Author: Lawrence Schimel
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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An anthology of first-person narratives on personal gay and lesbian experience that represents a snapshot of GLBTQ life at this moment in time. Well-known contributors include Kate Bornstein, Simon Sheppard, Sharon Bridgforth, Achy Obejas, Sky Gilbert, Tim Miller, Dave Miller, S. Bear Bergman and Ivan E. Coyote.
Author: Richard Labonté
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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The follow-up to Lambda Literary Award-winning First Person Queer, which featured non-fiction essays all told from the first-person perspective. This collection, all told from the second-person perspective, comprises letters, admonitions, words of advice and missives against sources of contempt. Contributors include Michael Rowe, Achy Obeas, Daniel Allen Cox and Amber Dawn.
Author: Mark McLelland
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 0739151509
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 373
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Queer Voices from Japan examines the wide range of queer voices in Japan, and the longevity that these minority communities have enjoyed in society. Mark McLelland, Katsuhiko Suganuma, and James Welker bring together historical and contemporary narratives that contribute to the study of sexual identities in Japan. These essays trace the evolution of queer voices in Japan with analyses of the presence of homosexuality in the Japanese Imperial Army, the development of Japan's first gay bars, and same-sex experiences in the pre- and post-war periods. This book offers a variety of perspectives including a range of male-to-female and female-to-male transgender voices and experiences. The broad scope of this volume makes it an invaluable text for understanding the development of Japanese sex and gender categories in the twentieth century. Queer Voices from Japan is a compelling read that will appeal to those interested in Asian studies and human sexuality.
Author: Sarah Prager
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062474340
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 237
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A New York Public Library Best Book of 2017 * A Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Book for Teens 2017 This first-ever LGBTQ history book of its kind for young adults will appeal to fans of fun, empowering pop-culture books like Rad American Women A-Z and Notorious RBG. Three starred reviews! World history has been made by countless lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer individuals—and you’ve never heard of many of them. Queer author and activist Sarah Prager delves deep into the lives of 23 people who fought, created, and loved on their own terms. From high-profile figures like Abraham Lincoln and Eleanor Roosevelt to the trailblazing gender-ambiguous Queen of Sweden and a bisexual blues singer who didn’t make it into your history books, these astonishing true stories uncover a rich queer heritage that encompasses every culture, in every era. By turns hilarious and inspiring, the beautifully illustrated Queer, There, and Everywhere is for anyone who wants the real story of the queer rights movement. A Junior Library Guild Selection
Author: Bo Ruberg
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 1478007303
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 181
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In The Queer Games Avant-Garde, Bonnie Ruberg presents twenty interviews with twenty-two queer video game developers whose radical, experimental, vibrant, and deeply queer work is driving a momentous shift in the medium of video games. Speaking with insight and candor about their creative practices as well as their politics and passions, these influential and innovative game makers tell stories about their lives and inspirations, the challenges they face, and the ways they understand their places within the wider terrain of video game culture. Their insights go beyond typical conversations about LGBTQ representation in video games or how to improve “diversity” in digital media. Instead, they explore queer game-making practices, the politics of queer independent video games, how queerness can be expressed as an aesthetic practice, the influence of feminist art on their work, and the future of queer video games and technology. These engaging conversations offer a portrait of an influential community that is subverting and redefining the medium of video games by placing queerness front and center. Interviewees: Ryan Rose Aceae, Avery Alder, Jimmy Andrews, Santo Aveiro-Ojeda, Aevee Bee, Tonia B******, Mattie Brice, Nicky Case, Naomi Clark, Mo Cohen, Heather Flowers, Nina Freeman, Jerome Hagen, Kat Jones, Jess Marcotte, Andi McClure, Llaura McGee, Seanna Musgrave, Liz Ryerson, Elizabeth Sampat, Loren Schmidt, Sarah Schoemann, Dietrich Squinkifer, Kara Stone, Emilia Yang, Robert Yang
Author: Richard Labonté
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 220
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One of the few queer science fiction anthology to be published in the last 10 years. The stories ask questions such as: Is true assimilation possible?', 'What are the implications of cloning, gender choice and gender reassignment?' and 'How will 'the right' react to further progress of GLBT concerns?' Includes an illustrated story by Neil Gaiman, futurist cult star, and a story by Rachel Pollack, a World Fantasy Award winner. Co-editor Labonte is best known as editor of the Best Gay Erotica series published by Cleis.'
Author: Denis M. Provencher
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317072782
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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In this book Denis M. Provencher examines the tensions between Anglo-American and French articulations of homosexuality and sexual citizenship in the context of contemporary French popular culture and first-person narratives. In the light of recent political events and the perceived hegemonic role of US forces throughout the world, an examination of the French resistance to globalization and 'Americanization', is timely in this context. He argues that contemporary French gay and lesbian cultures rely on long-standing French narratives that resist US models of gay experience. He maintains that French gay experiences are mitigated through (gay) French language that draws on several canonical voices - including Jean Genet and Jean-Paul Sartre - and various universalistic discourses. Drawing on material from a diverse array of media, Queer French draws out the importance of a French gay linguistic and semiotic tradition that emerges in contemporary textual practices and discourses as they relate to sexual citizenship in 20th- and 21st-century France. It will appeal to an interdisciplinary readership in gender and sexuality studies, cultural studies, linguistics, media and communication studies and French studies.
Author: Carroll Graham
Publisher: SIU Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction in English
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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A brilliantly savage story, "Queer People "is, according to Budd Schulberg, a racy testament to an era as totally vanished as the civilization of the Aztecs, and if not "the "Hollywood novel is at least a truly seminal work. Today s readers will recognize in this long-forgotten Hollywood novel the seeds of three longer-lived ones, "The Day of the Locust," " What Makes Sammy Run?," " "and "The Last Tycoon. "They may also recognize Whitey, the hero of the Grahams novel, as a forerunner of F. Scott Fitzgerald s Pat Hobby.The central figure in the novel is an archetypal newspaper reporter who drifts to Hollywood. Whitey discovers the social microcosm of the studio-people, and finds himself in his element. He penetrates strange places and encounters queer peoplethe story conference, the three-day party, the titans and the moguls. When a murder ends his interlude he leaves Hollywood as casually as he discovered it.Originally published in 1930 "Queer People "was a scandalous "roman a clef, "irreverent to the industry, and totally amoralqualities lacking in later Hollywood fiction. Hence it is at once an important social document and an exciting original work."
Author: Bo Ruberg
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479843741
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 278
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Argues for the queer potential of video games While popular discussions about queerness in video games often focus on big-name, mainstream games that feature LGBTQ characters, like Mass Effect or Dragon Age, Bonnie Ruberg pushes the concept of queerness in games beyond a matter of representation, exploring how video games can be played, interpreted, and designed queerly, whether or not they include overtly LGBTQ content. Video Games Have Always Been Queer argues that the medium of video games itself can—and should—be read queerly. In the first book dedicated to bridging game studies and queer theory, Ruberg resists the common, reductive narrative that games are only now becoming more diverse. Revealing what reading D. A. Miller can bring to the popular 2007 video game Portal, or what Eve Sedgwick offers Pong, Ruberg models the ways game worlds offer players the opportunity to explore queer experience, affect, and desire. As players attempt to 'pass' in Octodad or explore the pleasure of failure in Burnout: Revenge, Ruberg asserts that, even within a dominant gaming culture that has proved to be openly hostile to those perceived as different, queer people have always belonged in video games—because video games have, in fact, always been queer.
Author: Maia Kobabe
Publisher: Oni Press
ISBN: 9781637150726
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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2020 ALA Alex Award Winner 2020 Stonewall — Israel Fishman Non-fiction Award Honor Book In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Now, Gender Queer is here. Maia’s intensely cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity, which includes the mortification and confusion of adolescent crushes, grappling with how to come out to family and society, bonding with friends over erotic gay fanfiction, and facing the trauma and fundamental violation of pap smears. Started as a way to explain to eir family what it means to be nonbinary and asexual, Gender Queer is more than a personal story: it is a useful and touching guide on gender identity—what it means and how to think about it—for advocates, friends, and humans everywhere. This special deluxe hardcover edition of Gender Queer features a brand-new cover, exclusive art and sketches, and a TK from creator Maia Kobabe.
