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Book SynopsisThe making of gay and lesbian politicsTrade Review"This important study is both an analysis of and a call to an involved politics. It opens the door to a far-reaching dialogue."—Martin Duberman, Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, The City University of New York"It is in the process of coming out...Blasius argues, that lesbians and gay men create themselves—as new subjects, as the producers of new truth, and as agents of social change. Blasius gives a coherent account that ties together all these processes—from coming out to the emergence of lesbian and gay studies-and goes on to show the 'ethical' contribution that lesbians and gay men make to contemporary American society."—Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review"An engaging book that intelligently explores a range of possibilities in human relations."—George Kateb, Department of Politics, Princeton UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. The Creation of Gay and Lesbian Politics A Historical Ontology of Politics Power, Subjectivity, and Truth Politics and Technologies of Government 2. A Politics of Sexuality Poser in Modernity: Biopower Sexuality Becomes a Political Issue Sexuality: A Technology of Government The Lesbian and Gay Politics of Sexuality 3. Sexuality, Subjectivity, and Political Identity A Genealogy of Gay and Lesbian Identity Erotics: From Subjection to Agency Silence = Death: Coming Out and the Creation of the Self Conclusion: After Sexuality, Erotics? 4. What Are Lesbian and Gay Rights? Sexuality and Normativity: A Relational Right AIDS and Biopower Conclusion 5. An Ethos of Lesbian and Gay Existence Lesbian and Gay Existence: Sexual Orientation, Lifestyle, and Community The Emergence of a Lesbian and Gay Ethos Ethos, Knowledge, and Politics Gay and Lesbian Politics and a New Ethic Conclusion Index

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Book SynopsisHow sexuality and sexual orientation intersect with gender, race, ethnicity, and religion in the ongoing formation of national identityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. The Nation's Rights and National Rites 3. Righting Wrongs 4. Queer Nations 5. Eurocentrism 6. Reimagining Australia 7. Concluding Remarks Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to be queer and Asian American at the turn of the century? The writers, activists, essayists, and artists who contribute to this volume consider how Asian American racial identity and queer sexuality interconnect in mutually shaping and complicating ways. Their collective aim (in the words of the editors) is \u0022to articulate a new conception of Asian American racial identity, its heterogeneity, hybridity, and multiplicity -- concepts that after all underpinned the Asian American moniker from its very inception.\u0022 Q & A approaches matters of identity from a variety of points of view and academic disciplines in order to explore the multiple crossings of race and ethnicity with sexuality and gender. Drawing together the work of visual artists, fiction writers, community organizers, scholars, and participants in roundtable discussions, the collection gathers an array of voices and experiences that represent the emerging communities of a queer Asian America. Collectively, these contributors contend that Asian American studies needs to be more attentive to issues of sexuality and that queer studies needs to be more attentive to other aspects of difference, especially race and ethnicity. Vigorously rejecting the notion that a symmetrical relationship between race and homosexuality would weaken lesbian/gay and queer movements, the editors refuse to \u0022believe that a desirably queer world is one in which we remain perpetual aliens -- queer houseguests -- in a queer nation.\u0022Trade Review"Astute, provocative, and exemplary, Q & A: Queer in Asian America sets a bold and serious agenda for engaging race, desire, culture, and globalization today." -- Lisa Lowe, author of Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics "The writers, artists, and activists in Q & A take us to so many fascinating places where 'queer' and 'Asian American' cross paths, that we end up seeing all of American history from a new angle of vision. This brilliant, provocative collection makes clear the kind of intelligence we lose whenever it's assumed that history is heterosexual and that 'queer' equals 'white.'" -Alan Berube, author of Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War Two "This is a spectacular set of essays that compel an important and creative shifting of perspective within every page. What is 'queer' and what is 'Asian American' turn out to be vitally defined by one another. Timely, brave, necessary, and incisive, this book should change every field that it touches." -Judith Butler, University of California, Berkeley "A breakthrough gathering of voices, astounding in their individual clarity and their collective diversity... Q & A presents a compelling challenge to those who cling to the notion that race and sexual orientation can be considered separate identities, rather than interwoven, interdependent aspects of one's singular social/political self." -Jeff Yang, publisher and founder of A. Magazine: Inside Asian AmericaTable of ContentsCONTENTS Preface Introduction Q & A: Notes on a Queer Asian America David L. Eng and Alice Y. Hom Part One: Working Out 1. Going Home: Enacting Justice in Queer Asian America Karin Aguilar-San Juan 2. The Heat Is On: Miss Saigon Coalition: Organizing Across Race and Sexuality Yoko Yoshikawa 3. Queer Asian American Immigrants: Opening Borders and Closets Ignatius Bau 4. Coalition Politics: (Re)turning the Century Vera Miao Part Two: Im/Proper Images 5. Creating, Curating, and Consuming Queer Asian American Cinema: An Interview with Marie K. Morohoshi Ju Hui Judy Han with Marie K. Morohoshi 6. "A Vaudeville Against Coconut Trees": Colonialism, Contradiction, and Coming Out in Michael Magnaye's White Christmas Victor Bascara 7. Looking for My Penis: The Eroticized Asian in Gay Video Porn Richard Fung 8. Lisa's Closet Gaye Chan Part Three: Keeping Records 9. Sexuality, Identity, and the Uses of History Nayan Shah 10. history of disease Patti Duncan 11. Queer API Men in Los Angeles: A Roundtable on History and Political Organizing Introduced and edited by Eric C. Wat and Steven Shum 12. Toward a Queer Korean American Diasporic History Jeeyeun Lee Part Four: Closets/Margins 13. Litany Russell Leong 14. Trying fo' Do Anykine to Donna: Fragments of a Prose Work Donna Twuyuko Tanigawa 15. Transgender/Transsexual Roundtable Transcribed by Diep Khac Tran Edited by Diep Khac Tran, Bryan, and Rhode 16. Mahu: The Gender Imbalance Jennifer Tseng 17. Curry Queens and Other Spices Sandip Roy Part Five: Paternity 18. in his arms Joel Barraquiel Tan 19. The Strange Love of Frank Chin Daniel Y. Kim 20. The Unknowable and Sui Sin Far: The Epistemological Limits of "Oriental" Sexuality Min Song 21. Webs of Betrayal, Webs of Blessings You-Leng Leroy Lim 22. Heterosexuality in the Face of Whiteness: Divided Belief in M. Butterfly David L. Eng Part Six: Out Here and Over There 23. Monster Justin Chin 24. Coming Out into the Global System: Postmodern Patriarchies and Transnational Sexualities in The Wedding Banquet Mark Chiang 25. Incidents of Travel Ju Hui Judy Han 26. Transnational Sexualities: South Asian (Trans)nation(alism)s and Queer Diasporas Jasbir K. Puar Selected Bibliography: Anthologies, Fiction, and Nonfiction Compiled by Alice Y. Hom Resource Guide Compiled by Alice Y. Hom About the Contributors

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Book SynopsisWhile much is known about prostitution and sex work from studies of female sex workers and their customers, relatively little is known about men who sell sex, either to women or other men. Particularly poorly understood are their motivations for doing so, the circumstances in which the sale of sex occurs, the meanings attached to the acts by both sex worker and client, and the HIV-related risks involved. Each chapter, written by a national expert, is based on months and even years of interviews with male sex workers, including young boys and elderly men in some countries. The workers discuss why they do the work, what it is like, and what their behavior means to them. For example, those who have regular sex with men often strenuously affirm their heterosexuality, though there is considerable variety in their attitudes. Each chapter relates the experiences of the male sex workers to the political economy of their neighborhood and assesses the implications of their work for HIV transmission and the AIDS epidemic. The researchers and the sex workers discuss the value of different kinds of health promotion interventions.Trade Review"What is exciting about this book is that it crosses so many boundaries, bringing together as it does accounts from every continent and from a wide range of disciplines. The various authors seek to situate sex-work within a range of frameworks: sociological and psychological, but also historical (Sri Lanka), economic (Britain and the United States), political (Brazil), legal (Canada), even linguistic (Thailand)." -Dennis Altman, from the Foreword "This international collection was put together to be a multi-national response to the lack of information about male prostitution throughout the world. Spanning Europe, Latin America, India, and North Africa, this collection of policy recommendations is put together from interviews with the prostitutes by regional experts, who also offer recommendations on the value of different kinds of health promotion and intervention efforts." -Lambda Book Report "Each chapter provides fascinating data, gathered primarily through interviews and ethnographies, on the lives of men in this occupation... This volume is the first to bring together male prostitution in a global perspective...[and it] makes contributions to studies of sexuality and lesbians in the workplace as well as to military sociology. By implication, it also makes important contributions to public policy debates on gays in the military." -Contemporary Sociology "A big asset of the book is the inclusion of sex workers' narratives... [this book offers] original and important contributions to a nascent area of study... [and] constitute[s] an enlightening reading for health and sex educators and a welcome addition to the literature on sexuality and gender." -Journal of Sex ResearchTable of ContentsCONTENTS Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Foreword Dennis Altman Chapter 1 Selling Sex in Cardiff and London Peter Davies and Rayah Feldman Chapter 2 Sex for Money Between Men and Boys in the Netherlands: Implications for HIV Prevention Wim Zuilhof Chapter 3 Travestis and Gigolos: Male Prostitution and HIV Prevention in France Lindinalva Laurindo da Salva Chapter 4 Male Sex Work and HIV/AIDS in Canada Dan Allman and Ted Myers Chapter 5 Social Environment and Male Sex Work in the U.S. Edward V. Morse, Patricia M. Simon, and Kendra E. Burchfiel Chapter 6 Aspects of Male Sex Work in Mexico City Ana Luisa Liguori and Peter Aggleton Chapter 7 Three Decades of Male Sex Work in Santo Domingo E. Antonio de Moya and Rafael Garcia Chapter 8 Cacherismo in a San Jose Brothel: Aspects of Male Sex Work in Costa Rica Jacobo Schifter and Peter Aggleton Chapter 9 Natural Born Targets: Male Hustlers and AIDS Prevention in Urban Brazil Patrick Larvie Chapter 10 Fletes in Parque Kennedy: Sexual Cultures among Young Men Who Sell Sex to Other Men in Lima Carlos F. Caceres and Oscar G. Jimenez Chapter 11 Through a Window Darkly: Men Who Sell Sex to Men in India and Bangladesh Shivananda Khan Chapter 12 Male Sex Work in Sri Lanka Nandesena Ratnapala Chapter 13 Bar Talk: Thai Male Sex Workers and Their Customers Graeme Storer Chapter 14 Walking the Tightrope: Sexual Risk and Male Sex Work in the Philippines Michael L. Tan Chapter 15 Marginalisation and Vulnerability: Male Prostitution in Morocco Amine Boushaba, Oussama Tawil, Latefa Imane, and Hakima Himmich Index

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Book SynopsisIn this book gays and lesbians from the Deep South to East Texas and Appalachia speak from vivid personal experience and turn an analytical eye on the South and its culture. Some contributors examine the power of traditional Southern attitudes toward race and religion, and consider the "don't ask, don't tell" attitude about homosexuality in some communities (the "public secret"). Other contributors show how gay culture is thriving in the form of women's festivals, gay bars, and unusual networks like that of Asian and Pacific Islanders in Atlanta. Out in the South is organized into sections that focus on a central metaphor of space and location. This grounds the book in the sense of the South as a special region and in the inside/outside dilemma faced by many gay and lesbian Southerners as they negotiate their place in an often-inhospitable homeland. Author note: Carlos L. Dews is Associate Professor of English at the University of West Florida. He is the editor of Carson McCullers' unfinished autobiography, Illumination and Night Glare. Carolyn Leste Law is Dissertation Advisor in the Graduate School at Northern Illinois University and an independent scholar interested in social justice. Together, they edited This Fine Place So Far from Home: Voices of Academics from the Working Class (Temple).Trade Review"Out in the South creates an amazing and long awaited dialogue between 'The South' and queer voices, the two estranged stepchildren of academics. In this collection of largely personal essays and oral histories, Dews and Law have gathered a group of writers who break stereotypes from within and without the gay community, and challenge us, once again, to embrace the full complexity of our humanity." --Professor Rebecca Mark, author of The Dragon's Blood: Feminist Intertextuality in Eudora Welty's The Golden Apple " 'We live in the South, that strangest of regions, where pigs once ranged free over the land.' So begins one of the extraordinary pieces of writing found in this collection. Whether sounding a note of wry humor or affirming the ubiquity of the church and religion or naming the interplay of race or evoking the reality of a fearful isolation, these works always convey a quiet bravery born of honest determination to figure out what being southern and gay or lesbian means. The editors speak with searing clarity about why they embark on this venture. They should congratulate themselves on how richly and deeply they fulfilled their original impulses. Out in the South will be of value to anyone who has ever breathed through a southern summer or survived outside the ever-clear boundaries of a region where pigs did indeed range over the land and where kudzu and prejudice still thrive all year round." --Toni A.H. McNaron, Distinguished Teaching Professor of English, University of Minnesota; author of the memoir, I Dwell in Possibility, and author of Poisoned Ivy: Lesbian and Gay Academics Confront Homophobia (Temple) "Out in the South is a hymn of regional reckoning. Editors Dews and Law have assembled a choir of the South's Gay and Lesbian writers, teachers and thinkers who are unafraid to claim the birthright, confront the stereotypes and celebrate the dirt road and downtown in every Southern Queer's search for being and identity. These voices--flat-out, focused and familiar as kin--demand a place in the discussion of heritage, history and home." --Jay Quinn, Editor of Rebel Yell: Stories by Contemporary Southern Gay Writers and author of The Mentor: A Memoir of Friendship and Sexual Identity "Out in the South is a collection of fourteen diverse essays, plus a trenchant introduction and an incendiary afterword by the editors, that illustrate and analyze what it means to be both queer and Southern today. In none of these pieces is the ongoing homophobia, racism, classism, or hypocrisy of the South minimized. The unique value of the volume is that all these things, as well as the inescapable cultural institution of fundamentalist Christianity, are looked at head-on by queer Southerners themselves...Out in the South is unprecedented in its scope, complexity, and daring." --Lambda Book ReportTable of ContentsIntroduction - Carolyn Leste Law Part I: Claiming Queer Space in a Hostile Place 1. Emmett's Story: Russell County, Alabama - Joseph Beam 2. Out in the Mountains: Exploring Lesbian and Gay Lives - Kate Black and Marc A. Rhorer 3. Claiming Space in the South: A Conversation Among Members of Asian/Pacific Islander Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered Network of Atlanta - Patti Duncan 4. Women's Festivals On the Front Lines - Bonnie J. Morris 5. Race and Gay Community in "Southern Town" - David Knapp Whittier Part II: Striking Out/Striking Back 6. Leaving the Confederate Closet - Bonnie R. Strickland 7. Black Gay Men and White Gay Men: A Less than Perfect Union - Charles I. Nero 8. Same Difference: My Southern Queer Stories - Donna Smith 9. Tennessee Williams Doesn't Live Here Anymore: Hypocrisy, Paradox and Homosexual Panic in the New/Old South - James R. Keller Part III: Representing Queer Lives in Public Space 10. Greetings From Out Here: Southern Lesbians and Gays Bear Witness to the Public Secret - R. Bruce Brasell 11. Looking for a City: The Ritual and Politics of Ethnography - Edward R. Gray 12. From Southern Baptist Belle To Butch (And Beyond) - Laura Milner 13. "Lines I Dare": Southern Lesbian Writing - Mab Segrest 14. Myth and Reality: The story of gay people in the South - Jim Grimsley Afterword - Carlos L. Dews

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Book SynopsisIn the twentieth century, countless Americans claimed gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender identities, forming a movement to secure social as well as political equality. This collection of essays considers the history as well as the historiography of the queer identities and struggles that developed in the United States in the midst of widespread upheaval and change.Whether the subject is an individual life story, a community study, or an aspect of public policy, these essays illuminate the ways in which individuals in various locales understood the nature of their desires and the possibilities of resisting dominant views of normality and deviance. Theoretically informed, but accessible, the essays shed light too on the difficulties of writing history when documentary evidence is sparse or \u0022coded.\u0022 Taken together these essays suggest that while some individuals and social networks might never emerge from the shadows, the persistent exploration of the past for their traces is an integral part of the on-going struggle for queer rights.Trade Review"This important collection brings together classic essays with new scholarship in a bold effort to reconfigure the field of lesbian and gay history. Lucid and comprehensive, the book will appeal not just to scholars and students, but to a crossover audience of general readers."—Paula Martinac, author of The Queerest Places: A Guide to Gay and Lesbian Historic Sites"This book is recommended for the queer and unqueer alike. Not only comprehensive and engaging, it also marks an important step in the ongoing effort to define and illustrate the idea of queer scholarship."—Committee on Gay and Lesbian History"[T]his collection offers a more complicated portrayal of the middle of the century, the years between the depression of the 1930s and the social and political revolutions of the 1960s."—The Journal of American HistoryTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Where Are We to Begin? – John Howard Part I: Categories of Sexuality2. Romantic Friendship – Leila J. Rupp 3. "Someone to Talk Our Language": Jane Heap, Margaret Anderson, and the Little Review in Chicago – Holly A. Baggett 4. The New Negro Renaissance, A Bisexual Renaissance: The Lives and Works of Angelina Weld Grimké and Richard Bruce Nugent – Brett Beemyn Part II: Evidence, Narrative, and Biography5. "The Burning of Letters Continues": Elusive Identities and the Historical Construction of Sexuality – Estelle B. Freedman 6. Paula Snelling: A Significant Other – Margaret Rose Gladney 7. Homophobia and the Trajectory of Postwar American Radicalism: The Career of Bayard Rustin – John D’Emilio Part III: Science, Fictions8. Perverting the Diagnosis: The Lesbian and the Scientific Basis of Stigma – Allida M. Black 9. "A Thought a Mother Can Hardly Face": Sissy Boys, Parents, and Professionals in Mid-Twentieth-Century America – Julia Grant 10. Something They Did in the Dark: Lesbian and Gay Novels in the United States, 1948-1973 – Chris Freeman Part IV: Community, Institutions11. Rizzo’s Raiders, Beaten Beats, and Coffeehouse Culture in 1950s Philadelphia – Marc Stein 12. Black Feminist Organizations and the Emergence of Interstitial Politics – Kimberly Springer 13. Protest and Protestantism: Early Lesbian and Gay Institution Building in Mississippi – John Howard Part V: Public Debates and Public Policy14. Health Care, the AIDS Crisis, and the Politics of Community: The North Carolina Lesbian and Gay Health Project, 1982-1996 – Ian K. Lekus 15. The Immigrant Infection: Images of Race, Nation, and Contagion in the Public Debates on AIDS and Immigration – Jennifer Brier 16. The Myth of Lesbian (In)Visibility: World War II and the Current "Gays in the Military" Debate – Leisa D. Meyer Conclusion17. Where Are We Now, Where Are We Going, and Who Gets to Say? – Vicki L. Eaklor About the Contributors

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Book SynopsisIn this book, Moira Kenney makes the case that Los Angeles better represents the spectrum of gay and lesbian community activism and culture than cities with a higher gay profile. Owing to its sprawling geography and fragmented politics, Los Angeles lacks a single enclave like the Castro in San Francisco or landmarks as prominent as the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village, but it has a long and instructive history of community building. By tracking the terrain of the movement since the beginnings of gay liberation in 1960’s Los Angeles, Kenney shows how activists lay claim to streets, buildings, neighborhoods, and, in the example of West Hollywood, an entire city. Exploiting the area's lack of cohesion, they created a movement that maintained a remarkable flexibility and built support networks stretching from Venice Beach to East LA. Taking a different path from San Francisco and New York, gays and lesbians in Los Angeles emphasized social services, decentralized communities (usually within ethnic neighborhoods), and local as well as national politics. Kenney's grounded reading of this history celebrates the public and private forms of activism that shaped a visible and vibrant community. Author note: Moira Rachel Kenney is the Research Director at the Institute of Urban and Regional Development at the University of California, Berkeley.Trade Review"This is a fresh and fascinating approach to both social history and the geography of America's most cutting-edge and least understood city. This book sparkles with stories of Los Angeles' gay/lesbian and AIDS street activism through the decades, as well as serendipitous or smart strategies for staking spaces of our own--so crucial to our liberation. LA's leading role in U.S. gay history is finally claimed!" --Torie Osborn, former Executive Director, LA Gay and Lesbian Center and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force; author of Coming Home to America "Mapping Gay L.A. will make a significant contribution to our knowledge in a number of ways: it reinforces the L.A. dimension to a gay/lesbian story overly dominated by San Francisco and New York; it brings lesbian issues into constant interplay with the broader concerns of the gay movement; it demonstrates how culture and space are intertwined. Kenney approaches her topic from a political activist's perspective, appropriate to the period of gay history. She is in command of her subject matter and the case studies are exemplary." --Dana Cuff, Professor, Department of Architecture and Urban Design, UCLA "Kenney's much-needed book restores L.A. to its rightful place in the history of lesbian and gay America. It's highly readable and expertly told. The book's emphasis on place and political activism banishes the silences that have shrouded an important social revolution that is still going on." --Michael Dear, Director of the Southern California Studies Center at USC and author of The Postmodern Urban ConditionTable of ContentsList of Maps Foreword Robert Dawidoff Acknowledgments 1. Locating the Politics of Difference 2. Inclusion and Exclusion in West Hollywood 3. Beyond Gentrification: Social Services and the Redevelopment of Hollywood Boulevard 4. Separate Space and Separatism: Lesbian Culture and Community 5. Out of the Bars and into the Streets: Direct Action from Liberation to Transformation 6. The Remapped City Notes Index

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Book SynopsisLiberal democracy has provided a certain degree of lesbian and gay rights. But those rights, as we now know, are not unlimited, and they continue to be the focus of efforts by lesbian and gay movements in the United States to promote social change. In this compelling critique, Craig Rimmerman looks at the past, present, and future of the movements to analyze whether it is possible for them to link identity concerns with a progressive coalition for political, social, and gender change, one that take into account race, class, and gender inequalities. Enriched by eight years of interviews in Washington, D.C. and New York City, and by the author's experience as a Capitol Hill staffer, From Identity to Politics will provoke discussion in classrooms and caucus rooms across the United States.Trade Review"Rimmerman points a wide angle lens in the direction of the gay and lesbian movement, allowing him to capture the full breadth of its organizations and their varied strategies. He brings toughminded analysis to his topic, and is willing to challenge strategies for change that he finds bankrupt. The result is a book whose insights can only invigorate gay and lesbian politics in the United States today." -John D'Emilio, Professor of Gender and Women's Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago and author of Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities "Craig Rimmerman has written the best kind of academic book, one that is rich in factual detail yet broad in its perspective. His critique of the current lesbian and gay movements clarifies the limitations that are inherent in a narrow identity politics and makes a strong case for building even broader coalitions and doing more grassroots organizing. Any student of social movements, and especially students of the lesbian and gay movements, will find this book a rewarding read." -Patricia A. Cain, author of Rainbow Rights: The Role of Lawyers and Courts in the Lesbian and Gay Civil Rights Movement "Craig Rimmerman has written an insightful book that belongs on the bookshelf of not only students of gay and lesbian politics, but of everyone interested in social movements. His thoughtful critique of various strategies that various movement activists have chosen will be enormously helpful to academics and activists alike." -Clyde Wilcox, Department of Government, Georgetown UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Perspectives on the Lesbian and Gay Movements 2. The Assimilationist Strategy: Electoral Politics and Interest-Group Liberalism 3. The Legal Rights Strategy 4. Unconventional Politics as a Strategy for Change 5. The Christian Right's Challenge 6. Critical Reflections on the Movements' Futures Appendix A: Platform of the 1993 March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay, and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation Appendix B: The Millennium March Agenda: A Status Update Appendix C: Another Divisive Anti-Gay Initiative from the OCA: Bringing Discrimination into Oregon's Schools Appendix D: Basic Rights Oregon Targets Queer Youth Activists Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisThe first full-length study of the literary criticism on the works of the controversial twentieth-century German writer Hans Henny Jahnn. Hans Henny Jahnn (1894-1959) is one of Germany's most controversial modern authors, in large part due to sharply diverging reactions to the depictions of sado-masochistic brutality, incest, and homoeroticism in his plays and novels. Jahnn's rank as a writer has long been a topic of intense debate between rival schools of critics, and his works have provoked extreme responses, both positive and negative, from a wide spectrum of scholars, writers, and critics, including such prominent figures as Alfred Döblin, Walter Benjamin, Thomas and Klaus Mann, Wolfgang Koeppen, Walter and Adolf Muschg, Wilhelm Emrich, Hubert Fichte and many others. Freeman focuses on characteristic examples ofdifferent approaches to Jahnn: structuralist, psychoanalytic, Jungian-archetypal, Marxist, biographical, literary-historical, postmodern, gay, and feminist. Freeman shows how behind the veil of objectivity, literary scholars oftenhave a hidden agenda that is based on an emotional reaction to Jahnn's portrayal of homosexuality and violence, his negative images of women, and his worldview, which some critics have linked to some of the same ideological presuppositions as those of National Socialism. This is the first full-length study of Jahnn criticism. Thomas Freeman is associate professor of German at Beloit College, Beloit, Wisconsin.Trade ReviewThomas Freeman's survey of H. H. Jahnn scholarship -- from the first reviews during the Weimar Republic to the cultural studies and feminist approaches of the 90s -- reads like a detective novel. -- Inge Stephan * HUMBOLDT-UNIVERSITAET BERLIN. *An overview of Jahnn's work, as well as some interesting and intersecting perspectives on the shape ... of 20th-century literary criticism. * JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN STUDIES *Table of ContentsIntroduction Journalistic Criticism: The Jahnn Controversy and the Discovery of the Misunderstood Outsider First Scholarly Approaches Jahnn and Myth Structure: The Second Generation of Academics Genre and Intertextuality Defenders of Jahnn: Aesthetic and Modernist Interpretations Religion Psychology and Literature Political Ideology and Social Criticism Science: Biopolitics and Literature Gay Studies and Jahnn Feminist Approaches The 1994 Jahnn Centennial Conclusion Works Consulted Index

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Book SynopsisContributions exploring the representation and reality of LGBTQ+ individuals and issues in historical and contemporary German-speaking culture. The German-speaking lands have a long history of engagement, ranging from celebratory to horrific, with non-normative genders and sexualities, including through cultural output, language, and politics. Queering German Culture, volume 10 of the Edinburgh German Yearbook, foregrounds this via new analyses of a variety of LGBTQ+ cultural artifacts - archives both physical and digital, literature in the form of novels and periodicals, and film both narrative and documentary - to consider a spectrum of gender and sexual identities. Individual chapters employ a range of lenses, including psychoanalysis, feminism, and postcolonial and queer theory, to analyze work by ThomasMann, Thomas Brussig, Jenny Erpenbeck, Terézia Mora, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and Fatih Akin, among others. Contributors: Nicholas Courtman, Leanne Dawson, Kyle Frackman, Sarra Kassem, Lauren Pilcher, John L. Plews, Gary Schmidt, Cyd Sturgess. Leanne Dawson is Lecturer in German and Film Studies at the University of Edinburgh.Trade Review[This volume ] excels in offering fascinating material and skillfully argued scholarship. It succeeds in foregrounding queer experiences within German culture, while also providing an accessible collection for those unfamiliar with the German or queer contexts. [A] worthy contribution to the steady queering of scholarship and society, an essential task in these precarious times. -- Domenic DeSocio * GERMAN STUDIES REVIEW *Table of ContentsIntroduction - Leanne Dawson PART I. QUEER HISTORIES AND ARCHIVES From Brooklyn to Berlin: Queer Temporality, In/Visibility, and the Politics of Lesbian Archives - Leanne Dawson "Die zarte Haut einer schönen Frau": Fashioning Femininities in Weimar Germany's Lesbian Periodicals - Cyd Sturgess Based on a True Story: Tracking What Is Queer about Queer German Documentary - Kyle Frackman PART II. QUEERING THE OTHER The Culture of Faces: Reading Physiognomical Relations in Thomas Mann's Der Tod in Venedig - John L. Plews Seeing the Human in the (Queer) Migrant in Jenny Erpenbeck's Gehen, Ging, Gegangen and Terézia Mora's Alle Tage - Nick Courtman The Transgressive Representations of Gender and Queerness in Fatih Akin's Auf der anderen Seite - Sarra Kassem PART III. QUEERING NORMATIVITY Bitter Tears and Pretty Excess in Fassbinder's Die bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant and Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss - Lauren Pilcher Mothers, Masculinities, and Queer Potentials: Jonathan Franzen's Rereading of Thomas Brussig and Phillip Roth - Gary Schmidt

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Book SynopsisArchive Activism is a memoir of activism rooted in a new way to converse with history—by rescuing it. Archive activists discover documents and other important materials often classified, “gone missing,” or sealed that somehow escaped the fireplace or shredder. It is an approach to LGBTQ advocacy and policy activism based on citizen archivery and original archival research to effect social change.Research=Activism is the formula growing out of Charles Francis’s personal story as a gay Texan born and raised during the 1950s and 1960s in Dallas. The rescues range in time and place from Francis’s first encounter with a raucous, near-violent religious demonstration in Fort Worth to attics loaded with forgotten historic treasures of LGBTQ pioneers. Archive Activism tells how Francis helped Governor George W. Bush achieve his dream of becoming president in 2000 by reaching out to gay and lesbian supporters, the first time a Republican candidate for president formally met with gay and lesbian Americans. This inspired Francis to engage with deleted LGBTQ history by forming a historical society with an edge, a new Mattachine Society of Washington, DC. For the first time, Archive Activism reveals how LGBTQ secrets were held for decades at the LBJ Presidential Library in the papers of President Johnson’s personal secretary, sealed until her death at age 105. Mattachine’s signature discovery is a federal attorney’s classified assault blandly filed under “Suitability” at the National Archives: “What it boils down to is that most men look upon homosexuality as something uniquely nasty.” Archive Activism is not only a memoir but also an essential roadmap for activists from any group armed only with their library cards.Trade Review“This is a wonderful book. Although it is a memoir, it is also a handbook for ordinary folks—whether LGBTQ or not—to engage in everyday activism. It can be applicable to any group that has been erased from the mainstream historical archive because of their nonnormative status. This is a recovery project of a particular silenced and erased history of gays and lesbians in the United States.”—Gust A. Yep, coeditor of Queer Theory and Communication and LGBT Studies and Queer Theory “Charles Francis has written a magnificently cinematic memoir of a life of anxiety, commitment, and outright fun, populated by characters from Jayne Mansfield to David Rockefeller to George W. Bush. Charles brought gay-rights pioneer Frank Kameny’s papers to the Library of Congress, uncovered Nancy Reagan’s refusal to help a dying Rock Hudson, and found the roots of Executive Order 10450, which in 1954 declared homosexual ‘perversion’ a national security threat. Charles Francis engages his readers at once and takes them on a ride that is, at turns, horrifying, uplifting, and delightful.”—Ambassador (ret.) James K. Glassman, former U.S. Under Secretary of State and Founding Executive Director of the George W. Bush Institute in Dallas “The National Archives greets visitors with the Shakespearean stone inscription: WHAT IS PAST IS PROLOGUE. In this lively, impassioned memoir, Charles Francis puts it with a very American plain-spokenness: ‘The key to Archive Activism is not only finding the stuff, but using it . . . to make the world a better place.’ I can’t think of another book that better conveys the excitements and real-life results that can be obtained by the citizen-scholar.”—Thomas Mallon, author of Fellow Travelers and Mrs. Paine’s Garage “An intimate memoir and a stirring rallying cry, Archive Activism is required reading for anyone fighting the erasure of a community’s history. From the Eisenhower Administration to the January 6th insurrection, this book shows us how the first drafts of history are written—and crucially, he explains how we as citizens can correct them. His work to recover buried history has been essential for activists and historians alike, gifting us the opportunity to learn firsthand from the queer pioneers who paved the way for our generation. Without Charles Francis, my book and so many others like it would not have been possible. Archive Activism is an urgent, inspiring text that belongs on every bookshelf.”—Eric Cervini, author of The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America “The Rainbow Community has a courageous and noble history which should never be forgotten. Charles Francis significantly assisted in making that history--his new book is essential reading for those who need to be inspired by our history. Charles is that rare person who is a brilliant story teller, historian, and activist. I am honored to know him.”--David Mixner, author of Stranger Among FriendsArchive Activism describes the efforts by author Charles Francis and his supporters to uncover long hidden documents, among other things, revealing how LGBTQ federal workers were forced out of their jobs in the 1950s and 1960s. . . .Francis describes in the book his early archive activism efforts that included co-founding the Kameny Papers Project, which arranged for the Library of Congress to acquire the voluminous collection of the documents of Frank Kameny."--Washington Blade

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Book SynopsisLanguage and Sexuality explores the question of how linguistic practices and ideologies relate to sexuality and sexual identity, opening with a discussion of the emerging field of "queer linguistics" and moving from theory into practice with case studies of language use in a wide variety of cultural settings. The resulting volume combines the perspectives of the field's top scholars with exciting new research to present new ideas on the ways in which language use intersects with sexual identity.

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Book SynopsisThe first anthology to focus exclusively on queer readings of Spanish, Latin American, and US Latina lesbian literature and culture, Tortilleras interrogates issues of gender, national identity, race, ethnicity, and class to show the impossibility of projecting a singular Hispanic or Latina Lesbian. Examining carefully the works of a range of lesbian writers and performance artists, including Carmelita Tropicana and Christina Peri Rossi, among others, the contributors create a picture of the complicated and multi-textured contributions of Latina and Hispanic lesbians to literature and culture. More than simply describing this sphere of creativity, the contributors also recover from history the long, veiled existence of this world, exposing its roots, its impact on lesbian culture, and, making the power of lesbian performance and literature visible. Author note: Lourdes Torres is Associate Professor of Latin American/Latino studies at De Paul University. Inmaculada Perpetusa-Seva is Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of Kentucky.Trade Review"Finalmente, the hole in the canon has been filled by Tortilleras, a book as fierce as the women it chronicles from the 17th century Catalina Erauso who passes as a man in Peru to the 21st century writer extraordinaire and political activist in the U.S. Cherrie Moraga. Exelente!"-Carmelita Tropicana is an Obie award winning Performance Artist and writer of I, Carmelita Tropicana - Performing Between Cultures "Tortilleras is a landmark collection. It fosters a necessary and meaningful dialogue between feminist scholars in U.S. Latina and Latin American studies grappling with questions of lesbian representation in literary and visual culture. Torres and Pertusa have compiled a timely volume that richly complicates previous debates and energetically maps new directions for the future. This most vital book shows how studies in gender and sexuality must lie at the heart of our work."-Tiffany Ana Lopez, University of California, Riverside "This anthology pushes us to think beyond the margins of repression in fiction and nonfiction queer literature and culture and art and film. Once you look through Tortilleras, you'll be compelled to look for the work these scholars are reviewing and see if your examination compares...[it] is the first anthology of its kind to open a vein and say, 'Here,' to our LGBT community, scholars, and students."-Lambda Book Report "...groundbreaking...pioneering in many ways...challenges patterns of marginalization, offering a fascinating, critical approach to the obscured and vital reality of Latina lesbian identity, agency, difference and otherness."-Multicultural Review "The most striking feature of this anthology is the vast terrain it traverses; ... Tortilleras establishes valuable new frames for study in this field."-symploke "[The book] is an important and innovative addition to this corpus... [it] will no doubt provoke new conversations and new research in a number of fields."-The Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction - Lourdes TorresPart I: coming Out/Covering Up1. From the Margins to the Mainstream: Lesbian Characters in Spanish Fiction (1964-79) - Wilfredo Hernandez2. Carme Riera: (Un)Covering the Lesbian Subject or Simulation of Coming Out? - Inmaculada Pertusa3. Tomboy Tantrums and Queer Infatuations: Reading Lesbianism in Magali Garcia Ramis's Felices Dias, Tio Sergio - Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes4. Coming-Out Stories and the Politics of Identity in the Narrative of Terri de la Pena - Salvador C. FernandezPart II: (Re)presenting Lesbian Desire5. Silent Pleasures and Pleasures of Silence: Ana Maria Moix's "Las Virtudes Peligrosas" - Nancy Vosburg6. Reading, Writing, and the Love that Dares Not Seak Its Name: Eloquent Silences in Ana Maria Moix's Julia - Gema Perez-Sanchez7. Outside the Castle Walls: Beyond Lesbian Counterplotting in Cristina Peri Rossi's Desastres Intimos - Janis Breckenridge8. "He Made Me a Hole!" Gender Bending, Sexual Desire, and the Representation of Sexual Violence - Regina M. BuccolaPart III: Sites of Resistance9. Bomberas on Stage: Carmelita Tropicana Speaking in Tongues Against History, Madness, Fate, and the State - Karina Lissette Cespedes10. Empowering the Feminine/Feminist/Lesbian Subject Through the Lens: The Representation of Women in Maria Luisa Bemberg's Yo, la Peor de Todas - Maria Claudia Andre11. The Lesbian Family in Christina Peri Rossi's "The Witness": A Study in Utopia and Infiltrations - Sara E. Cooper12. Chicana Lesbianism and the Multigenre Text - Elisa A. GarzaPart IV: Racialized Lesbianisms13. Interracial Lesbian Erotics in Early Modern Spain: Catalina de Erauso and Elana/o de Cespedes - Sherry Velasco14. Violence, Desire, and Transformative Remembering in Emma Perez's Gulf Dreams - Lourdes Torres15. Learning to Live Without Black Familia: Cherrie Moraga's Nationalist Articulations - Christina Sharpe16. Shameless Histories: Chicana Lesbian Fictions Talking Race/Talking Sex - Catriona Rueda EsquibelAbout the Contributors

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Book SynopsisMarc Stein's City of Sisterly and Brotherly Loves is refreshing for at least two reasons: it centers on a city that is not generally associated with a vibrant gay and lesbian culture, and it shows that a community was forming long before the Stonewall rebellion. In this lively and well received book, Marc Stein brings to life the neighborhood bars and clubs where people gathered and the political issues that rallied the community. He reminds us that Philadelphians were leaders in the national gay and lesbian movement and, in doing so, suggests that New York and San Francisco have for too long obscured the contributions of other cities to gay culture.Trade Review"Important and provocative, this book persuasively demonstrates that lesbian and gay history is central to understanding twentieth-century urban culture. And it rejects mere celebration for a more profound scrutiny that balances liberal against conservative aspects of the historical challenge to heterosexism."—Martin Duberman, author of Stonewall"By leaving behind the gay meccas of New York and San Francisco and training his gaze on Philadelphia, Stein has produced a gay and lesbian history that startles and informs."—John D'Emilio, author of Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities"Eye-opening, often entertaining....Filled with colorful anecdotes and fun facts....Let's think of what Marc Stein has done as an act of public service to Philadelphia's gay community."—Kevin Riordan, Philadelphia Gay News"Philadelphians should be proud of the courage and creativity with which their lesbian and gay fellow citizens coped with and fought oppression in the Cradle of Liberty, and Stein can clearly be proud of his pioneering book."—Doug Ireland, Philadelphia InquirerTable of ContentsPreface to the Paperback EditionAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I. Everyday Geographies, 1945-19721. Your Place or Mine?: Residential Zones in the "City of Neighborhoods"2. "No-Man's-Land": Commercial Districts in the "Quaker City"3. The Death and Life of Public Space in the "Private City"Part II. Public Cultures, 1945-19604. "The Most Fabulous Faggot in the Land"5. The "Objectionable" Walt Whitman Bridge6. Rizzo's Raiders and Beaten BeatsPart III. Political Movements, 1960-19697. "Come Out! Come Out! Wherever You Are!" 19608. "Earnestly Seeking Respectability," 1960-19639. "News for 'Queers' and Fiction for 'Perverts,'" 1963-196710. "The Masculine-Feminine Mystique," 1967-1969Part IV. Twin Revolutions? 1969-197211. "Turning Points," 1969-197012. Gay Liberation in the "Birthplace of the Nation," 1970-197113. Radicalesbian Feminism in "Fillydykia," 1971-1972Conclusion: Sexual Pride, Sexual ConservatismAbbreviationsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisIn the courts, the best chance for achieving a broad set of rights for gays and lesbians lies with judges who view liberalism as grounded in an expansion of rights rather than a constraint of government activity. At a time when most gay and lesbian politics focuses only on the issue of gay marriage, Courts, Liberalism, and Rights guides readers through a nuanced discussion of liberalism, court rulings on sodomy laws and same-sex marriage, and the comparative progress gays and lesbians have made via the courts in Canada. As debates continue about the ability of courts to affect social change, Jason Pierceson argues that this is possible. He claims that the greatest opportunity for reform via the judiciary exists when a judiciary with broad interpretive powers encounters a political culture that endorses a form of liberalism based on broadly conceived individual rights; not a negative set of rights to be held against the state, but a set of rights that recognizes the inherent dignity and worth of every individual.Trade Review"Courts, Liberalism, and Rights is passionate scholarship at its best. It is a thoughtful defense of judicial activism to protect the inherent dignity and worth of every individual. This book should be required reading for every member of Congress and the Executive Branch concerned about 'judicial activism.'"-Michael Mello, Vermont Law School, and author of Legalizing Gay Marriage "Pierceson has written an engaging book that should appeal to a broad array of readers. It lucidly explores issues of public law, comparative politics, political culture, liberal political theory, and institutionalism."-Evan Gerstmann, Loyola Marymount University "This is an excellent analysis of many of the legal issues dealing with sodomy and same-sex marriages, and helps to explain why they have developed in the way that they have. The material is theoretically rich and grounded in diverse literature."-Richard Pacelle, Georgia Southern UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments1. Introduction2. U.S. Federal Courts and Gay Rights: A History of Hesitancy3. Liberalism and Gay Politics: Rights and Their Critics4. Toward a Better Liberalism5. Sodomy Laws, Courts, and Liberalism6. Lessons from Continued Sodomy Adjudication7. Courts and Same-Sex Marriage in the United States: Hawaii and Alaska8. Courts and Same-Sex Marriage in the United States: Vermont9. Developments after Vermont: An Evolving Jurisprudence and Its Backlash10. Canada: Rethinking Courts, Rights, and Liberalism11. Courts, Social Change, and the Power of Legal Liberalism12. ConclusionNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisThe Mormon Church entered the public square on LGBT issues by joining forces with traditional-marriage proponents in Hawaii in 1993. Since then, the church has been a significant player in the ongoing saga of LGBT rights within the United States and at times has carried decisive political clout.Gregory Prince draws from over 50,000 pages of public records, private documents, and interview transcripts to capture the past half-century of the Mormon Church's attitudes on homosexuality. Initially that principally involved only its own members, but with its entry into the Hawaiian political arena, the church signaled an intent to shape the outcome of the marriage equality battle. That involvement reached a peak in 2008 during California's fight over Proposition 8, which many came to call the “Mormon Proposition.” In 2015, when the Supreme Court made marriage equality the law of the land, the Mormon Church turned its attention inward, declaring same-sex couples “apostates” and denying their children access to key Mormon rites of passage, including the blessing (christening) of infants and the baptism of children.Trade ReviewFocusing on the place held by three immensely popular Sufi saints—Rumi, Yunus Emre, and Haji Bektash—in the Turkish imagination, Soileau provides a fascinating insight into the religious sensibilities and social and political conflicts of modern Turkey. He perceptively reconstructs contestations about the nature of their sainthood that allowed socialists and nationalists, Alevis and Sunnis, humanists and Islamists to appropriate these saints as icons symbolising their own world view."" - Martin van Bruinessen, co-author of Sufism and the ""Modern"" in Islam

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Book SynopsisIn this first-ever comprehensive examination of queerbaiting, fan studies scholar Joseph Brennan and his contributors examine cases that shed light on the sometimes exploitative industry practice of teasing homoerotic possibilities that, while hinted at, never materialize in the program narratives. Through a nuanced approach that accounts for both the history of queer representation and older fan traditions, these essayists examine the phenomenon of queerbaiting across popular TV, video games, children's programs, and more. Contributors: Evangeline Aguas, Christoffer Bagger, Bridget Blodgett, Cassie Brummitt, Leyre Carcas, Jessica Carniel, Jennifer Duggan, Monique Franklin, Divya Garg, Danielle S. Girard, Mary Ingram-Waters, Hannah McCann, Michael McDermott, E. J. Nielsen, Emma Nordin, Holly Eva Katherine Randell-Moon, Emily E. Roach, Anastasia Salter, Elisabeth Schneider, Kieran Sellars, Isabela Silva, Guillaume Sirois, Clare Southerton

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Book SynopsisThis inaugural volume of the new book series, Research in Queer Studies is a collection of memoirs or short narrative essays in which lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, intersex or queer PK-12 teachers and/or administrators (either “out” or “not out”) recount their personal experiences as a queer teachers. The authors of these stores write about significant experiences that describe how their sexual identity has shaped who they are today as teachers/administrators, by answering the following questions: In light of your sexual identity, how did you become who you are today? Why did you decide to become a teacher? What role did your sexual identity play in that decision? What kinds of significant moments, including queer issues (e.g., bullying) regarding students and/or yourself, have you experience in your teaching? In light of who you are as an individual, what do you hope to achieve and become as a queer teacher in the future?

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Book SynopsisThis inaugural volume of the new book series, Research in Queer Studies is a collection of memoirs or short narrative essays in which lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, intersex or queer PK-12 teachers and/or administrators (either “out” or “not out”) recount their personal experiences as a queer teachers. The authors of these stores write about significant experiences that describe how their sexual identity has shaped who they are today as teachers/administrators, by answering the following questions: In light of your sexual identity, how did you become who you are today? Why did you decide to become a teacher? What role did your sexual identity play in that decision? What kinds of significant moments, including queer issues (e.g., bullying) regarding students and/or yourself, have you experience in your teaching? In light of who you are as an individual, what do you hope to achieve and become as a queer teacher in the future?

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Book SynopsisIn Sex Science Self, Bob Ostertag cautions against accepting and defending any technology uncritically—even, maybe even especially, a technology that has become integrally related to identity. Specifically, he examines the development of estrogen and testosterone as pharmaceuticals.Ostertag situates this history alongside the story of an increasingly visible and political lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender population. He persuasively argues that scholarship on the development of sex hormone chemicals does not take into account LGBT history and activism, nor has work in LGBT history fully considered the scientific research that has long attempted to declare a chemical essence of gender. In combining these histories, Ostertag reveals the complex motivations behind hormone research over generations and expresses concern about the growing profits from estrogen and testosterone, which now are marketed with savvy ad campaigns to increase their use across multiple demographics.Ostertag does not argue against the use of pharmaceutical hormones. Instead he points out that at a time when they are increasingly available, it is more important than ever to understand the history and current use of these powerful chemicals so that everyone—within the LGBT community and beyond—can make informed choices.In this short, thoughtful, and engaging book, Ostertag tells a fascinating story while opening up a wealth of new questions and debates about gender, sexuality, and medical treatments.Trade ReviewSex Science Self makes a significant contribution to the field of LGBT studies by placing debates about trans identity and politics in a new, provocative context. Wonderfully written, the book guides its readers through a great deal of complicated scientific material in clear, direct, and highly readable language, making it both accessible and completely engaging.""—Michael Bronski, author of A Queer History of the United States

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Book SynopsisOn September 23, 1970, a group of antiwar activists staged a robbery at a bank in Massachusetts, during which a police officer was killed. While the three men who participated in the robbery were soon apprehended, two women escaped and became fugitives on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list, eventually landing in a lesbian collective in Lexington, Kentucky, during the summer of 1974. In pursuit, the FBI launched a massive dragnet. Five lesbian women and one gay man ended up in jail for refusing to cooperate with federal officials, whom they saw as invading their lives and community. Dubbed the Lexington Six, the group's resistance attracted national attention, inspiring a nationwide movement in other minority communities. Like the iconic Stonewall demonstrations, this gripping story of spirited defiance has special resonance in today's America. Drawing on transcripts of the judicial hearings, contemporaneous newspaper accounts, hundreds of pages of FBI files released to the author under the Freedom of Information Act, and interviews with many of the participants, Josephine Donovan reconstructs this fascinating, untold story. The Lexington Six is a vital addition to LGBTQ, feminist, and radical American history.Trade Review"Josephine Donovan’s intimate chronicle of why five lesbians and one gay man went innocently to jail rather than collaborate with a corrupt FBI is an essential story of 1970s America that relates to today’s contests of privacy and power."—Carol Mason, author of Reading Appalachia from Left to Right: Conservatives and the 1974 Kanawha County Textbook Controversy "Through telling this harrowing story, Donovan introduces readers to the era’s stark political and legal realities. She reviews the significant connections made among a variety of forces that fought against Grand Jury abuses, from lesbian feminist groups and newspapers, grassroots organizations and networks, and national entities such as the National Lawyers Guild and Center for Constitutional Rights."—Marcia M. Gallo, author of Different Daughters: A History of the Daughters of Bilitis and the Rise of the Lesbian Rights Movement

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Book SynopsisAfter a chance meeting aboard the ocean liner Paris in 1924, Harvard University scholar and activist F. O. Matthiessen and artist Russell Cheney fell in love and remained inseparable until Cheney's death in 1945. During the intervening years, the men traveled throughout Europe and the United States, achieving great professional success while contending with serious personal challenges, including addiction, chronic disease, and severe depression.During a hospital stay, years into their relationship, Matthiessen confessed to Cheney that "never once has the freshness of your life lost any trace of its magic for me. Every day is a new discovery of your wealth." Situating the couple's private correspondence alongside other sources, Scott Bane tells the remarkable story of their relationship in the context of shifting social dynamics in the United States. From the vantage point of the present day, with marriage equality enacted into law, Bane provides a window into the realities faced by same-sex couples in the early twentieth century, as they maintained relationships in the face of overt discrimination and the absence of legal protections.

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Book SynopsisBuried for decades, the Up Stairs Lounge tragedy has only recently emerged as a catalyzing event of the gay liberation movement. In revelatory detail, Robert W. Fieseler chronicles the tragic event that claimed the lives of thirty-one men and one woman on June 24, 1973, at a New Orleans bar, the largest mass murder of gays until 2016. Relying on unprecedented access to survivors and archives, Fieseler creates an indelible portrait of a closeted, blue- collar gay world that flourished before an arsonist ignited an inferno that destroyed an entire community. The aftermath was no less traumatic—families ashamed to claim loved ones, the Catholic Church refusing proper burial rights, the city impervious to the survivors’ needs—revealing a world of toxic prejudice that thrived well past Stonewall. Yet the impassioned activism that followed proved essential to the emergence of a fledgling gay movement. Tinderbox restores honor to a forgotten generation of civil-rights martyrs.Trade Review"Journalist Robert W. Fieseler salvages [an] unsettling moment in American history from the edge of forgetfulness in a remarkable, potent remembrance.... It's indescribably moving to learn in a final author's note that survivors hesitant to speak on the record for Tinderbox came forward with urgency after the Pulse massacre. Their testimonies, Fieseler's rigorous research and his amiable prose make this a vital, inspiring volume in the annals of gay history." -- Dave Wheeler - Shelf Awareness"In his impressive, meticulously reported debut as a nonfiction author, Robert Fieseler vividly re-creates the world that produced a galvanizing tragedy, a fire at a New Orleans bar in the summer of 1973 that took thirty-two lives. In reminding us of the furtiveness of gay life even in a tolerant city, and of the official culture’s hostility to it, Tinderbox is riveting and unforgettable." -- Nicholas Lemann, author of The Promised Land"Fieseler handles contradictions with finesse, parsing the closet’s long shadow over gay life in New Orleans, one reason the [Up Stairs Lounge] tragedy did not catalyze the kind of outrage and activism that followed the Stonewall rebellion.... The book is loving, sensitive, and diligent." -- Parul Sehgal, New York Times"This vital book chronicles one of the worst outrages against gay people in modern America, and it does so with fantastic vividness. It restores a forgotten chapter of horror to our national narrative of rights. Robert W. Fieseler reminds us how deep prejudice was, not only on the part of the man who set the fire at the Up Stairs Lounge, but also in the media that ignored the story and the population that took no interest in it." -- Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon"Robert W. Fieseler has given us a profoundly moving and deeply researched reminder of the tragic and ghastly costs of bigotry, silence, and the closet. We must never go back. Tinderbox is more than a memorial. It is a call for our ongoing struggle to build movements for love and dignity for everyone everywhere." -- Blanche Wiesen Cook, author of Eleanor Roosevelt, Volumes 1–3"This book provides a vivid portrait of the hardscrabble lives of the dishwashers, grocery clerks, soldiers, and other working men for whom the Up Stairs Lounge became a sanctuary, and then a heart-wrenching reconstruction of the horrifying hour it turned into a deathtrap. Its account of the aftermath of this tragedy is equally illuminating—and sobering." -- George Chauncey, Columbia University, author of Gay New York"Tinderbox is a work of enormous significance that announces the arrival of a gifted new author. Robert Fieseler writes with acuity and compassion about mythic themes—love, faith, death, grief. And as he does so, he chronicles an essential event in gay history, the tragic fire that propelled the movement for social and legal equality." -- Samuel Freedman, author of Breaking the Line"As in a Shakespearean tragedy, the ghosts of the closeted and disrespected dead resurrect to tell their stories in Robert Fieseler’s Tinderbox. Compassionately written and extraordinarily reported, the book demonstrates that memory is a life-affirming force that can triumph over the injustices of death. Tinderbox will likely take its place in the canon of the history of gay rights in America." -- Ronald K. L. Collins, University of Washington Law School, coauthor of Mania: The Story of the Outraged and Outrageous Lives That Launched a Cultural Revolution"Fieseler's work is an essential piece of historical restitution that takes us from 1973 to 2003, when homosexuality was finally decriminalized in Louisiana. Powerfully written and consistently engaging, the book will hopefully shed more light on the gay community's incredible and tragic journey to equality. A momentous work of sociological and civil rights history." -- Kirkus Reviews [Starred Review]"A vivid, fast-paced, and essential LGBTQ and social history." -- Library Journal [Starred Review]

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Book SynopsisExamines the creation, context, and significance of the first and only East German feature film about homosexuality. It took forty years for East Germany's state-run studios, DEFA, to produce a feature film about homosexuality: Coming Out. The film's story seems radically ordinary today: a young teacher, Philipp, is gay but cannot accept the truth about his sexuality. He starts a relationship with a fellow teacher, Tanja, but falls in love with a man he meets, Matthias, whose confidence in his own self-understanding is alluring for him as well as a challenge. Acclaimed director Heiner Carow created a film that shows the difficulties, both internalized and external, that queer people faced in East Germany. In a quirk of history, Coming Out premiered in German theaters on November 9, 1989, the very night on which the Berlin Wall was opened, which meant the film was initially overshadowed, to say the least, by the earthshaking political events. Yet it remains a popular film and is regularly screened around the world, including prominently at queer film festivals. Kyle Frackman's book examines the film in both the late East German context of its creation and the international context of its reception. This book is openly available in digital formats under Creative Commons license CC BY-NC.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Heiner Carow and Film's Revolutionary Potential Homosexuality in East Germany The Distress of Coming Out Melodrama and Its Excesses Romance and the Love Story Philipp and Tanja's Courtship Queer Exploration Change and Upheaval A New Beginning Coming Out and Reconciling Identities Acceptance Release, Reception, and Legacy Credits Notes

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Book SynopsisIn this volume, authors explore the interconnected issues of spirituality and community as they relate to queer issues in the Deep South. The book begins with explorations of queer spiritualities and LGBTQ people in religious settings. Next, authors investigate and document the rise of the religious right political movement in the South. Finally, the authors of this text document community life for LGBTQ people in the Deep South, including efforts to create affirming queer spaces inside otherwise hostile locales.Through the chapters in this text, the peculiarities of spirituality and community life for LGBTQ people in the Deep South are explored. However, this volume also points to trends, themes, and dynamics at work in the Deep South that are also implicated in the queer experience in other parts of the U.S. The authors of this text push readers to think deeply about these issues, probe the limits of queer potentialities in Southern religious and community contexts, and clearly point to the interweaving of Christian religiousness, communities of practice, the operation of white supremacist heteropatriarchy in oppression of LGBTQ people, and the possibilities of affirming spiritual and community praxis.

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Book SynopsisIn this volume, authors explore the interconnected issues of spirituality and community as they relate to queer issues in the Deep South. The book begins with explorations of queer spiritualities and LGBTQ people in religious settings. Next, authors investigate and document the rise of the religious right political movement in the South. Finally, the authors of this text document community life for LGBTQ people in the Deep South, including efforts to create affirming queer spaces inside otherwise hostile locales.Through the chapters in this text, the peculiarities of spirituality and community life for LGBTQ people in the Deep South are explored. However, this volume also points to trends, themes, and dynamics at work in the Deep South that are also implicated in the queer experience in other parts of the U.S. The authors of this text push readers to think deeply about these issues, probe the limits of queer potentialities in Southern religious and community contexts, and clearly point to the interweaving of Christian religiousness, communities of practice, the operation of white supremacist heteropatriarchy in oppression of LGBTQ people, and the possibilities of affirming spiritual and community praxis.

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Book SynopsisThis volume is an attempt to serve as a venue for giving a voice to queer people from all faiths and no faiths to describe how they negotiate or have negotiated spiritual violence in their lives, as well as the voices of heterosexual allies who strive for the inclusion of queer people as a counter narrative to spiritual violence of full inclusion and embracement and demonstrate that some communities of faith do not operate from paradigms of violence, but instead operate with love, affirmation, and inclusion. These counter narratives are important.This volume is a collection of narratives that describe a variety of experiences – stories of pain and rejection, joy, and overcoming and transformation. The voices of the authors in this collection are a mixture of personal narratives, theoretical or academic thought, and because art and spirituality often go hand-in-hand, some of the authors offer the reader more creative writing that reflects their ideas.

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Book SynopsisThis volume is an attempt to serve as a venue for giving a voice to queer people from all faiths and no faiths to describe how they negotiate or have negotiated spiritual violence in their lives, as well as the voices of heterosexual allies who strive for the inclusion of queer people as a counter narrative to spiritual violence of full inclusion and embracement and demonstrate that some communities of faith do not operate from paradigms of violence, but instead operate with love, affirmation, and inclusion. These counter narratives are important.This volume is a collection of narratives that describe a variety of experiences – stories of pain and rejection, joy, and overcoming and transformation. The voices of the authors in this collection are a mixture of personal narratives, theoretical or academic thought, and because art and spirituality often go hand-in-hand, some of the authors offer the reader more creative writing that reflects their ideas.

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Book SynopsisIn this volume, authors explore the interconnected issues of public health and public policy as they relate to queer issues in the Deep South. The book begins with a sustained examination of public health, health disparities, and mental health for LGBTQ people in the South. Next, the issues of public policy and public advocacy, including law enforcement, community advocacy and activism, and public life in the Deep South are taken up. Through the chapters in this text, the peculiarities of public health and public policy for LGBTQ people in the Deep South are explored. However, this volume also points to trends, themes, and dynamics at work in the Deep South that are also implicated in the queer experience in other parts of the U.S. The authors of this text push readers to think deeply about these issues. They clearly highlight the systemic nature of oppression of queer people in the South through institutions of medicine, mental health discourses, the criminal justice system, and public life including Pride and Mardi Gras. Taken together, the authors in this volume call for reform, liberation, and conscientization and queerly envision the future of health and policy in the Deep South.Table of Contents Introduction SECTION 1: QUEERING PUBLIC HEALTH, MENTAL HEALTH, AND MEDICINE Section Introduction: The Need to Understand Oppression in Context: Health Disparities Among LGBTQ People in the Deep South Mental Health and Internalized Heterosexism Among LGBTQ Individuals in the U.S. South Bon Amis: Resilience Against Suicide for Transgender Communities in Louisiana LGBTQ Mental Health Disparities in the Deep South: Trends in Mental Health Discourse and the Lived Experiences of LGBTQ Southerners Understanding the Historical Context of Traditionally Marginalizing Biblical Passages: Helping LGBTQ Clients Navigate the Intersection of Religion and Sexual Identity Coming Out, Competent Care, and Access: Health Care Experiences of Lesbians in the Deep South The Sword and the Staff: Exploring the Intersection of Patriarchy, Race, and Sexuality SECTION 2: QUEERING PUBLIC POLICY AND ADVOCACY Queerly Growing Sideways in a Carceral State: The Intersections of Queer Lives and the Police State New Orleans and the Drive Against the Deviates Erasing Bisexual Erasure in the Deep South: Research and Advocacy With Bisexual Individuals Wise as a Serpent and Soft as a Dove: Strategies of LGBT+ Activists in the South Queering Pride to Center the Voices of People of Color The Secret Misters of Joe Cain: Queering Mardi Gras in the Deep South About the Authors

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Book SynopsisIn this volume, authors explore the interconnected issues of public health and public policy as they relate to queer issues in the Deep South. The book begins with a sustained examination of public health, health disparities, and mental health for LGBTQ people in the South. Next, the issues of public policy and public advocacy, including law enforcement, community advocacy and activism, and public life in the Deep South are taken up. Through the chapters in this text, the peculiarities of public health and public policy for LGBTQ people in the Deep South are explored. However, this volume also points to trends, themes, and dynamics at work in the Deep South that are also implicated in the queer experience in other parts of the U.S. The authors of this text push readers to think deeply about these issues. They clearly highlight the systemic nature of oppression of queer people in the South through institutions of medicine, mental health discourses, the criminal justice system, and public life including Pride and Mardi Gras. Taken together, the authors in this volume call for reform, liberation, and conscientization and queerly envision the future of health and policy in the Deep South.Table of Contents Introduction SECTION 1: QUEERING PUBLIC HEALTH, MENTAL HEALTH, AND MEDICINE Section Introduction: The Need to Understand Oppression in Context: Health Disparities Among LGBTQ People in the Deep South Mental Health and Internalized Heterosexism Among LGBTQ Individuals in the U.S. South Bon Amis: Resilience Against Suicide for Transgender Communities in Louisiana LGBTQ Mental Health Disparities in the Deep South: Trends in Mental Health Discourse and the Lived Experiences of LGBTQ Southerners Understanding the Historical Context of Traditionally Marginalizing Biblical Passages: Helping LGBTQ Clients Navigate the Intersection of Religion and Sexual Identity Coming Out, Competent Care, and Access: Health Care Experiences of Lesbians in the Deep South The Sword and the Staff: Exploring the Intersection of Patriarchy, Race, and Sexuality SECTION 2: QUEERING PUBLIC POLICY AND ADVOCACY Queerly Growing Sideways in a Carceral State: The Intersections of Queer Lives and the Police State New Orleans and the Drive Against the Deviates Erasing Bisexual Erasure in the Deep South: Research and Advocacy With Bisexual Individuals Wise as a Serpent and Soft as a Dove: Strategies of LGBT+ Activists in the South Queering Pride to Center the Voices of People of Color The Secret Misters of Joe Cain: Queering Mardi Gras in the Deep South About the Authors

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Book SynopsisFor centuries the Atlantic world has been a site of encounter and exchange, a rich point of transit where one could remake one's identity or find it transformed. Through this interdisciplinary collection of essays, Laura R. Prieto and Stephen R. Berry offer vivid new accounts of how individuals remapped race, gender, and sexuality through their lived experience and in the cultural imagination. Crossings and Encounters is the first single volume to address these three intersecting categories across the Atlantic world and beyond the colonial period.The Atlantic world offered novel possibilities to and exposed vulnerabilities of many kinds of people, from travelers to urban dwellers, native Americans to refugees. European colonial officials tried to regulate relationships and impose rigid ideologies of gender, while perceived distinctions of culture, religion, and ethnicity gradually calcified into modern concepts of race. Amid the instabilities of colonial settlement and slave societies, people formed cross-racial sexual relationships, marriages, families, and households. These not only afforded some women and men with opportunities to achieve stability; they also furnished ways to redefine one's status. Crossings and Encounters spans broadly from early contact zones in the seventeenth-century Americas to the postcolonial present, and it covers the full range of the Atlantic world, including the Caribbean, North America, and Latin America. The essays examine the historical intersections between race and gender to illuminate the fluid identities and the dynamic communities of the Atlantic world.

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Book SynopsisThis edited collection supports queer educators and students, underscores the reasons society does not see LGBTQ representation in classroom spaces, and offers “queered” pedagogical approaches for teaching students from diverse backgrounds. This collection places value on every educator and student through prioritizing inclusivity, and the chapters carefully articulate what (queer) inclusivity is, why it matters for all educators, students, and administrators, and what can happen when inclusive environments are not created and/or sustained.When prompted to think about marginalized educators and students, most literature and research focuses on federal/state laws and instances of bullying. The chapters in this collection are farther reaching and provide (queered) solutions for these individuals’ needs and challenges. This volumeaddresses the ability of the LGBTQ community to see themselves represented in the curriculum of schools, discussed in the language of society, and valued in all discourse settings. In addition, this volume uses queerness as a lens through which to reimagine classroom spaces and institutions of higher learning.Table of Contents Reorienting Education as Queer: An Introduction to Queer Approaches, Kristin LaFollette and Nicholas Santavicca. Burning Out at the Intersections: Reflections on Teaching Multicultural Competencies as a Queer and Genderqueer Puerto Rican Educator, María R. Scharrón-del Río. Pedagogical Femme Sensibilities: Teaching Gender and Sexuality Studies Through Queer Affect and Embodiment, Mel Michelle Lewis. “I’ve Seen You . . . Even if You Are One”: Affective Literacies for Adolescents and LGBTQA Literatures in Language Arts, R. Joseph Rodríguez. Affective Literacy of Teachers and Students Living With HIV and AIDS: Re-Shaping the Language and Discourse of Teacher Education, Nicholas Santavicca and Maureen P. Hall. Slip It in the Back Door: Queering the Transparency Imperative in Higher Education, Allison L. Rowland and Jennifer Thomas. Classroom Queerness and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Kristin LaFollette. Queering Education: Killing-Joy and Nurturing-Hope in a College Classroom, Susan W. Woolley and Mark Stern. Contributor Biographies.

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Book SynopsisThis edited collection supports queer educators and students, underscores the reasons society does not see LGBTQ representation in classroom spaces, and offers “queered” pedagogical approaches for teaching students from diverse backgrounds. This collection places value on every educator and student through prioritizing inclusivity, and the chapters carefully articulate what (queer) inclusivity is, why it matters for all educators, students, and administrators, and what can happen when inclusive environments are not created and/or sustained.When prompted to think about marginalized educators and students, most literature and research focuses on federal/state laws and instances of bullying. The chapters in this collection are farther reaching and provide (queered) solutions for these individuals’ needs and challenges. This volumeaddresses the ability of the LGBTQ community to see themselves represented in the curriculum of schools, discussed in the language of society, and valued in all discourse settings. In addition, this volume uses queerness as a lens through which to reimagine classroom spaces and institutions of higher learning.Table of Contents Reorienting Education as Queer: An Introduction to Queer Approaches, Kristin LaFollette and Nicholas Santavicca. Burning Out at the Intersections: Reflections on Teaching Multicultural Competencies as a Queer and Genderqueer Puerto Rican Educator, María R. Scharrón-del Río. Pedagogical Femme Sensibilities: Teaching Gender and Sexuality Studies Through Queer Affect and Embodiment, Mel Michelle Lewis. “I’ve Seen You . . . Even if You Are One”: Affective Literacies for Adolescents and LGBTQA Literatures in Language Arts, R. Joseph Rodríguez. Affective Literacy of Teachers and Students Living With HIV and AIDS: Re-Shaping the Language and Discourse of Teacher Education, Nicholas Santavicca and Maureen P. Hall. Slip It in the Back Door: Queering the Transparency Imperative in Higher Education, Allison L. Rowland and Jennifer Thomas. Classroom Queerness and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Kristin LaFollette. Queering Education: Killing-Joy and Nurturing-Hope in a College Classroom, Susan W. Woolley and Mark Stern. Contributor Biographies.

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Book SynopsisThe lives of African American gay men have greatly gone unnoticed in the American consciousness. Despite the fact that Black gay men have made great contributions to our global society. For example, James Baldwin served as a literature giant. Bayard Rustin was one of the key organizers of the 1963 March on Washington. Alphonso David is the first person of color to lead the HRC (Human Rights Campaign).The purpose of this book is to discuss the narratives of Black gay men. There is no doubt that American history has done a nonexistent job of portraying the lives of these Black gay men. Most of these lives have been relegated to the background of society. This book purposes to change that narrative by having 10 to 12 gentlemen discuss their background and how it brought them to where they are in life now. The goal of this book is to also discuss the victory for each of the authors.

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Book SynopsisThe lives of African American gay men have greatly gone unnoticed in the American consciousness. Despite the fact that Black gay men have made great contributions to our global society. For example, James Baldwin served as a literature giant. Bayard Rustin was one of the key organizers of the 1963 March on Washington. Alphonso David is the first person of color to lead the HRC (Human Rights Campaign).The purpose of this book is to discuss the narratives of Black gay men. There is no doubt that American history has done a nonexistent job of portraying the lives of these Black gay men. Most of these lives have been relegated to the background of society. This book purposes to change that narrative by having 10 to 12 gentlemen discuss their background and how it brought them to where they are in life now. The goal of this book is to also discuss the victory for each of the authors.

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Book SynopsisPerformance, I take a pragmatic approach sharing my intimate journey, my stories, and myself with you—the reader—as I actively perform and model the development of queer explorations (i.e., lessons) and curriculum.I begin this journey with three accessible histories of multicultural education, queer perspectives, and autoethnography, respectively. These easy-to-navigate stories provide you with important background knowledge, highlighting the evolution of, commonalities between, and need for each discipline, along with their connection to identity and identity awareness as a form of social justice practice and advancement. Next, I share and perform the nine explorations developed for this project, collectively titled Queer Explorations of Identity Awareness. Modeling for you in practical terms how to queer curriculum and its development, I openly examine my raw performances, discuss my personal and analytical reflections, and embrace my own personal experiences and revelations that occurred throughout this project. Finally, I close with a creative, reflective, and story-like analysis of the process that includes a call to action from you to share your stories as a way of knowing yourself—and others—as a form of social justice education and advancement.This book is intended for all formal and informal educators interested in performing and developing queer multicultural social justice curriculum and practices. Inspired by Ayers (2006), I invite you on this "voyage" with "hope and urgency" (p. 83). It is time we share our stories as a form of curriculum, activism, and coming together.

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Book SynopsisPerformance, I take a pragmatic approach sharing my intimate journey, my stories, and myself with you—the reader—as I actively perform and model the development of queer explorations (i.e., lessons) and curriculum.I begin this journey with three accessible histories of multicultural education, queer perspectives, and autoethnography, respectively. These easy-to-navigate stories provide you with important background knowledge, highlighting the evolution of, commonalities between, and need for each discipline, along with their connection to identity and identity awareness as a form of social justice practice and advancement. Next, I share and perform the nine explorations developed for this project, collectively titled Queer Explorations of Identity Awareness. Modeling for you in practical terms how to queer curriculum and its development, I openly examine my raw performances, discuss my personal and analytical reflections, and embrace my own personal experiences and revelations that occurred throughout this project. Finally, I close with a creative, reflective, and story-like analysis of the process that includes a call to action from you to share your stories as a way of knowing yourself—and others—as a form of social justice education and advancement.This book is intended for all formal and informal educators interested in performing and developing queer multicultural social justice curriculum and practices. Inspired by Ayers (2006), I invite you on this "voyage" with "hope and urgency" (p. 83). It is time we share our stories as a form of curriculum, activism, and coming together.

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Book SynopsisLGBTQ+ advocacy and support continues to be a priority in the U.S. higher education, and recent research shows this as a critical population who continues to be marginalized and mistreated on college and university campuses. Over the last few decades there has been significant research describing how LGBTQ students experience higher education and highlighting that these students are not graduating or succeeding at the same rates as the general population. However, few if any research studies or articles address LGBTQ advocacy on community college campuses. There are more than 1,000 community colleges in the U.S. Even with the extraordinary number of students that the community college system educates, approximately 15 institutions nationally have paid staff to provide LGBTQ services to students. That being said, community colleges are now putting a larger emphasis on understanding and supporting this community. For example, The California Community College (CCC) system's 116 colleges now require all campuses to create a plan on how to improve success rates of LGBTQ+ students. The CCC is the largest higher education system in the country serving over 2 million students. This comprehensive practitioner focused book will combine relevant research and guidance on practices to aid colleges in establishing services and programs to build effective LGBTQ+ services on their college campuses.Trade ReviewRead. This. Book! Our community college LGBTQ+ students are crying out for support and understanding. They want to thrive and succeed at our colleges and we need to develop our capacity to listen, learn and engage with this critical student population." — Lori M. Berquam, Mesa Community College"As President of the Association of California Community College Administrators (ACCCA), I see the value Queer and Trans Advocacy in the Community College adds to our call for equity and justice. This is an effective and practical tool for anyone who wants to understand how to be an advocate, accomplice, and ally to our LGBTQ+ family. Written with freshness, honesty, intensity, and power." — Wyman M. Fong, Association of California Community College Administrators (ACCCA)""I am thrilled to see new research on LGBTQ+ needs on Community Colleges. The number of LGBTQ+ Centers on university campuses have grown over the last 20 years but most colleges do not have LGBTQ+ Centers. This book expands the knowledge, dialogue, and efforts in LGBTQ+ services for students at Community Colleges. It is an exciting new resource for Community Colleges."" — Bruce E. Smail, Indiana University"Queer & Trans Advocacy in the Community College is good old fashion truth telling. An honest critique of the barriers systems impose on people and in particular those from the LGBT+ communities. The call to action is palpable and the guidance actionable. Community Colleges must welcome the challenge and aggressively respond to the pervasive needs of the Queer and Trans communities." — Melanie Dixon, Los Rios Community College District"Queer & Trans Advocacy in the Community College is a ground-breaking book. It offers valuable insights into the challenges that LGBTQ+ community college students face, and it provides concrete suggestions for how colleges can help this vulnerable population achieve their academic and career goals. This should be a must-read for every community college professional who is dedicated to improving the diversity, equity, and inclusion climate at their college." — Erika Endrijonas, Pasadena City College

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Book SynopsisTeacher Education programs have largely ignored the needs of LGBTIQ learners in their preparation of pre?service teachers. At best in most of such programs, their needs are addressed in a single chapter in a book or as the topic of discussion in a single class discussion. However, is this minimal discussion enough? What kind of impact does this approach have on future teachers and their future learners?This book engages the reader in a dialogue about why teacher education must address LGBTIQ issues more openly and why teacher education programs should revise their curriculum to more fully integrate the needs of LGBTIQ learners throughout their curriculum, rather than treat such issues as a single, isolated topic in an insignificant manner. Through personal narratives, research, and conceptual chapters, this volume also examines the different ways in which queer youth are present or invisible in schools, the struggles they face, and how teachers can be better prepared to reach them as they should any student, and to make them more visible. The authors of this volume provide insight into the needs of future teachers with the aim of bringing about change in how teacher education programs address LGBTIQ needs to better equip those entering the field of teaching.

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Book SynopsisTeacher Education programs have largely ignored the needs of LGBTIQ learners in their preparation of pre?service teachers. At best in most of such programs, their needs are addressed in a single chapter in a book or as the topic of discussion in a single class discussion. However, is this minimal discussion enough? What kind of impact does this approach have on future teachers and their future learners?This book engages the reader in a dialogue about why teacher education must address LGBTIQ issues more openly and why teacher education programs should revise their curriculum to more fully integrate the needs of LGBTIQ learners throughout their curriculum, rather than treat such issues as a single, isolated topic in an insignificant manner. Through personal narratives, research, and conceptual chapters, this volume also examines the different ways in which queer youth are present or invisible in schools, the struggles they face, and how teachers can be better prepared to reach them as they should any student, and to make them more visible. The authors of this volume provide insight into the needs of future teachers with the aim of bringing about change in how teacher education programs address LGBTIQ needs to better equip those entering the field of teaching.

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Book SynopsisFocusing on the didactic nature of the work of Reinaldo Arenas, this book demonstrates the Cuban writer’s influence as public pedagogue, mentor, and social activist whose teaching on resistance to normative ideologies resonates in societies past, present, and future.Through a multidisciplinary approach bridging educational, historiographic, and literary perspectives, The Dissidence of Reinaldo Arenas illuminates how Arenas’s work remains a cutting-edge source of inspiration for today’s audiences, particularly LGBTQI readers. It shows how Arenas’s aesthetics contain powerful insights for exploring dissensus whether in the context of Cuba, broader Pan-American and Latinx-U.S. queer movements of social justice, or transnational citizenship politics. Carefully dissecting Arenas’s themes against the backdrop of his political activity, this book presents the writer’s poetry, novels, and plays as a curriculum of dissidence that provides models for socially engaged intellectual activism.Trade Review“A welcome and needed work at a time when academia is reenvisioning its discursive fields. It breathes new life into Reinaldo Arenas’s literary corpus by treating it as a cultural object that may be appreciated by different academic disciplines.”—Carlos Riobó, author of Caught between the Lines: Captives, Frontiers, and National Identity in Argentine Literature and Art“Imagines a thoroughly unique, productively innovative critical and scholarly approach to understanding one of twentieth-century literature’s most misunderstood and misread giants. This book models powerfully alternative ways to think not only about Arenas but also about ourselves, as writers, as teachers, and as activists.”—Ricardo L. Ortiz, author of Latinx Literature Now: Between Evanescence and Event

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Book SynopsisThe Dark Eclipse is a book of personal essays in which author A.W. Barnes seeks to come to terms with the suicide of his older brother, Mike. Using source documentation—police report, autopsy, suicide note, and death certificate—the essays explore Barnes’ relationship with Mike and their status as gay brothers raised in a large conservative family in the Midwest. In addition, the narrative traces the brothers’ difficult relationship with their father, a man who once studied to be a Trappist monk before marrying and fathering eight children. Because of their shared sexual orientation, Andrew hoped he and Mike would be close, but their relationship was as fraught as the author’s relationship with his other brothers and father. While the rest of the family seems to have forgotten about Mike, who died in 1993, Barnes has not been able to let him go. This book is his attempt to do so. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.Trade ReviewBarnes brilliantly understands the memoirist’s spiritual prerogative—we are able to bring the dead back to life in our prose. We can take the pictures off the wall and make them dance; we can take the facts of dry documents and make them into vivid stories. The Dark Eclipse is a beautiful example of this. — Susan Cheever, author of Home Before Dark and Note Found in a Bottle: My Life as a Drinker "Powerful, often devastating, and proof if proof were needed that personal essays can be immensely intelligent and profoundly moving."— Peter Trachtenberg, author of The Book of Calamities and Another Insane Devotion "Hard-won knowledge is the kind that matters most. In The Dark Eclipse, Andrew Barnes tracks the reverberations of his brother’s suicide through the long decades of aftermath. This is honest work—the bubble in the spirit-level rides at dead center."— Sven Birkerts, author of Changing the Subject: Art and Attention in the Internet Age A.W. Barnes radio interview with KMA Land (Iowa)— KMA Land KUCI 'Get the Funk Out Show' interview with A.W. Barnes— KUCI "Get the Funk Out Show" Interview on WRKF's "Talk Louisiana" interview with A.W. Barnes— WRKF "Talk Louisiana" "The story Barnes weaves in this memoir—a story of suicidal desires and success, of what drives siblings apart and could, at turns, bring them back together—is a lyric noir of family instability, personal revelation, and queer inheritance both genealogical and literary....Our job, as Barnes beautifully demonstrates here, is to take the ashes of our lives—not only our lived lives, but our lives as readers, too—and sculpt them into a new art."— Lambda Literary "Barnes' unencumbered language make this shortish book a breezy read. The subject matter, however--the exploration of death, family history, and the discovery of self--are not so easy; bu they are necessary." — Gay & Lesbian ReviewTable of Contents 1. A Complaint 2. The Letter 3. Salient Facts 4. Familial Bodies 5. Prospero's Books 6. Holiday Inn 7. Morta Sicura Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisPedro Almodóvar may have helped put queer Iberian cinema on the map, but there are multitudes of LGBTQ filmmakers from Catalonia, Portugal, Castile, Galicia, and the Basque Country who have made the Peninsula one of the world’s most vital sources for queer film. Together, they have produced a cinema whose expressions of queer desire have challenged the region’s conservative religious and family values, while intervening in vital debates about politics, history, and nation. Indiscreet Fantasies is a unique collection that offers in-depth analyses of fifteen different films produced in the region over the past fifty years, each by a different director, from Narciso Ibáñez Serrador’s La residencia (The House That Screamed, 1969) to João Pedro Rodrigues’s O ornitólogo (The Ornithologist, 2016). Contributors examine how queer Iberian cinema has responded to historical trauma—from the AIDS crisis to the repressive and homophobic Franco regime—and explore how these films demonstrate a fluid understanding of sexuality, gender, and national identity. The result will give readers a new appreciation for the cultural diversity of Iberia and the richness of its thought-provoking queer cinema. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press. Trade Review"The editors of Indiscreet Fantasies have compiled a significant collection of essays that will be of interest to film scholars because they analyze cinema that sheds a new light on the representations of Iberian cultures and identities."— Isabel Estrada, author of El documental cinematográfico y televisivo contemporáneoTable of Contents List of Illustrations Introduction Andrés Lema-Hincapié and Conxita Domènech Part I: Into the Realm of Sexual Provocations Chapter 1: The Queer Gothic Regime of Narciso Ibáñez Serrador’s La residencia (1970) Ann Davies Chapter 2: A Queer Path to “Normal”: Pablo Berger’s Torremolinos 73 (2003) Meredith Lyn Jeffers Part II: Queer Intimacy—Within the Household Chapter 3: Turning Around Altogether: Gyrodynamics, Family Fantasies, and Spinnin’ (2007), by Eusebio Pastrana Nina L. Molinaro Chapter 4: Framing Queer Desire: The Construction of Teenage Sexuality in Krámpack (2000), by Cesc Gay Ana Corbalán Chapter 5: Bridging Sexualities: Polyamory, Art, and Temporary Space in Castillos de cartón (2009), by Salvador García Ruiz Jennifer Brady Part III: Queering Iberian Politics Chapter 6: Eloy de la Iglesia’s El diputado (1978): On the Margins of Spanish Democracy Lena Tahmassian Chapter 7: A Blatant Failure in Francoist Censorship: Jaime de Armiñán’s Mi querida señorita (1971) Conxita Domènech Chapter 8: Social Danger and Queer Nationalism in Ignacio Vilar’s A esmorga (2014) Darío Sánchez González Chapter 9: A Basque-Themed Film and the Performativity of Identity in Roberto Castón’s Ander (2009) Ibon Izurieta Part IV: Queer Catalonia—Destroying Essential Representations Chapter 10: The Barbarians’ Inheritance: Memory’s Brittleness and Tragic Lucidity in Ventura Pons’s Amic/Amat (1998) and Forasters (2008) Joan Ramon Resina Chapter 11: Intertextual Representations and Lesbian Desire in Marta Balletbò-Coll’s Sévigné (Júlia Berkowitz) (2004) María Teresa Vera-Rojas Chapter 12: “Com si fóssim la pesta”: Francoism and the Politics of Immunity in Agustí Villaronga’s Pa negre (2010) William Viestenz Part V: Burning Counterpoints with Religiosity Chapter 13: Bound and Cut: João Pedro Rodrigues’ O ornitólogo (2016) Kelly Moore Chapter 14: Queering Lisbon in Paulo Rocha’s A raíz do coração (2000): Santo António Festivities, Politics, and Drag Queens Rui Trindade Oliveira Chapter 15: Entre tinieblas (1983): Pedro Almodóvar, a Reformer of Catholicism? Andrés Lema-Hincapié Acknowledgments Bibliography Index Notes on Contributors

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Book SynopsisTimothy Findley (1930-2002) was one of Canada's foremost writers--an award-winning novelist, playwright, and short-story writer who began his career as an actor in London, England. Findley was instrumental in the development of Canadian literature and publishing in the 1970s and 80s. During those years, he became a vocal advocate for human rights and the anti-war movement. His writing and interviews reveal a man concerned with the state of the world, a man who believed in the importance of not giving in to despair, despite his constant struggle with depression. Findley believed in the power of imagination and creativity to save us. Tiff: A Life of Timothy Findley is the first full biography of this eminent Canadian writer. Sherrill Grace provides insight into Findley's life and struggles through an exploration of his private journals and his relationships with family, his beloved partner, Bill Whitehead, and his close friends, including Alec Guinness, William Hurt, and Margaret Laurence. Based on many interviews and exhaustive archival research, this biography explores Findley's life and work, the issues that consumed him, and his often profound depression over the evils of the twentieth-century. Shining through his darkness are Findley's generous humour, his unforgettable characters, and his hope for the future. These qualities inform canonic works like The Wars (1977), Famous Last Words (1981), Not Wanted on the Voyage (1984), and The Piano Man's Daughter (1995).Trade Review"Written with great sensitivity and attention to detail, Grace’s comprehensive biography succeeds in giving a complete picture of its subject as an individual and an artist." - Publishers Weekly"A meticulously researched deep dive into a troubled and fascinating life—passionate, engaged, often messy, vastly rewarding." - Margaret Atwood"Memory and remembering were central to Timothy Findley’s life and work—and equally to Sherrill Grace’s outstanding biography of the celebrated Canadian author. Drawing impressively and insightfully on a vast archive of letters, photos, journals, diaries, and interviews, and on her own towering talents as one of Canada’s foremost literary scholars, Grace presents a compelling portrait of a complex man and brilliant multifaceted writer—himself a master of auto/biography—whose professional and personal experiences tracked the far-reaching changes of late-20th-century Canada’s social and cultural landscape." - - Christl Verduyn, Mount Allison University"A tactful, sensitive, generous, storyteller, Sherrill Grace recounts the life of one of Canada’s greatest storytellers, illuminating his life and work, the people he knew and the cultural times in which he performed that life so passionately. We follow him as he learns his craft through writing and through living that intense, well-examined, if often tormented, life. At once learned and elegant, this immensely readable biography is a glorious summing up of all the themes of his work and life." - Linda Hutcheon, University of Toronto, author of The Canadian Postmodern"A powerful, eye-opening portrait of the artist as an anguished man who tried desperately to live by his motto: Against despair." - Jerry Wasserman, Emeritus Professor of English and Theatre, UBC, editor of Modern Canadian Plays"Sherrill Grace brings thoughtful attention to both the man and the work, the latter of which notably marked the national literature by its particular obsessions and inventions." - Andrew Pyper, author of The Demonologist and The Homecoming

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Book SynopsisEvolving from a conversation between Joshua Whitehead and Angie Abdou, Indigiqueerness is part dialogue, part collage, and part memoir. Beginning with memories of his childhood poetry and prose and travelling through the library of his life, Whitehead contemplates the role of theory, Indigenous language, queerness, and fantastical worlds in all his artistic pursuits. This volume is imbued with Whitehead’s energy and celebrates Indigenous writers and creators who defy expectations and transcend genres.

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Book SynopsisTeaching about Gender Diversity is an edited collection of teacher-tested interdisciplinary lesson plans that provides K–12 teachers with the tools to implement gender-inclusive practices into their curriculum and talk to their students about gender and sex. Divided into three sections dedicated to the elementary, middle, and secondary grade levels, this practical resource provides lessons for a variety of subject areas, including English language arts, STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics), and health and physical education. The lessons range from reading aloud early literacy picture books that use gender-neutral language and highlight the gendered experiences of characters to engaging mathematics in the study of targeting gender terminology, stereotypes, and the social construction of binary gender.Written by teachers for teachers, this engaging collection highlights teachers’ specialized knowledge of pedagogical practices for the diverse contemporary classroom. More than 30 contributors from across North America provide their varied perspectives on the timely issue of teaching about gender in the classroom. Teaching about Gender Diversity is an ideal resource for students taking education courses on gender, sexuality, diversity and equity, curriculum design, and professional practice.Features detailed lesson plans that include next steps and extension ideas pactice-based, guided approach practical resource for pre-service and in-service teachers

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Book SynopsisAspiring historian Maxine is researching Canadian social policy when she discovers the story of Everett Klippert, the last Canadian man jailed simply for being gay. Maxine becomes fascinated with Everett's case and with discovering the man beyond the headlines, a beloved Calgary bus driver on the downtown route who took care to brighten the day of his passengers, who played on the family baseball team and was everyone's favourite uncle, and who, when he was confronted by police about his sexuality, refused to lie. Inspired and captivated, Maxine interviews people who knew Everett Klippert. She connects with a senior at a local assisted living facility she knows only as Handsome, one of Klippert's lovers and perhaps the only person who can truly illuminate the past. At the same time, Maxine is navigating her own new relationship with Metis comedian Tonya.Legislating Love is a heartwarming play that weaves together past and present in a multi-generational exploration of queer love. It tells the near-forgotten story of one of Canada's quiet heroes and reminds us all that the past must be remembered as we work together for a better future.Trade ReviewA poignant reminder of a generation of gay men and women whose history has always run the risk of being forgotten . . . a thoughtful, moving, new brand of alternative Canadian historical drama. - Stephen Hunt, Globe and Mail (on original theatrical run)

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