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Keith Jarrett no blue note Keith Jarrett no blue note Silviano Santiago "Impressive Jazz Improvisations are accomplished stories with Jarrett's songs as titles. Introspective and retrospective, follows Machado de Assis' and Proust's memorialist paths as character/narrato… OL1008041W
Two parties, one tux, and a very short film about the Grapes of wrath Two parties, one tux, and a very short film about the Grapes of wrath Steven Goldman,Steven Goldman Mitch, a shy and awkward high school junior, negotiates the difficult social situations he encounters, both with girls and with his best friend David, after David reveals to him that he is gay. OL11937621W
Courting change Courting change Kimberly D. Richman This work examines the inconsistencies in judicial decisions surrounding the rights of gay and lesbian parents and discusses how those inconsistencies have had a negative impact on same-sex parenting… OL11967492W
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
Law Like Love Law Like Love Arvind Narrain and Alok Gupta >Critical and reflective, and sometimes even playful and irreverent, this unique and comprehensive collection of essays brings the structures and institutions of law alive, making them shine with rel… OL15712753W
Obama and the gays Obama and the gays Tracy Baim "Presents a clear, lively, in-depth review of Barack Obama's policies on gay issues, from the early days of his political career through his meteoric rise to prominence-- all in the context of the po… OL16307700W
Queer Japan Queer Japan Barbara Summerhawk,Cheiron McMahill,Darren McDonald In this important contribution to international queer studies, sixteen Japanese lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and transsexuals tell their stories. Doseiai (same sex love between men) has never been le… OL16457836W
Queer Bangkok Queer Bangkok Peter A. Jackson The Thai capital Bangkok is the unrivalled centre of the country’s gay, lesbian, and transgender communities. These communities are among the largest in Southeast Asia, and indeed in the world, and h… OL16590015W
October mourning October mourning Lesléa Newman,Lesléa Newman On the night of October 6, 1998, a gay twenty-one-year-old college student named Matthew Shepard was kidnapped from a Wyoming bar by two young men, savagely beaten, tied to a remote fence, and left t… OL16652623W
Carry On Carry On Rainbow Rowell Simon Snow is the worst Chosen One who’s ever been chosen. That’s what his roommate, Baz, says. And Baz might be evil and a vampire and a complete git, but he’s probably right. Half the time, S… OL17339151W
Branded by the Pink Triangle Branded by the Pink Triangle Ken Setterington A history of the persecution of gay men by the Nazi regime during the Holocaust. When the Nazis came to power in Europe, the lives of homosexuals came to be ruled by fear as raids, arrests, prison se… OL17584817W
The waiting tree The waiting tree Lindsay Moynihan The real me? I thought. What was I now, the fake me? Would I suddenly wake up and discover I'd dreamt up this entire year or had been in some sort of coma? Eighteen-year-old Simon Peters wants to sta… OL17713914W
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
The Book of Matt The Book of Matt Stephen Jiminez What role did crystal meth and other previously underreported factors play in the brutal murder of gay college student Matthew Shepard? The Book of Matt is a page-turning cautionary tale that humaniz… OL17932613W
Gay and lesbian library service Gay and lesbian library service Cal Gough,Ellen Greenblatt Sixteen main chapters: Key issues in collection development; school, academic and public libraries; special collections and archives; LC subject heads, bibliographic control; patron services, library… OL18142337W
Out in public Out in public Ellen Lewin,William L. Leap Out in Public addresses, and engages us in, the new and exciting directions in the emerging field of lesbian/gay anthropology. The authors offer a deep conversation about the meaning of sexuality, su… OL18356954W
Out in theory Out in theory Ellen Lewin,William L. Leap Lesbian and gay anthropologists write candidly in Out in the Field about their research and personal experiences in conducting fieldwork, about the ethical and intellectual dilemmas they face in writ… OL18517123W
Cultural diversity in Latin American literature Cultural diversity in Latin American literature David William Foster "Foster continues the same line of study initiated in 1985 with the publication of Alternative voices in the Latin American narrative (see HLAS 48:5657). Questions body of literary criticism devoted … OL1863050W
Now that you know Now that you know Betty Fairchild,Nancy Hayward "One of the most important books about gay people yet published, Now that you Know is a challenging and enlightening guide for the 20 to 40 million parents in the United States who may be faced with … OL1867718W
Uncommon Calling Uncommon Calling Chris Glaser In this book, Chris Glaser describes his personal journey of coming out to his family, friends, church--and to himself. He tells the story of how the church reacted to his disclosure and his subseque… OL1887415W
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