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Carryin' on in the Lesbian and Gay South
by John Howard  Synopsis To date, lesbian and gay history has focused largely on the East and West coasts, and on urban settings such as New York and Los Angeles. The American South, on the other hand, identified with religion, traditional gender roles, and cultural conservatism,...
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Freaks Talk Back: Tabloid Talk Shows and Sexual Nonconformity
by Joshua Gamson Publisher Comments Using extensive interviews, hundreds of transcripts, focus-group discussions with viewers, and his own experiences as an audience member, Joshua Gamson argues that talk shows give much-needed, high-impact public visibility to sexual nonconformists while...
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Gay Rights and Moral Panic: The Origins of America's Debate on Homosexuality
by Fred Fejes Publisher Comments Using the 1977 campaign against the Dade County Florida gay rights ordinance as a focal point, this book provides an examination of the emergence of the modern lesbian and gay American movement, the challenges it posed to the accepted American...
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Below the Belt: Religion, Sexuality and Politics on the Rural South (Sexual Politics)
by Angelia R. Wilson Publisher Comments Alternative lifestyles are anathema to the inhabitants of rural areas of the Bible Belt. Even gays and lesbians themselves resist the notions of community and self-identification espoused by city queers. As Wilson demonstrates, it is the combination of...
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The Politics of Gay Rights (Chicago Series on Sexuality, History, and Society)
by Craig A. Rimmerman Publisher Comments Few issues in American politics inspire such passion as that of civil rights for gays and lesbians. In this group of original essays, scholars and activists writing from a number of different perspectives provide a comprehensive overview of this heated...
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Queer Studies: A Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Anthology
by Michele Eliason Publisher Comments Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered people are becoming more and more visible in all aspects of American culture, from party politics to MTV videos. Despite the recent queer publishing explosion, few texts cover a broad range of topics around...
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Sappho in the Holy Land: Lesbian Existence and Dilemmas in Contemporary Israel (Suny Series in Israeli Studies)
by Chava Frankfort-nachmias Is A Milwaukee Publisher Comments This unique collection examines the experience of lesbians in Israel, providing insight into some of the institutions that have helped shape that experience. The book analyzes and interprets how culturally specific political, ideological, and social...
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1001 Beds: Performances, Essays, and Travels (Wisc Living Out)
by Tim Miller Publisher Comments For a quarter century, Tim Miller has worked at the intersection of performance, politics, and identity, using his personal experiences to create entertaining but pointed explorations of life as a gay American man--from the perils and joys of sex and...
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Foundlings: Lesbian and Gay Historical Emotion Before Stonewall (Series Q)
by Christopher S. Nealon Publisher Comments ""Foundlings" is a first-rate, innovative, and unprecedented work that will take the literary world by storm. Christopher Nealon proves himself here to be the very best of a new generation of queer theorists."--Judith Butler<BR> ""Foundlings...
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Out Front
by Patrick Mccreery Publisher Comments Nikhil Pal Singh's conversation with lesbian activist Amber Hollibaugh and a virtuoso piece by filmmaker Tami gold, offer incisive personal histories and commentaries, while Cathy J Cohen takes the main-stream gay and lesbian movement to task for not...
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The Gay Archipelago: Sexuality and Nation in Indonesia
by Tom Boellstorff Publisher Comments The Gay Archipelago is the first book-length exploration of the lives of gay men in Indonesia, the world's fourth most populous nation and home to more Muslims than any other country. Based on a range of field methods, it explores how Indonesian gay and...
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Bi Men
by Ron Jackson (edt) Suresha Book News Annotation Bisexual men tell their stories about discovering a bisexual self, extending bonds of marriage and family, interacting in evolving Gay- Lesbian-Bisexual-Transsexual-Queer communities, and bridge building in bisexual spirit. Resources for bisexual men...
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No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive (Series Q)
by Lee Edelman Publisher Comments In this searing polemic, Lee Edelman outlines a radically uncompromising new ethics of queer theory. His main target is the all-pervasive figure of the child, which he reads as the linchpin of our universal politics of reproductive futurism. Edelman...
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Gay Warriors: A Documentary History from the Ancient World to the Present
by B. R. Burg Publisher Comments There are also sections on the American Civil War, World War I and II, the contemporary U.S. military as well as sailors and pirates. This anthology should change the way we think about "gays in the military"....
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Being Gay and Lesbian in a Catholic High School: Beyond the Uniform
by Michael Maher Publisher Comments The only study of its kind, Being Gay and Lesbian in a Catholic High School offers compelling evidence to Catholic educators, clergy, and laypeople that their superb academic institutions are not fulfilling the clear mandate of the Church on inclusive...
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21st Century Gay
by John Malone Publisher Comments Areas discussed are: Gay separatism vs. Gay mainstreaming; Coming out; AIDS; Marriage; Adoption; Religion; Politics; Pop culture and media; and, most importantly, what the future holds....
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The Portable Queer: Secrets and Scandals: A Compilation of Events That Rocked the Gay World
by Erin Mchugh Publisher Comments "Delectable tidbits, quotable quotes, eye-popping revelations, dastardly deeds, heroic tales, and much to vibrate your funny bone. . . . Erin McHugh is a masterful miner with a jeweler's keen eye, a razor-sharp pen, and a delicious sense of humor."-Eric...
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Genders #0026: The Gay 90's: Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Formations in Queer Studies
by Thomas Foster Publisher Comments "A welcome addition to the burgeoning field of Queer Studies." — Journal of Homosexuality Queer theory arose as a challenge to the stability of sexual categories. But is queer theory in the 1990s in danger of becoming just another category of...
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Written in the Skin
by Rob Mclennan Publisher Comments An anthology of poetry and photography exploring the topic of AIDS in three sections: Love, Loss and Death....
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The Geography of Perversion: Male-To-Male Sexual Behavior Outside the West and the Ethnographic Imagination, 1750-1918
by Rudi Bleys Publisher Comments Brave and fascinating, as well as important . . . . A scholarly and comprehensive contribution to our growing knowledge of the history of homosexuality. --Jeffrey Weeks Recent years have seen enormous attention devoted to the history of sexuality in the...
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