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For most of its history, the Peoples Temple existed under the radar. Most had never even heard of the church until news of the tragic deaths of more than nine hundred men, women, and children in the jungles of Guyana broke in November of 1978.Th e lives and deaths of the members of the Peoples Temple are ones that remain mostly misunderstood to this day. And for the gay and lesbian members and their families, the truth is sometimes even harder to....
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Few words are as steeped in beliefs about gender, sexuality, and social desirability as "motherhood". Drawing on queer, postcolonial, and feminist theory, historical sources, personal narratives, film studies, and original empirical research, the authors in this book offer queer re-tellings and reexaminations of reproduction, family, politics, and community. The list of contributors includes emerging writers as well as established scholars and activists...
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Un recorrido por la historia de la autoaceptación de la homosexualidad, que nos transportará a los inicios del franquismo para descubrir cómo la sociedad es a veces, tan o más opresora que la propia legislación. Un ensayo que sustituye los convencionalismos por historias de vida, una fuente inagotable de experiencias que nos conduce hasta la realidad de nuestros días. En estas páginas no encontrarás respuestas ni guiones preestablecidos, sino...
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Lambda Literary Award finalist! Alternately unsettling and affirming, devastating and delicious, The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You is a new collection of essays on gender and identity by S. Bear Bergman that is irrevocably honest and endlessly illuminating. With humor and grace, these essays deal with issues from women's spaces to the old boys' network, from gay male bathhouses to lesbian potlucks, from being a child to preparing to have one. Throughout,...
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The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall is a landmark novel that explores themes of love, identity, and societal prejudice against homosexuality in early 20th-century England. The story follows the life of Stephen Gordon, a young woman who grapples with her sexual orientation and struggles to find acceptance in a society that condemns her desires. From a young age, Stephen senses that she is different from other girls, feeling a deep attraction towards...
7) Precious and Adored: The Love Letters of Rose Cleveland and Evangeline Simpson Whipple, 1890–1918
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"You are mine, and I am yours, and we are one, and our lives are one henceforth, please God, who can alone separate us. I am bold to say this, to pray and to live by it."-Rose Cleveland to Evangeline Simpson, May 6, 1890
In 1890, Rose Cleveland, sister of President Grover Cleveland, began writing to Evangeline Simpson, a wealthy widow who would become the second wife of Henry Whipple, Minnesota's Episcopal bishop. The women corresponded across states...
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La relación entre sexo, deseo y género es una de las polémicas más importantes y, a menudo, cargadas de ideología y emocionalidad del siglo XXI. Con frecuencia, esas tres realidades se dan como sinónimos o, lo contrario, como opuestas unas a otras. Es necesario establecer definiciones y precisiones o el avance será imposible.
La biología, la motivación y la experiencia se refieren a dimensiones del ser humano que se van a entender en el marco...
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Loud and Proud is an inspirational collection of speeches from the LGBTQ+ community and its allies that have changed our world, and the conversation.
Loud and Proud places the voices of the vibrant LGBTQ+ community centre stage in the first-ever anthology of LGBTQ+ speeches. From equal marriage to gender definitions, bullying to parenthood, the issues covered in these speeches touch on all aspects of LGBTQ+ and reflect the diverse and multi-faceted...
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Produced in partnership with Egale Canada Human Rights Trust, Out Proud: Stories of Pride, Courage, and Social Justice is the second in a series of essay anthologies designed to give attention to issues that are sometimes ignored in the mainstream media-and a voice to those most closely affected by them. Expertly edited by sociologist Dr. Douglas Gosse, Out Proud features more than fifty short essays on the experience of LGBTTIQQ2SA (Lesbian, Gay,...
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Drawing from his own, specific experience, Margulies has indeed created what he calls "a window to the world" at large. The bits and pieces and detritus of our culture have been used to construct a powerful drama about a new and devastating age of anxiety in the United States. July 7, 1994 ranks as an important work by a gifted and growing American playwright. "-Chicago Tribune This new anthology by Donald Margulies collects his best short plays and...
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¿Recuerdas cuando te preguntaste cómo era el sexo entre dos mujeres? Seguro que ya sabías cómo era entre un hombre y una mujer cis, pero nadie te había contado que había otras posibilidades. Otros genitales. Otros cuerpos.
Además, la mayoría de información disponible acerca del sexo entre mujeres tiene una visión sesgada, desactualizada, poco diversa y nada práctica. Estamos hartas de tener que bucear incansablemente en páginas para encontrar...
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Las teologías queer se inspiran en el análisis crítico de la teoría queer, que emergió a finales del siglo XX a partir de las experiencias de sujetos y subjetividades que son marginadas por su sexualidad no normativa (gais, lesbianas, bisexuales) o su identidad de género (transexuales, intersexuales, no binarios). Las teologías queer asumen el presupuesto esencial de la teoría queer, a saber, que ni el género ni la sexualidad son realidades...
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Lambda Literary Award finalistAmerican Library Association Stonewall Honor BookIn the summer of 2009, butch writer and storyteller Ivan Coyote and gender researcher and femme dynamo Zena Sharman wrote down a wish-list of their favourite queer authors; they wanted to continue and expand the butch-femme conversation. The result is Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme. The stories in these pages resist simple definitions. The people in these stories...
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The Domain-Matrix is about the passage from print culture to electronic screen culture and how this passage affects the reader or computer user. Sections are organized to emulate, in a printed book, the reader's experience of computer windows. Case traces the portrait of virtual identities within queer and lesbian critical practice and virtual technologies.
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What would you do if your body had been violated? Would you have the will, the energy, and the drive to survive? What if the person who violated you believed that he was doing the right thing? After all, society had provided him with reasoning for his beliefs. What would you do if someone threatened to rape you and you had nowhere or no one to turn to, no one or system to protect you? "When Rape Becomes Acceptable" deals with the issues surrounding...
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Un personaje. Un fandom. Una reivindicación. La muerte de Lexa en la serie de televisión The 100 generó una ola de reacciones y de reflexiones sobre la importancia de la buena representación de minorías en televisión y la necesidad de una mayor responsabilidad por parte de los equipos creativos. La audiencia LGBT+, acostumbrada a ver cómo históricamente las mujeres lesbianas y bisexuales son representadas en relaciones destinadas al fracaso...
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Veteran editor Susan Fox Rogers brings together a collection of essays centered on the "ecstatic experience" (i.e. non-sexual) in lesbian life.
In this lively, eclectic collection, veteran anthologist Susan Fox Rogers explores the passionate experiences of lesbians that exist outside of sex and/or romance. From an essay on "being" Superman as a kid to ones on rafting and sky-diving; from being arrested for political activism to the overwhelming and...
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Featured in Manhattan Book Review's Pride Month Roundup and Lambda Literary's June's Most Anticipated LGBTQIA+ Literature.
Told in multi-faceted layers of memoir, creative nonfiction, and poetry, every story shares a priceless event or moment where queer joy is found. I Feel Love: Notes on Queer Joy honors queer voices through the delightful pleasure in everyday occurrences featuring an anthology of talented voices within the LGBTQIA+ community...
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"Winner of the 2005 Ruth Benedict Prize, Society for Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists, American Anthropological Association" Tom Boellstorff is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. He is author of A Coincidence of Desires: Anthropology, Queer Studies, Indonesia,coeditor of Speaking in Queer Tongues: Globalization and Gay Language, and editor in chief of American Anthropologist.
The Gay Archipelago is the first...
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