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Outhouse East Library			1 / 11

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	The Other Face of Love: A Definitive Study of Homosexuality	The Other Face of Love is a candid and detailed investigation into homosexual love - male and female - from the ancient societies of Egypt, Greece and Rome to the present day. Until recently the subject of homosexuality had been covered by a taboo in western society. In the liberal atmosphere that prevails today, the author discusses the causes of this taboo, and shows how, in the vanished civilisations of Babylon, India, Egypt, Greece, Rome, Japan and Renaissance Europe homosexuality was not only practised, but accepted as a form of sexual behaviour.
	Raymond de Becker
	1967
	Culture, Gay, History, Lesbian
	Book#: CLT001
	Culture Clash: The Making of Gay Sensibility	From Walt Whitman to Boy George, gay culture has profoundly shaped American society. Culture Clash looks at gay male culture in everything from drag shows to the Malboro man to pornography; from the cults surrounding stars like Mae West and Judy Garland to the avant garde gay theaters that have revolutionized Broadway productions. Mainstream America has experienced a significant cultural confrontation and integration - between gay liberation and "the heterosexual dictatorship" - and each has permanently changed the other. Culture Clash explores the dynamics of gay liberation and homophobia, of change and backlash, and reveals the radicalism of the challenge that gay men and lesbians, as cultural adventurers, have offered to American society.
	Michael Bronski
	1984
	Culture, Gay
	Book#: CLT002
	Book#: CLT002
	What Are You Looking At?: Queer Sexy, Style and Cinema	Who do the men in gay porn films insist on acting straight? Is there space in the Queer New World for straight men who "act gay"? What happens when a gay man confesses to getting off on lesbian erotica? How do gay men justify their love of Madonna? Who was fiddling with what in "Paris is Burning"? What makes homo-icons Take That and Keanu Reeves so different, so appealing? Is it acceptable to laugh at films about AIDS? What makes "Coronation Street" compulsive queer viewing? This lively collection of essays and articles test the boundaries and sensitivities of so-called "gay culture". "Times Out's" Gay Editor, and former Consultant Editor at "Attitude", takes an incisive, often "irresponsible" look at gay men's attitudes to themselves, each other, and the icons that matter to them.
	Paul Burston
	1995
	Culture, Film/Cinema, Gay, Sex
	Book#: CLT003
	Book#: CLT003
	Footsteps and Witnesses: Lesbian and Gay Lifestories from Scotland	"This book, mingling past records with new is a highly appropriate way of capturing the national memory, particularly as it effects lesbian and gay lives. Nobody is better qualified to do this than Bob Cant. His books, with their sensitive and enlightening recording of people's lives, in all their lived variety, have been genuinely important contributions to our sense of the past and our understanding of the present. Footsteps and Witnesses brings alive and illuminates a vital experience." - Jeffrey Weeks, Professor of Sociology, London South Bank University
	Bob Cant
	2008
	Culture, Gay, Lesbian
	Book#: CLT004
	Lesbian Choices	Renowned feminist philosopher Card courageously explores the complex ethical and political questions lesbians face regarding their identities and their relationships both within and outside of lesbian communities.
	Claudia Card
	1995
	Culture, Lesbian
	Book#: CLT005

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Outhouse East Library			2 / 11

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	The Greatest Taboo: Homosexuality in Black Communities	Twenty-eight powerful, provocative essays from academics and writers of all ethnic heritages, genders, and sexuality, including bell hooks, Eric Garber, Seth Clarke Silberman, Gregory Conerly, and Dr. Gloria Wekker-running from 19th-century slave quarters to postapartheid South Africa, from RuPaul to the Wu Tang Clan, from 1920s Harlem to 1995's Million Man March on Washington-provide a clear-eyed societal, cultural, political, and historical view of both the transformation and continued repression of black lesbians and gay men.
	Delroy Constantine-Simms
	2001
	BEM, Culture, Gay, Lesbian
	Book#: CLT006
	The Homosexuals	In these interviews, taut with drama and self-revelation, Alan Ebert enables each man to create his own individual self-portrait. What results is not a picture of "THE homosexual" but a medley of stories filled with humour, anger, love, tragedy, and pride, which in their cumulative impact explode the myths our society still holds about homosexuals.
	Alan Ebert
	1977
	Culture, Gay
	Book#: CLT006.01
	The European Gay Review, Volume 2	The European Gay Review is a unique international quartlery review of homosexuality, the arts and ideas. The Review publishes work of the highest standard by distinguished as well as orignial new writers, covering fiction, poetry, theatre, cinema, music, books and the visual arts.
	Salvatore Santagati
	1987
	Art/Photography, Culture, Film/Cinema, Gay, Literary Criticism, Music, Poetry, Theatre/Play
	Book#: CLT007
	Book#: CLT007
	The European Gay Review, Volume 3	The European Gay Review is a unique international quartlery review of homosexuality, the arts and ideas. The Review publishes work of the highest standard by distinguished as well as orignial new writers, covering fiction, poetry, theatre, cinema, music, books and the visual arts.
	Salvatore Santagati
	1988
	Culture, Film/Cinema, Gay, Literary Criticism, Music, Poetry, Theatre/Play
	Book#: CLT008
	The European Gay Review, Volume 4	The European Gay Review is a unique international quartlery review of homosexuality, the arts and ideas. The Review publishes work of the highest standard by distinguished as well as orignial new writers, covering fiction, poetry, theatre, cinema, music, books and the visual arts.
	Salvatore Santagati
	1989
	Art/Photography, Culture, Film/Cinema, Gay, Literary Criticism, Music, Poetry, Theatre/Play
	Book#: CLT009
	Book#: CLT009

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Outhouse East Library			3 / 11

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	The European Gay Review, Volume 5	The European Gay Review is a unique international quartlery review of homosexuality, the arts and ideas. The Review publishes work of the highest standard by distinguished as well as orignial new writers, covering fiction, poetry, theatre, cinema, music, books and the visual arts.
	Salvatore Santagati
	1989
	Art/Photography, Culture, Film/Cinema, Gay, Literary Criticism, Music, Poetry, Theatre/Play
	Book#: CLT010
	Book#: CLT010
	The Gay Mystique: The Myth and Reality of Male Homosexuality	Straight people, get ready to have your world shaken up! The Gay Mystique, a breakthrough in understanding the homosexual lifestyle, tells it like it is about the intimate gay world. In no uncertain terms, Fisher dispels the common myths about homosexuals: that they are unhappy and unfulfilled. He probes the stuggle to "come out of the closet," and guides the gay person who had not yet declared himself.
	Peter Fisher
	1978
	Culture, Gay
	Book#: CLT010.01
	Daring to Dissent: Lesbian Culture from Margin to Mainstream	This collection of essays examines the full range of lesbian expression and representation in literature, theatre, radio, television, film and photography, reflecting the diversity of lesbian culture. The collection takes a broad-based approach, looking beyond traditional literary genres and focusing instead on those which relate more specifically to lesbians, such as crime writing, and the field of performing and visual arts. Original articles on television, art, theatre and newspaper journalism are presented. A combination of UK- and US-based writers, performers, producers, activists, theorists, journalists and critics have contributed to this contemporary analysis of lesbian culture. Contributors include Mary Wings, Rose Collis, Barbara Wilson and Veronica Groocock.
	Liz Gibbs
	1994
	Art/Photography, Culture, Film/Cinema, Lesbian, Literary Criticism, Poetry, Television, Theatre/Play
	Book#: CLT011
	Book#: CLT011
	Heavenly Love?: Lesbian Images in Twentieth-Century Women's Writing	"Heavenly Love?" questions assumptions about lesbian identity in the 20th century by looking in detail at writers such as Radclyffe Hall, Adrienne Rich, Joanna Russ, Jane Rule and Jeanette Winterson. This book begins with the early work of sexologists, such as Havelock Ellis and Edward Carpenter. It explores the change in the image of the lesbian from "pathetic", pathologised, deviant and isolated, to the defiant, feisty and communal figure of today. Gabriele Griffin argues that the politicization of women in the 1960s and 1970s enabled lesbians to move "from twilight to limelight" - both in society and in literature.
	Gabriele Griffin
	1993
	Culture, History, Lesbian, Literary Criticism
	Book#: CLT012
	Book#: CLT012

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Outhouse East Library			4 / 11

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	The Last Party: Studio 54, Disco, and the Culture of the Night	Studio 54 was the icon of excess. It was the cradle of today's culture of celebrity, a place where Liza, Mick and Andy lounged in the VIP section while revelers did drugs in the fabled unisex bathroom and would-be revelers waited hour after hour on West Fifty-fourth Street, hoping to catch the eye of a nineteen-year-old doorman who was, for a brief moment, the ultimate gatekeeper of cool. "The Last Party" is the story not just of Studio 54 but of the whole Nightworld. Anthony Haden-Guest was on this scene at the opening night party and many nights thereafter. He knew all the key players and has interviewed everyone, from the stars and club kids who made the scene to the impresarios who created it to the cops who ultimately brought it down. He takes us past the velvet cord, down onto the pounding dance floor, up into the polymorphously perverse balcony, and on into Steve Rubell's office, where a few insiders stuffed cash into garbage bags as they skimmed millions from their golden goos...
	Anthony Haden-Guest
	1997
	Culture, Music
	Book#: CLT013
	Book#: CLT013
	The Good Bad and the Gorgeous: Popular Culture's Romance with Lesbianism	In recent years references to lesbianism have been making their way into popular culture in an unprecedented way. Madonna has flirted with it, Martina Nevratilova openly admits it, and the BBC make costume dramas about it. This does not mean that mainstream society is welcoming lesbians with open arms, but it does suggest that lesbianism's historical status as a despised and invisible identity is no longer appropriate. In this highly original collection, fifteen writers from Britain, the United States and Australia focus on a wide range of cultural "moments" in the worlds of film, television, pop music, books, magazines and newspapers. As well as examining media representations of lesbians in the BBC's "Portrait of a Marriage", "Oranges are not the Only Fruit", and the US series "LA Law", they also explore specifically lesbian readings of Hollywood films such as "The Accused", "Aliens", and "Thelma and Louise". Some pieces examine pop music from a lesbian perspective, both the industr...
	Belinda Budge, Diane Hamer
	1994
	Culture, Film/Cinema, Lesbian, Literary Criticism, Music, Television
	Book#: CLT014
	Book#: CLT014
	Twilight Women Around the World	Subtitled "International Picture of the Other Love". Chapter titles include: The Four F's of Homosexuality: Fable, Fiction, Fancy - and Fact; The Neglected Lesbians; The Loneliest People; You Can't Keep Them Down on the Farm; Split-level Sapphists; The Village Deviate; The In-Between In-Betweens (Girls Attending Boarding Schools / Women in the Armed Forces / Call Girls and Prostitutes / Women in Correctional Institutions); Canadian Capers; Down Mexico Way; The Torrid Tropics; Carnality in the Caribbean; Down South America Way; East Side Story; The British Lesbian; Liberté, Egalité - et Homosexualité; Bi-Sex in Benelux; Sapphist Smorgasboard; Deutschland Über Sexualis; Inversion alla Italiana; Behind the Ironical Curtain; Sapphism in the Satellites; The Home of Homosexuality; The Aberrant Arabs; The Dark Continent; Primitive Paraphiliacs; Sapphism 'Neath the Southern Cross; The Sexual Mysteries of India; The Lesbians of Chug-Hua Jen-Min Kung-Ho Kuo; Lesbos of the Orient; The Globe Girdl...
	R. Leighton Hasselrodt
	1965
	Art/Photography, Culture, Lesbian
	Book#: CLT015
	Book#: CLT015

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Outhouse East Library			5 / 11

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	Stonewall 25: The Making of the Lesbian and Gay Community in Britain	In 1969, anger and frustration at police harassment in America's gay community precipitated the now famous Stonewall Riot in New York. This uprising gave rise to the concept of a gay "community", and to the possibility of unified action to effect political change. Twenty-five years on, lesbians and gay men in Britain have become an increasingly powerful voice, demanding equality, justice and understanding. This landmark book includes original contributions from some of our most high profile "out" personalities as well as women and men from fields as diverse as the police force and the world of ballroom dancing. Combining personal stories with a broad range of articles on the law, gay partnership, work, style, sex, humour and culture - Stonewall 25 shows how lesbians and gay men have set the agenda for change.
	Angela Mason, Emma Healey
	1994
	Culture, Gay, Law, Lesbian, Sex
	Book#: CLT016
	Book#: CLT016
	What Lesbians Do in Books: Lesbians as Writers, Readers and Characters in Literature	What Lesbians do in Books is the first British anthology of critical writing about lesbians as writers, readers and as characters in literature. From Sappho to Virginia Woolf, from "The Well of Loneliness" to "Three Ply Yarn", from lesbian readings of the garden of Eden, and Sanskrit myths, to contemporary feminist thrillers and Black lesbian poetry, this innovative study reveals the richness and variety of lesbian literary history, culture and politics. What Lesbians do in Books is a comprehensive and invaluable contribution to contemporary literature studies, with fascinating fresh perspectives on novels, poetry, stories and myths.
	Chris White, Elaine Hobby
	1991
	Culture, Lesbian, Literary Criticism
	Book#: CLT017
	Book#: CLT017
	Lavender Culture	The influence of gays and lesbians on language, literature, theater, poetry, dance, music, and the arts is unmeasurable. In the era before AIDS, gay and lesbian culture had a defining, if unrecognized, influence on American life, an influence that is only now being acknowledged. This classic anthology, Lavender Culture, serves as a provocative, dynamic, and wide-ranging reminder of American gay and lesbian culture in the days before the status of gay people received widespread attention in the media, religion, and politics, before Newsweek saw it fit to feature a cover story on lesbians, and before gays and lesbians took center stage in America's cultural landscape. Here we find the young, assertive voices of such activists, authors, and artists as Rita Mae Brown, Barbara Grier, John Stoltenberg, Julia Penelope, Andrea Dworkin, Andrew Kopkind, Jane Rule, Arthur Bell, Charlotte Bunche, and dozens more. Including essays on such diverse subjects as gay bath houses, the gay male image...
	Allen Young, Karla Jay
	1979
	Art/Photography, Culture, Gay, Lesbian, Literary Criticism, Music, Poetry, Theatre/Play
	Book#: CLT018
	Book#: CLT018
	Out of the Closets: Voices of Gay Liberation	Filled with Joyous self-affirmation, angry manifestos, and searching personal reflections, this classic work provides a close look at the individuals and ideologies of this important social movement. In the tradition of Sisterhood is Powerful, Out of the Closets presents , in their own words, the views, values attitudes, aspirations, and circumstances of the early generation of gay and lesbian liberationists. Highlighting both how much and how little has changed since Stonewall, this work is essential reading for anyone concerned with the history of sexuality and the legal and social status of lesbians and gays in contemporary America.
	Karla Jay, Allen Young
	1974
	Culture, Gay, History, Politics
	Book#: CLT018.01

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Outhouse East Library			6 / 11

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	Men in Frocks	Men In Frocks is THE book on modern drag. Its stunning photostudies show the amazing variety of styles that parade themselves today. In a collage of interviews, the drag queens speak for themselves, from unknown street people through to Marilyn and Boy George. They tell the hundred and one reasons why they do it, how they do it, and how they get away with it. Men In Frocks explains the development of the drag scene over a whole generation, from the Soldiers in Skirts through the Sea Queens and Radical Femmes to the nouveau drag of 1984. And as a special feature: tips from the experts on DIY (Drag-It-Yourself).
	Ed Heath, Kris Kirk
	1984
	Art/Photography, Culture, Drag, History
	Book#: CLT018.02
	Book#: CLT018.02
	Women on the Ball: A Guide to Women's Football	Women's football is the fastest growing international sport for women and "Women on the Ball" is the first book to give a comprehensive account of the women's game. Providing an invaluable history of the last 100 years, it details the pioneering players and clubs, and includes interviews with many who have been involved in women's football as players, coaches, administrators, and supporters. Using international comparisons, Sue Lopez examines the status and traning of women referees, the power and influence of the media, and the importance of support from family, friends and schools. She looks at the views of women football fans and includes the first survey of the state of play around the world with information on national clubs, associations, and star players.
	Sue Lopez
	1997
	Culture, Sports
	Book#: CLT019
	Book#: CLT019
	Machos Maricones & Gays: Cuba and Homosexuality	Since the Cuban revolution in 1959, male homosexuality has been a controversial aspect of Cuban society. In this strikingly honest and accurate portrayal of homosexual life, Ian Lumsden explores the treatment of male homosexuality under Castro within the framework of prerevolution prejudices and preconceptions. His remarkable first-hand report links the cultural history and current erosion of traditional "machismo, " the correlation between traditional women's roles and the relationships between gay men, and homosexuality as defined by the law and as presented in typical sexual education. From the international controversy over state-imposed sanatoriums for HIV/AIDS patients to the underground gay social scene to the issues affecting gay life and family ties, Lumsden explores the differences between being publicly gay and being privately gay in Cuba.
	Ian Lumsden
	1996
	Culture, Gay, History
	Book#: CLT019.01
	Book#: CLT019.01
	The Sewing Circle: Hollywood's Greatest Secret: Female Stars Who Loved Other Women	"The Sewing Circle" is the fascinating story of some of Hollywood's most glamorous women who lived double lives: in public as romantic heroines of the screen and in private as lesbians or bisexuals. From the early days of the "talkies" through to the beginning of the 1950s, these women were secretly known as the Sewing Circle, and their number included legends such as Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo, Tallulah Bankhead, Barbara Stanwyck and Joan Crawford. Far from debunking Hollywood's last secret, "The Sewing Circle" is an enlightened study of this unique group of women, providing an insightful, modern view of those who have chosen to live by their own rules despite fear of exposure.
	Axel Madsen
	1996
	Bisexual, Culture, Film/Cinema, Lesbian
	Book#: CLT020
	Book#: CLT020

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Outhouse East Library			7 / 11

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	Perversions: Deviant Readings	What do Andrea Dworkin's "Intercourse" and the Hollywood film "Fatal Attraction" have in common? Why is the lesbian self-portrait impossible? What if the Amazon in ancient Greece was an image of female incompetence? In considering the paradoxes of sexual representation, Mandy Merck's provocative and stimulating essays range across romantic fiction and hardcore pornography, the robot and the sex goddess, Radclyffe Hall and the Marquis de Sade. Perverse in several senses, they aim to unsettle our understanding of these subjects by offering unlikely readings of unlikely texts - Simone de Beauvoir's little-known study of Birgitte Bardot, the gay videoporn hit, "More of a Man", and the television portrayal of "Portrait of a Marriage". In each the perspective is anything but straight, the outcome anything but predictable.
	Mandy Merck
	1993
	Culture, Film/Cinema, Lesbian, Literary Criticism, Television
	Book#: CLT021
	Book#: CLT021
	The Politics and Poetics of Camp	The Politics and Poetics of Camp is a radical reappraisal of the discourse of camp. The contributors to this volume examine both activist strategies of camp performance - such as those employed by ACTUP - and theoretical debates on the meaning of camp as a signifying practice. They ask whether camp is a frivolous, apolitical style or a powerful cultural critique and expression of queer identity. The essays investigate camp from its early formations in the seventeenth and eighteenth century homosexual subculture of London to its present manifestations in queer theatre and literature. They also take a fascinating look at the complex relationship between queer discourse and decidedly "un-queer" pop culture appropriations on film. An incisive and entertaining collection of essays by some of the foremost critics now working in queer theory - from a number of disciplinary perspectives - The Politics and Poetics of Camp makes a well-timed entry into this emerging debate. Contributors inclu...
	Moe Meyer
	1994
	Culture, History, Literary Criticism, Queer, Theatre/Play
	Book#: CLT022
	Book#: CLT022
	Homosexuality and Liberation: Elements of a Gay Critique	The Italian gay movement, while certainly sharing much of its history with that of Britain and elsewhere, has had its own particular experiences and has developed its own original and important ideas, being far more influenced by both Marxism and psychoanalysis than its counterparts in English-speaking countries. This book, published in English for the first time, represents the most comprehensive presentation of the standpoint developed by this radical gay movement, forming an important contribution to a specific gay critique of society. Invesitgating the effects of institutionalised heterosexuality on society as a whole, Mario Mieli shows that these extend far beyond the specific problems of gay people. He argues that in the interlocking framework drawn by Marx and Freud, homosexuality stands right in the centre, in a crucial position, and that its liberation is an integral part of the liberation of Eros in general, involving the breakdown of the gender system of masculine and femin...
	Mario Mieli
	1980
	Culture, Gay, Lesbian
	Book#: CLT023
	Book#: CLT023

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Outhouse East Library			8 / 11

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	Coming Along Fine	Here, for the man who has already made his first steps into gay life - but who is still unsure about many of its facets - is William Hanson's and Wes Muchmore's informative, often opinionated, and always enjoyable look at: - Four things to keep in mind if you're looking for a long-term relationship. - What's involved in getting into gay show businnes. - How to get involved with a straight man . . . and what to expect if you do. - Pros and cons of life in the closet. - How to have fun and minimize problems if you travel abroad. - The best ways to handle relationships with your family. - Getting involved in gay politics. - The pitfalls to watch for if you decide to start a gay business. - What to do if gay life is beginning to bore you. - How you can help preserve our gay history.
	William Hanson, Wes Muchmore
	1986
	Culture, Gay, Self-help
	Book#: CLT024
	Book#: CLT024
	Mother Clap's Molly House: The Gay Subculture in England 1700-1830	This pioneering study breaks new ground in presenting the gay community's history by sporting one of its more distinctive branches—molly houses. In this updated edition, with two new chapters, Rictor Norton digs deeper into both past and present to rediscover the original foundations of the molly subculture and challenges traditional notions by suggesting that it was primarily composed of the working class—blacksmiths, milkmen, publicans, and shoemakers. More extravagant personalities are investigated as well, such as dramatists Samuel Foote and Isaac Bickerstaff, and the Rev. John Church, denounced for blessing gay "marriages."
	Rictor Norton
	1992
	Culture, Gay, History
	Book#: CLT025
	Army of Lovers	The American gay movement is an active mass movement in every sense of the word. It is to be found in most urban and in many rural areas, and exists in all walks of life. This book contains a selection of interviews from the film "Armee der Liebenden oder Aufstad der Perversen" by the German gay film-maker Rosa von Praunheim. His documentary shows the extreme diversity of the American gay movement and centres on interviews with individuals who are either politically or culturally prominent in it, including Christopher Isherwood, John Rechy, Fred Halstead, Vito Russo, Bruce Voeller, Tom Reeves, the editors of Fag Rag, Jim Kepner, David Thorstad and others.
	Rosa von Praunheim
	1980
	Culture, Gay, History
	Book#: CLT025.01
	Reviving the Tribe: Regenerating Gay Men's Sexuality and Culture in the Ongoing Epidemic	Reviving the Tribe creates a rich and brutally honest portrait of contemporary gay men’s lives amidst the seemingly endless AIDS epidemic and offers both autobiographical self-examination and a relentless critique of current sexual politics within the gay community. Fearlessly confronting the horrors experiences by surviving gay men without giving way to hopelessness, denial, or blame, Reviving the Tribe offers an inspiring blueprint for the gay community which faces a continuing spiral of disaster. In Reviving the Tribe, Author Eric Rofes argues that a return to the interrupted agenda of gay liberation may provide long-term motivation to keep gay men alive and spur rejuvenation of new generations of gay culture. By interweaving social history, psychology, anthropology, epidemiology, sociology, feminist theory, and sexology with his own journey through the epidemic, Rofes provides a moving and compelling argument for stepping out of the “state of emergency” and embracing a life beyond ...
	Eric Rofes
	1996
	AIDS/HIV, Culture, Gay
	Book#: CLT026
	Book#: CLT026

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Outhouse East Library			9 / 11

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	Sportsdykes: Stories from on and Off the Field	Sports - from volleyball to softball; from ice hockey to Martina - are as central to lesbian social and cultural life as bars and discos are to gay men. The playing field is where lesbians meet, where they socialize, and where they express who they are. SportsDykes explores, defines, and celebrates the lesbian sports experience. From serious investigative journalism to works of lyrical fiction, the life of the "girl jock" is vividly revealed in the thirty-one pieces collected here. They cover the politics of sports, the homophobia of many collegiate and elite teams, the personal empowerment women have achieved through sports, the sheer joy of the game and the zest of competition, and the steamy eroticism that lesbian sports can generate. Included are pieces by syndicated journalist Victoria Brownworth, former basketball star Mariah Burton Nelson, columnist Alisa Solomon, coach Pat Griffin, novelists Jenifer Levin and Leslea Newman, GirlJock founder Roxxie, erotic novelist Robbi Sommers...
	Susan Fox Rogers
	1994
	Culture, Lesbian, Sports
	Book#: CLT027
	Book#: CLT027
	Mediawatch: The Treatment of Male and Female Homosexuality in the British Media	This book presents a full analysis of the way in which lesbian and gay people and issues are treated by the British Press. It documents hate-mongering articles, stories and opinion pieces from tabloids and broadsheets alike, and demonstrates how the press can manipulate homosexuality for political purposes. The author also charts the media's response to the AIDS crisis.
	Terry Sanderson
	1995
	AIDS/HIV, Culture, Gay, Lesbian
	Book#: CLT028
	Coming on Strong: Gay Politics and Culture 0th Edition	This collection of essays addresses itself to anyone, whatever their sexuality, who wants to know why gay men have become one of the most controversial minorities in Britain today. The book is a record and analysis of gay work and life in the 1980s, ranging across the disciplines of law, politics, psychoanalysis, drama, film, communications and gender studies.
	Mick Wallis, Simon Shepherd
	1989
	1989
	Culture, Gay, Politics
	Book#: CLT029
	Queer in America: Sex, the Media and the Closets of Power	Gay activist, Advocate and Out columnist Signorile, a pioneer of "outing," has exposed the homosexuality of public figures like Malcolm Forbes, Assistant Secretary of Defense Pete Williams and record producer David Geffen. In this combative, powerful, gutsy book, he charges that three power structures--Washington, Hollywood, the media industry--conspire to keep gays and lesbians in the closet. Without divulging names, he asserts that several high-ranking Pentagon officials are closeted gays, as were key figures in George Bush's reelection campaign who put forth the "family values" theme. Among the lesbians and gays he profiles are Anne-Imelda Radice, acting head of the National Endowment for the Arts; Chastity Bono, daughter of Cher; and Sheila Kuehl, formerly a star of TV's Dobie Gillis and now a radical feminist attorney. Signorile also tells the anguished stories of still-closeted people in power; describes his guilt-ridden childhood in working-class Italian Brooklyn; and surveys Si...
	MICHELANGELO SIGNORILE
	1994
	Culture, Queer, Sex
	Book#: CLT029.01
	Book#: CLT029.01

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Outhouse East Library			10 / 11

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	Anti-Gay	Have you ever wondered (to yourself, in private)... Why most gay culture is mediocre trash? Why so many lesbians have such a problem with long hair and dainty footwear? Why being gay is like being a member of a religious cult, except not so open-minded? What happens when a gay activist takes "celebrating diversity" seriously and sleeps with someone of the opposite sex? The essays in this international collection make a post-PC intervention into the discourse of lesbian and gay studies. Discarding kid-gloves and rose-tinted spectacles, its contributors voice the issues that are rarely discussed in polite pink society, breaking open taboos and defying the political imperative to "talk up" homosexuality and its (alleged) merits.
	Mark Simpson
	1996
	Culture, Gay, Lesbian
	Book#: CLT030
	Book#: CLT030
	Male Impersonators: Men Performing Masculinity	The book that changed the way we look at men. Why is bodybuilding a form of transsexualism? What do football and anal sex have in common? Why is Top Gun such an flamingly 'gay' movie? Why is male vanity such a hot commodity? And why oh why do Marky Mark's pants keep falling down? In this highly influential book Mark Simpson argues for the vital centrality of homoeroticism and narcissism in any understanding of the fraught phenomenon of modern masculinity. Male Impersonators is a penetrating, ticklish but always serious examination of what happens to men when they become 'objectified'. From porn to shaving adverts, rock and roll to war movies, drag to lads' nights out, Male Impersonators reviews the greatest show on Earth - the performance of masculinity.
	Mark Simpson
	1994
	Culture, Film/Cinema, Gay, Television
	Book#: CLT031
	Book#: CLT031
	It's a Queer World	In this hilariously perverse collection of essays, celebrated British writer and satirists Mark Simpson takes a wittily warped look at a fin-de-siecle world of pop culture where nothing is as straight - or as gay - as it seems. Along the way, Simpson goes in search of straight sex in London's Soho, interviews Oscar Wilde and discovers that he's perplexed by all those rumors about his private life and would like to set the record straight; gets trashed with some U.S. Marines in Tijuana and discusses with them the cultural significance of foreskins. And watches a groom being buggered by lesbian strippers at his stag night party.
	Mark Simpson
	1996
	Culture, Gay
	Book#: CLT032
	Inessential Woman: Problems of Exclusion in Feminist Thought	Throughout history, Western philosophers have buried women's characters under the category of "men's nature." Feminist theorists, responding to this exclusion, have often been guilty of this exlcusion as well - focusing only on white, middle-class women and treating others as inessential. "Inessential Woman "is an eloquent argument against white, middle-class bias in feminist theory. It warns against trying to seperate feminist thinking and politics from issues of race and class, and challenges the assumption of homogeneity that underlies much of feminist thought. Spelman argues passionately for widening the scope of feminism enquiry to include those treated as "inessentials": working-class women, lesbian women, Jewish women, women of colour.
	Elizabeth V. Spelman
	1990
	BEM, Culture, Feminism, Lesbian, Religion
	Book#: CLT032.01
	Book#: CLT032.01

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Cover	Details	Summary

	Male Fantasies/Gay Realities: Interviews With Ten Men	In 1980, George Stambolian published the first of these interviews- with a Masochist- in Christopher Street magazine, causing a storm of controversy both within the S-M subculture and within the gay community at large. Since that exciting debut, five other interviews have been published- with an Entrepreneur, with a Fetishist, with a Father, with a Self-Made Man, and with a Handsome Man. As each interview came out, it probed so deeply, so intensely, so unapologetically into the varied lives and thoughts of American gay men to see what made them the fascinating individuals they are.
	George Stambolian
	1984
	BDSM, BEM, Culture, Family, Gay
	Book#: CLT032.01.a
	The Sixth Man	Reporter Searn has no axe to grind. He is a chronicler of events and of the men who make them, and as a good chronicler he is able to make what he sees come alive. He interviewed doctors, social workers, police officials. He spent months talking to homosexuals, bisexuals, lesbians. He went where they were and they were not afraid to talk. From this emerged a definitive portrait of that one man out of every six American males who is a homosexual.
	Jess Stearn
	1961
	Bisexual, Culture, Gay, Lesbian
	Book#: CLT032.02
	The Nude Male: A New Perspective	Intelligent and at times provocative, Margaret Walters shows us the male nude from a new perspective. She traces his history from the Greek idealization of athletic beauty; through the degradation - even masochism - implicit nakedness in Christian art; via the sensual yet virile nude of the Renaissance; to his modest cover-up in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and his uncertain, ambivalent reapperance in the twentieth. By exploring the connotations of the male nude in each of his phases, Walters offers all of us, and particularly women, a wholly different way of assessing the male in art - and, through him, our own social and sexual attitudes.
	Margaret Walters
	1979
	Art/Photography, Culture, History
	Book#: CLT033
	Book#: CLT033
	Unexpected Pleasures: Leaving heterosexuality for a lesbian life	Why do some women become lesbians in their twenties, thirties, or even in their sixties? After interviewing close to a hundred women for an academic project, Dr Tamsin Wilton realised their extraordinary stories should be shared with the real world. Here, she brings together the most moving and fascinating of her interviews, and lively essays on the conclusions from her study.
	Tamsin Wilton
	2002
	Culture, Lesbian
	Book#: CLT034
	Diamonds Are a Dyke's Best Friend: Reflections, Reminiscences, and Reports from the Field on the Lesbian National Pastime	Country dykes, city dykes, dykes with four-year degrees, dykes who are feminists, dykes who aren't, dykes of different races and classes, dykes who have been athletes all their lives, and dykes who are just discovering, or rediscovering after years, the values of athletic endeavors - there are softball players amond all their ranks.
	Yvonne Zipter
	1988
	Culture, Lesbian, Sports
	Book#: CLT035

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