'It’s Nice to Be Heard'
Trans Artists have been creating work for longer than we can even imagine, and now we're finally starting to recognise the impact and import of their work. This collection brings together a range of voices, both established and emerging, to showcase just a drop in the ocean of incredible Trans Talent out there. From rom coms and fantasy to feisty political monologues, this collection of plays has it all. Join us on a journey through the imaginations of some of the best playwrights alive today,...
In Beethoven's Kiss, Kevin Kopelson takes you on a journey through a unique literary style which is both scholarly and meditative. It interweaves the issues of gender, sexuality and erotic romanticism and presents them against the backdrop of romantic pianism. Exploring quasi-sexual myths of the nineteenth century, Beethoven's Kiss takes a long look at the origin and consequences of those myths.
In this chronicle of political awakening and queer solidarity, the activist and novelist Sarah Schulman describes her dawning consciousness of the Palestinian liberation struggle. Invited to Israel to give the keynote address at an LGBT studies conference at Tel Aviv University, Schulman declines, joining other artists and academics honoring the Palestinian call for an academic and cultural boycott of Israel. Anti-occupation activists in the United States, Canada, Israel, and Palestine come toge...
LOOK WHAT'S HAPPENED TO PIXIE DE COSTA! is the tragic tale of the De Costa Sisters; gracious, loving and talented Margot and the train wreck that IS Pixie De Costa! Their story beigins witht eh De Costa Family's Vaudeville act circa 1912, and travels forward in time to 1932, the height of the sisters' Movie Fame! But a horrible accident cuts the De Costa's assent short, and sends them spiralling downward into the pitch black abyss of evil! Today, it is 1957 and Margot and Pixie find themselves...
Same Sex Partnerships
Based on deeply personal testimonies and factual research, Out on An Island presents a rich and diverse portrayal of Isle of Wight LGBTQ+ history. Shining a light on stories of struggle and truth shared through recorded oral histories, this is a book which unearths a public history and cultural heritage hidden for over a century. In a collaborative effort among LGBTQ+ Island residents, Out on An Island signifies the first ever project dedicated to local LGBTQ+ oral history on the Isle of Wight...
A British wife and mother's life is turned upside down when she meets and falls in love with her much younger Afrikaans au pair in this candid memoir. This tantalizing, unconventional, true love story details how two women found each other at an inoppor
Scrutinizing the weave and texture of Walt Whitman's earliest poetry and fiction, the notebooks of 1845-54, the first edition (1855) of Leaves of Grass, and the Calamus poems, Byrne R. S. Fone demonstrates that from the beginning and throughout, Whitman's homoerotic muse, his "Fierce Wrestler, " dictated the shape, tone, and message of the poetry. In this first full-length study of homosexual textuality--the homosexual text, the homosexual tradition--and Walt Whitman's central place within that...
"Are girls necessary?" asks Julie Abraham in this provocative study of 20th-century lesbian writing. Examining the development of lesbian writing in English across the 20th Century, Abraham identifies a shift from this "romance" model to a more complicated "history" model. The great modernists, Woolf and Stein, as well as the popular writers of succeeding generations, like Mary Renault, looked to historical narratives, creating an important change in the way the "lesbian story" is built....