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Costa Rica is a country known internationally for its eco-credentials, dazzling coastlines, and reputation as one of the happiest and most peaceful nations on earth. Beneath this facade, however, lies an exclusionary rhetoric of nationalism bound up in the concept of the tico, as many Costa Ricans refer to themselves. Beginning by considering the very idea of national identity and what this constitutes, this book explores the nature of the idealised tico identity, demonstrating the ways in which...

Who's Yer Daddy? offers readers of gay male literature a keen and engaging journey. In this anthology, thirty-nine gay authors discuss individuals who have influenced them - their inspirational 'daddies.' The essayists include fiction writers, poets, and performance artists, both honoured masters of contemporary literature and those just beginning to blaze their own trails. They find their artistic ancestry among not only literary icons - Walt Whitman, Oscar Wilde, Andre Gide, Frank O'Hara, Jame...

To have and to hold: The making of same-sex marriage in South Africa explores the journey to same-sex marriage. This collection of interviews, essays and documents recognizes the multiplicity of viewpoints on the topic, as well as the multiple aspects and efforts that shaped the making of same-sex marriage in South Africa. It seeks to represent those perspectives by drawing on the opinions of a wide range of experts as well as representing those for whom the right to marry holds the most meaning...

Fifty leading gay holiday destinations researched, reviewed and revealed in this "must-have" Bible for the out traveler. With the authoritative stamps of the Gay Times Travel brand, this exhaustive guide to the world's best holiday destinations takes over from where Damron and Spartacus leave off. Everything from arriving and departing, out and about, clubs, accommodation, saunas, restaurants and sights to just hanging out.Thoroughly researched and entertainingly written, each destination is all...

In Reframing Bodies, Roger Hallas illuminates the capacities of film and video to bear witness to the cultural, political, and psychological imperatives of the AIDS crisis. He explains how queer films and videos made in response to the AIDS epidemics in North America, Europe, Australia, and South Africa challenge longstanding assumptions about both historical trauma and the politics of gay visibility. Drawing on a wide range of works, including activist tapes, found footage films, autobiographic...

El ciclo del amor marica aborda todas las posibles situaciones sentimentales en las que un hombre gay puede verse a lo largo de su vida. Comienza su recorrido sentando las bases de una buena relación con uno mismo. Así, además de la soltería saludable, el libro de Gabriel J. Martín contiene capítulos dedicados a dónde conocer hombres, al flirteo, a cómo reconocer y evitar relaciones tóxicas, a las primeras (y segundas) citas, al noviazgo y al matrimonio. También encontraremos consejos sobre la c...

For gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people in the United States, the twenty-first century has brought dramatic changes: the end of sodomy laws, the elimination of ODon't Ask, Don't Tell,O a move toward recognition of same-sex marriage, Gay-Straight Alliances in thousands of high schools, and an explosion of visibility in the media and popular culture. All of this would have been unimaginable to those living just a few decades ago. Yet, at the same time, the American political system has...

In 1889 uniformed post boys were found moonlighting in a West End brothel frequented by men of the upper classes. "The Cleveland Street Scandal" erupted and Victorian Britain was gripped by the possibility that the Post Office - a bureaucratic backbone of nation and empire - was inspiring and servicing perverse passions. The alliance between transgressive sex and the Post Office that the scandal illuminated was neither incidental nor singular; there was something queer about the post in the nine...

Queer Constellations investigates the dreams and catastrophes of recent urban history viewed through new queer narratives of inner-city life. The “gay village,” “gay mecca,” “gai Paris,” the “lesbian flaneur,” the “lesbian bohème”—these and other urban phantasmagoria feature paradoxically in this volume as figures of revolutionary utopia and commodity spectacle, as fossilized archetypes of social transformation and ruins of haunting cultural potential. Dianne Chisholm introduces readers to new...

South Africa remains a global leader in the legislative protection of individuals who engage in same-sex relations, and is the only country in Africa where the rights of these individuals are explicitly recognized and protected by the constitution. Yet South Africa's identities are still contested and evolving, particularly for same-sex desiring teachers - many are forced to locate their sexualities privately for fear of being ostracized, bullied or losing their jobs, resulting in the miseducati...

Until the mid-1970s, the vast majority of psychological research presented homosexuality as a form of pathology. Today, research on lesbian and gay issues has now moved well beyond simply demonstrating the normality of lesbians and gay men. Written in an accessible manner, this text is a collection on lesbian and gay psychology. Covering a broad range of topics such as development during adolescence, girls and friendships, identity formation and disclosure, parenting and family issues, health is...

Out of the Blue is a hilarious autobiographical romp that details the life of porn star turned director/producer Blue Blake and his adventures in the skin trade. Blue has worked with every major star in the industry and won many major awards and honors, including induction into the Gay Porn Legend Hall of Fame.