Category: LGBT Studies/Social Sciences

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Love Between Women by Bernadette J. Brooten

Bernadette J. Brooten | Love Between Women | Love Between Womenexamines female homoeroticism and the role of women in the ancient Roman world. Employing an unparalleled range of cultural sources,

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Queer Legacies by John D’Emilio

John D’Emilio | Queer Legacies | There is no single archive of gay life in Chicago. But since 1981, the Gerbert-Hart Library and Archives has been collecting records of lesbian, gay,

Posted in History LGBT Studies/Social Sciences

Queer Budapest, 1873-1961 by Anita Kurimay

Anita Kurimay | Queer Budapest, 1873-1961 | By the dawn of the twentieth century, Budapest was a burgeoning cosmopolitan metropolis. Known at the time as the “Pearl of the Danube,” it boasted so

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Queer Style by Adam Geczy; Vicki Karaminas

Adam Geczy; Vicki Karaminas | Queer Style | ‘Queer style’ offers an insight into queer fashionability by addressing the role that clothing has played in historical and contemporary lifestyles. F

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Legal Recognition of Same-Sex Partnerships by Robert Wintemute; Mads Tønnesson Andenæs

Robert Wintemute; Mads Tønnesson Andenæs | Legal Recognition of Same-Sex Partnerships | Should same-sex couples be permitted to marry? Or should a separate institution of registered partnership’ or ‘civil union’ be created for them? Or sh

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Reading the L Word by Kim Akass; Janet McCabe

Kim Akass; Janet McCabe | Reading the L Word | As America’s first television series about lesbians, The L Wordcaptured national attention when it debuted in 2004, and has continued to make headline

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Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual And Transgender Christians by Bronwyn Fielder; Douglas Ezzy

Bronwyn Fielder; Douglas Ezzy | Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual And Transgender Christians | Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Christians details the processes through which LGBT Christians resolve the fraught tensions between their relig

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Families – Beyond the Nuclear Ideal by Daniela Cutas; Sarah Chan

Daniela Cutas; Sarah Chan | Families – Beyond the Nuclear Ideal | Includes Chapter 5: Donor-conceived Children Raised by Lesbian Couples by Joanna Scheib and Paul Hastings, and Chapter 6: Donor-Conception as a ‘Dange

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Are the Kids All Right by B. J. Epstein

B. J. Epstein | Are the Kids All Right | Epstein explores why sex, sexuality and gender non-conformity is something that many writers and publishers of children’s and young adult lit appear t

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Army of Lovers by Sarah Liss

Sarah Liss | Army of Lovers | Will was pretty much the perfect role model.’ – Beth Ditto, The Gossip In the spring of 2010, Toronto lost one of its most important queer civic heroe