Author: Artemis Smith
Publisher: Monograph of THE SAVANT GARDE INSTITUTE, A
ISBN: 9781878998132
Category : Gay men
Languages : en
Pages : 266
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For those who are too young to know the GrandmaMoseX of the GLBT community, Artemis Smith, also now known as Artemis Smith Morpurgo, is a contemporary of Andy Warhol and a still-living activist poet, playwright, futurist, and digital-media artist. This re-issue contains a continuation of her MemoirsM mementos, plus two ground-breaking Information Science papers on Sexology circulated throughout the Gay underground in the 1960s.
Author: A. Morpurgo
Publisher: Monograph of THE SAVANT GARDE INSTITUTE, A
ISBN: 9781878998385
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 350
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This is the most recent and affordable updated textbook edition of the famed ArtemisSmith Memoirs. It includes the complete text of the author's Odd girl.
Author: Laura Westengard
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 149621742X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 305
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In Gothic Queer Culture, Laura Westengard proposes that contemporary U.S. queer culture is gothic at its core. Using interdisciplinary cultural studies to examine the gothicism in queer art, literature, and thought--including ghosts embedded in queer theory, shadowy crypts in lesbian pulp fiction, monstrosity and cannibalism in AIDS poetry, and sadomasochism in queer performance--Westengard argues that during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries a queer culture has emerged that challenges and responds to traumatic marginalization by creating a distinctly gothic aesthetic. Gothic Queer Culture examines the material effects of marginalization, exclusion, and violence and explains why discourse around the complexities of genders and sexualities repeatedly returns to the gothic. Westengard places this queer knowledge production within a larger framework of gothic queer culture, which inherently includes theoretical texts, art, literature, performance, and popular culture. By analyzing queer knowledge production alongside other forms of queer culture, Gothic Queer Culture enters into the most current conversations on the state of gender and sexuality, especially debates surrounding negativity, anti-relationalism, assimilation, and neoliberalism. It provides a framework for understanding these debates in the context of a distinctly gothic cultural mode that acknowledges violence and insidious trauma, depathologizes the association between trauma and queerness, and offers a rich counterhegemonic cultural aesthetic through the circulation of gothic tropes.
Author: Annselm L>N>V> Morpurgo
Publisher: Monograph of THE SAVANT GARDE INSTITUTE, A
ISBN: 9781878998057
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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A new color edition of this classic underground sexology best seller by ArtemisSmith a/k/a Prof. Annselm L.N.V. Morpurgo and Billie Taulman, with additional 1970's suppressed academic papers in the Philosophy of Sex and Love in the new Appendix, plus ArtemisSmith's ATHEIST MANIFESTO and the key essay on the explication of Human Consciousness under Information Science.The following arguments, presented to all the Religions, are contained in the papers included in the Appendix:21st Century philosophical thought has come to the following revised World View:|The Observer is the Center of the Universe||The Observer does Logic and Mathematics, which are the languages of Thought||All Thought is Linguistic and therefore Intersubjective|All Human Experience is |Linguistic| and scientific truth is therefore necessarily grounded in |The Intersubjective Observer| |Logic| has been shown to be merely one suburb of |Mathematics||Mathematics| tolerates and 'negotiates' |Paradox| by taking advantage of internal inconsistencies such as the existence of irrational numbers.|Mathematics| since Godel has been shown to be an imperfect and open system. This negates the possibility of Perfection and opens up the |Multiverse| |Mathematical Language| existentially notates the |'stuff' of Chaos| and encompasses 'all that can be spoken.' Beyond 'all that can be spoken' is |Necessary Silence|'All that can be spoken' is both social and quantifiable, including the reflection of |Individual Mind| upon |Itself| which is |Self-Consciousness| |System Architecture| may limit |Present Form| but it is not to be confused with |Spirit| which is |Self-Conscious Identity-through-Change||Individual Identity| rests on growing social values and relations and persists in hyperspace and can shape-shift beyond |Initial System Architecture|The immediate socio-political implications of this view are that:1. |Gender| is accidental and irrelevant to |Spirit|2. |Human Identity| can shape-shift beyond |Biological Existence|
Author: Sean Heather K. McGraw
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 1538381354
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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This book explains the emergence of the modern gay liberation movement, from its early years prior to the Stonewall riots of 1969 and its continuation into the 1970s. Readers will learn about the Stonewall riots, the Compton's cafeteria riot, the Gay Liberation Front, the Lavender Menace, and more. This book also discusses the contributions of important people such as Harvey Milk, Audre Lorde, and many others. The difficulties and legacies of that era will become clear to students who may know only the outline of the early history of the movement.
Author: Heinz Duthel
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3746064252
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 574
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My Ladyboy Date Give love a chance The World history of transgender or transsexual people Theorist Anne Fausto-Sterling, in a 1993 article, argued that if people ought to be classified in sexes, at least five sexes, rather than two, would be needed. There is a huge variety of terms and names for transsexual women. If you've been using dating sites for a while, you noticed that they have a variety of terms which leads many men to confusion. Even trans women themselves are uncertain of the meaning of some terms. In the Philippines, a lot of trans women wrongly call themselves gay. In Thailand, the term Ladyboy is the most popular. Let's explain these terms the best we can. Hopefully, you'll have a better understanding of what they mean after you read this guide. Transgender A transgender person is a person whose gender identity doesn't align with the role society is expecting of them. To better understand the transgender term, you have to be aware that society only recognises two genders; male or female. To make it worse, it is expected to be your gender depending on what your assigned sex was from birth. If you are born with a penis, you are expected to be a man, if you are born with a vagina, you are expected to be a girl. Transgender people do not identify themselves with the gender they were born. Transgender is actually a general term that encapsulates many other labels such as: transsexuals, transvestites, genderqueers, drag queens and drag kings.
Author: Artemis Smith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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Author: Joanne Passet
Publisher: Bella Books
ISBN: 1594936641
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 526
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“Whatever else will be said about her—and you can bet there will be plenty, because Barbara was no stranger to controversy—the one thing that is true above all else is that she was the most important person in lesbian publishing in the world. Without her boldness and her audacity, there might not be the robust lesbian publishing industry there is today.” —Teresa DeCrescenzo Barbara Grier—feminist, activist, publisher, and archivist—was many things to different people. Perhaps most well known as one of the founders of Naiad Press, Barbara’s unapologetic drive to make sure that lesbians everywhere had access to books with stories that reflected their lives in positive ways was legendary. Barbara changed the lives of thousands of women in her lifetime. For the first time, historian Joanne Passet uncovers the controversial and often polarizing life of this firebrand editor and publisher with new and never before published letters, interviews, and other personal material from Grier’s own papers. Passet takes readers behind the scenes of The Ladder, offering a rare window onto the isolated and bereft lives lesbians experienced before the feminist movement and during the earliest days of gay political organizing. Through extensive letters between Grier and her friend novelist Jane Rule, Passet offers a virtual diary of this dramatic and repressive era. Passet also looks at Grier’s infamous “theft” of The Ladder’s mailing list, which in turn allowed her to launch and promote Naiad Press, the groundbreaking women’s publishing company she founded with partner Donna McBride in 1973. Naiad went on to become one of the leaders in gay and lesbian book publishing and for years helped sustain lesbian and feminist bookstores—and readers—across the country.
Author: Brent L. Pickett
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 153815045X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 369
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The history of same-sex attraction and love is relevant to many aspects of history, including its social, religious, and political dimensions. The Historical Dictionary of Homosexuality provides a comprehensive survey of same-sex relations from ancient China and Greece to the contemporary world. The book covers religious traditions that have tolerated or had a role for same-sex relations, to those that have condemned it and called for punishment. The legal treatment of homosexuality, and the development in the modern world of a gay rights movements, are central areas of focus. In addition, there are a number of entries for specific countries and regions that provides concise summaries of how same-sex relations have been understood and treated around the globe. Court decisions and emerging norms in international law are also covered. Historical Dictionary of Homosexuality, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 200 cross-referenced entries on important historical figures, philosophic, artistic, and literary treatments of same-sex love, historical terms, and contemporary events. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about homosexuality.
Author: John Harrison
Publisher: SCB Distributors
ISBN: 1900486989
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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Hip Pocket Sleaze is an introduction to the world of vintage, lurid adult paperbacks. Charting the rise of sleazy pulp fiction during the 1960s and 1970s and reviewing many of the key titles, the book takes an informed look at the various genres and markets from this enormously prolific era, from groundbreaking gay and lesbian-themed books to the Armed Services Editions. Influential authors, publishers and cover artists are profiled and interviewed, including the "godfather of gore" H. G. Lewis, cult lesbian author Ann Bannon, fetish artist par excellence Bill Ward and many others. A companion to Bad Mags, Headpress' guide to sensationalist magazines of the 1970s, Hip Pocket Sleaze also offers extensive bibliographical information and plenty of outrageous cover art.
