Gay studies Books

Prising open 1860s court records and leafing through 1880s albums showing photos of men posing languorously with their male companions confirmed historian Dr Chris Brickell’s view that same-sex desires and intimacies have pretty much been written out of New Zealand’s national story and i...

The mid-seventies - and satin baggies and chunky platforms reigned supreme. Jethro Tull did battle with glam-rock for the airwaves. At an all-boys Catholic school in Melbourne, Timothy Conigrave fell wildly and sweetly in love with the captain of the football team. So began a relationship that was t...

"Monster in the closet" is a history of the horrors film that explores the genre's relationship to the social and cultural history of homosexuality in America. Drawing on a wide variety of films and primary source materials including censorship files, critical reviews, promotional materials, fanzine...

Here, a gay psychologist demonstrates how to heal the trauma of being a gay man in an uncompromisingly straight world. Whether he is flamboyantly fashionable with a body chiselled to perfection or chronically dissatisfied and without lasting relationships, the stereotypical extremes of male gay beha...

This 49th edition features 13,000+ listings covering North America, South America, Europe & SE Asia. European cities now include Paris, London, Dublin, Berlin, Amsterdam, Vienna, Rome, Prague, and Barcelona, Madrid, and Sitges, Spain. In South America: Buenos Aires, Argentina; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil...

Don't be a drag, just be a queen. Bluewater productions breaks new ground again with big heels in it's latest offering in the popular Female Force Series focusing on Rupaul. Rupaul is easily the most famous drag queen and self-described "Supermodel of the World." This whimsical look at the life and ...

Transgendered electronica musician Rae Spoon has six albums to their credit, including 2012's "I Can't Keep All of Our Secrets." Rae's first book is a candid, powerful study of a young person growing up queer in a strict Pentecostal family in rural Canada. As their father's schizophrenia causes thei...

"My Husband and My Wives: A Gay's Man's Odyssey" is a memoir of a man looking back over eight decades at the complications of discovering at puberty that he is attracted to other men. The dilemma of remaining true to what his libido tells him is right while surrounded by a disapproving and sometimes...

Sex is always part of Ed's day, whether he's masturbating during his morning shower, cruising the mall during lunch, or engaging in his post-workout gym ritual. He often spends whole weekends either searching for sex partners or having sex. In his rigidly compartmentalized daily sexual activities, E...

Why were white bourgeois gay male writers so interested in spies, espionage, and treason in the twentieth century? Erin G. Carlston believes such figures and themes were critical to exploring citizenship and its limits, requirements, and possibilities in the modern Western state. Through close readi...

Why were white bourgeois gay male writers so interested in spies, espionage, and treason in the twentieth century? Erin G. Carlston believes such figures and themes were critical to exploring citizenship and its limits, requirements, and possibilities in the modern Western state. Through close readi...

In The Homoerotic Photograph, Allen Ellenzweig reminds us that photography has persistently captured the male gaze upon other men. Gathered here are 127 beautiful and provocative duotone photographs that reflect the wide-ranging history of the male homoeroticism as revealed by the camera -- amply su...

While there has been increased attention to issues of sexuality in the Caribbean over the past decade, there continue to be very few in-depth ethnographic studies of sexual minorities in this region. A timely addition to the literature, Flaming Souls explores public discourses focusing on homosexual...

In recent years, much has been written about the fate of homosexuals under Hitler: how they were arrested, incarcerated in prisons and concentration camps, subjected to torture, experiments and even castration. However, little is yet available in English about what happened to them after the Nazi er...

When gay couples become parents, they face a host of questions and issues that their straight counterparts may never have to consider. How important is it for each partner to have a biological tie to their child? How will they become parents: will they pursue surrogacy, or will they adopt? Will both...

When gay couples become parents, they face a host of questions and issues that their straight counterparts may never have to consider. How important is it for each partner to have a biological tie to their child? How will they become parents: will they pursue surrogacy, or will they adopt? Will both...

Collection of letters written to the first openly gay magazine in the United States

Collection of letters written to the first openly gay magazine in the United States

While the use of "Christopher Street" in the title is an immediate reference to gay New York City, the essays in this volume represent dozens of places in New York including the five boroughs, Queens, The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Staten Island--and each of them speaks to the author's feelings...

Scott Pomfret serves as a lector at St. Anthony Shrine in Boston. He also writes gay porn. His boyfriend is a flaming atheist, and his boyfriend 's Protestant grandmother considers Catholicism a sin worse than sodomy. From Pentecost to Pride, from the books of the Bible to the articles of the Advoca...

In 1974, playwright Ntozake Shange published a choreopoem called For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf. The book/play/poetry would go on to inspire legions of women for decades and would later become the subject and title of a hugely popular movie in the fall of 2010...

This is the groundbreaking examination of the psychology of homosexuality and why it leads to shame over one's identity, and how to overcome it - now expanded and fully updated. Today's gay man enjoys unprecedented, hard-won social acceptance. Despite this victory, however, serious problems still ex...

What does it mean to be a queer man? Beyond Masculinity is a groundbreaking collection of 25 personal essays from a diverse group of writers who tackle this question. Readers will find a tremendous array of queer men thoughtfully reflecting on their experiences--and using those experiences to build ...

Disregarding the critics and quite a few threatened lawsuits Kyle Cicero once more enters the arena of literature to throw down the gauntlet. Taking up where his prior work, “The Gay Daze That Is My Life”, left off he once more pontificates on the issues and foibles of the gay community ...

Men Alone - Men Together combines photography and oral history to document the lives of 45 gay men - 14 couples, 14 single men and one trio - and how their journeys have, for the moment, led them towards or away from relationships. In their own words they recount defining moments in their lives, as ...

"Christopher Nutter shares his personal story with candor and honesty, providing insights and observations that are sure to help other gay men no matter where they happen to be on their own journey." -Neil G. Giuliano President, Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation "Written with humor, insigh...

RUNNING WITH SCISSORS is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her unorthodox psychiatrist who bore a striking resemblance to Santa Claus. So at the age of twelve, Burroughs found himself amidst Victorian squalor living with the doc...

Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas describes his poverty-stricken childhood in rural , his adolescence as a rebel fighting for Fidel Castro, and his life in revolutionary Cuba as a homosexual. Very quickly the Castro government suppressed his writing and persecuted him for his homosexuality until he was f...

A fast-paced, brilliantly researched expos of the homosexuality of Hitler and his entourage. Lothar Machtan makes a compelling case that Adolf Hitler was homosexual, and that one cannot begin to understand him, his entry into politics, and the early Nazi movement without a clear understanding of th...

AND -- FOR BETTER OR WORSE -- THERE'S NO LAST CALL. Millions of gay men are searching for love. And the vast majority of them are now searching online. But while the Internet helps bring people together, its anonymity, lack of rules, and easy stage for false advertising often result in disappointing...

OUT/LINES features a resurrection of erotic gay images that circulated in clandestine communities during the 100 years before Stonewall - including 200 previously unpublished 'obscene' images, which will both broaden and tantalise our view of queer culture with their surprising range of historical s...

Sexual Outsiders: Understanding BDSM Sexualities and Communities delves into the unique experiences of individuals in BDSM communities. While misunderstandings surrounding these communities prevail, BDSM sexuality cuts across race, gender, nationality, and sexual orientation. BDSM describes forms of...

Japanese literature in the first half of the twentieth century was rife with narratives depicting relations between men, from explicitly homoerotic accounts to stories of men in romantic rivalries over women. Recent critics have tended to celebrate the former for their subversion of sex and gender n...

The most important issue in a gay mans life is not coming out,but coming to terms with the invalidating past. Despite the progress made in recent years, many gay men still wonder, Are we better off The byproduct of growing up gay in a straight world continues to be the internalization of shame, reje...

For too long, LGBTQ communities--including Minnesota's--have been maligned, misrepresented, and often outright ignored. Myths regarding the queer experience have grown and become embedded in local and national consciousness. The absence of queer stories over time in local historical and popular writ...

Adventure begins when Trevor Sloane, a legendary photographer, and Phoenix Thornton-Jones, a fledgling journalist, accept a remarkable job: to focus on an average person's opinion on the rectification of world problems. Sloane soon falls into the younger man's mystery, as he grows aware of the idios...