Gay Lesbian category: 1095 books
Up from Invisibility
Lesbians, Gay Men, and the Media in America
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2001
A half century ago gay men and lesbians were all but invisible in the media and, in turn, popular culture. With the lesbian and gay liberation movement came a profoundly new sense of homosexual community and empowerment and the emergence of gay people onto the media's stage. And yet even as the mass...
Out in Sport
The experiences of openly gay and lesbian athletes in competitive sport
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
Research has shown that since the turn of the millennia, matters have rapidly improved for gays and lesbians in sport. Where gay and lesbian athletes were merely tolerated a decade ago, today they are celebrated.
This book represents the most comprehensive examination of the experiences of...
by Kathleen Hope
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2017
24 Gay and Lesbian Short Stories
Story 1: 50 Shades of Gay
Story 2: Ring Girls
Story 3: Hard
Story 4: Theresa’s True Passion
Story 5: Wanting My Best Friend
Story 6: Bumper to Bumper
Story 7: The Centerfold
Story 8: Striptease
Story...
Everyday Mutinies
Funding Lesbian Activism
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Who are the women who struggled to form lesbian communities--and how did they fund their activism?
In Everyday Mutinies: Funding Lesbian Activism, two dozen lesbians--including well-known activists such as Martina Navratilova, Alison Bechdel, Dee Mosbacher, and Jewelle Gomez--tell the stories...
by Giselle Renarde
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
All royalties from the sale of this anthology will be donated to charitable organizations supporting LGBT individuals and communities.
LGBT Love is in the air! Fall for romance with 10 sensual stories by award-winning queer author Giselle Renarde. From lesbian cops to gay professors, bisexual...
Steel Closets
Voices of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Steelworkers
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
Even as substantial legal and social victories are being celebrated within the gay rights movement, much of working-class America still exists outside the current narratives of gay liberation. In Steel Closets, Anne Balay draws on oral history interviews with forty gay, lesbian, and transgender steelworkers,...
Sexual Sameness (Routledge Revivals)
Textual Differences in Lesbian and Gay Writing
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
First published in 1992, Sexual Sameness examines the differing textual strategies male and female writers have developed to celebrate homosexuality. Examining such writers as E.M. Forster, James Baldwin, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Audre Lourde, this wide-ranging book demonstrates how literature has...
by John Arthur Maddux, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
This book is intended for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and non-gay readers. It is divided into three sections: “On Being Gay,” “On Being Politically Correct,” and “On Being Gay in the Real World.” Section I, “On Being Gay,” focuses almost exclusively on what it means to be gay,...
by Lucie Delarue-Mardrus, Anna Livia
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1995
Set in the lesbian and gay circles of Paris in the 1920s, The Angel and the Perverts tells the story of a hermaphrodite born to upper class parents in Normandy and ignorant of his/her physical difference. As an adult, s/he lives a double life as Marion/Mario, passing undetected as a lesbian in the...
Black Like Us
A Century of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual African American Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Winner of the 2003 Lambda Literary Award for Fiction Anthology Showcasing the work of literary giants like Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, Alice Walker, and writers whom readers may be surprised to learn were "in the life," Black Like Us is the most comprehensive collection...
"You Can Tell Just By Looking"
And 20 Other Myths about LGBT Life and People
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
**2014 Lambda Literary Award Finalist: LGBT Nonfiction
Breaks down the most commonly held misconceptions about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and their lives**
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In “You Can Tell Just by Looking” three scholars and activists come together to unpack enduring, popular,...
The Heart Has Its Reasons
Young Adult Literature with Gay/Lesbian/Queer Content, 1969-2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2006
Society does not make it easy for young people, regardless of their sexual orientation, to find accurate, nonjudgmental information about homosexuality. It makes it even more difficult for young homosexuals to find positive role models in fiction either written or published expressly for them or—if...
Unconditional
A Guide to Loving and Supporting Your LGBTQ Child
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
#1 New Release on Amazon! ─ Winner of the Sixth Annual Bisexual Book Award for Non-fiction, 2017
Looking for LGBTQ books that offer guidance on providing loving support to your LGBT child?
Parents of LGBT children guide: Unconditional: A Guide to Loving and Supporting Your LGBTQ Child provides...
Radical Records (Routledge Revivals)
Thirty Years of Lesbian and Gay History, 1957-1987
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2010
The period between the publication in 1957 of the liberalising Wolfenden Report and the introduction in 1987 of the homophobic Section 28 was characterised by unprecedented optimism and political activism among lesbians and gay men in Britain. But the law and its shortcomings never determined their...