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In postapartheid Cape Town-Africa's gay capital-many Pentecostal men turned to "e;ex-gay"e; ministries in hopes of "e;curing"e; their homosexuality in order to conform to conservative Christian values and African social norms.

In Unruly Visions Gayatri Gopinath brings queer studies to bear on investigations of diaspora and visuality, tracing the interrelation of affect, archive, region, and aesthetics through an examination of a wide range of contemporary queer visual culture.

From the haute couture runways of Paris and New York and editorial photo shoots for glossy fashion magazines to reality television, models have been a ubiquitous staple of twentieth- and twenty-first-century American consumer culture.

Coming out of the Closet without Coming Apart at the Seams is awitty yet stirring testimony of one lesbians struggles in and out of the closet.

The High Priesthood of Being gay is a labor of love over 12 years in the writing.

Television history was made on April 30, 1997, when comedian Ellen DeGeneres and her sitcom alter-ego Ellen Morgan, "e;came out"e; to her close friends and 36 million viewers.

The memoir and first book from the author of the beloved New York Times bestseller Cutting for Stone.

The horror genre mirrors the American queer experience, both positively and negatively, overtly and subtextually, from the lumbering, flower-picking monster of Frankenstein (1931) to the fearless intersectional protagonist of the Fear Street Trilogy (2021).

Pencils down--graphite and eyebrow--and eyes to front of the room for this one-of-a-kind lesson.

A Generation X transgender woman, Sherilyn Connelly came out of the closet in 1999.

What role did America's newspaper advice columnists play in shaping and forming societal attitudes toward LGBTQ people throughout the 20th century?

When Gail Hovey was a teenager, her local Presbyterian church hired Georgia, a seminary-trained Christian education director.

In 1980s America, coming out as gay as a father and husband was a significant journey for anyone to make.

In July 1950, a young Dutch intersex woman was expelled from elite competition by the International Amateur Athletic Federation.

The horror anthology TV show American Horror Story first aired on FX Horror in 2011 and has thus far spanned eight seasons.

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Theatre of the Ridiculous is a significant movement that highlighted the radical possibilities inherent in camp.

Who are the most significant gay icons and how did they develop?

On a September night in 1958, three New Orleans college students went looking for a gay man to assault.

Young adult literature featuring teenage lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning characters is fast growing in popularity.

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

Since the middle of the last century, views on gender norms have shifted dramatically.

So, the film or television lesbian character dies.

Best known for her Kate Delafield detective series, Katherine V.

Examining the development of gay American fiction and providing an essential reading list, this literary survey covers 257 works--novels, novellas, a graphic story cycle and a narrative poem--in which gay and bisexual male characters play a major role.

Since its 2013 premiere, Orange Is the New Black has become Netflix's most watched series, garnering critical praise and numerous awards and advancing the cultural phenomenon of binge-watching.

The subjects of this book constitute a significant cross section of BBC science fiction television.

Before the 1969 Stonewall Riots, LGBTQ life was dominated by the negative image of "e;the closet"e;--the metaphorical space where that which was deemed "e;queer"e; was hidden from a hostile public view.

Television has historically been largely ineffective at representing queerness in its various forms.

Director Paul Bartel enjoyed poking holes in the expectations of audiences and critics with amusing films about murder, greed and transgressive sex--among them Death Race 2000 (1975), Eating Raoul (1982) and Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills (1989).

In the 1920s and 1930s, Edwina "e;Salt"e; Evelyn and Jewel "e;Pepper"e; Welch learned to tap dance on street corners in New York and Philadelphia.

In the world of early Byzantine Christianity, monastic rules acknowledged but discouraged the homosexual impulses of adult males.

This book charts an evolution in gay identity within American reality television and documentary film.

Created around the world and available only on the Web, internet "e;television"e; series are independently produced, mostly low budget shows that often feature talented but unknown performers.

Start your engines--for the fun, controversy and life lessons of RuPaul's Drag Race and its spinoff, RuPaul's DragU.

While American gay fiction has received considerable scholarly attention, little has been given to developments in other English-speaking countries.

In the evangelical community, a variety of alternative mental health treatments--deliverance/exorcism, biblical counseling, reparative therapy and many others--have been proposed for the treatment of mentally ill, female and LGBT evangelicals.

These new essays examine the many ways that issues of gender and sexuality intersect with other identities and practices--including race, religion, disability, music and education--on the Fox hit program Glee.

On June 24, 1973, a fire in a New Orleans gay bar killed 32 people.

A marriage of mystery fiction and queer concerns, queer crime literature celebrates the pairing of the political and the sexual.

This first book-length work on Terrence McNally shows how his decades in the theater have refined his thoughts on subjects like growing up gay in mannish, homophobic Texas, Shakespeare's legacy in contemporary drama, and the life-giving power of forgiveness.

From government to literature to architecture, few fields in western culture are untouched by the influence of Ancient Greece and Rome.

Film audiences have grown used to seeing female characters in "e;performance roles,"e; singing or dancing on stages in nightclubs, musical arenas, or theaters--performing their "e;femaleness"e; for the fictional audience as well as the film viewing audience.

Television is awash with newly embraced gay and lesbian themes that have crossed over into the collective pop culture of America.

Ramon Novarro was Ben-Hur to moviegoers long before Charlton Heston.

The 2005 James McTeigue and Wachowski Brothers film V for Vendetta represents a postmodern pastiche, a collection of fragments pasted together from the original Moore and Lloyd graphic novel of the same name, along with numerous allusions to literature, history, cinema, music, art, politics, and medicine.

Beloved, controversial, influential, the creator of such fascinating and award-winning films as My Own Private Idaho, Good Will Hunting, Elephant, and Milk, Gus Van Sant stands among the great international directors, equally at home in Hollywood and the avant-garde.

The Star Shiner poses the question: Can a young man from a small rural Kentucky town--fleeing a domineering mother and an abusive, alcoholic father--find recognition and happiness in New York city, working with the high-powered fashion and cosmetic industries, and with some of the world's most famous people--without losing his values and his soul?

Gentlemen, does any of this sound familiar?

AMERICAN SYSTEMS, CHURCH, EDUCATION, FAMILIES, GOVERNMENT, HOMES, NEIGHBORS, WORKThis book focuses on a personal story of the multitude of struggles, survival and thriving techniques a three generational set of families met and overcame during a 100 year period.