LGBTQIA+ Studies / topics Books
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Baggage
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Talking to My Angels
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Penguin Putnam Inc Gentleman Jack Movie TieIn The Real Anne Lister
Book SynopsisThe official companion book to the HBO series Gentleman Jack created by Sally Wainwright and starring Suranne JonesIn 1834, Anne Lister made history by celebrating and recording the first ever known marriage to another woman. This is her remarkable, true story. Anne Lister was extraordinary. Fearless, charismatic and determined to explore her lesbian sexuality, she forged her own path in a society that had no language to define her. She was a landowner, an industrialist and a prolific diarist, whose output has secured her legacy as one of the most fascinating figures of the 19th century. Gentleman Jack: The Real Anne Lister follows Anne from her crumbling ancestral home in Yorkshire to the glittering courts of Denmark as she resolves to put past heartbreak behind her and find herself a wife. This biographical portrait introduces the real Gentleman Jack, featuring unpublished journal extracts decrypted for the first time by series creator Sally Wainw
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The University of Chicago Press No Place Like Home
Book SynopsisThis portrait of lesbian and gay relationships, seeks to capture the experiences of creating and maintaining a home and a chosen family. Based on interviews and field evidence, it demonstrates how the couples must also struggle against forces undermining their relationships.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Feeding Lesbigay Families The Character of Feeding Work Feeding Work and the Creation of Gender, Class, Ethnic, and Family Identities 2. Housework in Lesbigay Families The Character of Housework Managing and Envisioning Housework Variations in Housework among Lesbigay Households Housework and Relationship Longevity 3. Housework and the Social Production of Lesbigay Family Kin Work among Lesbigay Families Kith as Family The Lesbigay Family Kin Keepers Variations in Kin Work Patterns Kin Work and the Creation of Family 4. Consumption Work in Lesbigay Families The Character of Consumption Work Variations in Consumption Work Sustaining Lesbigay Families through Consumption Work 5. The Division of Domestic Labor in Lesbigay Families The Egalitarian Myth The Egalitarian Pattern The Specialization Pattern Pragmatic Choices and the Sense of Fairness Conclusion: Domesticity and the Political Economy of Lesbigay Families Family Aspirations The Political Economy of Constructing Family Now You See It, Now You Don't: Gender and Domesticity Devalued and Invisible: Lesbigay Domesticity Marriage and Lesbigay Domesticity: Who Will Be Bound by the Ties that Bind? What Do Lesbigay Families Need to Prosper? Appendix A: Interview Guide Appendix B: Sample Characteristics References Index
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The University of Chicago Press Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays reconsiders the troubled relationship between same-sex desire and psychoanalysis, assessing homosexuality's status in psychoanalytic theory and practice, as well as the value of psychoanalytic ideas for queer theory. Works by Freud, Klein, Reich and Lacan are examined.
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The University of Chicago Press Unlimited Intimacy
Book SynopsisPurposely flying in the face of decades of safe-sex campaigning and HIV/AIDS awareness initiatives, barebacking is unquestionably radical behavior, behavior that most people would rather condemn than understand. This title presents an investigation into barebacking and the distinctive subculture that has grown around it.Trade Review"Unlimited Intimacy is novel, fascinating, insightful, and courageous. Tim Dean convincingly argues that confronting head-on a sexual subculture that is alien to most readers, and understanding the fantasies that propel it, is a very good way of stimulating thought - not only about that subculture, but about one's own choices and behavior, and about the general social process of demonizing and pathologizing certain sexual practices." - Martha Nussbaum"
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The University of Chicago Press Seeing Sodomy in the Middle Ages Emersion
Book SynopsisChallenging the view that ideas about sexual and gender dissidence were too confused to congeal into a coherent form in the Middle Ages, the author demonstrates that sodomy had a rich, multimedia presence in the period - and that a flexible approach to questions of terminology sheds new light on the many forms this presence took.Trade Review"A tour de force of erudition, critical insight, and balanced judgment. Not since John Boswell's Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality has a single scholar working in gender and sexuality studies taken on such a vast array of data, genres, and languages and treated it with such wisdom and care. Mills is uniquely suited to the task: an art historian, a literary scholar, and a theoretical wizard, he combines like no one else in these three fields of expertise materials that he sees as complementary and essential to one another." (William Burgwinkle, University of Cambridge)"
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The University of Chicago Press Freaks Talk Back
Book SynopsisAre talk shows turning everything they touch into freak shows? This book claims that the socially deviant may be featured on-air for ridicule in the public eye, but the result is empowerment through exploitation. The book illuminates the dilemmas and practicalities of media visibility.
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University of Chicago Press Setting Plato Straight Translating Ancient
Book SynopsisWhen we talk of platonic love or relationships today, we mean something very different from what Plato meant. For this, we have fifteenth and sixteenth-century European humanists to thank. As these scholars-most of them Catholic-read, digested, and translated Plato, they found themselves faced with a fundamental problem: how to be faithful to the text yet not propagate pederasty or homosexuality. In Setting Plato Straight, Todd W. Reeser undertakes the first sustained and comprehensive study of Renaissance textual responses to Platonic same-sex sexuality. Reeser mines an expansive collection of translations, commentaries, and literary sources to study how Renaissance translators transformed ancient eros into non-erotic, non-homosexual relations. He analyzes the interpretive lenses translators employed and the ways in which they read and reread Plato's texts. In spite of this cleansing, Reeser finds surviving traces of Platonic same-sex sexuality that imply a complicated, recurring process of course-correction-of setting Plato straight.
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The University of Chicago Press Sexuality and Form
Book SynopsisThis work proposes that, in Western encounters with homosexuality, the flesh emerges as both a problem and a promise at the limits of the narrative arts. It considers Italian humanism, art history, Elizabethan drama, early experimental science and contemporary theory.Trade Review"Hammill's ability to connect the dots of various disciplines to make a big cultural picture is nothing short of brilliant.... Original, daring, disturbing, polemical and persuasive. It stands head and shoulders above almost all, if not all, books on sex and violence (and outsiderness and cultural impact)." - Bibliotheque d'Humanisme et Renaissance "Breathtaking, substantial, and original.... Hammill's use of humanist, Biblical, and psychoanalytic paradigms and micro-histories to intervene in current cultural studies of homosexuality and 'sexed thinking' is much needed. Readers will leave this book convinced that the flesh cannot be thought of outside a psychoanalytic register." - Julia Lupton, author of Afterlives of the Saints
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The University of Chicago Press Faeries Bears and Leathermen Men in Community
Book SynopsisOver time, male homosexuality and effeminacy have become indelibly associated, sometimes even synonymous. Through a comparative ethnographic analysis of three communities, it explores the surprising ways that conventional masculinity is being collectively challenged, subverted, or perpetuated in contemporary gay male culture.Trade Review"There is an artistic elegance to Hennen's ability to provide a playful and ethnographically rich glimpse into the social worlds he travels through while at the same time adding to important theoretical debates in the sociologies of gender, sexuality, and queer theory." - Wayne H. Brekhus, University of Missouri - Columbia"
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The University of Chicago Press Boystown Sex and Community in Chicago
Book SynopsisFrom neighborhoods as large as Chelsea or the Castro, to locales limited to a single club, like The Shamrock in Madison or Sidewinders in Albuquerque, gay areas are becoming normal. Straight people flood in. Gay people flee out. Scholars call this transformation assimilation and some argue that we gay and straight alike are becoming post gay. Jason Orne argues that rather than post gay, America is becoming post queer, losing the radical lessons of sex. In Boystown, Orne takes readers on a detailed, lively journey through Chicago's Boystown, which serves as a model for gayborhoods around the country. The neighborhood, he argues, has become an entertainment district a gay Disneyland where people get lost in the magic of the night and where straight white women can go on safari. In their original form, though, gayborhoods like this one don't celebrate differences; they create them. By fostering a space outside the mainstream, gay spaces allow people to develop an alternative culture a que
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The University of Chicago Press The Lost Autobiography of Samuel Steward
Book SynopsisUnpublished autobiography of gay writing pioneer Samuel Steward.
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The University of Chicago Press The Politics of Gay Rights The Chicago Series on
Book SynopsisThis is a collection of essays from scholars and activists writing from a number of different perspectives providing a comprehensive overview of civil rights for lesbians and gays. They also address the strategies and ideology of opposition groups and focus on issues for public policy.
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University of Chicago Press Drag Queens at the 801 Cabaret
Book SynopsisProviding a backstaatge pass into the lives of the 801 cabaret girls, this work is based on many interviews with more than a dozen drag queens. One of America's most overlooked subcultures is given a witty and poignant portrait in this work.
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University of Chicago Press Sinners and Citizens Bestiality and
Book SynopsisJens Rydstrom explores the history of homosexuality and bestiality in Sweden to consider why these sexual practices have been so closely linked in virtually all Western Societies. Based on diaries, medical records and court reports, this work reveals the changing notion of deviant behaviour.
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Darton, Longman & Todd Ltd Queer and Catholic
Book SynopsisThis superb memoir of a gay, working class boy from Manchester exploring how to reconcile his sexuality with his Catholicism is all the more powerful because of his deep knowledge of and commitment to his faith.Trade Review'Funny, moving and powerful'. -- Nick Robinson‘Mark Dowd relates his struggles and triumphs with such levity and charm that it feels like correspondence from an old friend. It’s fashionable to want to know how gay people feel, but perhaps less so to explore the mind of a sometimes struggling but always persisting Catholic.’ -- Matthew Parris‘How could you not love a book that finds room in its massive heart for both Oscar Romero and for Manchester’s greatest drag queen, Foo Foo Lammar?’ -- Frank Cottrell Boyce
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MO - University of Illinois Press Companeros
Book Synopsis Telling the affecting stories of eighty gay, bisexual, and transgender (GBT) Latino activists and volunteers living in Chicago and San Francisco, Compañeros: Latino Activists in the Face of AIDS closely details how these individuals have been touched or transformed by the AIDS epidemic. Weaving together activists'' responses to oppression and stigma, their encounters with AIDS, and their experiences as GBTs and Latinos in North America and Latin America, Jesus Ramirez-Valles explores the intersection of civic involvement with ethnic and sexual identity. Even as activists battle multiple sources of oppression, they are able to restore their sense of family connection and self-esteem through the creation of an alternative space in which community members find value in their relationships with one another. In demonstrating the transformative effects of a nurturing community environment for GBT Latinos affected by the AIDS epidemic, Ramirez-Valles illustrTrade ReviewReceived first place in the Best Health Book - English category in the Latino Literacy Now's International Latino Book Awards. “In this lucid and compelling book, Ramirez-Valles argues that community involvement, in this case related to the HIV epidemic, creates social change while simultaneously nourishing the self of those involved. The argument is sustained through the voices of eight Latino gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals who engaged in community activism to combat the HIV epidemic. Their experiences are masterfully presented in order to foster the overall aim of the book.”—Contemporary SociologyTable of ContentsAcknowledgement Introduction; 1: Social Class Origins and Trajectories; 2: Gender Deviants; 3: The Meanings of Latino; 4: The Formation of Gay and Trans Identities; 5: Life with HIV and AIDS; 6: Getting Involved; 7: Finding Companeros; Conclusion: The Road of Companeros Appendix; References
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MIT Press Global Gay How Gay Culture Is Changing the World
Book SynopsisA panoramic view of gay rights, gay life, and the gay experience around the world.In Global Gay, Frédéric Martel visits more than fifty countries and documents a revolution underway around the world: the globalization of LGBT rights. From Saudi Arabia to South Africa, from Amsterdam to Tel Aviv, from Singapore to the United States, activists, culture warriors, and ordinary people are part of a movement. Martel interviews the proprietor of a “gay-friendly” café in Amman, Jordan; a Cuban-American television journalist in Fort Lauderdale, Florida; a South African jurist who worked with Nelson Mandela to enshrine gay rights in the country's constitution; an American lawyer who worked on the campaign for marriage equality; an Egyptian man who fled his country after escaping a raid on a gay club; and many others. He tells us that in China, homosexuality is neither prohibited nor permitted, and that much Chinese gay life takes place on social media;
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Random House USA Inc Farther and Wilder
Book SynopsisCharles Jackson’s novel The Lost Weekend—the story of five disastrous days in the life of an alcoholic—was published in 1944 to triumphant success. Although he tried to escape its legacy, Jackson is often remembered only as the author of this thinly veiled autobiography. In Farther & Wilder, the award-winning biographer of Richard Yates and John Cheever goes deeper, exploring Jackson’s life—from growing up in the scandal-plagued village of Newark, New York, to a career in Hollywood and friendships with everyone from Judy Garland and Billy Wilder to Thomas Mann and Mary McCarthy. This is the fascinating biography of a writer whose life and work encapsulated what it meant to be an addict and a closeted homosexual in mid-century America, and who was far ahead of his time in bringing these forbidden subjects into the popular discourse.
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St Martin's Press The Mayor of Castro Street
Book SynopsisThe Mayor of Castro Street is Shilts''s acclaimed story of Harvey Milk, the man whose personal life, public career, and tragic assassination mirrored the dramatic and unprecedented emergence of the gay community in America during the 1970s.Known as The Mayor of Castro Street even before he was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, Harvey Milk''s personal and political life is a story full of personal tragedies and political intrigues, assassinations at City Hall, massive riots in the streets, the miscarriage of justice, and the consolidation of gay power and gay hope.The Mayor of Castro Street is a story of personal tragedies and political intrigues, assassination in City Hall and massive riots in the streets, the miscarriage of justice and the consolidation of gay power and gay hope.Harvey Milk has been the subject of numerous books and movies, including the Academy Awardwinning 1984 documentary, The Times of Harvey Milk.
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Back Bay Books Theft by Finding
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Little, Brown & Company Real Queer America
Book SynopsisLAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST A transgender reporter''s powerful, profoundly moving narrative tour through the surprisingly vibrant queer communities sprouting up in red states (New York Times Book Review), offering a vision of a stronger, more humane America. Ten years ago, Samantha Allen was a suit-and-tie-wearing Mormon missionary. Now she''s a GLAAD Award-winning journalist happily married to another woman. A lot in her life has changed, but what hasn''t changed is her deep love of Red State America, and of queer people who stay in so-called flyover country rather than moving to the liberal coasts. In Real Queer America, Allen takes us on a cross-country road-trip stretching all the way from Provo, Utah to the Rio Grande Valley to the Bible Belt to the Deep South. Her motto for the trip: Something gay every day. Making pit stops at drag shows, politica
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Random House Canada Confessions of a Fairys Daughter
Book SynopsisNATIONAL BESTSELLER (The Globe and Mail)A moving memoir about growing up with a gay father in the 1980s, and a tribute to the power of truth, humour, acceptance and familial love. A true It GOT Better story.Alison Wearing led a largely carefree childhood until she learned, at the age of 12, that her family was a little more complex than she had realized. Sure her father had always been unusual compared to the other dads in the neighbourhood: he loved to bake croissants, wear silk pyjamas around the house, and skip down the street singing songs from Gilbert and Sullivan operettas. But when he came out of the closet in the 1970s, when homosexuality was still a cardinal taboo, it was a shock to everyone in the quiet community of Peterborough, Ontario—especially to his wife and three children. Alison’s father was a professor of political science and amateur choral conductor, her mother was an accomplished pianist and marathon runner, and together they had fed the family a steady diet of arts, adventures, mishaps, normal frustrations and inexhaustible laughter. Yet despite these agreeable circumstances, Joe’s internal life was haunted by conflicting desires. As he began to explore and understand the truth about himself, he became determined to find a way to live both as a gay man and also a devoted father, something almost unheard of at the time. Through extraordinary excerpts from his own letters and journals from the years of his coming out, we read of Joe’s private struggle to make sense and beauty of his life, to take inspiration from an evolving society and become part of the vanguard of the gay revolution in Canada. Confessions of a Fairy’s Daughter is also the story of “coming out” as the daughter of a gay father. Already wrestling with an adolescent’s search for identity when her father came out of the closet, Alison promptly “went in,” concealing his sexual orientation from her friends and spinning extravagant stories about all of the “great straight things” they did together. Over time, Alison came to see that life with her father was surprisingly interesting and entertaining, even oddly inspiring, and in fact, there was nothing to hide. Balancing intimacy, history and downright hilarity, Confessions of a Fairy’s Daughter is a captivating tale of family life: deliciously imperfect, riotously challenging, and full of life’s great lessons in love. Alison brings her story to life with a skillfully light touch in this warm, heartfelt and revelatory memoir.
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The University of Michigan Press The Limits to Union
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Policy Issues Affecting Lesbian Gay Bisexual and
Book SynopsisUncovers the discrimination against the LGBT community and the legally - and morally - indefensible lack of equal protection for these individuals and their families. This book argues that equal rights for the LGBT community are more than simply a matter of fairness or common sense; they are logically and legally necessary for a just society.
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The University of Michigan Press Waiting for the Call
Book SynopsisGrowing up, Jacqueline Taylor was the ideal preacher's daughter. As she matures, however, Taylor's independent spirit and restless intellect begin to unravel the rigid fabric of belief that enfolds her world. This is the story of one woman's discovery of herself and of the faith she feared may have fled in the hour of her greatest need.
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The University of Michigan Press Sounding Like a NoNo
Book SynopsisTraces a rebellious spirit in post-civil rights black music by focusing on a range of offbeat, eccentric, queer, or slippery performances by leading musicians influenced by the cultural changes brought about by the civil rights, black nationalist, feminist, and LGBTQ movements, who through reinvention created a repertoire of performances that have left a lasting mark on popular music.
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The University of Michigan Press The Skin of Meaning
Book SynopsisIn this collection, Aaron Shurin has brought together thirty years’ worth of his provocative essays. Fuelled by gender and queer studies and combined with radical traditions in poetry, Shurin’s essays combine a highly personal and lyrical vision with a trenchant social analysis of poetry’s possibilities.Trade ReviewReading these essays I’m struck by how fully Aaron Shurin combines a personal history with a prophetic, conceptual, strongly non-personal vision. With masterful intelligence he has presided over, partaken of, and influenced through his analysis avant-gardes as varied as Language Poetry, New Narrative, and conceptual or procedural poetry, on each of which he has written near-definitive texts. His writing about AIDS, brilliantly gathered here—rich, fantastic, and steely-eyed—encompasses the functions of a great novel: total immersion into a mysterious eco-political world. The Skin of Meaning concludes with a bracing interview, in which one of the more profoundly original poets of our day insists on a ‘unity of semantic and phonemic density together’ as poetry’s bottom line, at which point one wants to stand up and cheer, book in hand—book flies into sky, into stars, into the ages.” —Kevin Killian, California College of the Arts
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The University of Michigan Press Charles Ludlam Lives
Book SynopsisPlaywright, actor and director Charles Ludlam (1943-1987) helped to galvanize the Ridiculous style of theater in New York City starting in the 1960s. Although his Ridiculous Theatrical Company shut its doors, the Ludlamesque Ridiculous has continued to thrive. Sean F. Edgecomb focuses on neo-Ridiculous artists to trace the connections between Ludlam's legacy and their performances.Trade ReviewSean Edgecomb thinks beyond pre- and post-Stonewall definitions of camp (without neglecting their significance) to argue that camp not only persists but remains a relevant tactic of transformational queer performance. Charles Ludlam Lives! is a smart, beautifully written book that will make a lasting contribution to gay and lesbian performance history."" - Shane Vogel, Indiana University ""Charles Ludlam would be thrilled—just as he toyed with and overturned the conventions of popular theatre, this book playfully and brilliantly queers performance scholarship in its exploration of Ridiculous legacies. Edgecomb’s research is adventurous, and the writing is lively and compelling. Most importantly, the central figures, Charles Ludlam, Charles Busch, Bradford Louryk, and Taylor Mac, receive the full diva treatment they deserve."" - James Wilson, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY
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The University of Michigan Press Wendy Wasserstein
Book SynopsisPlaywright Wendy Wasserstein (1950-2006) wrote topical, humorous plays addressing relationships among women and their families, taking the temperature of social moments from the 1960s onwards. This volume provides a critical introduction and a feminist reappraisal of the significant plays of one of the most famous contemporary American women playwrights.Trade ReviewSkillfully weaves together historical, dramaturgical, literary, and practical methodologies to attend to everything from Wasserstein's complicated place in the canon to how the plays were initially staged and received . . . Not simply a play-by-play exploration of Wasserstein's work, this book is also a rigorous examination of the gender and race politics of commercial theatre (specifically Broadway)."" - Charlotte M. Canning, University of Texas
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The University of Michigan Press Memories of the Revolution
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The University of Michigan Press Cast Out
Book SynopsisPresents a collection by leading theater performers, practitioners, critics, and passionate spectators. This book offers a backstage pass to the personal and creative lives of some of the most important and influential theater artists of the past years.
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The University of Michigan Press What Do Gay Men Want
Book SynopsisAn effort to understand gay men's relation to sex and risk without recourse to tainted psychological concepts. This work demonstrates the insidious ways in which psychology's defining opposition between the normal and the pathological subjects homosexuality to medical reasoning.Trade ReviewCompelling, timely, and provocative. The writing is sleek and exhilarating. It doesn't waste time telling us what it will do or what it has just done - it just does it. - Don Kulick, Professor of Anthropology, New York University
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The University of Michigan Press LGBT Youth in Americas Schools
Book SynopsisJason Cianciotto and Sean Cahill, experts on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender public policy advocacy, combine an accessible review of social science research with analyses of school practices. In addition, portraits of LGBT youth and their experiences with discrimination at school bring human faces to the issues the authors discuss.
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THAMES & HUDSON Gay Lives
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Random House USA Inc Mamas Boy
Book SynopsisThis heartfelt, deeply personal memoir explores how a celebrated filmmaker and activist and his conservative Mormon mother built bridges across today’s great divides—and how our stories hold the power to heal. • Adapted as an HBO documentary now streaming on HBO Max.“A beautifully written, utterly compelling account of growing up poor and gay with a thrice married, physically disabled, deeply religious Mormon mother, and the imprint this irrepressible woman made on the character of Dustin Lance Black.” —Jon Krakauer, bestselling author of Missoula and Under the Banner of HeavenDustin Lance Black wrote the Oscar-winning screenplay for Milk and helped overturn California’s anti–gay marriage Proposition 8, but as an LGBTQ activist he has unlikely origins—a conservative Mormon household outside San Antonio, Texas. There he was raised by a single mother who, as
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Random House USA Inc Diary of a Misfit
Book SynopsisPart memoir, part sweeping journalistic saga: As Casey Parks follows the mystery of a stranger's past, she is forced to reckon with her own sexuality, her fraught Southern identity, her tortured yet loving relationship with her mother, and the complicated role of faith in her life.Most moving is Parks’s depiction of a queer lineage, her assertion of an ancestry of outcasts, a tapestry of fellow misfits into which the marginalized will always, for better or worse, fit. —The New York Times Book ReviewWhen Casey Parks came out as a lesbian in college back in 2002, she assumed her life in the South was over. Her mother shunned her, and her pastor asked God to kill her. But then Parks's grandmother, a stern conservative who grew up picking cotton, pulled her aside and revealed a startling secret. I grew up across the street from a woman who lived as a man, and then implored Casey to find out what happened to him. Diary of a Misfit is the sto
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Random House USA Inc Dream of the Divided Field
Book SynopsisFrom an award-winning poet comes a collection on heartbreak and transitions, written with a piercing lyric ferocity. FINALIST FOR THE NEW ENGLAND BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY • “Written with great tenderness and intimacy, Dream of the Divided Field reveals what we do (and do not) owe to others, and what we owe to ourselves.”—Poets & WritersThe poems in Yanyi’s latest book suggest that we enter and exit our old selves like homes. We look through the windows and recognize some former aspect of our lives that is both ours and not ours. We long for what we had even as we recognize that we can no longer live there. Yanyi conjures the beloved both within and without us: the beloved we believe we know, the beloved who is never the person we imagine, and the beloved who threatens to erase us even as we stand before them. How can we carry our homes with us? Informed by Yanyi’s experiences of im
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Penguin Putnam Inc Burn the Page
Book SynopsisAn inspirational memoir-meets-manifesto by Danica Roem, the nation''s first openly trans person elected to US state legislatureDanica Roem made national headlines when--as a transgender former frontwoman for a metal band and a political newcomer--she unseated Virginia''s most notoriously anti-LGBTQ 26-year incumbent Bob Marshall as state delegate. But before Danica made history, she had to change her vision of what was possible in her own life. Doing so was a matter of storytelling: during her campaign, Danica hired an opposition researcher to dredge up every story from her past that her opponent might seize on to paint her negatively. In wildly entertaining prose, Danica dismantles all the stories her opponents tried to hedge against her, showing how through brutal honesty and loving authenticity, it''s possible to embrace the low points, and even transform them into her greatest strengths. Burn the Page takes readers from Danica''s lonely, closeted, and
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Penguin Putnam Inc Dear Senthuran
Book SynopsisFEATURED ON THE COVER OF TIME MAGAZINE AS A 2021 NEXT GENERATION LEADER“A once-in-a-generation voice.” – Vulture“One of our greatest living writers.” – ShondalandA full-throated and provocative memoir in letters from the New York Times bestselling author, “a dazzling literary talent whose works cut to the quick of the spiritual self” (Esquire)In their critically acclaimed novels, Akwaeke Emezi has introduced readers to a landscape marked by familial tensions, Igbo belief systems, and a boundless search for what it means to be free. Now, in this extraordinary memoir, the bestselling author of The Death of Vivek Oji reveals the harrowing yet resolute truths of their own life. Through candid, intimate correspondence with friends, lovers, and family, Emezi traces the unfolding of a self and the unforgettable journey of a creative spirit stepping into power in the human world. Their story weaves through transformative decisions about their gender and body, their precipitous path to success as a writer, and the turmoil of relationships on an emotional, romantic, and spiritual plane, culminating in a book that is as tender as it is brutal. Electrifying and inspiring, animated by the same voracious intelligence that distinguishes Emezi's fiction, Dear Senthuran is a revelatory account of storytelling, self, and survival.
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Random House USA Inc The Black Period
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Penguin Putnam Inc I Heard Her Call My Name
Book SynopsisNamed a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Slate?Reading this book is a joy . . . much to say about the trans journey and will undoubtedly become a standard for those in need of guidance. ? ?The Washington Post?Sante?s bold devotion to complexity and clarity makes this an exemplary memoir. It is a clarion call to live one?s most authentic life.? ?The Boston Globe?Not to be missed, I Heard Her Call My Name is a powerful example of self-reflection and a vibrant exploration of the modern dynamics of gender and identity.? ?Lit Hub?s Most Anticipated Books of 2024An iconic writer?s lapidary memoir of a life spent pursuing a dream of artistic truth while evading the truth of her own gender identity, until, finally, she turned to face who she really wasFor a long time, Lucy Sante felt unsure of her place. Born in Belgium, the only child of conservative working-class Catholic parents who transplanted their little family to the United States, she felt at home only when she moved to New York City in the early 1970s and found her people among a band of fellow bohemians. Some would die young, from drugs and AIDS, and some would become jarringly famous. Sante flirted with both fates on her way to building an estimable career as a writer. But she still felt like her life was a performance. She was presenting a facade, even to herself.Sante?s memoir braids together two threads of personal narrative: the arc of her life, and her recent step-by-step transition to a place of inner and outer alignment. Sante brings a loving irony to her account of her unsteady first steps; there was much she found she still needed to learn about being a woman after some sixty years cloaked in a man?s identity, in a man?s world. A marvel of grace and empathy, I Heard Her Call My Name parses with great sensitivity many issues that touch our lives deeply, of gender identity and far beyond.
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Pantera Press Caught In The Act
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Random House USA Inc Same Sex Unions In PreModern Europe
Book SynopsisBoth highly praised and intensely controversial, this brilliant book produces dramatic evidence that at one time the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches not only sanctioned unions between partners of the same sex, but sanctified them--in ceremonies strikingly similar to heterosexual marriage ceremonies.
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University Press of Kansas Rodeo as Refuge Rodeo as Rebellion
Book SynopsisFrom the Wild West shows of the nineteenth century to the popular movie Westerns of the twentieth century, one view of an idealized and mythical West has been promulgated. Elyssa Ford suggests that we look beyond these cowboy clichés to complicate and enrich our picture of the American West.Trade ReviewIn Rodeo as Refuge, Rodeo as Rebellion, Ford compellingly uses the rodeo to explore how lived experiences interact with mythic pasts to shape modern identities in diverse settings across North America. The theme of work and the roles of women in each rodeo are highlights in this appealing study." —Margaret Frisbee, associate professor of history, Metropolitan State University of Denver"Rodeo as Refuge, Rodeo as Rebellion is an important addition to rodeo history, providing a welcome exploration of rodeo that falls outside the traditional white, masculine narrative. Well written and extensively researched, Elyssa Ford beautifully demonstrates the importance of the sport to diverse racial and outsider groups, deftly illustrating how the staging of rodeos 'for themselves and by themselves’ provides important personal and community connection to their Western past." —Renée M. Laegreid, author of Riding Pretty: Rodeo Royalty in the American West"This well-researched and elegantly written work delves into the overlooked diversity of the West, as both place and idea, and the complex relationship between rodeo and identity." —David Wolman, coauthor of Aloha Rodeo: Three Hawaiian Cowboys, the World’s Greatest Rodeo, and a Hidden History of the American West
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University of Wales Press The Queer Uncanny Gothic Literary Studies New
Book SynopsisThis volume investigates the roles played by the concept of the uncanny, as defined by Sigmund Freud and other theorists, in the representation of lesbian and male gay sexualities and transgender in a selection of contemporary British, American and Caribbean fiction published 1980-2007.Trade ReviewPalmer's argument is clear: the uncanny has provided fertile ground for writers attempting to negotiate the intricacies of the queer experience. For that reason, The New Uncanny is not only an interesting intervention in Gothic scholarship, but also to queer literary criticism. Proving that queer writing is very much in currency, Palmer manages to impress the urgency of such writing and the need to recast its relation to the uncanny as not tangential but endemic to queer existence. She proposes in her conclusion that, whilst concerned with similar ideas, lesbian and male gay writing generally avoid combined portrayals of queer desire, and that, as a result of queer influence, the two might merge and interrelate. Xavier Aldana Reyes, The Gothic ImaginationTable of ContentsCHAPTER 1 - INTRODUCTION: QUEERING THE UNCANNY CHAPTER 2 - SECRETS AND THEIR DISCLOSURE 1 Secrets and sexuality 2 New approaches to the coming out novel 3 Double secrets: AIDS narratives 4 History/ mystery CHAPTER 3 - QUEER SPECTRALITY 1 Spectral fictions 2 Ghost stories and queer hauntings 3 The phantom-text 4 Transgender doubles CHAPTER 4 - PLACE AND SPACE 1 Theoretical approaches 2 The haunted house 3 Uncanny cities 4 Ritual and ceremony CHAPTER 5 - MONSTROUS OTHERS 1 Hybridity and border-crossing 2 Demons and robots 3 Carnivalesque fantasies
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Prentice Hall Press We Have Always Been Here
Book SynopsisHow do you find yourself when the world tells you that you don't exist?
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