Gay America: Struggle for Equality
10 best books like Gay America: Struggle for Equality (Linas Alsenas): The Full Spectrum: A New Generation of Writing About Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Question, Bodies from the Ice: Melting Glaciers and the Recovery of the Past, The Women Who Lived for Danger: The Agents of the Special Operations Executive, Nothing Pink, Hear Us Out!: Lesbian and Gay Stories of Struggle, Progress, and Hope, 1950 to the Present, 10,000 Dresses, Pride: Celebrating Diversity & Community, Thoreau at Walden, A + E 4ever, Money Boy
| Author | David Levithan |
| ISBN | 0375832904 |
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...
In 1991, mountain climbers on the Niederjoch Glacier on the Italian-Austrian border came across something unexpected: a body. It had been a very warm summer, and five bodies had already turned up in the area. But something here was different. The materials found with the body suggested it might be very...
| Author | Marcus Binney |
| ISBN | 0060540877 |
The Special Operations Executive was formed by Winston Churchill in 1940 to "set Europe ablaze." In the SOE women were trained to handle guns and explosives, work undercover, endure interrogation by the Gestapo, and use complex codes. In The Women Who Lived for Danger, acclaimed historian Marcus...
| Author | Mark Hardy |
| ISBN | 1932425241 |
Nothing Pink is an eye opening story about a boy named Vincent who struggles with being gay. To make things even harder, his father is a preacher.
This book was so sad to me. Growing up very religious myself, I've heard so many of the things that were said in this book. The idea of someone not being accepted...
| Author | Nancy Garden |
| ISBN | 0374317593 |
What was it like being young and gay during the closeted 1950s, the exuberant beginnings of the modern gay rights movement in the 1970s, or the frightening outbreak of HIV and AIDS in the 1980s? In this unique history, Nancy Garden uses both fact and fiction to explore just what it has meant to be young and...
| Author | Marcus Ewert |
| ISBN | 1583228500 |
Every night, Bailey dreams about magical dresses: dresses made of crystals and rainbows, dresses made of flowers, dresses made of windows… Unfortunately, when Bailey's awake, no one wants to hear about these beautiful dreams. Quite the contrary: "You're a BOY!" Mother and Father tell Bailey....
Pride: Celebrating Diversity & Community
| Author | Robin Stevenson |
| ISBN | 1459809939 |
For gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people and their supporters, June is a month of pride and celebration, and the high point of that month is the Pride Day Parade. Pride Day is a spectacular and colorful event. But there is a whole lot more to Pride than rainbow flags and amazing outfits. So what...
| Author | John Porcellino |
| ISBN | 1423100387 |
"I am convinced, both by faith and experience, that to maintain one's self on this earth is not a hardship, but a pastime, if we will live simply and wisely." So said Henry David Thoreau in 1845 when he began his famous experiment in living on Walden Pond. In this graphic masterpiece, John Porcellino uses...
| Author | I. Merey |
| ISBN | 1590213904 |
Asher Machnik is a teenage boy cursed with a beautiful androgynous face. Guys punch him, girls slag him and by high school he's developed an intense fear of being touched. Art remains his only escape from an otherwise emotionally empty life. Eulalie Mason is the lonely, tough-talking dyke from school...
| Author | Paul Yee |
| ISBN | 1554980941 |
An American Library Association Youth Media Award Stonewall Honor Book
Ray Liu knows he should be happy. He lives in a big suburban house with all the latest electronic gadgets, and even finds plenty of time to indulge in his love of gaming. He needs the escape. It’s tough getting grades...
| Author | Ann Bausum |
| ISBN | 0670016799 |
That’s the Stonewall.
The Stonewall Inn.
Pay attention.
History walks through that door.
In 1969 being gay in the United States was a criminal offense. It meant living a closeted life or surviving on the fringes of society. People went to jail, lost jobs, and were disowned by...
| Author | Kelly Huegel |
| ISBN | 1575421267 |
The teen years are full of challenges.
For gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, and questioning teens, these challenges can include prejudice, discrimination, rejection, reprisals, insensitive remarks (even among friends and families) and, sometimes, violence.
But being...
What's Up Down There?: Questions You'd Only Ask Your Gynecologist If She Was Your Best Friend
| Author | Lissa Rankin |
| ISBN | 0312644361 |
In this funny, outrageous and empowering book, Dr. Lissa Rankin answers all the secret gynecological questions that most women wonder about, but have always been afraid to ask.
Suppose you had a wise, warm, funny best friend-who just happened to be a gynecologist. You're out with the girls...
| Author | Jay Michaelson |
| ISBN | 0807001597 |
An alien anthropologist analyzing our early-21st century society in America, based solely on media coverage, would probably assume that the issue of gay rights popped instantly into existence sometime in the mid-1980s, around the time of the early AIDS epidemic, which was originally dubbed the...
| Author | Andrew Sullivan |
| ISBN | 0679746145 |
No subject has divided contemporary America more bitterly than homosexuality. Addressing the full range of the debate in this pathbreaking book, Andrew Sullivan, the former editor of The New Republic, restores both reason and humanity to the discussion over how a predominantly heterosexual...
Out in the Country: Youth, Media, and Queer Visibility in Rural America
| Author | Mary L. Gray |
| ISBN | 0814731937 |
Winner of the 2009 Ruth Benedict Prize for Outstanding Monograph from the Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists
Winner of the 2010 Distinguished Book Award from the American Sociological Association, Sociology of Sexualities Section
Winner of the 2010 Congress Inaugural Qualitative...
Fear of a Queer Planet: Queer Politics and Social Theory
| Author | Michael Warner |
| ISBN | 0816623341 |
i'm not really sure i got a whole lot from this collection of essays in that it didn't broaden my horizons or challenge the way i think about things. i imagine it was pretty groundbreaking in 1993, but read today, a lot of the evisceration of popular theory (particularly in the fuss and sedgwick essays)...
The Eastern Stars: How Baseball Changed the Dominican Town of San Pedro de Macoris
| Author | Mark Kurlansky |
| ISBN | 1594487502 |
The intriguing, inspiring history of one small, impoverished area in the Dominican Republic that has produced a staggering number of Major League Baseball talent, from an award-winning, bestselling author.
In the town of San Pedro in the Dominican Republic, baseball is not just a way of life....
An Unspeakable Crime: The Prosecution and Persecution of Leo Frank
| Author | Elaine Marie Alphin |
| ISBN | 0822589443 |
I hardly know what to say about this one. An Unspeakable Crime: The Prosecution and Persecution of Leo Frank is in all probability the best nonfiction book I've ever read. It takes an old, generally forgotten court case from the dusty annals of the history of the American justice system and forms from...
| Author | Robert Trachtenberg |
| ISBN | 0060571462 |
Cute stories from various people about when they realized they're gay. Most are humorous. All bring an insight to the perspective of gay kids.
It's obvious to me that people are born gay, they don't choose to be gay. I always wondered what it must be like for kids to sense there is something different...
| Author | Brian Malloy |
| ISBN | 0312359764 |
Who is Brendan Wolf? It all depends on who you ask.
* To the staff of a Minneapolis nursing home, he's the devoted partner of a much older man who's recently suffered a debilitating stroke.
* To the women of a conservative, Christian pro-life organization, he's the tireless...
Chocolate: Sweet Science Dark Secrets of the World's Favorite Treat
| Author | Kay Frydenborg |
| ISBN | 0544175662 |
Richie’s Picks: CHOCOLATE: SWEET SCIENCE AND DARK SECRETS OF THE WORLD’S FAVORITE TREAT by Kay Frydenborg, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, April 2015, 272 p., ISBN: 978-0-544-17566-2
“He came dancing across the water
With his galleons and guns
Looking for that new world
In...
Uppity Women of the New World
| Author | Vicki León |
| ISBN | 1573241873 |
Leon's book is a fine example of a great idea poorly executed. It does the important work of bringing the forgotten stories of women to light and covers a wide range, from less-legendary Native Americans to explorers and artists to indigenous rebels, but the writing is so glib and self-consciously anachronistic...
Che Guevara Reader: Writings on Politics & Revolution
| Author | Ernesto Che Guevara |
| ISBN | 1876175699 |
A new, revised and expanded edition of an Ocean Press classic.
This reader is the bestselling, most comprehensive selection of Che Guevara’s writings, letters and speeches available in English. This volume covers Che’s writings on the Cuban revolutionary war, the first years of the...
Prayers for Bobby: A Mother's Coming to Terms with the Suicide of Her Gay Son
| Author | Leroy Aarons |
| ISBN | 0062511238 |
Bobby Griffith was an all-American boy ...and he was gay. Faced with an irresolvable conflict-for both his family and his religion taught him that being gay was "wrong"-Bobby chose to take his own life. Prayers for Bobby, nominated for a 1996 Lambda Literary Award, is the story of the emotional journey...
