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Topic Queer : 57 results | page 1 of 6 pages
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The Screwball Asses - Guy Hocquenghem
First published anonymously in Félix Guattari's Recherches in the notorious 1973 issue on homosexuality (seized and destroyed by the French government), The Screwball Asses remains a dramatic treatise on erotic desire. In this classic underground text, queer theorist and post-'68 provocateur Guy Hocquenghem takes on the militant delusions of the gay liberation movement. Hocquenghem, fou...
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Macho Sluts - Patrick Califia
When it was first published in 1988, Pat Califia's Macho Sluts, a collection of S/M stories set in San Francisco's dyke bathhouses, sex parties, and S/M gay bars, shocked the lesbian community and caused an upheaval in the field of queer publishing. Nobody had ever written so frankly about the kinky potential of woman-to-woman sex (and nobody has ever done it any better). If any book is responsible fo...
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My Brain Hurts: Volume Two - Liz Baillie
Liz Baillie crafts a Degrassi-style teenage soap opera about queer punks in New York City! In the long-awaited second volume, the story resumes with Joey in a coma after an incident of queer bashing and Kate and Desi's relationship on the rocks. Desi's really religious, and Kate's really not, and they struggle to find a middle ground. The boys get caught smoking (and, uh, other things) in the boys' room, Kat...
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Ties That Bind: Familial Homophobia and Its Consequences - Sarah Schulman
In this groundbreaking book, playwright and social critic Sarah Schulman explores the family, the first place where all people—straight, gay, and bisexual—learn homophobia. For it is within the family that homophobia begins to control people's lives, whether as perpetrators or recipients.

Schulman uncovers the hidden crime of "familial homophobia" and moves it into the open for social and ...
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Exile & Pride: Disability, Queerness and Liberation - Eli Clare
First published in 1999, Exile & Pride established Eli Clare as one of the leading writers on the intersections of queerness and disability. With this critical tenth-anniversary edition, the groundbreaking publication secures its position as essential to the history of queer and disability politics, and, through significant new material that boldly interrogates and advances the original text, to its f...
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So Many Ways To Sleep Badly - Matt Bernstein Sycamore
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore's exhilarating new novel is about struggling to find hope in the ruins of everyday San Francisco—battling roaches, Bikram Yoga, chronically bad sex, NPR, internet cruising, tweakers, the cops, $100 bills, chronic pain, the gay vote, vegan restaurants, and incest, with the help of air-raid sirens, herbal medicine, late-night epiphanies, sea lions, and sleeping pills. So Ma...
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Smash the Church, Smash the State!: The Early Years of Gay Liberation - Tommi Avicolli Mecca (Editor)
From the first high heel thrown at Stonewall to the last performance of the drag burlesque group the Cockettes, enter the wild days of the late '60s and early '70s with the individuals who lived them! Celebrating 40 years since the June 1969 Stonewall Riots, the essays, manifestos, artwork and photos in this anthology represent a group of radical activists who together formed the ranks of the Gay Liberation ...
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Portland Queer: Tales of the Rose City - Tom Spanbauer (Contributor), Dexter Flowers (Contributor), Ariel Gore (Editor), Marc Acito (Contributor), Jacob Anderson-Minshall (Contributor), and Sarah Dougher (Contributor)
At once a love letter to the Rose City and a dream of escape, the first-person narratives of Portland Queer reveal the contradictions and commonalities of life on one of the world's great queer meccas. A waiter falls in love with a straight guy from the cafe next door. A young dyke discovers gay karaoke at the Silverado. A pregnant man prepares for new life transitions. An ambitious teenager finds her...
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Transgender History - Susan Stryker
Transgender History covers American transgender history from the mid-twentieth century to today. From the transsexual and transvestite communities in the years following World War II to trans radicalism and social change in the '60s and '70s to the gender issues witnessed throughout the '90s and '00s, this introductory text will give you a foundation for understanding the developments, changes, stride...
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Somewhere Else - Jan Guenther Braun
Jess is sixteen and aware that she is in an impossible position—being the homosexual daughter of the president of the Mennonite college. She hits the road in search of a language and the freedom to speak it. On the train to Winnipeg she is found by Freya, Icelandic princess of her dreams. Halfsteinn, fisherman and expert in the fine art of hand-rolling cigarettes, enters Jess' life, helping her escape ...
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