A thought-provoking resource for anyone concerned with sexuality and gender identity in health and social care settings.

Examines how the LGBT movement's engagement with the law shapes the very meanings of sexuality, sex, gender, privacy, discrimination, and family in law and society. This book contains essays that highlight the struggle to make the law relevant and responsive to the LGBT community.

Presents a primer on the state of same-sex marriage debate. This book shows how allowing gay couples to marry does not destroy the institution of marriage and that many gay couples do benefit, in expected as well as surprising ways, from the legal, social, and political rights that the institution offers.

From Wal-Mart drag parties to renegade Homemaker's Clubs, this book offers a contemporary account of the lives of rural queer youth. It maps out the experiences of young people living in small towns across rural Kentucky and along its desolate Appalachian borders.

The Rise of the Marriage Equality Movement and Why It Will Prevail.

From Wal-Mart drag parties to renegade Homemaker's Clubs, this book offers a contemporary account of the lives of rural queer youth. It maps out the experiences of young people living in small towns across rural Kentucky and along its desolate Appalachian borders.

Examines how the LGBT movement's engagement with the law shapes the very meanings of sexuality, sex, gender, privacy, discrimination, and family in law and society. This book contains essays that highlight the struggle to make the law relevant and responsive to the LGBT community.

Since the Stonewall rebellion in 1969, gay and lesbian movements have grown to a worldwide mobilization. This book brings together stories of the emergence and growth of movements in more than a dozen nations on five continents, with a comparative look that offers insights for both activists and those who study social movements.

Michel Foucault was the first to embed the roots of human sexuality in discipline and biopolitics, therefore revolutionizing our conception of sex and its relationship to society, economics, and culture. Yet over the past two decades, scholars have limited themselves to the study of Foucault's History of Sexuality, volume 1 paying lesser attention to his equally explosive History of Madness. In

Analyzes representative works of African American fiction, film, and music in which interracial desire appears in the context of same sex desire. In readings of these 'texts', this book explores the ways in which the interracial intersects with queerness, blackness, whiteness, class, and black national identity.

A rebel's guide to sexual liberation.

Analyzes representative works of African American fiction, film, and music in which interracial desire appears in the context of same sex desire. This book explores the ways in which the interracial intersects with queerness, blackness, whiteness, class, and black national identity.

African Americans have thoughts and ideas regarding same gender love (SGL) that rarely are informed by the experiences of openly SGL people who live within black communities. This book documents many actual events that resulted in very different ways of thinking among same gender loving people of African descent in America.

Explores the origins and history of the modern American movement for homosexual rights, which originated in Los Angeles in the late 1940s. This book chronicles how one clandestine special interest association emerged as a powerful political force that spawned several other organizations over years.

Examines the various kinds of censorship which have oppressed homosexual men and women. Discussing artists as diverse as Marcel Proust, Benjamin Britten, WH Auden and Terence Rattigan, Saki and Ronald Firbank, this book explores the true nature of camp and the rich tradition of subversive and comic art created by the censoring of the sexual.

Reclaiming the Abandoned of Radical Gay Sexuality.

Focusing on Florida's purge of gay and lesbian teachers from 1956 to 1965, this study explores how the Florida Legislative Investigation Committee, commonly known as the Johns Committee, investigated and discharged dozens of teachers on the basis of sexuality.

Recognises the important role of gay icons, and their contribution to contemporary culture and society. This book explores gay iconography through the portraits of historical and modern icons. It explores the role of image in defining perceptions of an individual's sexuality, style, strength and their potential iconic status.

Focusing on Florida's purge of gay and lesbian teachers from 1956 to 1965, this study explores how the Florida Legislative Investigation Committee, known as Johns Committee, investigated and discharged dozens of teachers on the basis of sexuality. It details how teachers are targeted, interrogated, and stripped of their professional credentials.