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A richly illustrated history of the glittering world of queer artistic life in the 1920s and '30sIn Queer Moderns, Alice Friedman tells the fascinating story of the queer avant-garde of the 1920s and '30s in New York, Paris, and Venice, as seen through the eyes of Max Ewing (19031934), a young musician, photographer, and man-about-town who, although virtually unknown today, moved in extraordinary circles.

'I want what I want .

Now a major motion picture starring Eddie Redmayne and Oscar-winning Alicia Vikander'An enthralling read' THE TIMES'Heartbreaking and unforgettable, it is a complete triumph' BOSTON GLOBE'Beautifully written.

Between the trials of Oscar Wilde in the 1890s and the beginnings of legal reforms in the 1960s, the West End stage was dominated by the work of gay playwrights.

Although artists are nowadays able to be openly gay and to address homosexuality explicitly in their work, this book argues that it was the harsh climate of 1890-1930 that produced the most outstanding explorations of homosexuality.

Focusing on British and European women, this is an accessible study of lesbian history since the 17th century.

The product of many years of research, this unique book presents fascinating perspectives on contemporary lesbian life in India and unravels some of the history of lesbian desire from centuries past.

Smith examines the different ways in which gay men use pop music, both as producers and consumers, and how, in turn, pop uses gay men.

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.

Queer Shakespeare: Desire and Sexuality draws together 13 essays, which offer a major reassessment of the criticism of desire, body and sexuality in Shakespeare's drama and poetry.

Queer Shakespeare: Desire and Sexuality draws together 13 essays, which offer a major reassessment of the criticism of desire, body and sexuality in Shakespeare's drama and poetry.

This title traces the lives of individual lesbians against the background of the politics and history of the 20th century, and shows the infinite variety of ways in which lesbians made their lives in Britain.

In What Is She Like?

For many years, lesbian and gay representation in British cinema escaped the attention of critics and historians.

This book explores lesbians in film from early representations to contemporary ones, spanning sixty years and over twenty films.

Hailed as magisterial when it first appeared, Greek Homosexuality remains an academic milestone and continues to be of major importance for students and scholars of gender studies.

Hailed as magisterial when it first appeared, Greek Homosexuality remains an academic milestone and continues to be of major importance for students and scholars of gender studies.

Sex, Time and Place extensively widens the scope of what we might mean by 'queer London studies'.

Sex, Time and Place extensively widens the scope of what we might mean by 'queer London studies'.

A landmark reference guide to the LGBTQIA+ community's contributions to the English language-an intersectional, inclusive illustrated glossary featuring more than 800 terms created by and for queer culture.

'It's no mystery or secret how much I enjoy Lawrence Chaney.

How do we shape a better world for LGBTQ+ people?

One of the most important books about gay culture in recent times The QuietusLong-listed for the Polari First Book PrizeIn 1984 the pulsing electronics and soft vocals of Smalltown Boy would become an anthem uniting gay men.

Queer Vietnam recovers the forgotten stories of variant genders and sexualities in early twentieth-century Vietnam.

Adeline Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was an English writer.

This vintage book contains Edward Carpenter's ground-breaking study of homosexuality, "e;Intermediate Types Among Primitive Folk - A Study In Social Evolution"e;.

The New York Times Bestseller'[An] earth-shaking expos of clerical corruption' - National Catholic ReporterIn the Closet of the Vatican exposes the rot at the heart of the Vatican and the Roman Catholic Church today.

The New York Times Bestseller'[An] earth-shaking expos of clerical corruption' - National Catholic ReporterIn the Closet of the Vatican exposes the rot at the heart of the Vatican and the Roman Catholic Church today.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA Times and Sunday Times Book of the YearUpdated with a new afterword by the author 'Douglas Murray fights the good fight for freedom of speech .

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA Times and Sunday Times Book of the YearUpdated with a new afterword by the author 'Douglas Murray fights the good fight for freedom of speech .

Queer Style offers an insight into queer fashionability by addressing the role that clothing has played in historical and contemporary lifestyles.

Twenty-one years ago when Jim Obergefell walked into a bar in Cincinnatti and sat down next to John Arthur, the man who would become the love of his life, he had no way of knowing that following the sad loss of John to Motor Neurone Disease his fight to have their marriage recognised on John's death certificate would lead him from the courthouses of Cincinnati to the steps of the U.

The partial inspiration for the acclaimed mini-series from Academy Award-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance BlackBorn in 1954, Cleve Jones was among the last generation of gay Americans who grew up wondering if there were others out there like himself.

**A TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR**Quite simply, this book is a work of genius - Matthew Parris, The SpectatorAn essential study of post-war gay London life.

THE RIVETING FOLLOW-UP TO THE BESTSELLING FIREWATCHING Hard-hittingSUNDAY TIMES, CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH Comparable with the best of Michael Connelly's Bosch books and James Lee Burke's Robicheaux novels, and naturally Ian RankinAJ FINN_____________________________NO SECRET CAN STAY BURIED FOREVER Sheffield's Botanical Gardens is an oasis of peace until one morning when the body of a young woman is found there, buried in a quiet corner.

Celine Sciamma's 2011 film Tomboy is the central work in the French filmmaker's coming-of-age trilogy.

The original Bill of Rights, sponsored largely by James Madison, is now about 210 years old.

In this book, Jaime Harker uncovers a largely forgotten literary renaissance in southern letters.

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.

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

Focusing on six major Supreme Court cases during the 1960s and 1970s, Marc Stein examines the generally liberal rulings on birth control, abortion, interracial marriage, and obscenity in Griswold, Eisenstadt, Roe, Loving, and Fanny Hill alongside a profoundly conservative ruling on homosexuality in Boutilier.

Don't Ask, Don't Tell"e; was the directive of President Clinton's 1993 military policy regarding gay and lesbian soldiers.

In this moving book, readers are introduced to the challenges that transgenders experience in their daily lives.

Not So Good a Gay Man is the compelling memoir of author, screenwriter, and activist Frank M.

A pioneering scholar of gay and lesbian studies presents an illuminating history of homophobia from ancient Athens to the halls of Congress.

INSTEAD OF SOLITAIRE is the end result of a life spent exhausting the possibilities of being big, male, smart and beautiful.

DERECHOS HUMANOS Y EL DEPARTAMENTO DE SEGURIDADDOMESTICA, DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS LE DAN DERECHOSCIVILES A TODOS SUS CIUDADANOS Y RESIDENTES, EN ELUSO DEL SEXO.

Este libro es una declaracin de amor, un dolor abierto al desamor, el desnudar el alma y dejar al descubierto todos y cada uno de los sentimientos.

Over 16,000,000 men served in the armed forces in WWII.

This book is about one gay-mans life and struggles to find meaning in it.