Explores the rise and fall of the hugely popular women-only concerts, festivals, bookstores, and support spaces built by and for lesbians in the era of woman-identified activism.
This book discusses same-sex desire among elite, educated Roman men in late antiquity, when same-sex desire could operate as a distinct vehicle for expressing friendship, patronage, solidarity, and other important relationships.
On the Meaning of Friendship Between Gay Men takes readers beyond a traditional exploration of gay sexuality and romantic relationships, into the realm of recognizing the importance of friendship to gay men.
Karla Jay's memoir of an age whose tumultuous social and political movements fundamentally reshaped American culture takes readers from her early days in the 1968 Columbia University student riots to her post-college involvement in New York radical women's groups and the New York Gay Liberation Front to Southern California in the early '70s, where she continued in the battle for gay civil rights.
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A documentary by an Asian guy about Asian guys and the stigma they often face. Yellow is a documentary about the Asian male phenomena perceived in the media and gay culture and how it reflects from their childhood.
The Strange History of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell illustrates the tumultuous evolution of a controversial policy which fostered hate and intolerance within the military – and undermined the very freedoms American soldiers fight for – by forcing gay and lesbian soldiers to lie and live in secrecy.
Skinta, M. D. (2017). Gay Men. In K. L. Nadal (Ed.), The SAGE Encyclopedia of Psychology and Gender (Vol. 2, pp. 595-600). Los Angeles, CA: SAGE Reference.
Rayfield, N., Miville, M. L., & Buque, M. (2017). Lesbians. In K. L. Nadal (Ed.), The SAGE Encyclopedia of Psychology and Gender (Vol. 3, pp. 1053-1057). Los Angeles, CA: SAGE Reference.