The TV-perfect family of Walter de Milly III was like many others in the American South of the 1950s--seemingly close-knit, solidly respectable, and active in the community. Tragically, Walter's deeply troubled father would launch his family on a perilous journey into darkness. To the outside world, this man is a prominent businessman, a ......
This comprehensive resource manual provides information and references on important lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered issues which are required to make psychology curriculums and clinical competencies more inclusive.'
This comprehensive resource manual provides information and references on important lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered issues which are required to make psychology curriculums and clinical competencies more inclusive.'
Latino writer Manrique weaves his autobiography with the lives of three other gay Hispanic authors: Manuel Puig; Reinaldo Arenas; and Federico Garcia Lorca. The memoir explores literature, sexuality and Hispanic culture. As one of those writers, Manrique chronicles his own intellectual and emotional journey to becoming an author. Through the ......
Addressing the role of gender and sexuality in the anti-racist politics of black Americans, these essays deal with topics such as the legal construction of black male identity, domestic abuse in black families, the power of black machismo, and the politics of black male/white female relationships.
Includes essays that cover topics such as the legal construction of black male identity, domestic abuse in the black community, the enduring power of black machismo, the politics of black male/white female relationships, the role of black men in black women's quest for racial equality, and the heterosexist nature of black political engagement.
With searing self-appraisal and a keen sense of the world around him, acclaimed writer and gay activist Martin Duberman examines a wide range of issues in his personal and professional life and in the politics of the time from 1971 to 1981--from the early years of gay liberation to the first public reports of AIDS. Duberman moves from the ......
Before gay liberation, gay men were usually perceived as failed men--"inverts," men trapped in women's bodies. The 1970s saw a radical shift in gay male culture, as a male homosexuality emerged that embraced a more traditional masculine ethos. The gay clone, a muscle-bound, sexually free, hard-living Marlboro man, appeared in the gay enclaves of ......
Male-to-Male Sexual Behavior Outside the West and the Ethnographic Imagination, 1750-1918
Recent years have seen enormous attention devoted to the history of sexuality in the Western world. But how has the West conceived of non-western societies been influenced by these other traditions? The Geography of Perversion and Desire is the first historical study to demonstrate convincingly that the representation cultural otherness, as found ......
