In doing so, England's reigning man of letters set in motion a series of events that would culminate in his ruin and imprisonment. For within a year the bewildered Wilde himself was on trial for acts of gross indecency and, implicitly--for a vision of art that outraged Victorian propriety. Expertly interweaving courtroom testimony with excerpts from Wilde's writings and the words of his contemporaries, Gross Indecency unveils its subject in all his genius and human frailty, his age in all its complacency and repression. The result is a play that will be read and studied for decades to come.

    With a new section on mother/daughter relationships, new and updated material on Israel, and new poetry and photographs.

    Here are accounts of revealing one's sexual identity to parents, siblings, friends, co-workers and, in one notable instance, to a stockbroker. Men tell of their first sexual encounters from their preteens to their thirties, with childhood friends who rejected or tenderly embraced them, with professors, with neighbors, with a Broadway star. These are poignant, sometimes unexpectedly funny tales of romance and heartbreak, repression and liberation, rape and first love defining moments that shaped their authors' lives. Arranged chronologically from Manhattan in the Forties to San Francisco in the Nineties, these essays ultimately form a documentary of changing social and sexual mores in the United States--a literary, biographical, sociological and historical tour de force.

    Based on her popular column, which ran in lesbian and gay periodicals across the country, this series of fictional comedy/adventures stars femme author Leslea Newman and her beloved butch, Flash.

    “Irresistible” (Out). Black-and-white photographs.

    His affecting words cover topics from politics to prejudice, from the human spirit to the individual obstacles he faces every day in his solitary life.

    It contains articles on the world's spiritual traditions; entries on deities, symbols, spiritual teachers, spiritually focused artists; and related subjects.

    “Written and illustrated by an award-winning artist, this delightfully naughty ABC book for adults is a celebration of gay male archetypes, from Jailbirds to Opera Singers, Hairdressers to Truckers.” — Masquerade

    They resonate with his trademark themes: East London, storytelling, moments of shocking violence, memories of the past, fantastical monologues, and that strange mix of the barbaric and the beautiful he has made all his own. The Pitchfork Disney was Ridley's first play and is now seen as launching a new generation of playwrights who were unafraid to shock and court controversy.  This unsettling, dreamlike piece has surreal undertones and thematically explores fear, dreams and story-telling.  The Fastest Clock in the Universe is a multi-award-winning play which caused a sensation when it premiered at Hampstead Theatre in 1992.  An edgy and provocative drama, it is now regarded as a contemporary classic. Ghost from a Perfect Place is a scorchingly nasty blend of comedy, spectacle and terror where a monster from the past meets the monsters of the present.

    Vintage images.

    -- Jean Valentine"I return to Joan Larkin's poems again and again beacause I love their clarity, their revelatory strength, their allegiance to something like history and their great and surprising humor. But there is more. The poems in this little book that face AIDS are certainly some of the bravest and most eloquent ones on the subject". -- Michael Klein-- "I love Joan Larkin's poems, for their music, their tensile strength, their truthfulness, their clarity...". -- Adrienne RichThe powerful poems of desire and survival in Joan Larkin's long-awaited third collection are remarkable for their honesty and memorable language. In Cold River, the prize-winning poet faces AIDS, loss, aging, and love between women with courage, depth, and wit.

    In Flowers for Jean Genet Winkler pays tribute to his liberator, Genet. Winkler describes his search for the facts of his mentor's life in this highly personal, eclectic biography, showing the life to which Genet was subjected by an uncomprehending and hostile society. Only in the last years of his life were Genet's literary accomplishments granted recognition. Among other honors he was awarded the Prix National, the highest French decoration.

    Focusing on characters both young and old, gay and straight, single and married, he discovers the dramas that are obscured by life's daily struggles. These beautifully crafted stories depict the surface of the world we all know, but go on to reveal the mysteries lurking beneath life's deceptively placid surface - the half we don't know.

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    Long before Stonewall and the gay pride movement, there was a small group of daring men--both photographers and the models who sat for them--who helped pave the way for male sexual liberation. Led by the photographer George Platt Lynes, the painter Paul Cadmus, and the arts patron Lincoln Kirstein, this group shattered taboos surrounding the artistic presentation of the male figure. The young subjects of these photographs--who often posed after-hours in studios officially used for fashion shoots--were in essence the first true male models. In a perfect complement to the intimacy of these early nudes, photographs are included of these men today. The pictures and stories in "Naked Men" are as relevant and evocative today as they were a half a century ago.

    Queerly Classed highlights the voices of those whose experiences of class-combined with race, ethnicity, gender, ability, and age to explode stereotypes of queers aspiring to assimilate into the mainstream of the American middle class.

    Tracing the evolution of the lesbian and gay movement, We AreEverywhere includes writings from the beginnings of the gay and lesbian movement in the 19th century; legal and government studies concerning rights of gay and lesbian citizens; articles from the early US liberation movement publications; documents from the first days of the AIDS epidemic to current activism; statements and writings from the movements within the movement; and finally, alook at the future of lesbian and gay politics.

    Thousands have attended its events, featuring hundreds of scholars, activists, and cultural workers; many thousands more have lamented how they would have liked to have been there. With this book, they finally, vicariously, can be.Divided into five parts--on identities as they revolve around gender and sexuality; on the terrains of homosexual history; on mind-body relations; on laws and economics; and on policy issues related to gay youth, AIDS, and aging--A Queer World offers a compelling panorama of gay and lesbian life. Featuring the work, among others, of such figures as Yukiko Hanawa, Will Roscoe, Jewelle L. Gomez, Jonathan Ned Katz, Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy, Jeffrey Escoffier, Janice M. Irvine, Kendall Thomas, Gilbert Herdt, Vivien Ng, Douglas Crimp, Walt Odets, Serena Nanda, Cindy Patton, Michael Moon, William Byne, and Randolph Trumback, A Queer World is distinctive in its focus on the social sciences and issues relating to public policy. Consisting largely of previously unpublished essays, this volume--and its companion volume Queer Representations: Reading Lives, Reading Cultures--is an invaluable addition to the bookshelf of anyone interested in the study of sexuality.

    Chosen as one of the top ten books of all time by the Mining History Association, A Mine of Her Own tells the definitive story of America's women prospectors for the first time.

    With extraordinary depth, humor, and sensitivity, the book follows Wilde's career and personal life. Through it all, Wilde emerges as a man of charm and substance, a true philosopherperhaps simply born before his time.

    In an attempt to explain the alarmingly high incidence of unprotected intercourse in this population, this in-depth cultural and psychological analysis shows how an apparent incongruence between knowledge or intention and behavior can possess its own sociocultural logic and meaning.

    Gay Liberation in the Words of Its FounderThis is the first collection of the words and speeches of the founder of the Mattachine Society and the modern gay movement, and "provides wonderful glimpses into Hay's evolution from Marxist pedant to shamanic faerie elder."

    . . Radclyffe Hall is getting a fresh look. . . . Glasgow has chosen these letters well and provides helpful context.--Kirkus Review Many assumptions have been made about the degree to which Radclyffe Hall's lesbian classic, The Well of Loneliness, may be autobiographical. Your John dismisses such notions. This exhaustive collection of letters written between 1934 and 1942 to Evguenia Souline, a White Russian �migr� with whom Hall fell deeply in love are detailed, intimate records of Hall's personal life and convictions. . . . the collection is a heart-wrenching record of how politics, money, and geography converged to undermine these women's dreams.--Publisher's Weekly This landmark book represents the first publication of original writing by Radclyffe Hall, author of The Well of Loneliness, in over 50 years. One of the most famous and influential lesbian novelists of the twentieth century, Hall became a cause clbre in 1928, upon the publication of her novel The Well of Loneliness, when the British government brought action on behalf of the Crown to declare the book obscene. Probably the most widely read lesbian novel ever written, the book has been continuously in print since its first publication and remains to this day an important part of the literary landscape. Expertly deciphered and edited by Hall scholar and biographer Joanne Glasgow, Your John is a selection of Hall's love letters to Evguenia Souline, a White Russian �migr� with whom Hall fell completely and passionately in love in the summer of 1934. Written between this first meeting and the onset of Hall's last illness in 1942, these letters detail Hall's growing obsession, the pain to her life partner Una Troubridge of this betrayal, and the poignant hopelessness of a happy resolution for any of the three women. It was ultimately this relationship, Glasgow argues, which tragically precipitated the decline in Hall's creative work and her health. The letters also provide important new information about her views on lesbianism and take us well beyond the artistic limits she imposed on the characters in The Well of Loneliness. They shed light on her views on religion, politics, war, and the literary and artistic scene. Illuminating both the nature of her relationships and her views on the current politics of the time, Your John will greatly extend the range of our knowledge about Radclyffe Hall.

    While Children of the Void tells about the real life of Aristasian girls today, The District Governess conjures up the magical fantasy-world on which Aristasia is based.It is a world where men have never existed and the two sexes are blonde and brunette. The range, variety, intelligence and charm of these disciplinary stories is truly astonishing. Each story is accompanied by a full-page illustration.

    Mario DiGangi analyzes the relation between homoeroticism and social power in a wide range of literary and historical texts from the 1580s to the 1620s, drawing on the insights of materialist, feminist and queer theory. Each chapter focuses on the homoerotics of a major dramatic genre (Ovidian comedy, satiric comedy, tragedy and tragicomedy) and studies the ideologies and institutions it characteristically explores.

    Covering Harwood's childhood, the couple's professional life in the arts, the fear and repression of the McCarthy era, and Gean and Bruhs's triumphant "coming out" in the eighties, The Oldest Gay Couple in America is an intimate look at the worlds of dance and theater, through fear and hope, and through the strife and fierce joy of two lives intertwined.Writing with style and wit, Harwood chronicles his encounters with screen stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood-Mae West, Gary Cooper, Cary Grant, Bing Crosby, Jack Benny, and others. He details his partner's training and performances in the blossoming Manhattan world of modern dance in the mid-twentieth century, profiling many of the people who were to influence this field for decades to come.This is a classic tale of love and loyalty in a lifestyle frequently dismissed as focusing on physical rather than spiritual beauty. It is about two people who shared a lifetime commitment and who, despite turmoil and discrimination, weathered life's storms to emerge stronger and wiser. Before Bruhs was fully incapacitated by Alzheimer's Disease, he and Gean became the toast of the New York gay scene. Harwood chronicles their late emergence as spokespersons for older gays and as role models for the young.Because of the acceptance, in many quarters, of gay life today, it is easy to forget how far the gay rights movement has come since the days when Gean and Bruhs traveled the "corridor of fear; " as Harwood puts it. This is the first book totrace the long, sometimes painful, and always absorbing route these two men were forced to navigate in pursuit of the freedom to be themselves.

    Told with honesty and courage, their words express the fundamental need all people share for acceptance and respect.Published in collaboration with the adult division of William Morrow.

    Miller explores every moment of being; for him, life is a sexy, energetic adventure that grows fuller each day. Through humor, memory, fantasy, gratuitous sex, and unabashed honesty, Shirts et) Skin charts one gay man's take on the challenges of the last two decades of the millennium.

    As women who love women, these writers bring passionate intensity and complicated depths to this fundamental first love. Contributors include Claudia Bepko, Jyl Lynn Felman, Meg Daly, Joan Nestle, Laura Markowitz, Jane Miller, Linda Niemann, Mattie Richardson, Maureen Seaton and Shay Youngblood. Photos.

    Through biographies, histories, and primary source materials, readers will witness the contributions these men and women have made through history as well as their continuing struggle for civil rights and an equal position in society.Across the United States, conservative and religious groups are challenging attempts by gay organizations to gain equal protection under law. From concepts of the right to privacy to gay marriage, there is no issue left untouched by this controversy. Author Diane Silver presents each side's perspective in a cogent, lucid manner. The result is a book that takes an evenhanded approach to one of the most inflammatory issues of our times.

    Through it, students will be able to follow the story of how sociology has come to engage with gay and lesbian issues from the 1950s to the present, from the earliest research on the underground worlds of gay men to the emergence of queer theory in the 1990s. Bringing together classic readings and the best work of younger scholars from all parts of the English-speaking world, this reader will be an invaluable resource for courses at undergraduate and graduate level in all areas of the sociology of sexuality and gender. Separate sections cover: * theoretical foundations * identity and community making * institutions and social change * challenges for the future. Each section begins with an introduction giving readers a brief guide to the readings in that section, contextualises them and relates them to one another and the book ends with an afterword by Ken Plummer summing up the present state of play and looking forward to the future

    Through his eyes we encounter the composer Robert Christian Gustafson, an Iowa preacher's son whose good looks constitute both a mythic draw and a major limitation, and Angelina "Alabama" Byrnes, a failed deb, five feet tall but bristling with outsized talent.  These friends shelter each other, promote each other's work, and compete erotically.  When tragedy strikes, this circle grows up fast, somehow finding, at the worst of times, the truest sort of family.Funny and heartbreaking, as eventful as Dickens and as atmospheric as one of Fitzgerald's parties, Plays Well with Others combines a fable's high-noon energy with an elegy's evening grace.  Allan Gurganus's celebrated new novel is a lovesong to imperishable friendship, a hymn to a brilliant and now-vanished world.

    This volume examines Sappho's poetry through the lens of lesbian desire. It focuses on the active female gaze in the texts and the narrative voice - one that describes female experience and desires as primary, not secondary to the dominant (male) culture.

    These personal stories share unconventional flirtations, selfless commitments, loving camaraderies, and undying passions.

    Provocative and insightful, this compilation of writings by gay authors is a passionate and intellectual commentary on today's gay movement and its future.

    Based upon unique in-depth interviews with a broad cross-section of patients, the book is remarkable for its candor and compassionate analysis. The people speak for themselves. "Through these pages," Robert Klitzman writes, "I have tried to present a picture-a group portrait-and a sense of the fabric and texture of these individual's lives. Their stories taught me much about how people find meaning and cope with apparently overwhelming difficulties." In looking for patterns in these lives, Dr. Klitzman has focused first on the problems these new patients face-the uncertainties, losses, and taboos; then on how they adapt-their new life in "HIV-land," their spiritual beliefs, work and volunteerism, family relations, drugs and sex, and denial psychology. Finally he considers the implications of this major new medical problem and how it has forced us to examine so many personal, political, and institutional issues surrounding illness and the threat of death. Being Positive is not only a humanizing antidote to statistical studies of HIV and AIDS, it is an important benchmark in understanding the lives and experiences of the people who are affected.

    Without hesitations Massengill gets close to them with his camera. His extroverted men present themselves cheeky and playful, teasing us pleassurably with their beauty.

    Honor Thy Children chronicles the creation, devastation, and remarkable resurrections of the Nakatanis, a family that journeys from unimaginable grief to healing.

    Margaret Smyth is an escort for women who assumes different names and identities for each of her clients while struggling to finish law school to ensure your future. BJ, a soap opera actress under the name Jill Willis, has a melodramatic personal life that rivals that of the charater she plays on television. Initially strangers, as their identities begin to unravel, these two women are drawn--to each other and to salvation.

    In an electrifying mix of theory and autobiography, Mark Thompson explores the stages of healing and recovery that men can experience if they dare to take the path leading to a fully integrated body and spirit. In his own life, he details the experience of growing up gay in a dysfunctional family, the heady days of the early 1970s in San Francisco, and his attempts to heal himself--from the fairy circles to the deepest reaches of the leather movement. Intermixed is an explanation of archetypes and how they function in gay man's life, the roles that they assume, the dangers that they hold, and the lessons that must be learned for each gay man to heal his own gay soul, spirit, and body.

    Seeking his fortune in London, he is entangled in the corrupt machinations of the criminal underworld. At last, equipped with horse, pistols and velvet mask, he sets out as a Gentleman of the Road. But not before he has been loved by a Jacobite lord, dressed up by Lucinda and Aunty Mary, and been married at Mother Clap's Molly House. And at the end of the road, will he pass into legend, or does his fate lead to Tyburn tree, where so many glamorous adventurers have been hanged?

    Driven underground by the trial and sentence of Oscar Wilde in 1895, the homosexual underworld built up its own class hierarchy, shifting political allegiances, its own modish slang and etiquette.

    Lisa L. Moore argues that literary representations of female sexual agency—and in particular "sapphic" relationships between women—were central to eighteenth-century debates over English national identity. Moore shows how the novel’s representation of women’s "romantic friendships"—both platonic and sexual—were encoded within wider social concerns regarding race, nation, and colonialist ventures.Moore demonstrates that intimacy between women was vividly imagined in the British eighteenth century as not only chaste and virtuous, but also insistently and inevitably sexual. She looks at instances of sapphism in such novels as Millenium Hall, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, Belinda, and Emma and analyzes how the new literary form of the novel made the bourgeois heroine’s successful negotiation of female friendship central to the establishment of her virtue. Moore also examines representations of sapphism through the sweeping economic and political changes of the period and claims that middle-class readers’ identifications with the heroine’s virtue helped the novel’s bourgeois audience justify the violent bases of their new prosperity, including slavery, colonialism, and bloody national rivalry. In revealing the struggle over sapphism at the heart of these novels of female friendship—and at the heart of England’s national identity—Moore shows how feminine sexual agency emerged as an important cultural force in post-Enlightenment England

    Contributors include Edmund White, Andrew Holleran, Oscar Wilde, William J. Mann, D. Travers Scott, and many others.

    From the St. Louis apartment where Tennessee Williams grew up to the hangouts of the blues queens of the '20s and '30s, this gem brings gay people, places and events together in a refreshing way that makes the past come alive with great spirit. 15 photos.

    With an emotional reach that extends from the incidental to the incendiary moments in our lives, "The Risk of His Music" captures a world that is, as the "Advocate" said about one of Weltner's previous works, "profoundly gay yet universally valid."

    Carmichael, Jr., Sanford Berman, Martha E. Stone, Gerald Perry, Barbara Gomez and Martha Cornog) address gay and lesbian issues facing the profession, and in some cases offer their own stories of understanding their sexuality and its implications on their professional lives. Some of the issues addressed are the need to uphold intellectual freedom, challenging the censorship of gay materials in libraries, AIDS material in the library, the information needs of gay and lesbian patrons, collection development, and confronting homophobia.

    Controversial and thought-provoking prose pieces from this outspoken Native American writer.

    His interpretation of feminist, lesbian-feminist, and gay issues in nineteenth-century American literature as complementary enlarges our historical understanding and helps build the coalition politics needed in these areas."-John Carlos Rowe, University of California, IrvineRecent gender-based scholarship on nineteenth-century American literature has established male authors' crucial awareness of the competition from popular women writers. And critical work in gay studies and queer theory has stressed the importance in canonical American literature of homoerotic relations between men, even before "homosexuality" became codified at the end of the century. Scott Derrick draws on these insights to explore the ways in which male authors struggle to refigure literature-historically devalued as feminine-as a masculine and heterosexual enterprise. Derrick focuses on scenes of compositional crisis that reveal how male identity itself is at risk in the perils and possibilities of being a male author in a feminized literary marketplace.He suggests that traditionally valued texts by Hawthorne, Poe, James, Sinclair, and Crane have at their core combustible four-sided conflicts between feminine identifications and masculine distancings, homoerotic longings and homophobic dreads, conflicts which are largely determined by domestic ideals of male and female roles within the nineteenth-century family. The negotiation of such conflicts is controlled by the nature of fiction writing, which both frees the imagination to explore forbidden fantasies and harnesses the imagination to public understandings of the proper form and content of fiction. Thus Monumental Anxieties also contributes to recent debates about the social shaping of contemporary homosexuality and to the history of American masculinity.

    

    It is hardly fiction at all, but describes in courageous detail the way she and her circle live. Having rejected the post-'60s world as a cultural desert ("the Void") they create Aristasia: their own world of femininity, philosophy and strict discipline.This book takes you right into that world, allowing you to live, think and feel as an Aristasian girl.

    Reprinted here are Jim Kepner's invaluable contributions to ONE Magazine, the Mattachine Review, ONE Institute Quarterly of Homophile Studies, ONE Confidential, and other publications from the 1950s, a time when to produce or possess any such material was judged illegal and subversive.

    

    

    He chronicles his love affairs and the tortuous intricacies of a longtime love triangle, his hilarious misadventures as a bookstore employee (arranging a book party hosted by Jackie Onassis, lunchtime rendezvous in secret tunnels below Grand Central Station, getting framed for embezzlement!), and the thrills and agonies involved in the writing and publishing of his first novels, including Smart as the Devil and Eyes. Picano also regales us with stories about the legendary "Class of 1975, " the "Gay 2,000" - hip, political, talented, beautiful young men who formed and molded gay culture as it exists today. AIDS eventually spread through the Pines like wildfire and about 98 percent of the "Gay 2,000" are now dead, but Felice Picano has lived through it all, and he gives voice to those times with humor, candor, and wistfulness.

    Spinning extravagant riffs on favorite episodes, the creator of this legendary British comedy series brings us seven hilarious short stories, never before published in the U.S.

    Preston's voice is as brave, honest, and clear-sighted as ever, which makes us miss it all the more sorely.--Anne Rice.

    Across the United States, this was an era of courting and cocktail parties, Johnny Mathis and Jack Kerouac, with a Southern culture aptly depicted by Tennessee Williams-genteel attitudes and behavior covering, in a thin veneer, baser passions just barely contained. But this veneer was developing cracks that would soon divide society in hotly contested battles over race, sexuality, and gender.In Lonely Hunters , James Sears, noted gay writer, academic, and media commentator, has compiled the real stories of gay men and lesbians who were raised in the social hierarchy of the South and who recall their coming of age when the status quo of American society as a whole was on the cusp of great upheaval. Most notable, of course, was the battle being waged for the civil rights of blacks, but another, less visible battle was also taking place-that of cultivating gay identities, peer groups, and a subculture no longer hidden by Southern convention. Though maintaining social stature was important for many gay men and women at the time, accomplished by hiding their identities through so-called Boston marriages and the common arrangement of gay couples living in duplexes and posing as heterosexual partners, others had come out of the closet and were beginning to work for gay rights. It is the real lived experiences of participants in these pivotal social transitions that are collected here. The people and stories collected here are the parents of today's gay rights movement, and the message is clear-gays and lesbians, and the rest of us, have come a very long way.

    Gay people, their friends, lovers, idols and enemies in all their glory, divas, bodybuilders and drag queens, heroes and villains, from Marie Lloyd to Madonna, Sandow to Schwarzenegger, Boulton to Savage, Labouchere to Mary Whitehouse. And alongside the famous and infamous, are the images of ?ordinary? gay men taken at moments that only friends and lovers would bother to record.

    It looks at the identity models of the hero, the flaneur and the lesbian outlaw as well as lesbian 'space' both materially and imaginatively.

    He explores the troubles difference can make for the social sciences and for the very people--feminists, queer theorists, postmodernists--who champion difference. This is a wide-ranging and sophisticated discussion of contemporary social theory and sexual politics, focusing on difference, knowledge and power. It also argues persuasively for a pragmatic approach to questions of difference in theory and politics.

    This book will touch all your emotions, from heartbreak to arousal, as you follow Randy's depiction of a troubled relationship with his father and its parallels to relationships with men in his life's search. A classic story that will move you. Gay or not, there is something in this book for many of us to take to heart.

    

    

    This volume highlights some closely-watched debates that took place in the pages of The Review, such as the one between Barney Frank and Rich Tafel on political strategy, and that of David Bergman and Bruce Bawer on cultural style and assimilation. It captures the memories of key observers who lived through critical historical or literary events, such as Holly Hughes, Edmund White, Karla Jay, and Andrew Holleran. Other chapters cover the major sub-fields in gay and lesbian studies, such as literary criticism, political and cultural history, and the science of homosexuality. In each case, the chapter presents the leading contributors to the field and offers a balanced range of perspectives.

    Sure to become as important to the some four million gay men in America as OUR BODIES, OURSELVES has to women. 20 illustrations.

    It asks you provoking, even disturbing, questions such as: "Is it prudent for members of the Lavender community to mimic heterosexual marriage or define personal relations networks as families, when these institutions are rapidly collapsing?" "Are we attempting to mainstream American society into accepting different views of marriage and families?" "Are we subscribing to notions of sexual property that are inherent to the marriage ceremony and the institution of marriage, when we choose to be married?" Despite the complexities of this issue, marriage constitutes a privileged position in western society, and, as this book shows you, without the legal recognition of same-sex marriages, there are many fundamental rights, as well as privileges, denied to gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered persons.As Our Families, Our Values turns upside-down the widely accepted notion that only heterosexual people are entitled to get married, have sex, and rear children, you gain insight into personal struggles and affirmations that testify to the spirituality, procreativity, and wholesomeness of the diverse relationships of the Lavender community. You will also learn about various ongoing efforts to give religious pride to the various configurations of gay relationships, families, and values and the disruption of popular interpretations of the Scriptures that have been used to justify the oppression of sexual minorities. This book will intrigue you over and over again, as you read about:value systemstransphobiaequal marriage rightsBuddhism's rejection of "traditional family values"Brazil's sex-positive culturedifferences between gay male social formations and familieschoosing a language and terms that empower sexual minorities and the essence of the liberation movementsex as communionrelationships based on nurture, not transactionDesigned for academics and students of religion, pastors, priests, rabbis, and lay readers alike, Our Families, Our Values is a multifaceted view of the gay community's response to the public controversy over gay marriage, adoption, and foster care rights. Ideal as a textbook for courses in sexuality, theology, sociology, women's studies, and gay and lesbian studies, this book will both inform you and delight you as it reminds you that same-sex unions bring much cause for celebration and that religion and homosexuality are not mutually exclusive.

    Written by women, for women, about women, it is a practical how-to book on every aspect of discipline and punishment, corporal and non-corporal, including celebrated sections on the strap, the birch and the cane.

    

    Whether in the barn, out in the sun in the fields or in the shade of the veranda, Underhill's men always arouse our desire to see more. Young, lively and erotically provocative!

    Cohen is also set to make his big-screen debut with a small featured role in the upcoming James L. Brooks film Old Friends, starring Jack Nicholson. Here, he combines all the insight and comedy of his successful one-man show, The King of Kings and I, with a more detailed telling of his gay coming of age and his spiritual quest through the strange and alien world of suburban Christianity, seventies Berkeley Jesus People, and a New Age, desert ashram (Janet Planet and I, we lived in a teepee. We had a huge crystal that we used as a coffee table. Janet thought crystals would help her lose weight. I told her: "Try putting it in front of the refrigerator door. ").For readers of David Drake's The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me and Spalding Gray's Impossible Vacation, The King of Kings and I offers a rare mix of wry wisdom, keen camp, ethnic humor, and universal truth.

    Martial waxes poetic on youth, comedian Jane Wagner extols the virtues of family, Urvashi Vaid talks politics, and just about everybody has something to say about sex. Grouped by such themes as coming out ("Mom! Dad! Guess Who's Queer"), masculinity/femininity ("Butch, Butcher, and Not So Butch"), and the perfect compliment ("Darling, You Look Fabulous!"), here's a veritable who's who of the smart set, from such eloquent icons as Colette, Truman Capote, Noel Coward, and Quentin Crisp, to contemporary luminaries like Armistead Maupin, Isaac Mizrahi, Dorothy Allison, and k. d. lang.

    It's a novel about AIDS which encompasses much of the larger human comedy: class, sex, family, politics, getting from the dinner table to the bedroom.

    Klein formed an intense, loving bond with the colt, but his life was shadowed by the undertow of his alcoholism, a complicated relationship with his lover, and his memories of an abusive childhood. Track Conditions is a heartfelt story of resilience that examines the track conditions that can create and destroy champions, and those that can ruin or save a man.

    It provides overviews of gay and lesbian presence in a variety of literatures and historical periods; in-depth critical essays on major gay and lesbian authors in world literature; and briefer treatments of other topics and figures important in appreciating the rich and varied gay and lesbian literary traditions. Included are nearly 400 alphabetically arranged articles by more than 175 scholars from around the world. New articles in this volume feature authors such as Michael Cunningham, Tony Kushner, Anne Lister, Kate Millet, Jan Morris, Terrence McNally, and Sarah Waters; essays on topics such as Comedy of Manners and Autobiography; and overviews of Danish, Norwegian, Philippines, and Swedish literatures; as well as updated and revised articles and bibliographies.

    Sometimes dark, always intense, these stories range from a futuristic "Kiss of the Spider Woman" scenario to the gentle "first time" story of an alien youth. These are stories that are guaranteed to be both arousing and thought-provoking, creating a uniquely queer form of literature.

    What if you meet your soulmate, but at the wrong time? An ages-old question is explored with a unique twist in this unconventional story of love and fate and star-crossed lovers, separated by time and place, and brought together through the intervention of two angels still trying out their wings.

    Army captain offers a unique perspective on the Vietnam War as experienced by a gay man. Capt. Matthew Fairchild is a desk officer in Saigon who, despite his constant struggle with hiding his sexuality, does superior work and is admired by his superiors. His affair with a young Vietnamese busboy named Nham gives him insight into the people he is fighting and himself as well. When Fairchild discovers secret information of misconduct involving the massacre of a Vietnamese village, his personal ethics as well as the inevitable disclosure of his homosexuality bring the novel to a tense and ultimately satisfying conclusion. Despite some weighty passages involving religion, Vietnamese history, etc., the author moves the story at a brisk pace and is exceptionally good at dialog. Readers will care about the characters, and this fictional account of a timely topic should be of interest.

    Its mixture of serial stories and modernist meditations invites readers on a journey that rangers from post-Wall Berlin to Plato's Athens. Stan Persky, the author of Buddy's and Then We Take Breaks, here breaks through the current impasse of contemporary gay/queer writing.Innovative in both form and content, Autobiography of a Tattoo probes the tensions between the memory and anticipation of desire, sexual representation and moral relationships, the illuminating glimpse of the immediate and the long view of civilization. Can writing be both hot and thoughtful, intimate and analytic? Find out why Stan Persky is the most important writer about homosexuality in North America today.

    It explores the underlying meanings of masculine motifs in classical texts. The fawn, for example, was often a symbol for the ethereally beautiful male youth, while the stallion represented masculine bravery and valour. For the most part such symbols do not represent homosexual intention, but are a reflection of sublime erotic ideals intertwined with religious beliefs.

    In restoring the prince's Bugatti, Steve brings satisfaction to his own life and provides Stefano with the creative energy to finish his novel.

    Robert Bosnak is the author of Tracks in the Wilderness of Dreaming and A Little Course in Dreams.

    Besides a critical discussion of existing theories in the area, the author also analyzes a rich variety of other materials, including novels, films and other literature. It represents both an analysis of the places in which encounters occur - the railway station, the park, the disco, the consulting room, the stadium - and is also a metaphor for key aspects of modernity.

    Along with other black men, they are typically portrayed in the media and literature as "street corner men"—unemployed drifters, absentee fathers, substance abusers. In the larger gay community, they are an invisible minority. One of the Children, the first formal cultural study of gay black men in Harlem, not only illuminates this segment of America's gay population but presents a far richer, more diverse portrait of black men's lives than is commonly perceived.Based on two years' intensive research—during which the author lived in Harlem's gay community—including extensive interviews with fifty-seven community members, this book depicts gay black men's lives in all their social, economic, and cultural complexity. William Hawkeswood takes us from the street into the homes and lives of his subjects. He describes the elaborate network of friends, called "family," that supports these men emotionally and financially, and the community's two-tiered economic structure, comprising gay men and "boys," or hustlers.Hawkeswood also explores what it means for these men to be both gay and black. In the process, he makes the surprising discovery that while the AIDS virus looms all around them, it has not yet significantly affected the community of gay blacks who choose their sexual partners exclusively from among Harlem's other gay black men.

    But gardening can also be confusing and frustrating. The Handy Garden Answer Book offers 1,100 common and uncommon questions that are sure to appeal to beginners and experts alike.The Handy Garden Answer Book will cover the following subjects: plant and soil science; seeding, and planting; care and feeding; problems; garden design; notable gardens; special gardens; perennials; annuals; vegetables and fruits; trees and shrubs; lawns and groundcovers; herbs

    He knows there is something strange about the college, and the 16th Earl of Canford who set up this all-male establishment. Daniel uncovers a bizarre brotherhood of erotic expression, and is only too keen for his initiation.

    Chapters include: What Is the State of the Global AIDS Epidemic? What Policies Should Be Adopted for HIV Testing? How Can the Spread of AIDS Be Controlled? How Should AIDS Be Treated?

    With an eclectic mix of writings from current partners writing about each other as well as pieces from individuals about their great loves, this collection explores and exalts all that is lesbian romance and partnership.

    Annie is uncertain about the meaning and direction of her life. Passionate love between Nina and Annie is at the heart of this novel, but it also portrays the love that inspires the devotion of true friendship.

    Pretty boys, macho hunks and flaming queens alike lined the street. The mixed smells of stale beer, sweat and engine exhaust. Disco music blared day and night. Men spilled from cars, from bars to cruise, eat, drink A palpable hedonism hung in the air like summer fog. The acclaimed author of Breathless explores the highest highsand most wretched depthsof life as Eric Norton, a beautiful wanton living San Francisco's high life. Sparks Fly traces Norton's rise, fall, and resurrection, vividly marking the way with the personal affairs that give life meaning. Scaldingly hot and totally revealing.

    William J. Mann's collection Grave Passions, a startling compendium of erotic tales of the unnatural supernatural, brings together 18 frightening stores of highly sexed vampires, ghosts, and werewolves. As an editor, Mann avoids the clichés of horror writing, focusing instead on wit, a twisted imagination, and sharp writing to produce thrills and the occasional mordant, but satisfying laugh.

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    But what happens to those men and women after they have come to terms with this aspect of their lives? For many it may mean a complete reevaluation of very basic issues: family, relationships, community, and love.In this series of essays, McNaught explores these various aspects of life that may now be called into question for these men and women, and he sets out to educate and help guide them through the challenges they may encounter.Now That I'm Out, What Do I Do? solidifies McNaught's place as one of the best-known speakers on the issues that face gays and lesbians.

    In an autobiographical style, he considers and poses answers to some fascinating questions: What is sex? What makes a porn star? And why does pornography really upset people? You'll really get to know this noted gay porn star as you get a firsthand look at his life experiences and sexual journeys from his boyhood days of locker room fantasies and sexual experimentation to his years as a porn star and then to his experiences as an individual facing the realities of being HIV-positive. As O'Hara puts it in his Introduction: "This book was written as a last-ditch effort: a way to open up all my closets, let you in on all the dark corners of my life, and give you a better picture of what goes into the making of a porn star. Because if there's one profession that arouses people's curiosity, it's that one." As you read through the pages of Autopornography, you'll see how O'Hara's personality reflects his sexuality, that is, how they have melded into one. His vivid descriptions of personal relationships (with family, friends, lovers, and casual acquaintances) and his many sexual encounters as he traveled the world reveal his love of sex and his desire to live without inhibitions, secrets, or sexual constraints. Reading Autopornography may cause you to reexamine your own sexual boundaries, realize new sexual potential, and discover sexual desires not previously aroused.Listed #14 on Books Bought Mainly by Men 1997 Top 100 Bestsellers as rated by A Different Light Bookstore!

    As the manager of an agency which advocates for victims of gay bashing, she knows that threats are to be expected. But when she finds one of the project's counselors stabbed to death in his office, and her co-worker is arrested for the murder, her activism becomes more personal. As the Castro community reacts in outrage, Lou is left trying to hold the besieged agency together while looking for evidence to counter the homophobic assumptions of the San Francisco Police Department. Falling in love with beautiful lesbian cop Alex Ramon adds to the complications.