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ISBN: 9781610593724
Category : Gays
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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Author: Minnie Van Pileup
Publisher: Fair Winds Press
ISBN: 9781592331208
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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Gay culture has always been celebrated in Hollywood and artistic circles, but never before has it hit the mainstream the way it has in the last five years--from TV shows to politics to fashion, the gays are stealing center stage! This book celebrates the unique wit and wisdom of famous gay people, from Rock Hudson to Liberace to Ellen DeGeneres, as well as the wit and wisdom of their friends and the idiocy of their foes. Packaged in a cheap-and-cheerful format, the book is the perfect impulse buy for gays and the straights who love them. Quotable Queers (and their straight counterparts) include: Queer EyeÆs Fab Five Rosie OÆDonnell Oscar Wilde Columnist Dan Savage k.d. lang Tom Cruise Whitney Houston àand more!

Author: John Lessard
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1594742235
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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We’re here! We’re queer! And we’re hilarious! Not to mention clever, eloquent, bitchy, poetic, luminous, and dead-on brilliant! To Quote a Queer features more than 2,000 quotations from the LGBT community and icons of queer culture on a wide range of subjects, including • Childhood: “Bike-riding and tree-climbing may be typically boyish, but they were merely means to my sissified ends; I wanted, like an eight-year-old Garbo, to be alone.” - Dan Savage • Coming Out: “What happened to me is exactly the opposite of what closeted people fear. They think they’ll lose everything if they come out. This did not happen to me at all. In fact, everything came back tenfold.” - Melissa Etheridge • Fame: “When you become a public figure, you become at the same time a product, and people actually look at your ‘expiration date,’ you know? They look at your age and say, ‘Hmm. How fresh is this one?’” - Rupaul • Writing: “You have to write a lot of bad poetry to get a good line of prose.” - Dorothy Allison • Humor: “If I’m going to make fun of something, I need to find that in myself and then exaggerate it.” - David Sedaris

Author: William Benjamin Turner
Publisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 9781566397872
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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Who are queers, and what do they want? Could it be that we are all queers? Beginning with such questions, this book traces the roots of queer theory, examining the growing awareness that few people precisely fit standard categories for sexual and gender identities.

Author: Teishan Latner
Publisher:
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 388

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The definitive book of quotations presenting radical voices for change.

Author: Michael Bronski
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807044652
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313

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Winner of the Stonewall Book Award in nonfiction The first comprehensive history of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender America, from pre-1492 to the present "Readable, radical, and smart—a must read."—Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home Intellectually dynamic and endlessly provocative, this is more than a “who’s who” of queer history: it is a narrative that radically challenges how we understand American history. Drawing upon primary documents, literature, and cultural histories, scholar and activist Michael Bronski charts the breadth of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender history, from 1492 to the present, a testament to how the LGBTQ+ experience has profoundly shaped American culture and history. American history abounds with unknown or ignored examples of queer life, from the ineffectiveness of sodomy laws in the colonies to the prevalence of cross-dressing women soldiers in the Civil War and resistance to homophobic social purity movements. Bronski highlights such groundbreaking moments of queer history as: • In the 1620s, Thomas Morton broke from Plymouth Colony and founded Merrymount, which celebrated same-sex desire, atheism, and interracial marriage. •Transgender evangelist Jemima Wilkinson, in the early 1800s, changed her name to "Publick Universal Friend," refused to use pronouns, fought for gender equality, and led her own congregation in upstate New York. • In the mid-19th century, internationally famous Shakespearean actor Charlotte Cushman led an openly lesbian life, including a well-publicized “female marriage.” • in the late 1920s, Augustus Granville Dill was fired by W. E. B. Du Bois from the NAACP’s magazine the Crisis after being arrested for a homosexual encounter. Informative and empowering, this engrossing and revelatory treatise emphasizes that there is no American history without queer history.

Author: Erin McHugh
Publisher: Alyson Books
ISBN: 9781593500702
Category : Gays
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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This second volume of quotable quotes, following on from Out of the Mouths' of Queers, features the quick witted (and sometimes ill-fated) words of politicians, activists and sometimes less-than-friendly men and women who probably shouldn't have opened their mouths. Part of Erin McHugh's collectable series of small hardcover gift books, covering everything readers ever wanted to know from Gay to Z.

Author: Dannielle Owens-Reid
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 1452142424
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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Written in an accessible Q&A format, here, finally, is the go-to resource for parents hoping to understand and communicate with their gay child. Through their LGBTQ-oriented site, the authors are uniquely experienced to answer parents' many questions and share insight and guidance on both emotional and practical topics. Filled with real-life experiences from gay kids and parents, this is the book gay kids want their parents to read.

Author: Jack Huberman
Publisher: Bold Type Books
ISBN: 1568584199
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 354

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Surprisingly, no book of quotations on God and religion by atheists and agnostics exists. Luckily, for the millions of American nonbelievers who have quietly stewed for years as the religious right made gains in politics and culture, the wait is over. Bestselling author Jack Huberman's zeitgeist sense has honed into the backlash building against religious fundamentalism and collected a veritable treasure trove of quotes by philosophers, scientists, poets, writers, artists, entertainers, and political figures. His colorful cast of atheists includes Karen Armstrong, Lance Armstrong, Jules Feiffer, Federico Fellini, H. L. Mencken, Ian McKellen, Isaac Singer, Jonathan Swift, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Virginia Woolf and the Marquis de Sade.

Author: Bessie Head
Publisher: Waveland Press
ISBN: 1478611642
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 125

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“Bessie Head’s short stories have an extraordinary simplicity and breadth of vision,” heralded a review in The Tribune after publication of Head’s first collection of short stories, The Collector of Treasures. Regarded today as one of Africa’s best-known woman writers in English, Head draws on the rich oral tradition of southern Africa and masterfully applies storytelling’s language and imagery. Carefully sequenced, the anthology gives special focus to village people from independence-era Botswana and the status, position, and plight of African women.