Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Pictures and Passions	James M. Saslow	Pictures and Passions is a sweeping panorama of art by, for, or about gays and lesbians across the world and across time, from Europe and North America to China and Australia, from the Stone Age to…	OL14865936W
Recruiting young love	Mark D. Jordan	In the view of many Christians, the teenage years are simultaneously the most dangerous and the most promising. At the very moment when teens are trying to establish a sense of identity and belonging…	OL15445280W
The road of danger, guilt, and shame	Carol Efrati	This book is a close study of A.E. Housman's poetry, including light verse, parodies, juvenilia and workshop material, as well as the well-known poems of A Shropshire Lad, Last Poems, More Poems, and…	OL15963995W
Two Boys Kissing	David Levithan	Based on true events—and narrated by a Greek Chorus of the generation of gay men lost to AIDS—Two Boys Kissing follows Harry and Craig, two seventeen-year-olds who are about to take part in a 32-hour…	OL16807251W
Fun Home	Alison Bechdel	A fresh and brilliantly told memoir from a cult favorite comic artist, marked by gothic twists, a family funeral home, sexual angst, and great books. This breakout book by Alison Bechdel is a dark…	OL1835957W
The queer encyclopedia of the visual arts	Claude J. Summers	"Why is St. Sebastian an icon of gay male artists? Is there such a thing as a gay or lesbian sensibility? What's the connection between Buddhist monasteries and Japanese homoerotic imagery? And are a…	OL18394095W
Female masculinity	Jack Halberstam	In this quintessential work of queer theory, Jack Halberstam takes aim at the protected status of male masculinity and shows that female masculinity has offered a distinct alternative to it for well …	OL1882711W
Regarding Sedgwick	David L. Clark	"Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick is one of the most original and influential thinkers in critical and gender theory. Her work includes such groundbreaking books as Epistemology of the Closet and Between Men: E…	OL19163451W
Science and Homosexualities (Business Studies)	Vernon A. Rosario	Science and Homosexualities is the first anthology by historians of science to examine European and American scientific research on sexual orientation since the coining of the word "homosexual" almos…	OL19328581W
Brown boys and rice queens	Eng-Beng Lim	"A transnational study of Asian performance shaped by the homoerotics of orientalism, Brown Boys and Rice Queens focuses on the relationship between the white man and the native boy. Eng-Beng Lim unp…	OL19704887W
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
Understanding theology and homosexuality in African American communities	Sana Loue	Understanding Theology and Homosexuality in African-American Communities focuses specifically on helping mental professionals understand the scriptural and historical bases for the negative stance of…	OL20548176W
Queer theory/sociology	Steven Seidman	Bringing together some of the classic sociological statements and the new sociology of homosexual desire, this book points to new synthetic approaches to queer studies. It aims to productively engage…	OL20965290W
Queer Little History of Art	Alex Pilcher	160 pages : 17 cm	OL21152029W
I am your sister	Audre Lorde,Johnnetta Betsch Cole	Audre Lorde was not only a famous poet; she was also one of the most important radical black feminists of the past century. Her writings and speeches grappled with an impressive broad list of topics,…	OL2191774W
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
Recognizing Ourselves	Ellen Lewin	In April 1993, as part of the March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay, and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation, hundreds of couples participated in "the Wedding," a symbolic commitment ceremony held in front…	OL2740878W
Screened Out	Richard Barrios	"Rapacious dykes, self-loathing closet cases, hustlers, ambiguous sophisticates, and sadomasochistic rich kids: most of what America thought it knew about gay people it learned at the movies.". "Scr…	OL3496996W
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
Gay and Lesbian Poetry in Our Time	Joan Larkin,Carl Morse	The best lesbian and gay poetry written from 1950 to the present. Contributors include, W H Auden, James Baldwin, Allen Ginsberg, Judy Grahn, Langston Hughes, Audre Lourde and many others.	OL9391703W