Gay Lesbian category: 1095 books

The Destruction of the Sex and Gender Boxes Based on research it has been estimated that nearly two out of every hundred people are biologically intersexual. In addition to the biological level, the bimodality also emerges on the social level, meaning that there are hundreds of millions of...

Focusing on the representation of same-sex desire in Victorian autobiographical writing, Oliver Buckton offers significant new readings of works by some of the most influential figures in late-nineteenth-century literature and culture. Combining original research, careful historical analysis, and...

‘I hope I shan’t meet you one day in Piccadilly with a painted face, just because you must have linen sheets’ A beautiful young man is forced to choose between the love of his fiancée and the lifestyle of his male admirer.

Lynne Huffer's ambitious inquiry redresses the rift between feminist and queer theory, traversing the space of a new, post-moral sexual ethics that includes pleasure, desire, connection, and betrayal. She begins by balancing queer theorists' politics of sexual freedoms with a moralizing feminist politics...

Toward the end of the Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh King Gilgamesh laments the untimely death of his comrade Enkidu, "my friend whom I loved dearly." Similarly in the Bible, David mourns his companion, Jonathan, whose "love to me was wonderful, greater than the love of women."...

Do we need bodies for sex? Is gender in the head or in the body? In Second Skins Jay Prosser reveals the powerful drive that leads men and women literally to shed their skins and--in flesh and head--to cross the boundary of sex. Telling their story is not merely an act that comes after the fact, it's...

As the subtitle indicates, this book has three majors concerns. The first and most important concern is an examination of the film adaptations of Woolf’s novels—To the Lighthouse, Orlando, and Mrs. Dalloway—in the order the films were released. This is the heart of the matter, a fairly conventional...

The pioneering work of Johann Winckelmann (1717-1768) identified a homoerotic appreciation of male beauty in classical Greek sculpture, a fascination that had endured in Western art since the Greeks. Yet after Winckelmann, the value (even the possibility) of art's queer beauty was often denied. Several...

Offering a fresh analysis of the complexity of queer politics and activisms within a Canadian context, this book will interest activists and scholars from a broad range of disciplines including: queer and sexuality studies, women and gender studies, Canadian studies, diaspora studies, law and society, political science, and sociology.

This collection brings together cutting-edge work by established and emerging scholars focusing on key societies in the East Asian region: China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, North and South Korea, Mongolia and Vietnam. This scope enables the collection to reflect on the nature of the transformations...

Excellent grades · Excellent athletic eminence · Very popular · student, Yuzen Shindo fell in love with the beauty of the cool student council chairman Rei Omiya at first sight. Yuzen fell for Rei when he realized that he was lovely because of his pride. Yuzen expression of love is dynamic and...

Greg Universe is doing a comeback concert… hopefully this one will go better than the last few times he’s tried.

When Steven invites Peridot over to play his new video game Golf Quest Mini Rumble, he gets more than he bargained for when Peridot becomes more than attached to the game.

When the local business owners in Beach City start to feel the economic pinch during the tourist off-season, Mayor Dewey and Buck come up with a solution: food trucks!