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Queer by Choice
First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Gay Men & Women who Enriched the World
Forty brief biographies bring gay history to life.
City of Friends
City of Friends offers a practical, intelligent, and well-informed overview of what it means to be gay or lesbian. The authors seek to help gay men and women, as well as their families and friends, to better understand the institutions and communities that make up the most culturally and ethnically diverse minority in America today.Beginning with basic concepts, LeVay and Nonas define the words "homosexual," "gay," "lesbian," and "bisexual" and discuss the various patterns of homosexuality in different cultures around the world. They relate the history of the gay and lesbian community in the United States, and its struggle for equal rights and social acceptance, before tackling the question ...
Up from Invisibility
A half century ago gay men and lesbians were all but invisible in the media and, in turn, popular culture. With the lesbian and gay liberation movement came a profoundly new sense of homosexual community and empowerment and the emergence of gay people onto the media's stage. And yet even as the mass media have been shifting the terms of our public conversation toward a greater acknowledgment of diversity, does the emerging "visibility" of gay men and women do justice to the complexity and variety of their experience? Or is gay identity manipulated and contrived by media that are unwilling—and perhaps unable—to fully comprehend and honor it? While positive representations of gays and lesb...
The Gay 100
Gay men and lesbians can claim a rich history. But how is that varied and evolving culture defined? What individuals, both past and present, have helped shape gay and lesbian identity as we currently understand it? Who, exactly, are the homosexual men and women who have paved the way for gay men and lesbians to be who and where they are today? Spanning 2400 years of history - from Socrates and Sappho to Michelangelo Signorile and Madonna, from Oscar Wilde and Radclyffe Hall to Rock Hudson and Martina Navratilova, from Leonardo da Vinci and Alexander the Great to Liberace and Larry Kramer - The Gay 100 charts the range, diversity, and possibilities of gay and lesbian life. Paul Russell has se...
Strangers
This history of homosexuality in the 19th century takes in both Europe and America. It is divided into themes: the treatment of homosexuals, both male and female, by the rest of society; the lives and loves of gay men and women and the early gay rights movement; and aspects of gay culture.
Out in Time
Out in Time explores the life experiences of three generations of gay men -- the Stonewall, AIDS, and Queer generations--arguing that while there are generational differences in the lived experiences of young gay men, each one confronts its own unique historical events, realities, and socio-political conditions, there are consistencies across time that define and unify the identities of gay men.
Coming Out Under Fire
During World War II, as the United States called on its citizens to serve in unprecedented numbers, the presence of gay Americans in the armed forces increasingly conflicted with the expanding antihomosexual policies and procedures of the military. In Coming Out Under Fire, Allan Berube examines in depth and detail these social and political confrontation--not as a story of how the military victimized homosexuals, but as a story of how a dynamic power relationship developed between gay citizens and their government, transforming them both. Drawing on GIs' wartime letters, extensive interviews with gay veterans, and declassified military documents, Berube thoughtfully constructs a startling h...
Documenting Gay Men
This book charts an evolution in gay identity within American reality television and documentary film. Through focusing on the performative potential of gay men, it examines the emergence of the independent gay citizen as a bold new voice rejecting subjugation within the media. Through examining productions as diverse as An American Family, Tongues United, Silverlake Life, The Real World, Paternal Instinct, Trembling Before G-D, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, and many others, this book explores how gay people as teens, devoted couples, parents, inspiring individuals and influential producers have contributed to the progression of gay identity in domestic arenas. These portrayals are played out while discussing AIDS, race, religion, the development of same-sex family forms, the issues of procreation and gay marriage and the changing views of gay men as both creative producers and responsible social agents. In these forms of entertainment, gay social actors as political agents challenge dominant ideas, and invent new social worlds.
Polari - The Lost Language of Gay Men
Polari is a secret form of language mainly used by homosexual men in London and other cities during the twentieth century. Derived in part from the slang lexicons of numerous stigmatised and itinerant groups, Polari was also a means of socialising, acting out camp performances and reconstructing a shared gay identity and worldview among its speakers. This book examines the ways in which Polari was used in order to construct 'gay identities', linking its evolution to the changing status of gay men and lesbians in the UK over the past fifty years.
