In this anthology of erotic gay fiction, three men learn the true joys that can arise from being a "backdoor friend." In "We're Both Adults," a young career guy spends his days fantisizing about the handsome older married man in the office. One night his desires comes true, and he'll never look at industrial grade carpeting the same again! In "Rail Hard," a husky musuclar stranger makes a wannabe bottom's dreams come true during a cross-country train trip. In "Boys Know What Boys Like," Joe's...
In Support of Same-Sex Marriage and Gay Rights in America
by Thomas, J. Schuh
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Kendra never knew her family, having been sent to a homeless shelter just a few weeks after her birth. What she currently knew, was that she now had to choose between the new girl from the bar, Angie, and her best friend, Megan. Little did she know that the choice was life and death, and not just to her...The past she remembered had taught her as to how to survive on the streets, but not prepare her for what would happen inside a house of people that kill for her. Not knowing who to trust, Kendr...
Not Straight, Not White (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)
by Kevin J. Mumford
This compelling book recounts the history of black gay men from the 1950s to the 1990s, tracing how the major movements of the times-from civil rights to black power to gay liberation to AIDS activism-helped shape the cultural stigmas that surrounded race and homosexuality. In locating the rise of black gay identities in historical context, Kevin Mumford explores how activists, performers, and writers rebutted negative stereotypes and refused sexual objectification. Examining the lives of both f...
CAMP
by Andrew Bolton, Fabio Cleto, Karen Van Godtsenhove, and Amanda Garfinkel
What is "camp"? Drawing from Susan Sontag’s seminal essay, this striking volume explores its meaning and its expression in fashion from its origins to today“[An] amazing catalogue. . . . Extraordinary.”—Christiane Amanpour, CNN Although an elusive concept, “camp” can be found in most forms of artistic expression, revealing itself through an aesthetic of deliberate stylization. Fashion is one of the most overt and enduring conduits of the camp aesthetic. As a site for the playful dynamics between...
Pop Out (Series Q)
Andy Warhol was queer in more ways than one. A fabulous queen, a fan of prurience and pornography, a great admirer of the male body, he was well known as such to the gay audiences who enjoyed his films, the police who censored them, the gallery owners who refused to show his male nudes, and the artists who shied from his swishiness, not to mention all the characters who populated the Factory. Yet even though Warhol became the star of postmodernism, avant-garde, and pop culture, this collection o...
With our dance club bucking the trend, success is our friend. But the high street is not reflecting our success and we swoop in to take advantage of the failing high street. With plans for a Male Grooming Spa and separate Male Sauna the high street is soon to become our own little empire in the making. Alex our new business partner turns out to more than we had planned. James and I are on the rocks, or so it appears! With a strong family unit and Ryan from the states visiting an interventio...
Queer Ideas
Sexual Identity on the Job: Issues and Services
by Alan L Ellis and Ellen D Riggle
Here is the basic resource for therapists who work with homosexual clients. Written by professionals for professionals, A Guide to Psychotherapy With Gay and Lesbian Clients is an excellent compilation of data and sound suggestions for understanding the unique issues and concerns facing gay men and lesbians.
Is queer theory dead? Through its increasing entanglement with capitalism, James Penney, controversially argues that queer theory has run its course. However, the 'end of queer' should not signal the death of liberatory sexual politics; rather, it presents the occasion to rethink the relation between sexuality and politics. The book makes a critical return to Marxism and psychoanalysis, via Freud and Lacan, and conducts a critical examination of queer theory's most famous proponents, includin...