own experience, The Natural Mother of the Child journeys both toward and through common perceptions of what it means to have a body and how that body can influence the perception of a family. With this visual memoir in essays, Belc has created a new kind of life record, one that engages directly with the documentation often thought to constitute a record of one’s life—childhood photos, birth certificates—and addresses his deep ambivalence about the “before” and “after” so prevalent in trans stories, which feels apart from his own experience.   The Natural Mother of the Child is the story of a person moving past societal expectations to take control of his own narrative, with prose that delights in the intimate dailiness of family life and explores how much we can ever really know when we enter into parenting.

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Book SynopsisShortlisted for theJ. Anthony Lukas PrizeThe story of art collective Gran Fury?which fought back during the AIDS crisisthrough direct action and community-made propaganda?offers lessons in love andgrief. In the late 1980s, the AIDS pandemic was annihilating queer people, intravenous drug users, and communities of color in America, and disinformation about the disease ran rampant. Out of the activist group ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), an art collective that called itself Gran Fury formed to campaign against corporate greed, government inaction, stigma, and public indifference to the epidemic. Writer Jack Lowery examines Gran Fury?s art and activism from iconic images like the ?Kissing Doesn?t Kill? poster to the act of dropping piles of fake bills onto the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Lowery offers a complex, moving portrait of a collective and its members, who built essential solidarities with each other and whose lives evidenced the profound trauma of enduring the AIDS crisis. Gran Fury and ACT UP?s strategies are still used frequently by the activists leading contemporary movements. In an era when structural violence and the devastation of COVID-19 continue to target the most vulnerable, this belief in the power of public art and action persists.

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