Category: LGBT Studies

A Hint of Homosexuality?: 'Gay' and Homoerotic Imagery in American Print Advertising

By: Joffe, Bruce H.

Price: $11.98

Publisher: Xlibris : August 2007

Seller ID: 456040

ISBN-13: 9781425764661

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Well before the June 1969 Stonewall riots threw open the closet doors to unleash and proclaim an unmistakable gay mantra, myriad clues - some subliminal, others overt - clearly ingrained the notion of homosexuality in advertisements appearing on the pages of many American periodicals. Hedonistically intertwined with homoerotic connections are advertising themes such as vanity, virility, and carnal pleasure. Gay intimacy and interaction, references to the male genitalia, and threats of sexual conquest of and between men can be documented in ads as far back as the late 1800s. And, although the i...
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A Queer History of the United States (ReVisioning American History)

By: Bronski, Michael

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Beacon Press : May 2012

Seller ID: 357822

ISBN-13: 9780807044650

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Winner of a 2012 Stonewall Book Award in nonfiction

A Queer History of the United States is more than a "who's who" of queer history: it is a book that radically challenges how we understand American history. Drawing upon primary-source documents, literature, and cultural histories, scholar and activist Michael Bronski charts the breadth of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender history, from 1492 to the 1990s.
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An Indefinite Sentence: A Personal History of Outlawed Love and Sex

By: Dube, Siddharth

Price: $9.99

Publisher: Atria Books : January 2019

Seller ID: 457522

ISBN-13: 9781501158476

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Pages unmarked, DJ intact, light discoloration to page edges.
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David Bowie Made Me Gay: 100 Years of LGBT Music

By: Bullock, DarrylW

Price: $19.00

Publisher: Harry N. Abrams : April 2019

Seller ID: 479211

ISBN-13: 9781468316919

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

From Sia to Elton John, from Billie Holiday to David Bowie, LGBT musicians have changed the course of modern music. But before their music--and the messages behind it--gained understanding and a place in the mainstream, how did the queer musicians of yesteryear fight to build foundations for those who would follow them? David Bowie Made Me Gay is the first book to cover the breadth of history of recorded music by and for the LGBT community.Darryl W. Bullock reveals the stories of both famous and lesser-known LGBT musicians, whose perseverance against the threat of persecution during decades of...
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Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation

By: Clare, Eli

Price: $22.95

Publisher: Duke University Press Books : August 2015

Seller ID: 154141

ISBN-13: 9780822360315

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

First published in 1999, the groundbreaking Exile and Pride is essential to the history and future of disability politics. Eli Clare's revelatory writing about his experiences as a white disabled genderqueer activist/writer established him as one of the leading writers on the intersections of queerness and disability and permanently changed the landscape of disability politics and queer liberation. With a poet's devotion to truth and an activist's demand for justice, Clare deftly unspools the multiple histories from which our ever-evolving sense of self unfolds. His essays weave together memoi...
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Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation

By: Clare, Eli

Price: $22.95

Publisher: Duke University Press Books : August 2015

Seller ID: 468993

ISBN-13: 9780822360315

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

First published in 1999, the groundbreaking Exile and Pride is essential to the history and future of disability politics. Eli Clare's revelatory writing about his experiences as a white disabled genderqueer activist/writer established him as one of the leading writers on the intersections of queerness and disability and permanently changed the landscape of disability politics and queer liberation. With a poet's devotion to truth and an activist's demand for justice, Clare deftly unspools the multiple histories from which our ever-evolving sense of self unfolds. His essays weave together memoi...
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Families Like Mine: Children of Gay Parents Tell It Like It Is

By: Garner, Abigail

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Harper : April 2004

Seller ID: 164796

ISBN-13: 9780060527570

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

What is it really like to grow up with gay parents?Abigail Garner was five years old when her mother and father divorced and her dad came out as gay. Growing up immersed in gay culture, she now calls herself a "culturally queer" heterosexual woman. As a child, she often found herself in the middle of the political and moral debates surrounding lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) parenting. At the age of twenty-two, she began to speak publicly about her family and has since become a nationally recognized advocate for the estimated 10 million children growing up with LGBT parents. The...
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Fat and Queer

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers : May 2021

Seller ID: 464390

ISBN-13: 9781787755062

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

We're here. We're queer. We're fat. This one-of-a-kind collection of prose and poetry radically explores the intersection of fat and queer identities, showcasing new, emerging and established queer and trans writers from around the world. Celebrating fat and queer bodies and lives, this book challenges negative and damaging representations of queer and fat bodies and offers readers ways to reclaim their bodies, providing stories of support, inspiration and empowerment. In writing that is intimate, luminous and emotionally raw, this anthology is a testament to the diversity and power of fat que...
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Fatal Women

By: Hart, Lynda

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Princeton University Press : June 1994

Seller ID: 28024

ISBN-13: 9780691000930

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

In this major contribution to lesbian theory/cultural studies, Lynda Hart analyzes the way violent women have been represented in literature, plays, film, and performance. Starting from the historical link between criminality and sexual deviancy, Hart builds a complex and original theory in which the shadow of the lesbian animates representations of violent women from the Victorian novel to the recent proliferation of films depicting women who kill. This cross-disciplinary study critiques constructions of gender, race, class, sexualities, and the cultural politics of the 1990s in one of the fi...
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Ferocious Romance: What My Encounters with the Right Taught Me About Sex, God, and Fury

By: Minkowitz, Donna

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Free Press : November 1998

Seller ID: 281141

ISBN-13: 9780684833224

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Intrepid Village Voice reporter Donna Minkowitz thought she knew what she was getting into when she set out to go undercover among the religious right. She was going to observe "the enemy" close up, on its own turf. But Minkowitz, a feminist, lesbian, and "sex radical" who has won awards for her coverage of gay issues, found something else entirely-- a guide to some of the stormiest contradictions within her own soul. Sex and love, good and evil, rapture and safety-- the religious right, it turns out, is as obsessed with these matters as Minkowitz is, as many of us are. During her adventures w...
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Finding the Movement: Sexuality, Contested Space, and Feminist Activism (Radical Perspectives)

By: Enke, Finn

Price: $19.98

Publisher: Duke University Press Books : November 2007

Seller ID: 394782

ISBN-13: 9780822340836

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

In Finding the Movement, Anne Enke reveals that diverse women's engagement with public spaces gave rise to and profoundly shaped second-wave feminism. Focusing on women's activism in Detroit, Chicago, and Minneapolis-St. Paul during the 1960s and 1970s, Enke describes how women across race and class created a massive groundswell of feminist activism by directly intervening in the urban landscape. They secured illicit meeting spaces and gained access to public athletic fields. They fought to open bars to women and abolish gendered dress codes and prohibitions against lesbian congregation. They ...
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From Gay to Z: A Queer Compendium

By: Sayre, Justin

Price: $24.95

Publisher: Chronicle Books : May 2022

Seller ID: 472154

ISBN-13: 9781452178028

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

From Gay to Z: A Queer Compendium is a celebration of the rich legacy of LGBTQIA+ culture, told through the letters of the alphabet, based on the five-part show The gAybcs. From ABBA to addiction, hair and makeup to HIV, Fannie Flagg to fierce, author Justin Sayre offers his own perspective on the things that have influenced gay culture today, including iconic figures, historical moments, ongoing issues in the LGBTQIA+ community, and everything in between. As gay culture is always evolving and different for everyone, this book does not serve as a definitive guide--instead, Sayre encourages rea...
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Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation

By: Bornstein, Kate, Bear, S. Bergman

Price: $18.99

Publisher: Seal Press : August 2010

Seller ID: 468052

ISBN-13: 9781580053082

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

In the 15 years since the release of Gender Outlaw, Kate Bornstein's groundbreaking challenge to gender ideology, transgender narratives have made their way from the margins to the mainstream and back again. Today's transgenders and other sex/gender radicals are writing a drastically new world into being. In Gender Outlaws, Bornstein, together with writer, raconteur, and theater artist S. Bear Bergman, collects and contextualizes the work of this generation's trans and genderqueer forward thinkers -- new voices from the stage, on the streets, in the workplace, in the bedroom, and on the page...
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Girls Can Kiss Now: Essays

By: Gutowitz, Jill

Price: $17.00

Publisher: Atria Books : March 2022

Seller ID: 479063

ISBN-13: 9781982158507

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Perfect for fans of Samantha Irby and Trick Mirror, a funny, whip-smart collection of personal essays exploring the intersection of queerness, relationships, pop culture, the internet, and identity, introducing one of the most undeniably original new voices today. Jill Gutowitz's life--for better and worse--has always been on a collision course with pop culture. There's the time the FBI showed up at her door because of something she tweeted about Game of Thrones. The pop songs that have been the soundtrack to the worst moments of her life. And of course, the pivotal day when Orange Is the New ...
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How to Understand Your Gender: A Practical Guide for Exploring Who You Are

By: Iantaffi, Alex, Barker, Meg-John

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers : September 2017

Seller ID: 464413

ISBN-13: 9781785927461

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

'For anyone who's ever wished they had a smart, kind, friend with whom they could calmly and safely discuss gender issues: this most excellent book is that kind of friend'. - Kate Bornstein, author of Gender Outlaw Have you ever questioned your own gender identity? Do you know somebody who is transgender or who identifies as non-binary? Do you ever feel confused when people talk about gender diversity? This down-to-earth guide is for anybody who wants to know more about gender, from its biology, history and sociology, to how it plays a role in our relationships and interactions with family, fr...
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In a Queer Voice: Journeys of Resilience from Adolescence to Adulthood

By: Sadowski, Michael

Price: $5.98

Publisher: Temple University Press : January 2013

Seller ID: 472056

ISBN-13: 9781439908020

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Review: An important contribution to the argument for a more nurturing environment for young GLBT people. Publishers Weekly In this thoughtful study, Sadowski profiles six young people whom he interviewed in their adolescence and then revisited several years later to see how they transitioned from their early isolated... insular silence regarding their gender or sexuality to their 'queer voices' of strength, optimism, and defiance... An intellectual complement to the 'It Gets Better' project, this works as both a moving human document and a springboard for discussion and research in human sexu...
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Legendary Children: The First Decade of RuPaul's Drag Race and the Last Century of Queer Life

By: Marquez, Lorenzo,Fitzgerald, Tom

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Penguin Books : March 2020

Seller ID: 474139

ISBN-13: 9780143134626

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

A definitive deep-dive into queer history and culture with hit reality show RuPaul's Drag Race as a touchstone, by the creators of the pop culture blog Tom and Lorenzo NPR's Best Books of the Year 2020 pickA New York Times New & Noteworthy bookOne of Logo/NewNowNext's 11 Queer Books We Can't Wait to Read This Spring From the singular voices behind Tom and Lorenzo comes the ultimate guide to all-things RuPaul's Drag Race and its influence on modern LGBTQ culture. Legendary Children centers itself around the idea that not only is RuPaul's Drag Race the queerest show in the history of television,...
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Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993

By: Schulman, Sarah

Price: $14.98

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux : May 2021

Seller ID: 470397

ISBN-13: 9780374185138

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

One of O, the Oprah Magazine's 32 LGBTQ Books That Will Change the Literary Landscape in 2021, one of and Cosmopolitan's LGBTQ+ Books to Add to Your Reading List in 2021, and one of The Observer's Spring Books You Don't Want to Miss A masterpiece of historical research and intellectual analysis that creates many windows into both a vanished world and the one that emerged from it, the one we live in now. --Alexander Chee Twenty years in the making, Sarah Schulman's Let the Record Show is the most comprehensive political history ever assembled of ACT UP and American AIDS activism In just six ye...
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Like Subjects, Love Objects: Essays on Recognition and Sexual Difference

By: Benjamin, Ms. Jessica

Price: $24.95

Publisher: Yale University Press : November 1995

Seller ID: 408721

ISBN-13: 9780300064193

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

In this work, the author discusses gender issues from the perspective of developmental psychoanalysis. Jessica Benjamin, psychoanalyst and feminist, makes a case for what she calls gender heterodoxy - a view of the similarities and differences between the sexes - and in the process she illuminates aspects of love, sexuality, aggression and pornography.
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Our Work Is Everywhere: An Illustrated Oral History of Queer and Trans Resistance

By: Rose, Syan

Price: $18.95

Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press : April 2021

Seller ID: 370763

ISBN-13: 9781551528151

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Over the past ten years, we have witnessed the rise of queer and trans communities that have defied and challenged those who have historically opposed them. Through bold, symbolic imagery and surrealist, overlapping landscapes, queer illustrator and curator Syan Rose shines a light on the faces and voices of these diverse, amorphous, messy, real and imagined queer and trans communities. In their own words, queer and trans organizers, artists, healers, comrades, and leaders speak honestly and authentically about their own experiences with power, love, pain, and magic to create a textured and nu...
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Prayers for Bobby: A Mother's Coming to Terms with the Suicide of Her Gay Son

By: Aarons, Leroy

Price: $5.99

Publisher: HarperOne : August 1996

Seller ID: 436239

ISBN-13: 9780062511232

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Bobby Griffith was an all-American boy ...and he was gay. Faced with an irresolvable conflict-for both his family and his religion taught him that being gay was " wrong" -Bobby chose to take his own life. "Prayers for Bobby", nominated for a 1996 Lambda Literary Award, is the story of the emotional journey that led Bobby to this tragic conclusion. But it is also the story of Bobby's mother, a fearful churchgoer who first prayed that her son would be " healed, " then anguished over hi suicide, and ultimately transformed herself into a national crusader for gay and lesbian youth. As told throu...
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Queer Conception: The Complete Fertility Guide for Queer and Trans Parents-to-Be

By: Kali, Kristin Liam

Price: $24.95

Publisher: Sasquatch Books : May 2022

Seller ID: 468056

ISBN-13: 9781632173980

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Queer Icons and Their Cats

By: Nastasi, Alison,Nastasi, PJ

Price: $16.95

Publisher: Chronicle Books : June 2021

Seller ID: 470447

ISBN-13: 9781797203782

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

These cat lovers are out and purr-oud Freddie Mercury, Sylvia Rivera, Alison Bechdel, Dusty Springfield. This book is a celebration of queer icons of the past and present and their furry feline friends. From images of lost legends such as Josephine Baker and James Baldwin, to snapshots of contemporary trailblazers like comedian Tig Notaro and fashion designer Jason Wu--these charming and eccentric photographs capture what it truly means to be a cat purr-son. - PURR-FECT FOR CAT LOVERS: This book celebrates the love between human and cat. What better gift could you get the feline fancier in yo...
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Queer Screams: A History of LGBTQ+ Survival Through the Lens of American Horror Cinema

By: Waldron, Abigail

Price: $39.99

Publisher: McFarland : August 2022

Seller ID: 478429

ISBN-13: 9781476687421

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Queer X Design: 50 Years of Signs, Symbols, Banners, Logos, and Graphic Art of LGBTQ

By: Campbell, Andy

Price: $27.00

Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal : May 2019

Seller ID: 477204

ISBN-13: 9780762467853

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

The first-ever illustrated history of the iconic designs, symbols, and graphic art representing more than 5 decades of LGBTQ pride and activism.Beginning with pre-liberation and the years before the Stonewall uprising, spanning across the 1970s and 1980s and through to the new millennium, Queer X Design celebrates the inventive and subversive designs that have powered the resilient and ever-evolving LGBTQ movement. The diversity and inclusivity of these pages is as inspiring as it is important, both in terms of the objects represented as well as in the array of creators; from buttons worn to p...
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Queer: A Graphic History

By: Barker, Dr. Meg-John

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Icon Books : November 2016

Seller ID: 448396

ISBN-13: 9781785780714

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

'Queer: A Graphic History Could Totally Change the Way You Think About Sex and Gender' Vice Activist-academic Meg-John Barker and cartoonist Jules Scheele illuminate the histories of queer thought and LGBTQ+ action in this groundbreaking non-fiction graphic novel. From identity politics and gender roles to privilege and exclusion, Queer explores how we came to view sex, gender and sexuality in the ways that we do; how these ideas get tangled up with our culture and our understanding of biology, psychology and sexology; and how these views have been disputed and challenged. Along the way we loo...
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Queer: A Graphic History

By: Barker, Dr. Meg-John

Price: $17.95

Publisher: Icon Books : November 2016

Seller ID: 445018

ISBN-13: 9781785780714

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

'Queer: A Graphic History Could Totally Change the Way You Think About Sex and Gender' Vice Activist-academic Meg-John Barker and cartoonist Jules Scheele illuminate the histories of queer thought and LGBTQ+ action in this groundbreaking non-fiction graphic novel. From identity politics and gender roles to privilege and exclusion, Queer explores how we came to view sex, gender and sexuality in the ways that we do; how these ideas get tangled up with our culture and our understanding of biology, psychology and sexology; and how these views have been disputed and challenged. Along the way we loo...
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By: Povinelli, Elizabeth A.

Price: $18.98

Publisher: Duke University Press : August 2006

Seller ID: 467613

ISBN-13: 9780822338895

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

In The Empire of Love anthropologist Elizabeth A. Povinelli reflects on a set of ethical and normative claims about the governance of love, sociality, and the body that circulates in liberal settler colonies such as the United States and Australia. She boldly theorizes intimate relations as pivotal sites where liberal logics and aspirations absorbed through settler imperialism are manifest, where discourses of self-sovereignty, social constraint, and value converge.For more than twenty years, Povinelli has traveled to the social worlds of indigenous men and women living at Belyuen, a small com...
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The Gender Friend

By: Phoenix, Oakley

Price: $15.95

Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers : October 2022

Seller ID: 468069

ISBN-13: 9781839973574

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

The LGBTQ + History Book (DK Big Ideas)

By: DK,

Price: $27.99

Publisher: DK : May 2023

Seller ID: 473372

ISBN-13: 9780744070736

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

The Natural Mother of the Child: A Memoir of Nonbinary Parenthood

By: Belc, Krys Malcolm

Price: $10.98

Publisher: Counterpoint : June 2021

Seller ID: 439647

ISBN-13: 9781640094383

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Krys Malcolm Belc's visual memoir-in-essays explores how the experience of gestational parenthood--conceiving, birthing, and breastfeeding his son Samson--eventually clarified his gender identity. Krys Malcolm Belc has thought a lot about the interplay between parenthood and gender. As a nonbinary, transmasculine parent, giving birth to his son Samson clarified his gender identity. And yet, when his partner Anna adopted Samson, the legal documents listed Belc as the natural mother of the child. By considering how the experiences contained under the umbrella of motherhood don't fully align with...
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The Stonewall Reader

By: Baumann, Jason

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Penguin Classics : April 2019

Seller ID: 412158

ISBN-13: 9780143133513

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

For the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, an anthology chronicling the tumultuous fight for LGBTQ rights in the 1960s and the activists who spearheaded it, with a foreword by Edmund White. Finalist for the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction, presented by The Publishing TriangleTor.com, Best Books of 2019 (So Far) Harper's Bazaar, The 20 Best LGBTQ Books of 2019 The Advocate, The Best Queer(ish) Non-Fiction Tomes We Read in 2019 June 28, 2019 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, which is considered the most significant event in the gay liberation movement, ...
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The Times I Knew I Was Gay

By: Crewes, Eleanor

Price: $18.99

Publisher: Scribner : October 2021

Seller ID: 449804

ISBN-13: 9781982147112

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

A charming, highly relatable graphic memoir about one woman's coming out and coming of age that "brims with hope, and the joy that arises when one is finally ready to step out into the world" (OprahMag.com). Ellie always had questions about who she was and how she fit in. As a girl, she wore black, obsessed over Willow in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and found dating boys much more confusing than many of her friends did. As she grew older, so did her fears and a deep sense of unbelonging. From her first communion to her first girlfriend via a swathe of self-denial, awkward encounters, and everyda...
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Transgender History, second edition

By: Stryker, Susan

Price: $18.99

Publisher: Seal Press : November 2017

Seller ID: 344687

ISBN-13: 9781580056892

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Covering American transgender history from the mid-twentieth century to today, Transgender History takes a chronological approach to the subject of transgender history, with each chapter covering major movements, writings, and events. Chapters cover the transsexual and transvestite communities in the years following World War II; trans radicalism and social change, which spanned from 1966 with the publication of The Transsexual Phenomenon, and lasted through the early 1970s; the mid-'70s to 1990-the era of identity politics and the changes witnessed in trans circles through these years; and t...
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