Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
The First Time I Met Frank O'Hara The First Time I Met Frank O'Hara Rick Whitaker Those who first met Rick Whitaker through his unrepentant memoir know that he was not a typical prostitute. This "Wittgenstein- and Freud-quoting" hustler is at core a thinker—and a voracious reader,… OL13619436W
Before the closet Before the closet Allen J. Frantzen Allen J. Frantzen challenges the long accepted view that the early Middle Ages tolerated and even fostered same-sex relations and that intolerance of homosexuality developed only late in the medieval… OL1861476W
"We will be citizens" "We will be citizens" James Fisher "A dozen essays--by a range of established scholars and performing artists on issues in post-1969 American gay and lesbian theatre and drama--cover playwrights, millennial dramatists, and actors whil… OL18626682W
The Cambridge companion to American gay and lesbian literature The Cambridge companion to American gay and lesbian literature Scott Herring "This Companion examines the connections between LGBTQ populations and American literature from the late eighteenth to twenty-first centuries. It surveys primary and secondary writings under the evol… OL20002714W
Epistemology of the closet Epistemology of the closet Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Working from classic texts of European and American writers―including Melville, James, Nietzsche, Proust, and Wilde―Sedgwick analyzes a turn-of-the-century historical moment in which sexual orientati… OL2007273W
Queer pulp Queer pulp Susan Stryker From homicidal homos to locked-up lesbians, and almost every sexually dangerous combination in between, Queer Pulp: Perverted Passions from the Golden Age of the Paperback is the first complete expos… OL2954889W
Another Kind of Love Another Kind of Love Christopher Craft In a study that will be of interest to all those concerned with the politics of gender, the history of sexuality, and the erotics of reading, Christopher Craft investigates questions fundamental to a… OL3933812W
Playing the Game Playing the Game Roger Austen Austin has traced the history of the homosexual novel from its murky beginnings in the dim past, into the hesitant 20s, the gay pulps of the 30s, the breakthrough in the 40s, the rising (and hostile)… OL4078139W
The Mad Man The Mad Man Samuel R. Delany For his thesis, graduate student John Marr researches the life and work of the brilliant Timothy Hasler--a philosopher whose career was cut tragically short over a decade earlier. Marr encounters num… OL56825W
From gay to queer From gay to queer Lasse Kekki This study explores the works of two contemporary American gay authors, David Leavitt and Tony Kushner by bringing both writers within the purview of Queer Studies. The book provides an extensive cri… OL6047335W
Like people in history Like people in history Felice Picano,Felice Picano In a book that could have been written only by one who lived it and survived to tell, Picano weaves a powerful saga of four decades in the lives of two men and their lovers, relatives, friends, and e… OL66880W
Whitman possessed Whitman possessed Mark Maslan "Whitman has long been more than a celebrated American author. He has become a kind of hero, whose poetry vindicates beliefs not only about poetry but also about sexuality and power. In Whitman Posse… OL7795704W
Between Men Between Men Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Hailed by the "New York Times" as "one of the most influential texts in gender studies, men's studies and gay studies," this book uncovers the homosocial desire between men, from Restoration comedies… OL9243005W