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SHORTLISTED FOR THE POLARI BOOK PRIZE 2020'Staggeringly visionary' ATTITUDE'Essential reading' CHARLIE CRAGGS'Not to be missed' AMELIA ABRAHAM'An absolute gem' FOX FISHER'Beautiful' CHRISTINE BURNS'All those layers of expectation that are thrust upon us; boy, masculine, femme, transgender, sexual, woman, real, are such a weight to carry round.

Originally written in the 1990s, this book remains a key resource for women in heterosexual marriages who discover, or are coming to terms with, their lesbianism or bisexuality.

Part retrospective, part memoir, Fenton Johnson's collection Everywhere Home: A Life in Essays explores sexuality, religion, geography, the AIDS crisis, and more.

Across the eighteenth century in Britain, readers, writers, and theater-goers were fascinated by women who dressed in men's clothing-from actresses on stage who showed their shapely legs to advantage in men's breeches to stories of valiant female soldiers and ruthless female pirates.

The image of the movie-obsessed gay man is a widely circulating and readily recognizable element of the contemporary cultural landscape.

A young lesbian girl grows beyond fear to fearlessness as she comes of age in the ’60s amid religious, social, and legal barriers.

In an increasingly globalized world, place matters more than ever.

This book examines how same-sex sexualities are represented in several post-apartheid South African cultural texts, drawing on a rich local archive of same-sex sexualities that includes recent fiction, drama, film, photography, and popular print culture.

A Consumer's Guide to Male Hustlers gives you exciting insight into all you ever wanted to know about hustlers but were too embarrassed to ask.

This Companion offers fresh insight into the art and politics of James Baldwin, one of the most important writers of the twentieth century.

One day, Oskar and his sister Caroline meet a prince who was turned into a frog by an evil wizard.

This brave and moving collection of stories by South African lesbian women from different backgrounds reminds us, again, that rights are never finally won in legislatures or in court rooms.

Winner of a 2004 Washington State Book AwardWinner of a 2004 Alpha Sigma Nu (ASN) Jesuit Book AwardIn 1893, the Washington State legislature quietly began passing a set of laws that essentially made homosexuality, and eventually even the discussion of homosexuality, a crime.

Widely considered to be English Canada's first queer film, Winter Kept Us Warm explores a romance between two young men at the University of Toronto in the early 1960s, a moment when homosexuality was still a crime in Canada.

The debate on whether or not people are born homosexual (biological essentialist theory) or become homosexual during the course of their lives (social constructionist theory) continues as each side claims to prove the truth through research and clinical findings.

With careful reasoning supported by wide-ranging scholarship, this study exposes the fallacies of 'social constructionist' theories within lesbian and gay studies and makes a forceful case for the autonomy of queer identity and culture.

This pioneering work is the first book to systematically explore the literature of gay and lesbian writers of color in the United States.

Jewish Lesbian Scholarship in a Time of Change is the first major work in Jewish lesbian studies in more than a decade.

Designed for both the undergraduate and graduate classroom, this selection of important articles provides a comprehensive overview of current thought about the psychological issues affecting lesbians, bisexuals, and gay men.

The Routledge International Encyclopedia of Queer Culture covers gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer (GLBTQ) life and culture post-1945, with a strong international approach to the subject.

For decades, lesbian feminists across the United States and Canada have created information to build movements and survive in a world that doesn't want them.

In The Feeling of Kinship, David L.

An in-depth examination of the relationship between gay rights, public opinion, and legislation since the late 1800s.

Over time, male homosexuality and effeminacy have become indelibly associated, sometimes even synonymous.

A course book on LGBTQ+ affirmative counselling for graduate students and new practitioners.

This book examines same-sex unions policy (SSU) developments in eighteen western democracies and seeks to explain why the overwhelming majority of these countries has implemented a national law to recognise gay and lesbian couples since 1989.

Recommended Year Group: 9+Show Length: 90 minsAll the boys at school seem to be only interested in one thing, so when naive Charlotte meets an older guy online who promises her a fairytale romance, she is sure it s true love.

With the weakening moral authority of the Catholic Church, the boom ushered in by the Celtic Tiger, and the slow but steady diminishment of the Troubles in the North, Ireland has finally stepped out from the shadows of colonial oppression onto the world stage as a major cosmopolitan country.

Despite an abysmal "e;success rate,"e; practitioners still use reparative therapy in an attempt to turn gays and lesbians straight.

Every day we hear news about medical or scientific breakthroughs and the complex ethical issues they raise.

One writer is stranded by the Second World War.

In the 1970s, Manhattan's west side waterfront was a forgotten zone of abandoned warehouses and piers.

Drawn into the circuit of men cruising for sex in and around a train station, restless adolescent Henri begins a frenzied pursuit of a dangerously charismatic older man, with sometimes violent and ultimately tragic consequences.

Previous surveys of the gay theatrical repertoire have concentrated on plays produced on Broadway or in London's West End.

The Middle East is often portrayed as oppressively patriarchal and homophobic.

The gay tourism industrya progressive social force or a pull towards an oppressive status quo?

The first book of its kind, Homosexuality and Family Relations focuses on the effects of homosexuality and being homosexual on individuals in families and on the family as a group.

This guidebook is designed to increase readers' personal resilience, self-acceptance, and growth from minority stress.

In 1957, there were over a thousand men in prison for 'homosexual offences'.

Homophobia is still rife and it remains dangerous and even life-threatening to be out in Africa, but Chantal Zabus here traces the range of representations of same-sex desire in Africa through historic and contemporary sources.

Interrogates and explains 1960s writers and artists popular embrace of blackness as a source of power, as it confronts racism.

Victorian Britain, at the head of the vast British Empire, was the wealthiest and most powerful country in the world.

A comprehensive, global history of homophobia, available in English for the first time.

Vital information on family services, custody, and access rights for gay parents!

Slips of the tongue, unwitting favoritism, and stereotyped assumptions are just some examples of microaggression.

The Body in French Queer Thought from Wittig to Preciado: Queer Permeability identifies a common concern in French queer works for the materiality of the body, arguing for a return to the body as fundamental to queer thought and politics, from HIV onwards.

Poised on the edge of the United States and at the center of a wider Caribbean world, today's Miami is marketed as an international tourist hub that embraces gender and sexual difference.

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