Showing titles in Gay Studies

Unless you yourself want to be in a gay relationship, then it really does not matter what you believe about gay Christians. The only ones who really need to be sure that they are right are the actual gay Christians that desire to have a real relationship with God and want to live their lives according to the life, lessons, and examples of Jesus.

In The Closet and the Cul-de-Sac, Clayton Howard chronicles the rise of sexual privacy as a fulcrum of American cultural politics. Beginning in the 1940s, public officials pursued an agenda that both promoted heterosexuality and made sexual privacy one of the state's key promises to its citizens.

Throughout his life, clothes have provided an outlet through which journalist Teo van den Broeke understands both himself and the world around him. From the blue princess dress he coveted as a child, that first led him to question whether he was ‘normal’, through to the Nike cap and Gucci loafers he wore to impress the men he first desired, fabric has long enveloped and shaped his formative moments. Using the wardrobe of his past as a lens through which to explore the myriad trials and tribulations of adolescence, The Closet charts Teo’s growth from uncertainty to self-acceptance.

After a chance meeting aboard the ocean liner Paris in 1924, Harvard University scholar and activist F. O. Matthiessen and artist Russell Cheney fell in love and remained inseparable until Cheney's death in 1945. During the intervening years, the men traveled throughout Europe and the United States, achieving great professional success while contending with serious personal challenges, including addiction, chronic disease, and severe depression.

What is masculinity? Dominating the world around us, with deadly gun violence, male suicide rates and incels on Reddit, masculinity is perceived to be 'toxic', 'fragile' and 'in crisis'. In this audiobook, beautifully narrated by the author, JJ Bola exposes masculinity as a performance that men are socially conditioned into.

Understanding Our LGBTQ+ Loved Ones will illuminate how to truly love the LGBTQ+ community. By understanding the hearts of our gay family members and friends, we may resolve the conflicts and confusion regarding homosexuality. This audiobook is a must listen for everyone who wants to understand the hearts of their LGBTQ+ loved ones.

Diligently sourced and researched, Boy with the Bullhorn provides both an intimate look into how activist strategies are developed and deployed, as well as a snapshot of life in New York City during the darkest days of the AIDS epidemic. He relies on his extensive archive of original ACT UP documents, news articles, and other published material, as well as activist videos and oral histories, to help flesh out actions, events, and the background stories of key activists.

Growing up in the shadow of Hollywood, the gay sons of immigrants featured in Brown and Gay in LA could not have felt further removed from a world where queerness was accepted and celebrated. Instead, the men profiled here maneuver through family and friendship circles where masculinity dominates, gay sexuality is unspoken, and heterosexuality is strictly enforced. For these men, the path to sexual freedom often involves chasing the dreams while resisting the expectations of their immigrant parents—and finding community in each other.

Más allá de la historiografía tradicional, nos encontramos con grandes poetas, intelectuales o cientí ficos homosexuales cuyos deseos han sido borrados. Es momento de sacarlos del armario. Desde Alejandro Magno o Leonardo da Vinci hasta Isaac Newton o Miguel de Cervantes, este libro desvela, de una manera desenfadada y a través de una profunda investigación, los grandes personajes homosexuales que han cambiado—pese a los prejuicios y las dificultades de su época—la historia de la humanidad.

Homosexuality is a highlighted topic surrounded by stigma. The controversy behind the subject can cause extreme violence and even suicide, especially in youths. Homophobia, like any irrational fear, can be medicated with knowledge. Through education, lives can be saved. This book serves as a quick lesson, where questioning individuals can open the door to understanding and self-esteem. Chicken Caesar Salad for the Gay Soul is an emotional and informative guide that exposes overlooked truths about gay culture.

Imagine a pied piper singing in a dazzling falsetto, wearing glittering sequins, and leading the young people of the nation to San Francisco and on to liberation where nothing was straight-laced or old-fashioned. And everyone, finally, was welcome—to come as themselves. This is not a fairy tale. This was real, mighty real, and disco sensation Sylvester was the piper. Joshua Gamson—a Yale-trained pop culture expert—uses him, a boy who would be fabulous, to lead us through the story of the '70s when a new era of change liberated us from conformity and boredom.

Snakken går i København. Angiveligt lokker byens homoseksualister de værnepligtige i fordærv, men er det mere end blot rygter? Det mener det magtfulde Indre Mission, for de er overbevist om, at mørke kræfter er på spil. Det truer ikke blot de unge værnepligtige, men hele det danske folk. Lad os skrue tiden godt 100 år tilbage. Vi befinder os i København, en by der har smidt sine provinsielle lænker, og nu er på vej til at blive en moderne og pulserende metropol. Alt er dog langt fra vel her i hovedstaden.

I en fortrolig pakke på Rigsarkivet gemmer der sig et relativt ukendt stykke københavnerhistorie. En dramatisk historie om puritanere, kulturikoner, soldatertrækkerdrenge og.... homoseksualister Lad os skrue tiden godt 100 år tilbage. Vi befinder os i København, en by der har smidt sine provinsielle lænker, og nu er på vej til at blive en moderne og pulserende metropol. Alt er dog langt fra vel her i hovedstaden. Noget lurer i storbyens dyb, og det truer med at fordærve og ødelægge landets fremtid - ungdommen.

En detektivrapport afslører, at soldaterprostitution er udbredt i Gardehusarregimentet, men er det homoseksualisterne der lokker og fordærver, eller er gardehusarerne slet ikke så uskyldige? Hvem er Frederik Husar, byder Thehuset på mere end earl grey, og hvad foregår der egentlig ude på Bagsværdfortet? Lad os skrue tiden godt 100 år tilbage. Vi befinder os i København, en by der har smidt sine provinsielle lænker, og nu er på vej til at blive en moderne og pulserende metropol. Alt er dog langt fra vel her i hovedstaden.

Tanto la "inteligencia emocional" como la "resiliencia" son conceptos controvertidos dentro de la psicología académica pero ampliamente manejados en los libros de autoayuda. Este trabajo, de principio a fin, se plantea el reto de equilibrar el rigor con la utilidad cotidiana. Los hombres gais somos uno de los colectivos que sufrimos mayores exigencias emocionales a lo largo de la vida. Es necesario entrenar muy bien nuestra resiliencia para dejar atrás las marcas del acoso homofóbico y la discriminación.

A facsimile guide to the "Gents Loos of London" published originally in 1937 by Routledge. Hailed as the first queer city guide, "For Your Convenience" was first published in 1937. Ostensibly a guide to where a gentleman may find ‘relief’ in the metropolis after "three cups of tea", for those "in-the-know" the information held between its pages offers a much more tantalizing prospect.

In How You Get Famous, journalist Nicole Pasulka raucously documents the rebirth of the New York drag scene, following a group of iconoclastic performers with undeniable charisma, talent, and a hell of a lot to prove. In the past decade, drag has become a place where edgy, competitive showoffs can find security in a callous and over priced city, a shot at real money, and a level of recognition queer people rarely achieve. But can drag keep its edge as it travels from the backroom to the main stage?

Tengo que morir todas las noches es una crónica excepcional sobre la ciudad de México durante los años ochenta; la cultura gay y los movimientos artísticos, literarios y musicales que se expresaban en los linderos de la sociedad.

Both the gay and androphile subcultures present strong dogmatic prescriptions of what it means to be a man who is sexually attracted to other men. Rejecting the rigid views of both the Gay (LGBTQIA+) Community and the Androphilia Movement, Scott Graham presents another perspective for men seeking to figure out who they are in the light of their sexual orientation and the pressures of conformity from LGBTQIA+ leaders who diagnose you with internalized homophobia if you question any part of their social/political agenda.

The first of two groundbreaking volumes on gay history in Wisconsin, We’ve Been Here All Along provides an illuminating and nuanced picture of Wisconsin’s gay history, from the reporting on the Oscar Wilde trials of 1895 to the landmark Stonewall Riots of 1969. Throughout these decades, gay Wisconsinites developed identities, created support networks, and found ways to thrive in their communities despite various forms of suppression.