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This surprising and thought-provoking book begins with the obvious fact that Stonewall happened 30 years ago, and the perhaps less obvious fact that in the 30 years since an enormous number of social science studies have been done on gay men. Dave Nimmons proceeds to synthesize that information to reveal a number of unseen patterns of gay male behavior, truths about our lives we feel instinctively but have not named.
For instance, countless studies...
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When was the last time you encountered someone whose gender you couldn't identify?The experience is disconcerting, maybe frightening.That is gender shock.These are stories from the life of a woman who is often mistaken for a man. Sheila Gilhooly writes of encounters in change rooms and washrooms, hospitals and police cars, with strangers and people in authority, who all make the same mistake. They think she is a man.They experience gender shock. She...
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Over the last half century or more we have been introduced to a way of thinking that is no longer based upon fact and reason. Young and old alike are
being educated today to believe that there are no absolutes. They are being told that truth (right and wrong) is only in the mind of the individual and
nothing is any longer absolute. There is no longer a standard of right or wrong that is absolute for all people. They are being instructed that our...
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Gay White men in North America have written the words 'No Asians Please' on their dating profiles online. Why do Gay White men feel this way? Moreover, how can Gay Asian men cope with this constant rejection? This book explores how Asian men are perceived and marginalized in an isolated gay population. It is an eye-opener for Gay men of all races, as many homogenized gay communities have become exclusive rather than inclusive. When it comes to sex...
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The Gender and LGBTQIA+ Encyclopedia (GAL Encyclopedia) is a groundbreaking reference work is a comprehensive guide to the people, events, and issues that have shaped the LGBTQIA+ community throughout history. With entries on everything from gay liberation and trans rights to the language and culture of queer communities, this encyclopedia is an indispensable resource for anyone seeking to better understand the lives and experiences of LGBTQIA+ people....
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An anthology exploring the act of passing-as the "right" gender, race, class, sexuality, age, ability, body type, ethnicity, and beyond.
“Nobody Passes” is a collection of essays that confronts and challenges the very notion of belonging. By examining the perilous intersections of identity, categorization, and community, contributors challenge societal mores and countercultural norms. Nobody Passes explores and critiques the various systems of...
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A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year
"I visited womanhood and stayed. It was not for the pleasures, though I discovered many I had not imagined, and many pains too. But calculating pleasures and pains was not the point. The point was who I am."
Once a golden boy of conservative economics and a child of 1950s privilege, Deirdre McCloskey (formerly Donald) had wanted to change genders from the age of eleven. But it was...
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In this dramatic and compelling narrative, anthropologist Don Kulick follows the lives of a group of transgendered prostitutes (called travestis in Portuguese) in the Brazilian city Salvador. Travestis are males who, often beginning at ages as young as ten, adopt female names, clothing styles, hairstyles, and linguistic pronouns. More dramatically, they ingest massive doses of female hormones and inject up to twenty liters of industrial silicone into...
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It's Saturday night in Key West and the Girlie Show is about to begin at the 801 Cabaret. The girls have been outside on the sidewalk all evening, seducing passersby into coming in for the show. The club itself is packed tonight and smoke has filled the room. When the lights finally go down, statuesque blonds and stunning brunettes sporting black leather miniskirts, stiletto heels, and see-through lingerie take the stage. En Vogue's "Free Your Mind"...
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For decades, the history of sexuality has been a multidisciplinary project serving competing agendas. Lesbian, gay, and queer scholars have produced powerful narratives by tracing the homosexual or queer subject as continuous or discontinuous. Yet organizing historical work around categories of identity as normal or abnormal often obscures how sexual matters were known or talked about in the past. Set against the backdrop of women's work experiences,...
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What is the role of the senses in how we understand the world? Cognitive sociology has long addressed the way we perceive or imagine boundaries in our ordinary lives, but Asia Friedman pushes this question further still. How, she asks, did we come to blind ourselves to sex sameness?
Drawing on more than sixty interviews with two decidedly different populations-the blind and the transgendered-Blind to Sameness answers provocative questions about...
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Some little boys want to grow up to be firemen.Some little boys want to grow up to be astronauts.This little boy wanted to grow up to be a hippie faggot freak.Growing up in 1950s and early 60s America, Dale Michell was an outsider from the start. He learned at an early age the price one paid for being different. Bullied and harassed, Dale started seeking an escape even before puberty revealed just how dangerous his predicament was. By fifteen, taunts...
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"Heterosexuality," assumed to denote a universal sexual and cultural norm, has been largely exempt from critical scrutiny. In this boldly original work, Jonathan Ned Katz challenges the common notion that the distinction between heterosexuality and homosexuality has been a timeless one. Building on the history of medical terminology, he reveals that as late as 1923, the term "heterosexuality" referred to a "morbid sexual passion," and that its current...
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With thorough documentation of the oppression of homosexuals and biographical sketches of the lesbian and gay heroes who helped the contemporary gay culture to emerge, Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities supplies the definitive analysis of the homophile movement in the U.S. from 1940 to 1970. John D'Emilio's new preface and afterword examine the conditions that shaped the book and the growth of gay and lesbian historical literature.
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15) Selected Poems
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This eBook includes the gay love poem "Home," the strange story of "The Gardener," and the comical "Angels and Razors," as well as thirty other poems. These works also appear in Duane Simolke's longer anthology Holding Me Together: Essays and Poems. Complete list of poems in this collection: Chasing Seagulls, Home, Album, Children in the Streets, The Gardener, Friday Afternoon Spectrum, Reception, second year, Angels and Razors, Separated, Faces,...
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THE BOOK OF PRIDE captures the true story of the gay rights movement from the 1960s to the present, through richly detailed, stunning interviews with the leaders, activists, and ordinary people who witnessed the movement and made it happen. These individuals fought battles both personal and political, often without the support of family or friends, frequently under the threat of violence and persecution. By shining a light on these remarkable...
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The Color of Desire tells the story of how, in the aftermath of gay liberation, race played a crucial role in shaping the trajectory of queer, German politics. Focusing on the Federal Republic of Germany, Christopher Ewing charts both the entrenchment of racisms within white, queer scenes and the formation of new, antiracist movements that contested overlapping marginalizations.
Far from being discrete political trajectories, racist and antiracist...
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The answers to all the questions you've ever had about sexual orientation but were afraid to ask. Eric Marcus provides insightful, no-nonsense answers to hundreds of the most commonly asked questions about same-sex orientation. Offering frank and accepting insight on everything you've always wanted-and needed-to know about same-gender relationships, coming out, family roles, politics, and much more, including:
How do you know if you're gay or lesbian?
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La poesía escrita por las mujeres cubanas no se concibe sino asociada a todo el panorama histórico-cultural del Caribe, polisemia que designa el mar, conjunto de naciones, mitos y leyendas asociadas a una historia de conquista, colonización y extrema pobreza, por una parte, y significativa violencia, por la otra. Así toda creación que se gestó y ha continuado siendo en la violencia, tiene su contraparte en un delirio emancipatorio, liberador.La...
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Blending the iconoclastic feminism of The Notorious RBG and the confident irreverence of Go the F**ck to Sleep, a brazen and empowering illustrated collection that celebrates inspirational badass women throughout history, based on the popular Tumblr blog.
Well-behaved women seldom make history. Good thing these women are far from well behaved . . .
Illustrated in a contemporary animation style, Rejected Princesses turns the ubiquitous "pretty...
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