This book - looking back from the 1990s into the early decades of the 20th century - maps the world of those known as �trade� - ostensibly straight men who would engage in homosexual sex - and hustlers - those who were paid for it. It was a milieu that was central to the sexual histories of several generations of ... Weiterlesen

Paul Jackson: One of the Boys

Homosexuality in the Military during World War II. CAN/UK/USA 2010, 338 pp., brochure, € 67.99
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Homosexuality and military service have made strange bedfellows over the last century. Military leaders have generally seen homosexuals as unmanly, immoral, and - according to the U.S. military - a threat to unit cohesion, a claim that continues to prop up the controversial �don't ask, don't tell� policy. Struggles for equal rights have not been limited to the USA: during ... Weiterlesen

Alex Espinoza: Cruising

An Intimate History of a Radical Pastime. USA 2009, 237 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Publishers Group West

From Greek antiquity to the notorious Molly houses of 18th century England, the raucous 1970s to the algorithms of Grindr, Oscar Wilde to George Michael, cruising remains at once a reclamation of public space and the creation of its own unique locale - one in which men of all races and classes interact, even in the shadow of repressive governments. ... Weiterlesen

M. Paz Galupo (ed.): Bisexuality and Same-Sex Marriage

UK/USA/CAN 2009, 213pp., brochure, € 39.99
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In our society, the argument for or against same-sex marriage becomes even more heated when the debate turns to bisexual women and men. The book explores this debate from a wide range of interdisciplinary perspectives, presenting respected scholars from fields as diverse as American Studies, Communication, Criminology, Human and Organizational Systems, Law and Social Policy, LGBT Studies, Organizational Behavior, Psychology, ... Weiterlesen

C. Todd White: Pre-Gay L.A.

A Social History of the Movement for Homosexual Rights. USA 2009, 260 pp., brochure, € 32.95
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This book explores the origins and history of the modern American movement of homosexual rights, which originated in Los Angeles in the late 1940s and continues today. Part ethnography and part social history, it is a detailed account of the history of the movement as manifested through the emergence of four related organizations: Mattachine, ONE Incorporated, the Homosexual Information Center ... Weiterlesen

Ladelle McWhorter: Racism and Sexual Oppression in Anglo-America

A Genealogy. USA 2009, 430 pp., brochure, € 29.99
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Does the black struggle for civil rights make common cause with the movement to foster queer community, protest anti-queer violence or discrimination, and demand respect for the rights and sensibilities of queer people? Confronting this emotionally charged question, the author reveals how a carefully structured campaign against abnormality in the late 19th and early 20th centuries encouraged white Americans to ... Weiterlesen

Dossie Easton und Janet W. Hardy: The Ethical Slut

A Practical Guide to Polyamory, Open Relationships & Other Adventures. USA 2009 (3rd edition, updated & expanded), 320 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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This 1997 groundbreaking book gave sluts a good name. It is now available again in an updated, expanded 2nd edition. If you've ever yearned for love, sex, and intimacy beyond the limits of conventional monogamy, this book will open up to infinite possibilities. Relationship pioneers Dossie Easton and Janet W. Hardy dispel myths about sluthood and show how to maintain ... Weiterlesen

Tim Dean: Unlimited Intimacy

Reflections on the Subculture of Barebacking. USA 2009, 237 pp., brochure, € 31.95
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Barebacking (when gay men deliberately abandon condoms and embrace unprotected sex) has incited a great deal of shock, outrage, anger, and even disgust, but very little contemplation. Purposely flying in the face of decades of safe-sex campaigning and HIV/AIDS awareness initiatives, barebacking is unquestionably radical behavior, behavior that most people would rather condemn than understand. Thus the time is ripe ... Weiterlesen

Rodger Streitmatter: From �Perverts� to �Fab Five�

The Media's Changing Depiction of Gay Men and Lesbians. UK/USA 2009, 222 pp., brochure, € 34.95
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This book tracks the dramatic change in how the American media have depicted gay people over the last 50 years. Each chapter illuminates a particular media product that served as a milestone on the media's journey from demonizing homosexuals some 50 years ago to celebrating gay people - or at least some categories of gay people - today. The media ... Weiterlesen

Mark J. Blechner: Sex Changes

Transformations in Society and Psychoanalysis. USA/UK 2009, 214 pp., brochure, € 34.79
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Taylor and Francis

The last 50 years have seen enormous changes in society's attitudes toward sexuality. In the 1950s, homosexuals in the U.S. were routinely arrested. Today, homosexual activity between consenting adults is legal all over the U.S., with same-sex marriage legal in Massachusetts and Connecticut. In the 1950s, ambitious women were often seen as psychopathological and were told by psychoanalysts that they ... Weiterlesen

Mickey Weems: The Fierce Tribe

Masculine Identity and Performance in the Circuit. USA 2008, 272 pp., hardback, € 30.99
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The author applies an overtly interdisciplinary interpretation to a subject that demands such a breakdown of intellectual boundaries. In a kind of ethnography the book documents the folk nature of popular culture. �The Circuit�, an expression of gay culture, comprises large dance events (gatherings, celebrations, communions, festivals). Music and dance drive a complex, shared performance at these events?electronic house music ... Weiterlesen

Dagmar Herzog: Sex in Crisis

USA 2008, 249 pp., hardbound, € 21.39
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The religious right has fractured, the pundits tell us, and its power is waning. Is it true - have evengelical christians lost their political clout? When the subject is sex, the answer is definitively no. Only three decades after the legalization of abortion, the broad gains of the feminist movement, and the emergence of the gay rights movement, Americans appear ... Weiterlesen

David Valentine: Imagining Transgender

USA 2008, 303 pp., brochure, € 24.20
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This ethnography of the emergence and institutionalization of transgender as a category of collective identity and political activism shows how activists in the 1990s embraced the category. The category quickly gained momentum in public health, social service, scholarly, and legislative contexts. The author conducted ethnographic research among mostly male-to-female transgender-identified people at drag balls, support groups, cross-dresser organizations, clinics, ... Weiterlesen

Michael Thompson: Endowed

Regulating the Male Sexed Body. USA/UK 2008, 194 pp., brochure, € 35.30
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Taylor and Francis

Feminist legal scholars abd health care lawyers have long engaged with law's responses to the female reproductive body. Acknowledging this work and building upon it, �Endowed� considers the interaction of law and ideas of male productivity. In particular, it seeks to uncover what these regulatory moments can tell us about contemporary ideas and the ideas of masculinity and the male ... Weiterlesen

Susan Driver (ed.): Queer Youth Cultures

USA 2008, 307 pp., brochure, € 29.20
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Engaging a wide range of cultural practices, including zine-making, drag performance, online chatting, music, gay porn, and organizing resistance, the essays explore the creative, political, energetic, and artistic worlds of contemporary queer youth. The research in this collection bridges the perspectives of academics and queer youth, and the voices the youth resonate throughout the analyses of their communities and lives. ... Weiterlesen

Glyn Davis: Queer as Folk

UK 2007, 160 pp., brochure, € 19.99
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In the first critical study of this groundbreaking and controversial series - both the British original and the American remake - Glyn Davis examines in detail its conception, production, controversial content, marketing and reception. He situates �Queer as Folk� in relation to the history of �gay TV,� Channel 4's drama output, �New Labour� politics, and the �mainstreaming� of homosexuality in ... Weiterlesen

Khalil Amani: Hip-Hop Homophobes

USA 2007, 147 pp., brochure, € 16.99
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Khalil Amani has put homophobia on blast! 50 Cent, Eminem, DMX, Ja Rule, Busta Rhymes, Elephant Man, Buju Banton, Tim Hardaway, TD Jakes, Creflo Dollar, Bishop Eddie Long - their homophobia has been officially dismantled. Do they even know why they're homophobic? Homophobia is rooted in their Judeo-Christian upbringing. It doesn't matter how gangsta they are. They have been religiously/culturally ... Weiterlesen

Tom Boellstorff: The Gay Archipelago

USA 2007, 282 pp., brochure, € 29.95
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The University Press Group

The lives of gay men in Indonesia are, for the first time, explored in this book. Indonesia is the world's fourth most populous nation and home to more Muslims than any other country. Based on a range of field methods, it shows how Indonesian gay and lesbian identities are shaped by nationalism and globalization. The author examines the history of ... Weiterlesen

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