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  • Gays and the Military

    Joseph Steffan versus the United States

    In April 1987 Joseph C. Steffan, one of the ten highest ranking midshipmen in his class at the U.S. Naval Academy, and only six weeks from graduation, was denied his diploma and forced to resign his commission because he answered "Yes, sir" to the question, "I'd like your word, are you a homosexual?" Six years later his cause, and that of other gay men and lesbians seeking to serve their country ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • Tendencies

    Series series Series Q
    Tendencies brings together for the first time the essays that have made Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick "the soft-spoken queen of gay studies" (Rolling Stone). Combining poetry, wit, polemic, and dazzling scholarship with memorial and autobiography, these essays have set new standards of passion and truthfulness for current theoretical writing.The essays range from Diderot, Oscar Wilde, and Henry James to ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Queering the Renaissance

    Series series Series Q
    Queering the Renaissance offers a major reassessment of the field of Renaissance studies. Gathering essays by sixteen critics working within the perspective of gay and lesbian studies, this collection redraws the map of sexuality and gender studies in the Renaissance. Taken together, these essays move beyond limiting notions of identity politics by locating historically forms of same-sex desire ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Queer Words, Queer Images

    Communication and the Construction of Homosexuality

    Edited by Ronald Jeffrey Ringer ...
    In many arenas the debate is raging over the nature of sexual orientation. Queer Words, Queer Images addresses this debate, but with a difference, arguing that homosexuality has become an issue precisely because of the way in which we discuss, debate, and communicate about the concept and experience of homosexuality. The debate over homosexuality is fundamentally an issue of communication-as we ... Read more

    Free

  • Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Identities over the Lifespan

    Psychological Perspectives

    Over the last fifteen years, psychological research regarding sexual orientation has seen explosive growth. In this book, Anthony R. D'Augelli and Charlotte J. Patterson bring together top experts to offer a comprehensive overview of what we have discovered--and what we still need to learn--about lesbian, gay, and bisexual identities. Writing in clear, nontechnical language, the contributors cover ... Read more

    $94.99 USD

  • Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue

    Essays, A Play, Two Poems and a Prayer

    by Tony Kushner ...
    A collection of writings from the Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angels in America. This volume by Tony Kushner features the play Slavs!, a “comic, mordant and marvelously provocative” look at the crumbling of the Soviet Union (SF Chronicle), as well as several essays, two poems and a prayer. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Barbie's Queer Accessories

    by Erica Rand ...
    Series series Series Q
    She’s skinny, white, and blond. She’s Barbie—an icon of femininity to generations of American girls. She’s also multiethnic and straight—or so says Mattel, Barbie’s manufacturer. But, as Barbie’s Queer Accessories demonstrates, many girls do things with Barbie never seen in any commercial. Erica Rand looks at the corporate marketing strategies used to create Barbie’s versatile (She’s a rapper! She ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Out in Culture

    Gay, Lesbian and Queer Essays on Popular Culture

    Series series Series Q
    Out in Culture charts some of the ways in which lesbians, gays, and queers have understood and negotiated the pleasures and affirmations, as well as the disappointments, of mass culture. The essays collected here, combining critical and theoretical works from a cross-section of academics, journalists, and artists, demonstrate a rich variety of gay and lesbian approaches to film, television, ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • ¿Entiendes?

    Queer Readings, Hispanic Writings

    Series series Series Q
    "¿Entiendes?" is literally translated as "Do you understand? Do you get it?" But those who do "get it" will also hear within this question a subtler meaning: "Are you queer? Are you one of us?" The issues of gay and lesbian identity represented by this question are explored for the first time in the context of Spanish and Hispanic literature in this groundbreaking anthology.Combining intimate ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Les Relations amoureuses entre les femmes

    Series series Opus
    Il faut se rendre à l’évidence : l’amour entre les femmes sent le soufre. Qu’il soit combattu, nié ou même toléré, aujourd’hui comme hier, il dérange un certain ordre patriarcal fondé sur la famille et la reproduction. Rares sont les historiens qui ont eu le courage de ne pas l’exclure de leur champ. Et pourtant, l’histoire des relations amoureuses entre les femmes est nécessaire pour l’histoire ... Read more

    $16.49 USD

  • In the Shadow of the Epidemic

    Being HIV-Negative in the Age of AIDS

    by Walt Odets ...
    Series series Series Q
    For gay men who are HIV-negative in a community devastated by AIDS, survival may be a matter of grief, guilt, anxiety, and isolation. In the Shadow of the Epidemic is a passionate and intimate look at the emotional and psychological impact of AIDS on the lives of the survivors of the epidemic, those who must face on a regular basis the death of friends and, in some cases, the decimation of their ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The Broken Image

    Restoring Personal Wholeness through Healing Prayer

    by Leanne Payne ...
    Presents documented case studies of homosexuals and lesbians who have been reoriented to heterosexuality through applied healing prayer. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Queer and Loathing

    Rants and Raves of a Raging AIDS Clone

    “The ultimate gadlfly of the epidemic . . . here’s one book that truly deserves a place in a time capsule.”—Armistead Maupin"This is as close to the truth as I can get," writes David Feinberg in what he calls his "personal Portrait of the Artist as a Young Diseased Jew Fag Pariah"—a collection of autobiographical essays, gonzo journalism, and demented Feinbergian lists about AIDS activism and ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Baltimore Waltz and Other Plays

    by Paula Vogel ...
    • Vogel is a leading feminist playwright with a following in the gay community. • She heads the playwriting program at Brown University. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Homosexuality and the Politics of Truth

    A Christian psychiatrist examines the latest research, refuting the alleged genetic basis for homosexuality and assessing the social power homosexuals have gained. ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Pop Out

    Queer Warhol

    Series series Series Q
    Andy Warhol was queer in more ways than one. A fabulous queen, a fan of prurience and pornography, a great admirer of the male body, he was well known as such to the gay audiences who enjoyed his films, the police who censored them, the gallery owners who refused to show his male nudes, and the artists who shied from his swishiness, not to mention all the characters who populated the Factory. Yet ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Out Our Way

    Gay and Lesbian Life in the Country

    Michael Riordon celebrates the survival of ordinary, extraordinary people whose experiences are rarely reflected in the media. These stories of courage and humour were gathered in the course of two years and 27,000 kilometres of travel, and some three hundred in-person conversations. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Lavender Vote

    Lesbians, Gay Men, and Bisexuals in American Electoral Politics

    by Mark Hertzog ...
    Traces the influences of lesbian, gay and bisexual voters in American electionsIn the half century since the Stonewall riots in New York City's Greenwich Village launched the national gay-rights movement in earnest, LGB voters have steadily expanded their political influence. The Lavender Vote is the first full- length examination of lesbians, gay men, and bisexuals as a factor in American ... Read more

    Free

  • A Matter of Justice

    Lesbians and Gay Men in Law Enforcement

    by Robin Buhrke ...
    All too often, gays and lesbians are not accepted by the criminal justice community because of their sexual orientation, and because they are criminal justice personnel, they are not accepted by lesbians and gay men. Written by a past liaison between the Miami Beach Police Department and the lesbian, gay and bisexual community, A Matter of Justice ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Homos

    by Leo Bersani ...
    Acclaimed for his intricate, incisive, and often controversial explorations of art, literature, and society, Leo Bersani now addresses homosexuality in America.Hardly a day goes by without the media focusing an often sympathetic beam on gay life--and, with AIDS, on gay death. Gay plays on Broadway, big book awards to authors writing on gay subjects, Hollywood movies with gay themes, gay and ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Homosexuality in Cold War America

    Resistance and the Crisis of Masculinity

    Series series New Americanists
    Challenging widely held assumptions about postwar gay male culture and politics, Homosexuality in Cold War America examines how gay men in the 1950s resisted pressures to remain in the closet. Robert J. Corber argues that a form of gay male identity emerged in the 1950s that simultaneously drew on and transcended left-wing opposition to the Cold War cultural and political consensus. Combining ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Forbidden Friendships

    Homosexuality and Male Culture in Renaissance Florence

    by Michael Rocke ...
    Series series Studies in the History of Sexuality
    "This is a superb work of scholarship, impossible to overpraise.... It marks a milestone in the 20-year rise of gay and lesbian studies."--Martin Duberman, The Advocate The men of Renaissance Florence were so renowned for sodomy that "Florenzer" in German meant "sodomite." In the late fifteenth century, as many as one in two Florentine men had come to the attention of the authorities for sodomy by ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Taking It Like a Man

    White Masculinity, Masochism, and Contemporary American Culture

    by David Savran ...
    From the Beat poets' incarnation of the "white Negro" through Iron John and the Men's Movement to the paranoid masculinity of Timothy McVeigh, white men in this country have increasingly imagined themselves as victims. In Taking It Like a Man, David Savran explores the social and sexual tensions that have helped to produce this phenomenon. Beginning with the 1940s, when many white, middle-class ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • A Small Boy and Others

    Imitation and Initiation in American Culture from Henry James to Andy Warhol

    by Michael Moon ...
    Series series Series Q
    In A Small Boy and Others, Michael Moon makes a vital contributon to our understanding of the dynamics of sexuality and identity in modern American culture. He explores a wide array of literary, artistic, and theatrical performances ranging from the memoirs of Henry James and the dances of Vaslav Nijinsky to the Pop paintings of Andy Warhol and such films as Midnight Cowboy, Blue Velvet, and Jack ... Read more

    $18.99 USD