Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The Darker Proof	Edmund White	The Darker Proof, an anthology of stories about suffering with the HIV virus, was first published in 1987 to critical acclaim.	OL15073177W
Straight science?	Jim McKnight	A genetic basis for homosexuality has been all but proved, yet Darwinism, the most widely accepted evolutionary theory, emphasises successful reproduction. How do we explain a lifetime preference for…	OL1692454W
Hold Tight Gently	Martin Duberman	In December 1995, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the release of protease inhibitors, the first effective treatment for AIDS. For countless people, the drug offered a reprieve from wha…	OL17531664W
Under my skin	Orville Lloyd Douglas	'Under my skin' asks a lot of questions, questions that demand answers: why are young black gay men invisible in Canada's queer and black communities? Do their lives really matter? How do young black…	OL17907449W
Gay roots	John Rechy,Jack Fritscher,Winston Leyland	A large anthology of essays on Gay history, sex, and politics, plus fiction and poetry: Eric Garber 0n 1920s Harlem, Huey Newton on Gay Liberation, John Mitzel on John Horne Burns; others. Edited by …	OL18259322W
Zarathustra's secret	Joachim Köhler	"In this biography, Joachim Kohler seeks for the first time to understand Nietzsche's philosophy through a reconstruction of his inner life. In a revealing reinterpretation of his letters, diaries an…	OL18276480W
Cures	Martin B. Duberman	Martin Duberman's classic memoir of growing up gay in pre-Stonewall America. The tale of his desperate struggle to "cure" himself of his homosexuality through psychotherapy is utterly frank and deepl…	OL1918307W
Don't Call Us Dead	Danez Smith	Award-winning poet Danez Smith is a groundbreaking force, celebrated for deft lyrics, urgent subjects, and performative power. Don't Call Us Dead opens with a heartrending sequence that imagines an a…	OL19636242W
Sexo entre varones	Guillermo Núñez Noriega	"Incorporates theoretical perspectives of Bourdieu and Foucault to interpret society's representation of erotic expressions between young men in Hermosillo. Examines impact of these representations o…	OL3691366W
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
Melancholia and Moralism	Douglas Crimp	Crimp confronts the conservative gay politics that replaced the radical AIDS activism of the late 1980s and early 1990s. He shows that the cumulative losses from AIDS, including the waning of militan…	OL3928600W
Bughouse blues	Richard Raff,Gerald Nicosia	Bughouse Blues was an early nonfiction novel of sorts. It contains many stories of the gay hustling underworld in Chicago in the mid 1970's. The names are all changed to protect the guilty, as the …	OL3943367W
Urban Aboriginals	Geoffrey Mains	A subculture of gay men participate in a radical form of sexuality and community known as leather. Through intimate forms of encounter, using such tools as pain-pleasure, bondage, and role-play, leat…	OL4642892W
Queens	Pickles.	Part autobiographical, part fiction, this is a satirical and self-accusing tour of the London gay scene in what subsequently proved to be the last days before AIDS became a reality. The book takes th…	OL5435419W
Male-Male Intimacy in Early America	William Benemann	Honored as a 2007 Stonewall Book Award nonfiction selection, Male-Male Intimacy in Early America is the first book to provide a comprehensive overview of the role of homosexual activity among America…	OL5823921W
Men in love	Vittorio Lingiardi	"Homosexualities, like heterosexualities, are many and diverse, and the psychological type of 'the homosexual' does not exist. The adventure of human sexuality takes us beyond the old polarities of b…	OL5957461W
Alienated affections	Seymour Kleinberg	Explores the condition of gays in America, discussing "gay sensibility," gay men passing as straight, the "peculiar relation" (gay men and straight women), the new masculinity of gay men, S-M, bondag…	OL6332971W
Men loving men	Mitch Walker	Men Loving Men is for people who want to explore their gayness and open up to new aspects of themselves. It's a complete sex guide, with simple explanation for masturbation, fellatio, anal interc…	OL6340924W
Secondo natura	Eva Cantarella	I greci e i romani, al di là delle profonde differenze tra le due culture, vivevano i rapporti tra uomini in modo molto diverso da quello in cui lo viviamo noi oggi. Per i greci e i romani (ovviament…	OL846459W
The city and the pillar	Gore Vidal	The City and the Pillar is the third published novel by American writer Gore Vidal, written in 1946 and published on January 10, 1948. The story is about a young man who is coming of age and discover…	OL98031W