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Queer Art of Failure (11 Edition)
Queer Art of Failure (11 Edition)
by Judith Halberstam
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The Queer Art of Failure is about finding alternatives—to conventional understandings of success in a heteronormative, capitalist society; to academic disciplines that confirm what is already known according to approved methods of knowing; and to... (read more)

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My Two Moms: Lessons of Love, Strength, and What Makes a Family
My Two Moms: Lessons of Love, Strength, and What Makes a Family
by Zach Wahls
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A resounding testament to individuality and the power of family in all forms from the young man who andldquo;lit up the Internetandrdquo; (Ellen DeGeneres) On January 31, 2011, Zach Wahls addressed the Iowaand#160;House Judiciary Committeeand#160;in a... (read more)

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Tearoom Trade : Impersonal Sex in Public Places (Enlarged Edition) ((Rev)75 Edition)
Tearoom Trade : Impersonal Sex in Public Places (Enlarged Edition) ((Rev)75 Edition)
by Laud Humphreys
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From the time of its first publication, Tearoom Trade engendered controversy. It was also accorded an unusual amount of praise for a first book on a marginal, intentionally self-effacing population by a previously unknown sociologist. The book was... (read more)

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Confessions of the Other Mother: Non-Biological Lesbian Mothers Tell All
Confessions of the Other Mother: Non-Biological Lesbian Mothers Tell All
by Harlyn Aizley
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After author Harlyn Aizley gave birth to her daughter, she watched in unanticipated horror as her partner scooped up the baby and said, "I'm your new mommy!" While they both had worked to find the perfect sperm donor, Aizley had spent nine months... (read more)

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Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade
Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade
by Justin Spring
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Drawn from the secret, never-before-seen diaries, journals, and sexual records of the novelist, poet, and university professor Samuel M. Steward, Secret Historian is a sensational reconstruction of one of the more extraordinary hidden lives of the... (read more)

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Whole Lesbian Sex Book 2ND Edition a Passionate
Whole Lesbian Sex Book 2ND Edition a Passionate
by Felice Newman
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Drawing on a wide range of published sources as well as her own notoriously graphic questionnaire circulated by e-mail, the author has compiled an exhaustively thorough how-to guide with an entirely new chapter on relationships.... (read more)

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Flagrant Conduct: The Story of Lawrence V. Texas
Flagrant Conduct: The Story of Lawrence V. Texas
by Dale A Carpenter
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No one could have predicted that the night of September 17, 1998, would be anything but routine in Houston, Texas. Even the call to police that a black man was "going crazy with a gun" was hardly unusual in this urban setting. Nobody could have imagined... (read more)

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A Queer History of the United States
A Queer History of the United States
by Michael Bronski
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Winner of a 2012 Stonewall Book Award in nonfiction A Queer History of the United States is more than a “who’s who” of queer history: it is a book that radically challenges how we understand American history. Drawing upon primary-source... (read more)

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Riding Fury Home: A Memoir
Riding Fury Home: A Memoir
by Chana Wilson
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In 1958, when Chana Wilson was seven, her mother held a rifle to her head and pulled the trigger. The gun jammed and she was taken away to a mental hospital. On her return, Chana became the caretaker of her heavily medicated, suicidal mother. It would be... (read more)

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Outlaw Marriages: The Hidden Histories of Fifteen Extraordinary Same-Sex Couples
Outlaw Marriages: The Hidden Histories of Fifteen Extraordinary Same-Sex Couples
by Rodger Streitmatter
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For more than a century before gay marriage became a hot-button political issue, same-sex unions flourished in America. Pairs of men and pairs of women joined together in committed unions, standing by each other “for richer for poorer, in sickness... (read more)

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Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?: Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform
Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?: Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform
by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
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Gay culture has become a nightmare of consumerism, whether it's an endless quest for Absolut vodka, Diesel jeans, rainbow Hummers, pec implants, or Pottery Barn. Whatever happened to sexual flamboyance and gender liberation, an end to marriage, the... (read more)

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Saint Foucault: Towards a Gay Hagiography
Saint Foucault: Towards a Gay Hagiography
by David Halperin
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Offering a no-holds barred rebuke to recent criticism of Foucault by Camille Paglia, Richard Mohr, biographer James Miller, and others, Saint Foucault is an uncompromising and impassioned defence of the late French philosopher and historian. A sometimes... (read more)

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The Straight Mind
The Straight Mind
by Monique Wittig
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These political, philosophical, and literary essays mark the first collection of theoretical writing from the acclaimed novelist and French feminist writer Monique Wittig.... (read more)

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Brazen Femme : Queering Femininity (02 Edition)
Brazen Femme : Queering Femininity (02 Edition)
by Chloe Brushwood Rose
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This sharp edged collection recognises femme as an identity in flux and in motion.... (read more)

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Biological Exuberance : Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity (99 Edition)
Biological Exuberance : Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity (99 Edition)
by Bruce Bagemihl
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A Publishers Weekly Best Book One of the New York Public Library's "25 Books to Remember" for 1999 Homosexuality in its myriad forms has been scientifically documented in more than 450 species of mammals, birds, reptiles, insects, and other animals... (read more)

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Queer America (08 Edition)
Queer America (08 Edition)
by Vicki Lynn Eaklor
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Placing GLBT people at the center of the history of the twentieth century, Vicki L. Eaklors Queer America: A Peoples GLBT History of the United States is a major new effort to popularize a long-overlooked chapter in the American experience. Written in... (read more)

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The Michigan Womyn's Music Festival: An Amazon Matrix of Meaning
The Michigan Womyn's Music Festival: An Amazon Matrix of Meaning
by Ph. D. Laurie J. Kendall
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This book is a five-year ethnographic study of the lesbian culture built at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival. The study explores the construction of an Amazon consciousness and its manifestation in symbol, myth, and ritual performance at the Festival.... (read more)

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Cruising Utopia: the Then and There of Queer Futurity (09 Edition)
Cruising Utopia: the Then and There of Queer Futurity (09 Edition)
by Jose Munoz
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The LGBT agenda for too long has been dominated by pragmatic issues like same-sex marriage and gays in the military. It has been stifled by this myopic focus on the present, which is short-sighted and assimilationist. Cruising Utopia seeks to break the... (read more)

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A Critical Introduction to Queer Theory
A Critical Introduction to Queer Theory
by Nikki Sullivan
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"At the same time that the dangerous war was being fought in the jungles of Vietnam, Campus Wars were being fought in the United States by antiwar protesters. Kenneth J. Heineman found that the campus peace campaign was first spurred at state... (read more)

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The Health of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People: Building a Foundation for Better Understanding
The Health of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People: Building a Foundation for Better Understanding
by Robert (con) Graham
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From the Institute of Medicine's Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Health Issues and Research Gaps and Opportunities, this report aimed at policy makers, federal agencies, advocacy groups, clinicians, and service providers surveys... (read more)

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