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Maledetti froci & maledette lesbiche

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 22:07:26 PST

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I gay danno fastidio: perché si mostrano in Tv senza più pudore, perché non vogliono sentirsi una categoria "discriminata e speciale", perché spesso hanno molto da dire sulle libertà e i diritti di tutti. E nel contempo, non c'è alcun dubbio che negli ultimi due anni in Italia si sono moltiplicati e accresciuti i casi di intimidazioni, insulti, persino selvaggi pestaggi contro omosessuali. Estemp ...

Pressoché amanti

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 22:07:11 PST

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Qui si racconta la vita. Tramontate le ideologie, la vita sfugge a categorie e rigidità e, insieme a confusioni e stordimenti, ci offre il dono del "pressoché". Non è la fine del mondo, ma di un mondo certo, senza dubbio. Tutto è possibile, allora. Pressappoco tutto. Ecco la novità di questa edizione - la settima - dell'annuale antologia di racconti d'amore di donne tra donne: l'irrompere della v ...

Wild Girls

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 22:06:19 PST

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Natalie and Romaine met in London during World War I and their partnership lasted until Natalie died 52 years later. They were both American expatriates: unconventional, energetic, flamboyant and rich. Natalie was known as 'the wild girl of Cincinnatti'. She had numerous affairs with other women: Renee Vivien who nailed shut the windows of her apartment, wrote about the loveliness of death, drank ...

From Wedded Wife to Lesbian Life

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 0:07:54 PST

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Time Out Gay and Lesbian London

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 0:07:40 PST

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Packed with pubs, clubs, and shops, this guide covers arts and entertainment, restaurants, and saunas, and includes profiles of key gay and lesbian personalities. Provides up-to-date information on all the best places that have emerged during the decade-long explosion of London's gay and lesbian scene.

A Lesbian History of Britain

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 0:07:37 PST

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Drawing on a wide range of historical sources - court records, newspaper reports, medical records, novels, oral histories and personal papers - A Lesbian History of Britain presents the extraordinary history of lesbian experience in Britain. Covering landmark moments and well-known personalities (such as Radclyffe Hall and the publication and banning of her lesbian novel The Well of Loneliness ...

Amazon Expedition; A Lesbian Feminist Anthology.

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 0:07:23 PST

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Frommer's Gay and Lesbian Europe, Third Edition

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 0:07:15 PST

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The only European travel guide available for gays and lesbians Offers inside tips on the gay and lesbian scene in every locale, plus practical information on hotels, dining, and attractions-a must for the 74 percent of U.S. gays and lesbians who took an international trip in 2001 Covers all of Europe's top gay and lesbian destinations-Prague, London, Brighton, Paris, Nice, Berlin, Athens, ...

Diary of a Provincial Lesbian

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 0:07:09 PST

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How To Be A Happy Lesbian

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 0:07:05 PST

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This guide is obviously written from the heart. The tone is gentle and supportive, a big sister encouraging other lesbians to love and accept themselves and live a full life, free of fear and shame. This is a much-needed book, one the authors wish had been available when they were younger and needed advice on how to “make it” in a predominantly homophobic world. It’s not preachy, clinical, or cyn ...

Historical dictionary of lesbian literature

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 0:06:44 PST

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While lesbian literature can trace its name back to the Greek poet Sappho, who was born on the Island of Lesbos in 630 B.C., it was not until the past century that the genre really gained popularity. More lesbian poems, novels and plays, as well as secondary literature, have been produced during the last one hundred years than during all the previous centuries put together. The Historical Dictio ...

Australian Gay and Lesbian Writing

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 0:06:30 PST

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In this landmark collection of Australian writing spanning well over a century, an Australia emerges which is radically different from the clich d land of bronzed lifeguards and long-suffering sheepfarmers' wives. Robert Dessaix's anthology reflects the diversity, non-conformity, and ambiguity that have always been features of Australian society. An anthology of gay themes, rather than gay writer ...

Negotiating lesbian and gay subjects

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 0:06:28 PST

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These essays are distinguished by their concern with `a politics of location,' shifting emphasis from gay and/or lesbian identity to the location of these ...

Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 0:06:08 PST

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The status of gay and lesbian literature-for centuries considered marginal at best and corrupting at worst-has changed dramatically over the last twenty-five years. Gay and lesbian studies programs now flourish in universities around the world, and the body of gay and lesbian writing continues to grow and to enter the mainstream. At no time has there been a greater need for a focused and insightf ...

Queering Gay and Lesbian Studies

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 0:06:06 PST

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"Queering Gay and Lesbian Studies" is a broadly interdisciplinary study that considers a key dilemma in gay and lesbian studies through the prism of identity and its discontents: the field studies has modeled itself on ethnic studies programs, perhaps to be intelligible to the university community, but certainly because the ethnic studies route to programs is well established. Since this model re ...

Latina Lesbian Writers and Artists

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 0:05:50 PST

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Explore a little-known side of the lesbian artistic world! With this book, you'll explore the work of the most significant contemporary Latina lesbian writers, artists, and performers in the United States, Latin America, and Spain. This book presents and analyzes literature, art, and poetry by women who, despite markedly different backgrounds and experiences, are all strongly influenced by the co ...

Lesbian and Gay Voices

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 0:05:42 PST

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With a foreword by Nancy Garden, the highly acclaimed author of Young Adult Fiction, this thoughtfully written annotated bibliography reviews picture books, young adult fiction, short stories nonfiction works and biographies for young readers. Entries specify the age level appropriateness of each work as well as literary awards received for the work. Each annotation is followed by a list of topic ...

Growing Up Gay/growing Up Lesbian

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 0:05:04 PST

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Lesbian and Bisexual Identities

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 0:04:58 PST

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This book examines the stories of lesbian and bisexual women in a Northeast community who share who they are, how they have come to see themselves as lesbian or bisexual, and what those identities mean to them. Drawing on social constructionist approaches to identity, Kristin G. Esterberg argues that identities are multiple and contingent. Created within the context of specific communities and wi ...

True lesbian love dot com

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 0:04:43 PST

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acknowledgments I've spent years talking about my dream of becoming a writer. I used to say that one day when I find the time, I'm going to sit down and ...

The New Lesbian Studies

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 0:04:36 PST

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The New Lesbian Studies includes 31 new essays representing the best in scholarship and theory in the study of lesbianism from both inside and outside the U.S. The text has sections on incorporating lesbian studies into academia and student services; understanding the origins of lesbian studies; exploring the questions proposed by lesbian studies; and offering us new voices, personal testimony, a ...

Emerging Lesbian Voices from Japan

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 0:04:33 PST

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This book is the first academic exploration of contemporary lesbian sexuality in Japan. Despite increasing exposure and academic research being documented around issues dealing with disadvantaged minority groups in Japan, lesbian sexuality has remained largely ignored. Misinformation and erroneous portrayals of lesbians and lesbian sexuality have resulted in self- identified lesbians living over ...

The Lesbian History Sourcebook

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 0:04:31 PST

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This groundbreaking critical anthology gathers together a wide range of primary source material on lesbian lives in the past. The material here is drawn from a diverse range of sources, including court records, newspaper reports, literary sources, writings on lesbianism from psychologists, doctors, anthropologists, as well as personal letters and journals. The sources are arranged into thematic c ...

Lesbian Love Companion

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 0:04:25 PST

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In "The Lesbian Love Companion," Marny Hall, Ph.D., a psychotherapist with twenty years' experience counseling lesbian couples, explores and celebrates lesbian relationships in all their complexity - and humor. Based on the idea that the key to healthy relationships lies in our ability to keep refining the story of our relationships, it presents the perfect blend of advice and inspiration for eve ...

Five Lesbian Brothers/ Four Plays

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 0:04:10 PST

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The Five Lesbian Brothers are not only gaspingly hilarious and blithely subversive, they are fully capable of creating characters named Dawn, Patty and Peaches. Their work travels from the Pygo Moon System to the elite Tilue-Pussenheimer Academy to my favorite town in all world literature-Big Bone, Oregon. Reading The Brothers' plays is addictive, although I am told that the group will come to yo ...

Best Lesbian Romance 2010

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 0:04:03 PST

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Ranging from the short and ever-so-sweet to make-you-cry passionate, "Best Lesbian Romance 2010" is essential reading for anyone who favors the highly imaginative, the deeply sensual, and the very loving. Radclyffe's romance collections are eagerly anticipated each year because they keep getting better and better. "Best Lesbian Romance 2010" revels in the seduction, love, and relationships that h ...

Best Lesbian Romance 2009

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 0:04:02 PST

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Who says romance is dead? Certainly not the authors of these powerful stories of lesbians in love -- and sometimes in lust. "Best Lesbian Romance 2009," edited by the award-winning author of such books as "When Dreams Tremble" and "Turn Back Time," presents the juiciest, most seductive love stories written today. Putting a new spin on the subject, these stories explore the underlying emotions and ...

The Lesbian Reader

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 0:04:00 PST

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Amazon Quarterly was the first national literary magazine with a lesbian perspective, begun back in 1972. The Lesbian Reader collects short stories, essays, and poetry from Amazon Quarterly's three-year lifespan. Quaint ancient history (or herstory) but still relevant.

The Apparitional Lesbian

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 0:03:53 PST

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In literary images of lesbianism from Defoe and Diderot to Virginia Woolf and Djuna Barnes, noted author Castle traces the history of the "apparitional lesbian" and the evolution of lesbian sensibility from 1750 to the present, showing that a "real" lesbian can be identified in culture, history, and literature before the modern era. 30 illustrations.

New Lesbian Criticism

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 0:03:52 PST

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The 1990s has seen the growing consolidation of lesbian and gay studies as a key area of cultural theory, particularly in relation to ideas about the construction of subjectivity and identity. Lesbian theory specifically intersects with feminism and sexuality/identity politics to critique both gender and (hetero) sexuality, while developments in lesbian criticism suggest a move towards a new text ...

Gay/Lesbian Almanac

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 0:03:48 PST

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Best Lesbian Love Stories

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 0:03:45 PST

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Under the Brooklyn Bridge, in the bars along the Hudson, and on steamy subway platforms, lesbians find romance, true love, and sometimes heartbreak. It is the greatest city on earth-and the most promising place to find love, as today's finest writers reveal.

Lesbian Sex Wars

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 0:03:44 PST

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'Whether we like it or not, what makes us different from our hetrosexual sisters can never be our politics alone, our lesbian sex is just as important part of what makes us what we are.' Lesbianism is fashionable and fetish can be fun. But for the last two decades lesbians have never agreed about sex. Wars wage over butch and femme, S&M, monogamy and non-monogamy or the politics of queer, giving ...

Counseling Lesbian Partners

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 0:03:39 PST

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This resource for counselors who work with lesbian couples gives a clear assessment of the issues faced in working through their relationship within the context of their sexuality and society's oppression of lesbians.The purpose of the Counseling and Pastoral Theology series is to address clinical issues that arise among particular populations currently neglected in the literature on pastoral car ...

Gay & Lesbian Theologies

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 0:03:38 PST

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Gay and lesbian theology has been one of the most distinctive voices to have emerged in Christian theology in the last 30 years. It has placed lesbian and gay experience at the heart of the theological process. Elizabeth Stuart, one of the most prominent theologians in this field, presents a critical survey of gay and lesbian theology. She charts the development of gay and lesbian theology from a ...

The Lesbian Film Guide

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 0:03:37 PST

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This A-Z guide to lesbians and lesbianism in the movies contains reviews, gossip, facts and commentary on over 200 films, including specifically lesbian films such as "Go Fish" and "Desert Hearts" as well as films with a lesbian character or theme, like "The Children's Hour" and "The Hunger".

The Apparitional Lesbian

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 0:03:22 PST

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In essays on literary images of lesbianism from Defoe and Diderot to Virginia Woolf and Djuna Barnes, on the homosexual reputation of Marie Antoinette, on the lesbian writings of Anne Lister, Sylvia Townsend Warner, and Janet Flanner, and on Henry James's The Bostonians, Castle shows how a lesbian presence can be identified in the literature, history, and culture of the past three centuries.

"That furious lesbian"

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 0:03:19 PST

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The lesbian heresy

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 0:03:16 PST

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Acclaimed feminist theorist Jeffreys challenges male supremacist/racist assumptions of the sex industry, advocating the creation of a separate lesbian culture.

The lesbian menace

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 0:03:08 PST

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This book addresses these and other questions by examining how lesbianism has been represented in American popular culture in the twentieth century and how ...

Best Lesbian Romance

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 0:03:07 PST

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Best Lesbian Romance presents the juiciest, most seductive lesbian love stories. The erotic stories of Best Lesbian Romance put a new spin on lesbian love. In Lynne Jamneck’s “Shooting Snow,” set in Greenland, a photographer and the scientist who has brought her north gradually melt the glacier between them. In Lisa Figueroa’s “Under the Skin,” a butch-femme couple on a tropical holiday discover ...

Lesbian Pulp Fiction

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 0:03:05 PST

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Long before the rise of the modern gay movement, an unnoticed literary revolution was occurring between the covers of the cheaply produced lesbian pulp paperbacks of the post–World War II era. In 1950, publisher Fawcett Books founded its Gold Medal imprint, inaugurating the reign of lesbian pulp fiction. These were the books that small-town lesbians and prurient men bought by the millions — cheap ...

What a Lesbian Looks Like

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 0:02:47 PST

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The National Lesbian and Gay Survey is a mass observation project set up in 1985 to record the experience of lesbians and gay men. Since that time lesbian and gay volunteers have provided accounts on a wide range of issues pertinent to lesbian and gay life. What a Lesbian Looks Like draws on this material to provide an anthology of personal writings from lesbians nationwide. The volunteers come f ...

Lesbian empire

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 0:02:36 PST

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In lively, engaging prose, the author then connects Warner's oppositional feminist politics and literary practice to the work of other writers who struggled ...

Lesbian lives

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 0:02:33 PST

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Lesbian Lives extends the boundaries of enquiry with an investigation into the ways in which lesbians represent themselves and are represented by others in the ...

Lesbian Mothers

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 0:02:31 PST

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Lesbian Ethics

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 0:02:26 PST

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Lesbian Gothic

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 0:02:24 PST

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Tracing the growth of lesbian Gothic fiction over the 25 years since the advent of the Women's Movement and Gay Liberation in the 1970s, this text discusses a wide selection of novels and stories, contextualizing and re-evaluating them in the light of changing currents in lesbian/queer culture and politics. The figure of the lesbian, frequently portrayed in a homophobic/misogynistic light, has lo ...

Lesbian Subjects

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 0:02:22 PST

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The growth in cultural studies has brought homosexuality to the center of work on gender and sexuality. The lesbian is now an accepted subject for scrutiny - she exists, but how do we define her history, whom do we include, and when did it begin? "Lesbian Subjects" includes essays drawn primarily from Feminist Studies from 1980 to 1993 and traces lesbian studies from its beginnings, examining the ...

Lesbian Epiphanies

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 0:02:19 PST

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Exploring identity development and gender orientation, Lesbian Epiphanies: Women Coming Out in Later Life contains firsthand information about the experiences and difficulties of women who discover and reveal their newfound lesbian sexuality in later life. Psychologists, social workers, counselors, and professors will find that Lesbian Epiphanies is the first book to extensively quote from interv ...

Lesbian Erotics

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 0:02:00 PST

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The question of whether lesbians have sex, how they have sex, and when they began having sex has long obsessively preoccupied the heterosexual imagination. Today, discussions of lesbian sex abound with such terms as romantic friendships, stealth lesbians, and genitally sexual. As we approach the end of the twentieth century, lesbian sexuality remains hotly contested ground. What exactly qualifies ...

Lesbian Psychologies

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 0:01:52 PST

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Torino 21 International Gay & Lesbian film festival

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 0:01:50 PST

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Torino, 20-27 aprile 2006

20 Turin International Gay & Lesbian film festival

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 0:01:48 PST

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Torino, 21-28 aprile 2005

Kissing the Mask

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 0:01:37 PST

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From the National Book Award-winning author of Europe Central comes a charming, evocative and piercing examination of an ancient Japanese tradition and the keys it holds to our modern understanding of beauty.... What is a woman? To what extent is femininity a performance? Writing with the extraordin-ary awareness and endless curiosity that have defined his entire oeuvre, William T. Vollmann ...

Involved, Invisible, Ignored

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 0:01:35 PST

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Stonewalled Still Demanding Respect

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 0:01:33 PST

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Report finale di Io sono io lavoro

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 0:01:32 PST

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Toms and Dees

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 0:01:24 PST

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A vibrant, growing, and highly visible set of female identities has emerged in Thailand known as tom and dee. A "tom" (from "tomboy") refers to a masculine woman who is sexually involved with a feminine partner, or "dee" (from "lady"). The patterning of female same-sex relationships into masculine and feminine pairs, coupled with the use of English-derived terms to refer to them, is found through ...

Looking Queer

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 0:01:22 PST

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Looking Queer: Body Image in Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, and Transgender Communities contains research, firsthand accounts, poetry, theory, and journalistic essays that address and outline the special needs of sexual minorities when dealing with eating disorders and appearance obsession. Looking Queer will give members of these communities hope, insight, and information into body image issues, helpin ...

Voices Rising

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 0:01:20 PST

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Voices Rising: Celebrating 20 Years of Black Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Writing marks the twentieth anniversary of Other Countries--a small organization endeavoring to create a powerful, far-reaching, deliberate legacy of black queer expression. Voices Rising gathers sixty-five writers whose work forms an important bridge among members of black LGBT communities, charting two decades o ...

The Full Spectrum

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 0:01:18 PST

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Teens are more aware of sexuality and identity than ever, and they’re looking for answers and insights, as well as a community of others. In order to help create that community, YA authors David Levithan and Billy Merrell have collected original poems, essays, and stories by young adults in their teens and early 20s. The Full Spectrum includes a variety of writers—gay, lesbian, bisexual, straight ...

Our Place on Campus

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 0:01:16 PST

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Guidelines are provided for establishing and operating LGBT centers or program offices on college or university campuses. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender students arrive on campuses every year expecting their voices to be heard, their concerns acknowledged, and their needs met in a welcoming educational environment. The establishment of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Resource Cent ...

Homosexuality in Islam

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 0:01:12 PST

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Homosexuality is anathema to Islam - or so the majority of both believers and non-believers suppose. Throughout the Muslim world, it is met with hostility, where state punishments range from hefty fines to the death penalty. Likewise, numerous scholars and commentators maintain that the Qur'an and Hadith rule unambiguously against same-sex relations. This pioneering study argues that there is far ...

Glad Day Daily Affirmations

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 0:01:11 PST

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With this inspiring book of meditations, every day brings a reminder of "the wholeness and beauty of our nature, of the glad spirit that dances in each one of us." Addressing the needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people, Glad Day speaks to the issues that touch everyone, regardless of sexual orientation: change, fear, self-disclosure, faith in a power greater than ourselves, succes ...

Courage to Love

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 0:01:10 PST

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Affirmative Practice

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 0:01:06 PST

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Today, social work and human services professionals must be prepared to deliver knowledgeable and unbiased services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender persons. For the first time, an unprecedented new resource sheds light on effective practice with LGBT populations. Presented in a thorough and sensitive style, Affirmative Practice delivers an extraordinary study of the history, knowledge, ...

Out of the Ordinary

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 0:00:59 PST

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A collection of essays by teenagers and adults of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender parents, aiming to provide the first step for many in feeling a connection with others who have had similar experiences. The text offers a variety of personal accounts of achieving one's own sexual identity, coping with homophobia, reaching a modern definition of the family, and related situations.

TransForming Gender

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 0:00:52 PST

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This book is a major contribution to contemporary gender and sexuality studies. At a time when transgender practices are the subject of increasing social and cultural visibility, it marks the first UK study of transgender identity formation. It is also the first examination - anywhere in the world - of transgender practices of intimacy and care. The author addresses changing government legislatio ...

Evviva la neve

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 0:00:47 PST

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Questo libro narra le migrazioni di genere, la lotta misteriosa e appariscente delle persone transgender, entra in sala operatoria, cattura l'istante in cui il sesso svanisce, quando il pene è demolito e i tessuti per costruire la vagina attendono: "Se non fosse per il colore rosso della carne, Daniela potrebbe essere un angelo. Daniela è senza sesso". "Provate a chiudere gli occhi per cinque sec ...

Queer Studies

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 0:00:44 PST

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Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered people are becoming more and more visible in all aspects of American culture, from party politics to MTV videos.Despite the recent queer publishing explosion, few texts cover a broad range of topics around sexual and gender identities. Most existing works are high-level theory books, texts focused upon specific disciplines or topics, or practical guides a ...

She's Not the Man I Married

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 0:00:30 PST

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Helen Boyd's husband, who had long been open about being a cross-dresser, was considering living as a woman full time. Suddenly, Boyd was confronted with the reality of what it would mean if her husband were actually to become a woman — socially, legally, and medically. Would Boyd love and desire her partner the same way? Boyd's first book, My Husband Betty, explored the relationships of cross-d ...

Cassell's Encyclopedia of Queer Myth, Symbol and Spirit

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 0:00:27 PST

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An A-Z reference source on the theme of same-sex desire, gender variance and the sacred, this book examines the often-suppressed spiritual dimension of homosexuality. Its coverage includes archetypal figures such as deities, spirits and the characters of fairy tales; sacred texts including religious narratives; myths and legends; symbols and metaphors; persons and groups embodying the domain, suc ...

Queer Studies

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 0:00:21 PST

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Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered people are becoming more and more visible in all aspects of American culture, from party politics to MTV videos. Despite the recent queer publishing explosion, few texts cover a broad range of topics around sexual and gender identities. Most existing works are high-level theory books, texts focused upon specific disciplines or topics, or practical guides ...

The Riddle of Gender

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 0:00:11 PST

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Un anno di storia gay, lesbica, bisessuale, transessuale & transgender

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 0:00:03 PST

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The Harvey Milk Institute guide to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer internet research

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 23:59:50 PST

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Soulforce http://www.soulforce.org Soulforce is an LGTBQ spiritual organization founded by Mel White. With a mission of "seeking justice for God"s lesbian, ...

Voice and Communication Therapy for the Transgender and Transsexual Client

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 23:59:48 PST

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Handbook of research with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender populations

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 23:59:44 PST

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"Handbook of Research with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Populations" provides a detailed examination of the current methods and theoretical frameworks for conducting research with LGBT populations. Introducing greater nuance in designing and implementing research models for working with these populations, "Handbook of Research with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Populations" p ...

30 anni di movimento gay lesbico bisessuale transessuale transgender in Italia

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 23:59:37 PST

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The Health of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 23:59:31 PST

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Assuming a Body

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 23:59:23 PST

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We believe we know our bodies intimately--that their material reality is certain and that this certainty leads to an epistemological truth about sex, gender, and identity. By exploring and giving equal weight to transgendered subjectivities, however, Gayle Salamon upends these certainties. Considering questions of transgendered embodiment via phenomenology (Maurice Merleau-Ponty), psychoanalysis ...

The handbook of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender public health

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 23:59:20 PST

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The Handbook of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Public Health: A Practitioner's Guide to Service provides a unique focus on LGBT public health, offering ...

The Rights of Lesbians, Gay Men, Bisexuals, and Transgender People

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 23:59:16 PST

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This book covers the rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, and transgender people under present law, specifically in regard to freedom of speech and association, employment, housing, the military, family and parenting, and HIV disease. Utilizing an accessible question-and-answer format and non-technical language, the book is a useful starting point for people facing discrimination or legal unce ...

Issues In Therapy With Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual And Transgender Clients

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 23:59:14 PST

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"A diverse and extremely useful set of chapters at the cutting edge of thinking on work with sexual minorities...An important and too often neglected aspect of therapist's and counsellor's training which this book does much to correct." - Susie Orbach, author of 'The Impossibility of Sex' "This book takes the reader inside the multiple worlds of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, and ...

Study New Testament for Gay, Lesbian, Bi, and Transgender

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 23:59:11 PST

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Serving Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning Teens

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 23:58:45 PST

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In our shared efforts to serve every member of our YA community, this new title is an important addition to your professional collection. This innovative guide will help you make informed collection, service, and programming decisions about materials for the growing lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) YA population. The authors provide an overview of LGBTQ literature, add ...

Glbtq Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 23:58:36 PST

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Are you queer or questioning? If you are, this book is for you. Do you know someone who might be queer or questioning? If so, this book is for you, too. Or are you someone who just wants to learn more about what it's like to be queer or questioning? This book is a great place to begin. Discovering that you, or someone you love, might be GLBTQ is a revelation. Accepting it is a process. One thing ...

Dal cybersex al transgender

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 23:58:29 PST

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The Transgender Phenomenon

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 23:58:16 PST

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'The field of "transgender" and "transpositionality" has been carved out as a new field of inquiry in the past decade, showing the fragmentation and diversification of masculinities and feminities - along with the error of any sharp polarisation. Dave King and Richard Ekins are the leading world sociologists in this field and have mined it richly since the 1970's. The book brings together a brill ...

The Transgender Debate

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 23:58:13 PST

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Transgender has become a cultural obsession. From the high camp of Rue Paul to the working class transsexual icon, Hayley of Coronation Street, it pervades our lives. Yet for many it remains a freakish interest on the sidelines. For transsexual and transgender people, though, it is a reality bound up in complexities, legal contradictions, family discord, and a desperate need to explain what it ...

The Transgender Child

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 23:58:12 PST

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This comprehensive first of its kind guidebook explores the unique challenges that thousands of families face every day raising their children in every city and state. Through extensive research and interviews, as well as years of experience working in the field, the authors cover gender variance from birth through college. What do you do when your toddler daughter’s first sentence is that she’s ...

Transgender voices

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 23:58:01 PST

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A revealing look at the lives and perspectives of transgender and gender variant people, based on 150 personal interviews

Transgender nation

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 23:57:58 PST

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Transgender Nation dares to look at the male-to-woman transgenderist and transsexual from a sociocultural and socio-political perspective and maintains that it ...

Transgender Jurisprudence

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 23:57:57 PST

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'Transgender Jurisprudence: Dysphoric Bodies of Law is an important book. ! Sharpe's discussion [of trangender jurisprudence]! is convincing and thought-provoking, ! his observations incisive and legally persuasive ! [and] his examination of the fundamental heterosexism and phallocentricity of "reform" jurisprudence is brilliant.' -Queen's Law Journal (Vol 28(1) 2002 pp 363-369 at pp 365, 366, 36 ...

Transgender Journeys

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 23:57:52 PST

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Transgender Subjectivities

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 23:57:51 PST

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Transgender Subjectivities is a comprehensive guide for understanding the issues and concerns of the emerging transgender phenomenon. This book offers a diverse, yet coherent view of this ever-expanding field. It provides an overview of transsexual manifestations designed to expose therapists, as well as the general public to this actively expanding area of social study. This compact but wide-ran ...

Transgender History

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 23:57:46 PST

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Covering American transgender history from the mid-twentieth century to today, Transgender History takes a chronological approach to the subject of transgender history, with each chapter covering major movements, writings, and events. Chapters cover the transsexual and transvestite communities in the years following World War II; trans radicalism and social change, which spanned from 1966 with t ...

Transgender Rights

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 23:57:41 PST

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"Transgender Rights packs a surprising amount of information into a small space. Offering spare, tightly executed essays, this slim volume nonetheless succeeds in creating a spectacular, well-researched compendium of the transgender movement." -Law Library Journal Over the past three decades, the transgender movement has gained visibility and achieved significant victories. Discrimination has b ...

Transgender

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 23:57:30 PST

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