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Familiar faces, hidden lives Familiar faces, hidden lives Howard Brown A former senior health-services official speaks honestly and plainly about what it is like to be gay in America. A classic of gay history. Introduction by Randy Shilts. OL13350336W
Drag Queens at the 801 Cabaret Drag Queens at the 801 Cabaret Leila J. Rupp,Verta A. Taylor "It's Saturday night in Key West and the Girlie Show is about to begin at the 801 Cabaret. The girls have been outside on the sidewalk all evening, seducing passersby into coming in for the show. The… OL15079486W
Dangerous liaisons Dangerous liaisons Eric Brandt A groundbreaking study of the intersections of race and sexuality, by an all-star group of writers. From Selma and Stonewall to California’s Proposition 209 and the Defense of Marriage Act, blacks an… OL15137195W
The Temperamentals The Temperamentals Jon Marans "'Temperamental' was code for 'homosexual' in the early 1950s, part of a created language of secret words that gay men used to communicate. The Temperamentals tells the story of two men -- the commun… OL15958190W
Excluded Excluded Julia Serano A transformational approach to overcoming the divisions between feminist communities. While many feminist and queer movements are designed to challenge sexism, they often simultaneously police gender… OL16818704W
The gay revolution The gay revolution Lillian Faderman,Lillian Faderman A chronicle of the modern struggle for gay, lesbian and transgender rights draws on interviews with politicians, military figures, legal activists and members of the LGBT community to document the ca… OL17768453W
Gay and lesbian rights in the United States Gay and lesbian rights in the United States Walter L. Williams The movement for gay and lesbian rights in America is a response to long-held beliefs that have, at times throughout the history of the United States, made homosexuality legally, politically, and soc… OL18377259W
From ACT UP to the WTO From ACT UP to the WTO Ronald Hayduk,Benjamin Shepard This anthology offers a history of ACT UP for a new generation of activists and students. Divided into five sections, it explores the innovative use of civil rights era non-violent disobedience, medi… OL18939147W
Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities John D'Emilio With thorough documentation of the oppression of homosexuals and biographical sketches of the lesbian and gay heroes who helped the contemporary gay culture to emerge, Sexual Politics, Sexual Communi… OL1903175W
Tinderbox Tinderbox Robert W. Fieseler,Paul Heitsch "Fieseler chronicles the ... event that claimed the lives of thirty-one men and one woman on June 24, 1973, at a New Orleans bar, the largest mass murder of gays until 2016. Relying on ... access to … OL19745186W
Ain't gonna let nobody turn me around Ain't gonna let nobody turn me around Barbara Smith,Virginia Eubanks,Alethia Jones As an organizer, writer, publisher, scholar-activist, and elected official, Barbara Smith has played key roles in multiple social justice movements, including Civil Rights, feminism, lesbian and gay … OL20001857W
When states come out When states come out Phillip Ayoub "In the last two decades, the LGBT movement has gained momentum that is arguably unprecedented in speed and suddenness when compared to other human rights movements. This book investigates the recent… OL20029947W
Sex, needs and queer culture Sex, needs and queer culture David Alderson The belief of many in the early sexual liberation movements was that capitalism's investments in the in the norms of the heterosexual family meant that any challenge to them was invariably anti-capit… OL20035935W
Awakening Awakening Nathaniel Frank "The right of same-sex couples to marry provoked decades of intense conflict before it was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2015. Yet some of the most divisive contests shaping the quest for marri… OL20050013W
The Stonewall Reader The Stonewall Reader Edmund White,Jason Baumann 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 Whi… OL20153225W
In a Queer Country In a Queer Country Terry Goldie "In terms of rights and freedoms for queers, Canada holds an international reputation as among the most liberal of nations. Yet this picture of harmonious gay and lesbian assimilation is nothing if n… OL20991177W
Vernita Gray Vernita Gray Tracy Baim Vernita Gray was an African American gay and civil rights leader who hailed from the South Side district of Chicago. During her meaningful life, she sought for equal rights not only for African Ameri… OL26449577W
Lonely Hunters Lonely Hunters James T. Sears This is the story of Southern gays and lesbians in the twenty-year span between the end of World War II and the Stonewall Riot that sparked widespread gay rights consciousness. Across the United Stat… OL2674836W
De los Otros De los Otros Joseph M. Carrier A detailed description of sexual practices and bonds among Latino males in Guadalajara, Mexico using a combination of ethnographic techniques and participant observations. OL3746479W
Lesbians Talk Left Politics (Lesbians Talk Issues) Lesbians Talk Left Politics (Lesbians Talk Issues) Kristina Studinski 64 pages ; 21 cm OL9046708W
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