Covers a vast range of subjects, from the frivolous to the deadly serious, from issues of image and identity to gay icons and the gay world. It examines the history, struggles and influence to the gay community, and includes a magnificent spread of personalities and superb photo archive.
“In the age of Twitter and reductive history, we need a complex, fully realized, radical reassessment of history—and A Queer History of the United States is exactly that.
Rubin, Gayle. 2002. “Studying Sexual Subcultures: Excavating the Ethnography of Gay Communities in Urban North America.” Pp. 17–68, in Out in Theory: The Emergence of Lesbian and Gay Anthropology, edited by E. Lewin and W. Leap.
Featuring nearly thirty chapters on essential subjects and themes from colonial times through the present, this collection covers topics including: Rural vs. urban queer histories Gender and sexual diversity in early American history ...
This collection explores the impact of ACT UP, Queer Nation, multiculturalism, the new religious right, outing, queerness, postmodernism, and other shifts in the politics of sexuality.
Subjects include recontextualizing butch in 20th-century lesbian culture, and scientific racism and the invention of the homosexual body. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
This book explores changes and continuations in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer lives, identities and spatial practices in the 21st century from around the globe, using a range of methods to connect pasts, places and policies ...
Emergent media technologies afford queer worldmaking, but these worlds are forged between normalization and niche marketing. This book was originally published as a special issue of Critical Studies in Media Communication.
A licensed commercial truck driver herself, Balay discovers that, for people routinely subjected to prejudice, hatred, and violence in their hometowns and in the job market, trucking can provide an opportunity for safety, welcome isolation, ...
The Routledge International Encyclopedia of Queer Culture covers gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer (GLBTQ) life and culture post-1945, with a strong international approach to the subject.The scope of the work is extremely ...
8. Michael Rocke, Forbidden Friendships (New York, 1996). 9. See the literature cited in Randolph Trumbach, "Erotic Fantasy and Male Libertinism in Enlightenment England," in The Invention of Pornography, ed. Lynn Hunt (New York ...