Showing titles in LGBTQ+ Studies

From the 1930s to the 1960s, the Motion Picture Production Code severely restricted what Hollywood cinema could depict. This included “any inference” of the lives of homosexuals. In a landmark 1981 book, gay activist Vito Russo famously condemned Hollywood’s censorship regime, lambasting many midcentury films as the bigoted products of a “celluloid closet.”

Mandii B and WeezyWTF, hosts of the Decisions, Decisions (formerly WHOREible Decisions) podcast, deliver a bold, unfiltered, and raw, sex-positive collection of relatable tales. They tackle everything from pleasure to pain and the journey of healing through progression to reclaim your personal and sexual power.

Through its unforgettable characters and immersive storytelling, The Intermediaries charts the relationships between nascent sexual science, queer civil rights, and the fight against fascism. It tells riveting stories of LGBTQ pioneers and offers a cautionary tale in the face of today's oppressive anti-trans legislation.

When Dylan Mulvaney came out as a woman online, she was a viral sensation almost overnight, emerging as a trailblazing voice on social media. Dylan’s personal coming-out story blossomed into a platform for advocacy and empowerment for trans people all over the world. Through her “Days of Girlhood” series, she connected with followers by exploring what it means to be a girl, from experimenting with makeup to story times to spilling the tea about laser hair removal, while never shying away from discussing the transphobia she faced online.

Slaves to Fashion is a cultural history of the black dandy, from his emergence in Enlightenment England to his contemporary incarnations in the cosmopolitan art world. Interpreting performances and representations of black dandyism in particular cultural settings and literary and visual texts, Monica L. Miller emphasizes the importance of sartorial style to black identity formation in the Atlantic diaspora.

A celebrated food writer's expansive, audacious excavation of the development of modern queer identity and food culture.

When we talk about sex, we talk about womanhood and motherhood, infidelity and exploitation, consent and respect, fairness and egalitarianism, love and hate, pleasure and pain. And yet for many reasons—some complicated, some not—so many of us don’t talk about it. Our deepest, most intimate fears and fantasies remain locked away inside of us, until someone comes along with the key. Here’s the key. In this generation-defining book, Gillian Anderson collects and introduces the anonymous letters of hundreds of self-identifying women from around the world (along with her own anonymous letter).

Part-autobiography, part frontline reportage and part cultural commentary, Julie Bindel examines what defines lesbian culture, love, friendship and happiness today. She distinguishes the particular challenges facing lesbians from the very different experiences of gay men, and asks: why do lesbians so often seem to face particular hostility? Comparing past attitudes to today, she argues that lesbians continue to suffer from bigotry and discrimination because sexism and enforced gendered roles are still left unchallenged.

A Queer History of the United States abounds with startling examples of unknown or often ignored aspects of American history - the ineffectiveness of sodomy laws in the colonies, the impact of new technologies on LGBT life in the 19th century, and how rock music and popular culture were, in large part, responsible for the devastating backlash against gay rights in the late 1970s. Bronski documents how, over centuries, various incarnations of social purity movements have consistently attempted to regulate all sexuality, including fantasies, masturbation, and queer sex.

Un doc engagé publié pour la Gay Pride 2025 en attendant l'ouverture prochaine du centre d'archives LGBTQ dans le 19e arrondissement de Paris et la création du musée LGBTQ dans le Marais. Lorsque, aux côtés de Gisèle Halimi, il soutient la proposition de loi visant à dépénaliser l'homosexualité en France, Robert Badinter déclare le 20 décembre 1981 à la tribune de l'Assemblée Nationale : « Il n'est que temps […] de prendre conscience de tout ce que la France doit aux homosexuels ». Prenons donc M.

Call Me by Your Name first swept across the world in 2007. It is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents' cliffside mansion on the Italian Riviera. During the restless summer weeks, unrelenting but buried currents of obsession, fascination, and desire intensify their passion as they test the charged ground between them and verge toward the one thing both already fear they may never truly find again: total intimacy.

Containing titles such as “Lesbian Firsts,” “Lesbian Athletes in Love,” “Lesbian Island,” “Lesbian Vacation,” “Lesbian Doms,” and more, “The Big Book of Lesbian Love” is a must-have for any lover of top-quality, intensely stimulating lesbian romance. “The Big Book” provides 10 supremely steamy books by some of the best lesbian authors in the business for the price of one. “The Big Book of Lesbian Love” is a compilation of 10 of the hottest books written by four of the west coast’s top lesbian writers. The best sellers of Alexandra del Torre, Sofia Kane, ...

LESBIAN ISLAND is the steamy story of Jennifer's and Madison’s visit to Sappho’s Secret Caves on the sacred island of Lesbos. Jennifer is a lesbian who wants nothing more than to seduce her beautiful, buxom, straight friend, and a vacation to Lesbos is the beginning of an erotic, romantic adventure neither of them will ever forget. Follow Jennifer and Madison as they move through each of Sappho’s 5 sensual caves of seduction, and see if you can make it through yourself without succumbing to the intensely-hot Cave Mistresses and their wildly-exotic games. Chapters Include: INITIATION: ...

WARNING: Contains explicit descriptions of lesbian sexual acts. Intended for adults over the age of 18 Seeking a relaxing escape from the corporate grind in which she’s been immersed for ten years, Madison Blue boards a lesbian cruise to the Mexican Riviera and encounters unexpected adventures, mysteries and enticements. As she makes her way through a series of intensely romantic interludes, Madison discovers a well of passion within herself that she never knew existed. She also uncovers a sinister, secret plot by one of her shipmates that will ultimately alter the course of her life. ...

In 1969, a series of riots over police action against The Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City's Greenwich Village, changed the longtime landscape of the homosexual in society literally overnight. Since then the event itself has become the stuff of legend, with relatively little hard information available on the riots themselves.

Are you ready to have kids? More and more gay men are turning to adoption and surrogacy to start their own families. An estimated two million American LBGTQ people would like to adopt and an estimated 65,000 adopted children are living with a gay parent. Unlike other parenting books that have whole chapters focusing on things specifically related to mothers (such as how to get the perfect latch when breastfeeding), this parenting book replaces those sections with things relevant to gay dads.

Jeanette Winterson’s bold and revelatory novels have established her as a major figure in world literature. This memoir is the chronicle of a life’s work to find happiness. It is a book full of stories: about a girl locked out of her home, sitting on the doorstep all night; about a religious zealot disguised as a mother who has two sets of false teeth and a revolver in the dresser drawer; about growing up in a north England industrial town in the 1960s and 1970s; and about the universe as a cosmic dustbin.

By a prize-winning young Black trans writer of outsized talent, a fierce and disciplined memoir about queerness, masculinity, and race, Pretty is as much a powerful and tender love letter as it is a call for change.

Gender theorist, performance artist, and author Kate Bornstein is set to change lives with her stunningly original memoir. Wickedly funny and disarmingly honest, this is Bornstein's most intimate book yet, encompassing her early childhood and adolescence, college at Brown, a life in the theater, three marriages and fatherhood, the Scientology hierarchy, transsexual life, LGBTQ politics, and life on the road as a sought-after speaker.

Despite the increasing visibility of trans and non-binary folx in media, political representation, and popular culture, their sexual lives and erotic embodiments are woefully under-attended—to in both scholarship and clinical practice. The aim of this book is to equip providers with both conceptual frameworks and concrete tools for better engaging their trans, non-binary, and gender expansive clients in pleasure-centered discussions of sexual health.