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Caravaggio (1986), Derek Jarman's portrait of the Italian Baroque artist, shows the painter at work with models drawn from Rome's homeless and prostitutes, and his relationship with two very different lovers: Ranuccio, played by Sean Bean, and Lena, played by Tilda Swinton.

A same-sex attraction for soldiers and sailors spans the globe and predates the term "e;homosexual"e; by several thousand years.

"e;As a man of color, our image and reputation is everything.

In 1889 uniformed post-boys were discovered moonlighting in a West End brothel frequented by men of the upper classes.

A classic of New Mexican Cinema, Y Tu Mama Tambien courted controversy with its explicit depictions of teenage sexuality and its forthright perspective on the country's inequality.

This book is a valuable resource that combines autobiographical sources, personal interviews, and questions for reflection to explore issues relevant to everyone's sexual orientation and gender status, be they heterosexual, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, or intersexual.

If the same-sex marriage debate tells us one thing, it's that rights do not exist in a vacuum.

Same-sex marriage continues to be a polarizing subject in the United States and other parts of the world.

Here is a pioneering volume that explores adolescent homosexuality around the world.

Barry Diller, one of America's most successful businessmen, reveals himself herehis successes, failures, and struggleswith surprising candor and intimacy in a memoir rich in Hollywood lore and filled with business acumen.

Many Americans hold fast to the notion that gay men and women, more often than not, have been ostracized from disapproving families.

This pioneering collection of previously unpublished articles on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender language combines queer theory and feminist theory with the latest thinking on language and gender.

How well does social policy serve this understudied population?

A bestseller in France following its publication in 1999, Insult and the Making of the Gay Self is an extraordinary set of reflections on "e;the gay question"e; by Didier Eribon, one of France's foremost public intellectuals.

Erotic dance is one of the most contentious issues in feminist debates today and a source of fascination in media and popular cultural representations.

Queer Sites in Global Contexts showcases a variety of cross-cultural perspectives that foreground the physical and online experiences of LGBTQ+ people living in the Caribbean, South and North America, the Middle East, Europe, and Asia.

Martyred saints, Moors, Jews, viragoes, hermaphrodites, sodomites, kings, queens, and cross-dressers comprise the fascinating mosaic of historical and imaginative figures unearthed in Queer Iberia.

This book focuses on the diverse tapestry of families in contemporary U.

Released in 1919, Anders als die Andern (Different from the Others) stunned audiences with its straightforward depiction of queer love.

Fixing Gender uses psychoanalysis to explore the theoretical implications for the gendering of the human subject that arise from the situation of lesbians raising children from birth.

Midnight Cowboy - the story of a small-town stud's attempt to make it big as a hustler on the streets of 1960s New York - is an indisputably iconic film.

Clyde Fitch (1865-1909) was the most successful and prolific dramatist of his time, producing nearly sixty plays in a twenty-year career.

Recent years have seen a dramatic upsurge of interest in the connections between sexualities, space and place.

The book that can help you reconcile being both gay and CatholicSons of the Church: The Witnessing of Gay Catholic Men spotlights testimonials from over thirty gay Catholic men to answer the question, How can you be gay and Catholic?

This book bridges psychoanalytic thought and sexual science.

Challenging persistent geopolitical asymmetries in feminist knowledge production, this collection depicts collisions between concepts and lived experiences, between academic feminism and political activism, between the West as generalizable and the East as the concrete Other.

What do Christianity and queerness have to do with each other?

Is the closet just a metaphor?

What have different ideas about sex and gender meant for people throughout the history of the Middle East and North Africa?

Hospital Time is a memoir about friendship, family, and caregiving in the age of AIDS.

Studies on gender and sexuality have proliferated in the last decades, covering a wide spectrum of disciplines.

When the first edition of Queering the Pitch was published in early 1994, it was immediately hailed as a landmark and defining work in the new field of Gay Musicology.

Despite recent progress in civil rights for sexual and gender minorities (SGM), ensuring SGM youth experience fairness, justice, inclusion, safety, and security in their schools and communities remains an ongoing challenge.

First published in 1995, the book describes personal experiences of those who cross-dress and sex change, how they organise themselves socially - in both `outsider' and `respectable' communities.

While the topic of queer sexuality in imperial Russia and the Soviet Union has been investigated for decades by scholars working in the fields of sociology, history, literary studies, and musicology, it has yet to be studied in any comprehensive or systematic way by those working in the visual arts.

As Americans, we cherish the freedom to associate.

Imagine trying to tell someone something about yourself and your desires for which there are no words.

Eine Untersuchung, die für das Erinnern an queere jüdische Opfer während des Holocausts und für ein Ende der Stigmatisierung eintritt.

The Ultimate Guide to Pregnancy for Lesbians covers everything you need to make the thrilling and challenging journey to motherhood: from choosing a donor to tracking fertility to signing the right papers on the dotted lines.

With a focus on mainline Protestants and gay rights activists in the twentieth century, Heather R.

In 2001, a collection of open and affirming churches with predominantly African American membership and a Pentecostal style of worship formed a radically new coalition.

In the past, being different has often been dangerous, and people couldn't always be open about how they wanted to dress, what gender they wanted to be, and who they loved.

LGBTQI Digital Media Activism and Counter-Hate Speech in Italy analyzes the organizational communication practices of Italian LGBTQI activists.

In Finding the Movement, Anne Enke reveals that diverse women's engagement with public spaces gave rise to and profoundly shaped second-wave feminism.

Scholars and activists often narrate the history of gender and feminism as a progression of "e;waves,"e; said to mark high points of innovation in theory and moments of political breakthrough.

The 'minority' feminist viewpoints have often been submerged in the interests of maintaining a mainstream, universal model of feminism.

This book aims to help therapists understand the challenges gay men face in their sex lives, providing professionals and gay men with evidence-based interventions and clinical tools to help them heal and live overall healthier lives.