'With originality and subtlety, Diarmuid Hester examines how the gay imagination deals with place and with displacement, allowing for mystery and a kind of magic' Colm Toibin'Hester is a fizzingly brilliant writer' Robert Macfarlane'Haunted and haunting - totally riveting' Chris KrausAt the turn of the century, in the shade of Cambridge's cloisters, a young E.
Mediante una aproximación antropológica al trabajo y la presencia del Grupo Unigay en el Movimiento Lésbico, Gay, Bisexual y Transgenérico (LGBT) de la Ciudad de México a finales de los años noventa del siglo pasado, en este libro se exponen los desarrollos académicos y socioculturales del movimiento gay global y local, y sus contribuciones a la construcción de la identidad gay como una categoría teórica y social legítima en los estudios sobre diversidad sexual y en la sociedad mexicana.
Travestiario es un viaje por la historia del travestismo español de la mano de quince ilustres artistas del transformismo y el cabaret, cuyos testimonios en primera persona nos descubren lo que el maquillaje y el pelucón suelen ocultar.
Lesbianas, así somos es un libro que quiere abordar una realidad que todavía hoy en día sigue siendo bastante desconocida: la de las mujeres lesbianas.
En este ensayo el autor señala la falsedad de la noción de "comunidad homosexual", desmentida por la radical heterogeneidad de la relaciones eróticas entre los hombres, del todo idéntica a la que se observa entre los heterosexuales, quienes obviamente tampoco constituyen una comunidad.
"e;Chase Joynt and Mike Hoolboom here give each other the gift so many people only dream of: ample, unhurried space to unspool crucial stories of ones life, and an attentive, impassioned, invested, intelligent receiver on the other side.
'I defy you to read this book and come away with a mind unchanged' John Jeremiah Sullivan'Als has a serious claim to be regarded as the next James Baldwin' Observer'I see how we are all the same, that none of us are white women or black men; rather, we're a series of mouths, and that every mouth needs filling: with something wet or dry, like love, or unfamiliar and savory, like love'White Girls is about, among other things, blackness, queerness, movies, Brooklyn, love (and the loss of love), AIDS, fashion, Basquiat, Capote, philosophy, porn, Louise Brooks and Michael Jackson.
Offering a fresh twist on Kris Kringle, a clever yet heartfelt book that tells the story of a black Santa, his white husband, and their life in the North Pole.
From his days as a club face alongside Philip Sallon, Marilyn and Steve Strange, through the years of global pop superstardom with Culture Club, his rebirth as a world-class DJ, as a leading light of musical theatre with the award-winning Taboo, a cutting edge photographer and a confrontational and acclaimed fashion designer, one of the many things you can say about George is: he's never stood still.
'A landmark exploration into what it means to be queer today' - DAZEDShortlisted for the Polari First Book PrizeIn this immersive, accessible and thought-provoking book, journalist Amelia Abraham goes on a fascinating global journey to better understand the challenges and realities facing LGBTQ+ people today.
An intimate and illuminating account of queer lives and migration, homemaking and community in the Gulf, from a brilliant new voice in narrative non-fiction**LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE**'An eye-opening tour de force' ALEX ESPINOZA'Exhilarating' SUSAN ORLEAN'Tender and insightful' MOHAMED TONSYUpon moving to the Gulf States where penalties for queer acts include deportation, imprisonment, torture and death Gaar Adams wants to understand why LGBTQ+ migrants might choose to live amid such peril.
Conventional wisdom holds that same-sex marriage is a purely modern innovation, a concept born of an overtly modern lifestyle that was unheard of in nineteenth century America.
Conventional wisdom holds that same-sex marriage is a purely modern innovation, a concept born of an overtly modern lifestyle that was unheard of in nineteenth century America.
With an introduction from RuPaul's Drag Race winner Sasha VelourTheir greatest act of resistance was simply existing In 1950s New York, a group of drag pioneers found work in a small number of Lower East Side clubs.
An Instant Sunday Times Bestseller'A profoundly urgent intervention' Naomi KleinFrom one of the most influential thinkers of our time, an enlightening, essential account of how a fear of gender is fuelling reactionary politics around the world Judith Butler, the ground-breaking philosopher whose work has redefined how we think about gender and sexuality, confronts the attacks on gender that have become central to right-wing movements today.
Love Wont Let Me Be Silent is a collection of writings, short stories, and poems, exploring the experiences and trials of parenthood from an African-American gay male perspective and sensitively chronicles Masons search for love and self-hood.
Este libro es un ejercicio cruzado de historia cultural y recuperación de memoria que busca hacer homenaje a locas que se enfrentaron a múltiples violencias religiosas, morales, sociales, culturales y políticas que atraviesan y configuran los pueblos en Antioquia.
As a gay man living in London and working as a nutritionist, Daniel O'Shaughnessy knows that the LGBTQ+ community has specific dietary and health needs.
In 1984, a small group of metropolitan homosexual men and lesbian women stepped away from the vibrant culture and hedonism of London's defiant gay scene to befriend and support the beleaguered villages of a very traditional mining community in the remote valleys of South Wales.
A man from Arizona buys a piece of land in the middle of a lava field while vacationing in Hawaii and returns to the island to find a deeper sense of home and build his midlife crisis tropical dream house.
The poetess Sappho did not, in any way, facilitate the relationship between men and women, with her admirable Ode to Aphrodite which celebrates the love and sexuality between two women.
