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Why should Americans who are not gay care about gay rights? In Created Equal, Michael Nava and Robert Dawidoff argue that the movement for gay equality is central to the continuing defense of individual liberty in America. Beginning with an examination of the determined assault on gay issues by the religious right, the authors show how this sectarian movement to legislate private religious morality into law undermines the purpose of American constitutional...
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For most of its history, the Peoples Temple existed under the radar. Most had never even heard of the church until news of the tragic deaths of more than nine hundred men, women, and children in the jungles of Guyana broke in November of 1978.Th e lives and deaths of the members of the Peoples Temple are ones that remain mostly misunderstood to this day. And for the gay and lesbian members and their families, the truth is sometimes even harder to....
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Tritiya-Prakriti: People of the Third Sex is a collection of years of research into a topic seldom discussed or easily found within the Hindu/Vedic scriptural canon. Based entirely upon authentic Sanskrit references and modern concurring facts, the book guides us through the original Hindu concept of a "third sex" (defined as homosexuals, transgenders and the intersexed), how such people were constructively incorporated into ancient Indian society,...
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A big book of manners for the more than 15 million lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people in the United States and Canada and the people who love them, work with them, and live with them.
Encyclopedic in its approach, filled with practical wisdom, lively wit, and much insight, Steven Petrow's “Complete Gay & Lesbian Manners” covers everything: from coming out to being out in the workplace; from dealing with the joy and complexity of same-sex...
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Gender Variances and Sexual Diversity in the Caribbean: Perspectives, Histories, Experiences is a collection of critical perspectives on fundamental questions of how sexual orientation and gender in Jamaica and the wider Caribbean are conceived, studied, discoursed and experienced. Bringing together and updating existing and in-progress scholarly work on minority genders and sexualities in the region, this collection seeks to provide a fresh set of...
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«No sabría deciros muy bien de qué va mi libro porque trata de muchas cosas. En él analizo de qué manera los discursos de señores como Freud nos siguen afectando; también es un trabajo de recuperación de una historia necesaria para muchas, de defensa de la bisexualidad como herramienta de desestabilización y como identidad política. Y, por supuesto, este libro va de feminismo y de teoría queer, de mantener luchas hermanas y de generar alianzas...
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"I am married to an amazing woman, and we have great kids. I also am carrying a huge secret deep inside: I am gay." Accepting truth about sexual identity after living outwardly as straight is terrifying and incredibly difficult to maneuver. Some fool themselves that this will be just fine, some have been caught exploring their sexuality, and some consider drastic steps to spare themselves and their loved ones from this truth. Better days are ahead!...
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How does the mapping of Italian culture change when it is charted from the perspective of gender-variant people? Italian Trans Geographies tackles this question by retracing trans and gender-variant experiences within the Italian peninsula and along diasporic routes. The volume adopts a cross-disciplinary approach that combines scholarly analyses with grassroots engagement and creative work and centers the voices of Italian and Italian American transpeople...
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"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1994" "Named an Outstanding Book by the Gustavus Meyers Center for the Study of Human Rights in North America for 1998" Marc Wolinsky is a partner of the New York law firm of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, and co-counsel to Joseph C. Steffan in association with Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund. Kenneth Sherrill is Professor of Political Science and Chair of the College Senate at Hunter College,...
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Based on extensive archival work, Stormtrooper Families combines stormtrooper personnel records, Nazi Party autobiographies, published and unpublished memoirs, personal letters, court records, and police-surveillance records to paint a picture of the stormtrooper movement as an organic product of its local community, its web of interpersonal relationships, and its intensely emotional internal struggles. Extensive analysis of Nazi-era media across...
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A beautiful series of full-color portraits of LGBTQ people over the age of fifty
Even with the extraordinary strides the LGBTQ movement has made in civil rights, acceptance, and visibility over the past half century, a growing portion of the community remains largely invisible, its concerns relegated to the margins.
In the latest in a groundbreaking series of beautiful photobooks on LGBTQ communities around the world-from Russia to Mexico to Japan-French-Senegalese...
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Traditionally, transnational feminists have examined the fields of gender, sexuality and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ) studies by critically addressing issues of colonialism, white supremacy, globalization, capitalism, and heterosexism. Like most fields within higher education, gender and sexuality studies, womens studies, and LGBTQ studies are still dominated by white scholars; moreover these are predominately scholars from colonial...
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In this midyear 2021 edition of Bent Street, guest editors Sam Elkin and Yves Rees from the Spilling the T Collective bring a special trans and gender diverse community focus: essays, poetry, polemic, memoir, fiction, and imagery that explores and celebrates gender diversity. In this edition, trans creatives bring an acute understanding of how embodied subjects construct and perform gendered selves, an understanding that though sometimes borne of...
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How do you imagine trans liberation while living in a cis world? On My Way To Liberation follows a gender nonconforming body moving through the streets of Chicago. From the sex shop to the farmers market, the family dinner table to the bookstore, trans people are everywhere, though often erased. Writing towards a trans future, H. Melt envisions a world where trans people are respected, loved and celebrated every day.
56) Dream Rooms
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Part essay, part poem, part fever dream journal entry, “Dream Rooms” is a book about personal revolution, about unravelling a worldview to make space for different selves and realities. Set in the years that led up to author River Halen coming out as trans, this collection concerns itself with what sits on the surface of daily life, hidden in plain view, hungry for address-what it means to take a stranger's pet rabbit to the vet in a year of accelerating...
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Bent Street is an annual publication that gathers essays, fiction, poetry, artwork, reflections, interviews, rants and raves, to bring you 'The Year in Queer'. Bent Street features works from LGBTIQA+ creators in 2019, with themes arising from 2019, and the view backwards and forwards.
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A year after the Stonewall riots in New York, the Gay Liberation Front of Washington, D.C., held its first meeting on June 30, 1970.
GLF-DC's activities included protests, publications and communal living experiments.
Although the group faded quickly, in part because of disorganization and divisiveness about goals, activities and actions, its attendees established openly gay community organizations, including some long-lasting institutions in Washington-Capital...
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Que España se haya convertido en una democracia sexual adelantada a escala planetaria no es nada evidente: las victorias de los sujetos LGBT+ de derecho bien podrían servir de lavado rosa a la crisis global que afecta a España desde el 2008. El libro propone una contrahistoria que desnaturalice el lazo entre constitucionalismo de 1978, clases medias consumidoras y reconocimiento LGBT+ para reencontrar a lxs excluidxs de la modernidad posfranquista...
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Over the last half century or more we have been introduced to a way of thinking that is no longer based upon fact and reason. Young and old alike are
being educated today to believe that there are no absolutes. They are being told that truth (right and wrong) is only in the mind of the individual and
nothing is any longer absolute. There is no longer a standard of right or wrong that is absolute for all people. They are being instructed that our...
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