The Joy of Gay Sex
10 best books like The Joy of Gay Sex (Charles Silverstein): Conduct Unbecoming: Gays and Lesbians in the Us Military, Daddy's Roommate, The Best Little Boy in the World, Homosexuality & Civilization, Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past, Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A., Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage: Valuing All Families under the Law, Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940-1970, The Drowning of Stephan Jones, You Hear Me?: Poems and Writing by Teenage Boys
| Author | Randy Shilts |
| ISBN | 5551973522 |
So I read this book not necessarily because the topic particularly interests me, but because I read And the Band Played On and fell in love with Shilt's journalistic style. He is one of the many people our society lost because of AIDS and working my way through his three books has brought to my mind again...
| Author | Michael Willhoite |
| ISBN | 1555831184 |
this book is FAIL.
well, let me clarify: this part is GREAT: "Mom says Daddy and Frank are gay./At first I didn't know what that meant. So she explained it./Being gay is just one more kind of love./ And love is the best kind of happiness." Lovely, appropriate, true.
but the illustrations...
The Best Little Boy in the World
| Author | Andrew Tobias |
| ISBN | 0345381769 |
The classic account of growing up gay in America.
"The best little boy in the world never had wet dreams or masturbated; he always topped his class, honored mom and dad, deferred to elders and excelled in sports . . . . The best little boy in the world was . . . the model IBM exec . . . The best little boy in...
Homosexuality & Civilization
| Author | Louis Crompton |
| ISBN | 0674022335 |
How have major civilizations of the last two millennia treated people who were attracted to their own sex? In a narrative tour de force, Louis Crompton chronicles the lives and achievements of homosexual men and women alongside a darker history of persecution, as he compares the Christian West with...
| Author | Martin Duberman |
| ISBN | 0452010675 |
This richly revealing anthology brings together for the first time the vital new scholarly studies now lifting the veil from the gay and lesbian past. Such notable researchers as John Boswell, Shari Benstock, Jeffrey Weeks and John D'Emilio illuminate gay and lesbian life as it evolved in places as...
| Author | Jonathan Ned Katz |
| ISBN | 0452010926 |
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[October is Gay History Month, and in commemoration of this I recommend this seminal work as the quintessential record of gay history in America]
About the author: Katz taught as an adjunct at Yale University, Eugene Lang...
Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage: Valuing All Families under the Law
| Author | Nancy D. Polikoff |
| ISBN | 0807044326 |
The debate over marriage equality for same-sex couples rages across the country. Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage boldly moves the discussion forward by focusing on the larger, more fundamental issue of marriage and the law. The root problem, asserts law professor and LGBT rights activist Nancy...
| Author | John D'Emilio |
| ISBN | 0226142671 |
With thorough documentation of the oppression of homosexuals and biographical sketches of the lesbian and gay heroes who helped the contemporary gay culture to emerge, Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities supplies the definitive analysis of the homophile movement in the U.S. from 1940 to 1970....
| Author | Bette Greene |
| ISBN | 0440226953 |
Hate. It's the farthest feeling from sixteen-year-old Carla Wayland's mind. She can't believe people would persecute others just because they are different. But she isn't about to worry about the injustice surrounding her because she's in love with handsome and popular Andy Harris. Although raised...
Teenage boys speak out—without the filter of adult sensibility—in a compelling collection of poetry and prose.
In a powerful collection of more than seventy uncensored poems and essays, more than fifty teenage boys from across the country explore their many-layered concerns: identity,...
| Author | Lynda Madaras |
| ISBN | 1557044449 |
I checked this out from the library when I was looking for a book to give my almost-8 yr.-old. I found the content a little bit too detailed in areas I didn't feel she was ready for yet (birth control, for instance - yikes!! I'm not ready for that!) And it had some anatomical illustrations of boys and girls...
| Author | Marilyn Reynolds |
| ISBN | 1929777051 |
In the 9th grade, Emmy is an A student, a soccer star, and a lead soprano in the school choir. She won't let her alcoholic mother or her father, long gone, stand in her way. Emmy falls for Art, a junior who is also one of the choir's lead singers. Art is a dream of a boyfriend until Emmy finds that she's pregnant....
| Author | Brock Cole |
| ISBN | 1932425713 |
How to describe Brock Cole's brilliant new young-adult novel, "The Facts Speak for Themselves?" Here's how the author himself did it in a recent magazine interview: "The Facts [Speak for Themselves?"] starts with a murder and the witness to the murder is a 13-year-old girl. In the initial interrogations,...
| Author | Esther Drill |
| ISBN | 0671041576 |
Deal With It! offers a whole new approach for dealing with your life as a girl. It's a resource to help you learn about, laugh about, and figure out the stuff you go through on your way through life. It won't tell you what to do, because you'll need to decide that for yourself. But whether you're wondering...
| Author | Iona Opie |
| ISBN | 0763611999 |
"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me."
That's what children chant when they are being teased; it's what their parents chanted, and their grandparents and their great grandparents before them. Collected in this invaluable book are the wit and wisdom of generations...
| Author | Kath Weston |
| ISBN | 0231110936 |
This is a book about gay families and what it means to be a homosexual in the context of non-biological kinship, exclusively in San Francisco, ‘Gay Mecca’, in the USA. It is about how they live their lives in the face of rejection or even being disowned by blood relatives, which has led many to build...
| 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...
| Author | Henry Abelove |
| ISBN | 0415905192 |
Bringing together forty-two groundbreaking essays--many of them already classics--
The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader
provides a much-needed introduction to the contemporary state of lesbian/gay studies, extensively illustrating the range, scope, diversity, appeal, and power of the work...
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...
Male Colors: The Construction of Homosexuality in Tokugawa Japan
| Author | Gary P. Leupp |
| ISBN | 0520209001 |
Tokugawa Japan ranks with ancient Athens as a society that not only tolerated, but celebrated, male homosexual behavior. Few scholars have seriously studied the subject, and until now none have satisfactorily explained the origins of the tradition or elucidated how its conventions reflected class...
Whole Lesbian Sex Book: A Passionate Guide for All of Us
| Author | Felice Newman |
| ISBN | 1573441996 |
The Whole Lesbian Sex Book was the first-ever sex guide to offer information and encouragement for all women who desire women -- lesbian, bisexual, butch, femme, androgynous, and transgender. First published in 1999, it's been lauded for its thoroughness, enthusiastic tone, and creative, nonjudgmental...
States of Desire: Travels in Gay America
| Author | Edmund White |
| ISBN | 0452266890 |
In this city-by-city description of the way homosexual men lived in the late seventies, Edmund White gives us a picture of Gay America that will surprise gay and straight readers alike. With great wit and humor, the co-author of The Joy of Gay Sex tells what goes on behind the glittering surface of fashionable...
Ultimate Guide to Fellatio: How to Go Down on a Man and Give Him Mind-Blowing Pleasure
| Author | Violet Blue |
| ISBN | 1573441511 |
With wit, expertise, and an enthusiastic approach, the author of The Ultimate Guide to Fellatio dispels myths and delivers concise information on going down on a man. Featuring a complete resource guide to books, videos, illustrations, and websites depicting fellatio, every tip, trick, and technique...
| Author | Patricia Nell Warren |
For those who know Warren's previous novels, this is the third in a series. The first, The Front Runner, is about a young gay distance runner who was outed on his way to the Olympics. For those who haven't read The Front Runner yet, Billy's Boy stands alone as a story. Billy's Boy is a first person story, about...
Lesbian Pulp Fiction: The Sexually Intrepid World of Lesbian Paperback Novels, 1950-1965
| Author | Katherine V. Forrest |
| ISBN | 1573442100 |
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...
