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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,

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How Places Make Us by Japonica Brown-Saracino

Japonica Brown-Saracino | How Places Make Us | We like to think of ourselves as possessing an essential self, a core identity that is who we really are, regardless of where we live, work, or play.

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Warrior Women And Popular Balladry, 1650-1850 by Dianne Dugaw

Dianne Dugaw | Warrior Women And Popular Balladry, 1650-1850 | This interdisciplinary study uncovers a fascination with women cross dressers in the popular literature of early modern Britain, in a wide range of te

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The Antigay Agenda by Didi Herman

Didi Herman | The Antigay Agenda | In The Antigay Agenda, Didi Herman probes the values, beliefs, and rhetoric of the organizations of the Christian Right. Tracing the emergence of thei

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Seeking the Straight And Narrow by Lynne Gerber

Lynne Gerber | Seeking the Straight And Narrow | Losing weight and changing your sexual orientation are both notoriously difficult to do successfully. Yet many faithful evangelical Christians believe

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Queer Wars by Dennis Altman; Jonathan Symons

Dennis Altman; Jonathan Symons | Queer Wars | The claim that LGBT rights are human rights encounters fierce opposition in many parts of the world, as governments and religious leaders have used re

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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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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