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This comprehensive anthology traces the rhetoric of the gay rights movement from the late nineteenth century to the present. It chronicles the progression from its deeply clandestine beginnings to the battle for recognition, through political struggles and victories of the mid-twentieth century to its current position-at the forefront of the mainstream political debate concerning the fight for marriage equality. The speeches include Robert G. Ingersoll's...
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Evocative of Patrick Califia-Rice and Kate Bornstein, this frank and personal collection of essays explores the politics of gender, identity, race, and queer sex imbued with the author's own experiences. Terry Goldie delves into subjects that are both varied and explicit, including drag queens, feminism, cross-cultural sex, and the homosexual child, all with a perceptive and provocative eye, the result of which expands and deepens our understanding...
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That Man from C.A.M.P., Jackie Holmes, says: "And away we go! Back to that little room. No, not that one-the one just on the other side of that place they call the dining area. The kitchen, of course. Now, I'm sure you know your way around the other rooms, especially the one with the queen-sized you-know-what, but as I'm prone to mention from time to time, one of the ways to a man's heart is through his stomach, which means you'll have to spend some...
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Germany in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries witnessed key developments in LGBT history, including the growth of the world's first homosexual organizations and gay and lesbian magazines, as well as an influential community of German sexologists and psychoanalysts. Queer Identities and Politics in Germany describes these events in detail, from vibrant gay social scenes to the Nazi persecution that sent many LGBT people to concentration...
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Este libro habla del deseo. Deseo homoerótico que franquea los controles, la censura, los temores e incluso la autorrepresión. Deseo que no sabe de razas, jerarquías u ordenamientos sociales. Deseo que se realiza y satisface en la carne, pero sin renunciar a la fantasía. Más allá de la maraña de explicaciones, admoniciones y reprimendas que en ocasiones despierta el deseo homoerótico en sociedades que lo niegan, invisibilizan y proscriben,...
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Throughout the decades, Columbus has been a central gathering place for Ohioan LGBTQ individuals, creating a timeline of milestones--both big and small--all showcased within the Buckeye State capital. From the hidden joy of the underground Berwick Ball of the 1960s to the unrestrained opulence of the Red Party in the 1970s to the sense of community displayed at the first Columbus Pride in the 1980s, the city has played host to celebrations, struggles,...
8) Hasta que el amor les dure: Debates en torno a las parejas del mismo sexo en el contexto colombiano
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Hasta que el amor les dure: debates en torno a las parejas del mismo sexo en el contexto colombiano presenta un panorama general de los principales debates y discursos relacionados con la visibilidad, existencia y subjetividad de las parejas del mismo sexo. Para esto, se analizaron más de 300 notas de prensa publicadas en los principales diarios de circulación nacional en Colombia en el periodo 2007-2010, en las cuales se representaran tales uniones....
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En los 90 años comprendidos entre el Código Penal de 1890 y el de 1980, las relaciones sexuales entre hombres estuvieron penalizadas en Colombia. Raros se orientó hacia la construcción, durante ese periodo y bajo el enfoque de la historia cultural, de las formas como fueron representados los hombres que vivieron una práctica sexual disidente, o desterrada, del orden regular establecido en términos eróticos y sexuales en Medellín. A lo largo...
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Pour les minorités sexuelles, Internet est devenu un puissant moyen de s'organiser, d'informer et d'intervenir dans le champ de la santé. Des chercheurs et des intervenants font état des recherches et des projets entourant les sites Web visant l'amélioration de la santé mentale et physique des lesbiennes, gais, bisexuels et transgenres.
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DERECHOS HUMANOS Y EL DEPARTAMENTO DE SEGURIDAD DOMESTICA, DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS LE DAN DERECHOS CIVILES A TODOS SUS CIUDADANOS Y RESIDENTES, EN EL USO DEL SEXO. NO PERMITEN VIOLACIONES A MENORES DE EDAD, NI A MAYORES DE EDAD, EL ACOSO SEXUAL Y LA DISCRIMINACIN BASADA CON PERFIL RACIAL, TNICO, RELIGIN, COLOR, ORIGEN NACIONAL, ESTADO LEGAL, INCAPACIDAD, INTIMIDACION Y MALA ORIENTACIN HOMOSEXUAL O CREENCIA POLTICA, ESTO ES ILEGAL EN LOS.,ESTADOS UNIDOS....
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What's love got to do with it? Everything, according to Richard Isay's informed and illuminating look at the role of romance in modern gay life. I highly recommend this book for people of any generation and partnership status. -Dean H. Hamer, Ph.D., author of The Science of Desire and The God Gene "Richard Isay offers something far better than simple bromides and false hope. In this book, he challenges us with a provocative, illuminating, and ultimately...
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A groundbreaking collection of fourteen essays on the struggles, pleasures, and contradictions of queer culture and public life in Canada. Versed in queer social history as well as leading-edge gay and lesbian studies, queer theory, and post-colonial studies, In a Queer Country confronts queer culture from various perspectives relevant to international audiences. Topics range from the politics of the family and spousal rights to queer black identity,...
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I HAVE NO SOUL. MY SOUL WAS RIPPED OUT OF ME A LONG TIME AGO.
There has never been an easier time to be gay. As they emerge from a past of perceived sin and illegality, gay men today are increasingly, viewed as legitimate equal citizens and there is a very real sense that social values and attitudes towards gay men have changed for the better.
But, the development of a gay sexual identity is a complex and often difficult process and there remain...
15) 21st Century Gay
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Areas discussed are: Gay separatism vs. Gay mainstreaming; Coming out; AIDS; Marriage; Adoption; Religion; Politics; Pop culture and media; and, most importantly, what the future holds.
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If homosexual behavior is an aberration from the standpoint of reproduction, why is it widespread among humans, primates, and a myriad of other animal species, and why has it been favored by evolution? And if homosexuality is considered a moral problem based on religious beliefs, why were more homosexuals exterminated under the brief reigns of such secular regimes as the Communists and the Nazis than during the entire Christian Inquisition. Why is...
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Celebrate the LGTBQ community with this small but perfectly formed guide to Pride.
What began as a protest for gay rights following the Stonewall riots of 1969 in New York has grown to become a global celebration of LGBTQ culture. In the 50-odd years since the original protest, and what is now widely accepted to be the first Pride march—Christopher Street Liberation Day, 1970—Pride events are now attended by millions each year, celebrating how...
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Mediante una aproximación antropológica al trabajo y la presencia del Grupo Unigay en el Movimiento Lésbico, Gay, Bisexual y Transgenérico (LGBT) de la Ciudad de México a finales de los años noventa del siglo pasado, en este libro se exponen los desarrollos académicos y socioculturales del movimiento gay global y local, y sus contribuciones a la construcción de la identidad gay como una categoría teórica y social legítima en los estudios...
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Tritiya-Prakriti: People of the Third Sex is a collection of years of research into a topic seldom discussed or easily found within the Hindu/Vedic scriptural canon. Based entirely upon authentic Sanskrit references and modern concurring facts, the book guides us through the original Hindu concept of a "third sex" (defined as homosexuals, transgenders and the intersexed), how such people were constructively incorporated into ancient Indian society,...
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