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a must read
I had to read this for government, it is worth the time. It goes in depth about books banned; art of love, casndide, dubliners, the handmaid's tale, judge the obscure, lolita, madame bovary, and women in love. The sad fact is that there are millions of book lost by the surpression of a few, with it went our first amendment rights! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. 20th century    2. Censorship    3. Children: Young Adult (Gr. 10-12)    4. Erotic literature    5. Gay & Lesbian    6. General    7. History    8. Juvenile Nonfiction    9. Literary Criticism & Collections    10. Literature - Classics / Criticism    11. Prohibited books    12. United States    13. Bibliographies, catalogues, discographies    14. Literary studies: general   

Subjects:  1. Bible - Commentaries - General    2. Bible - Topical Studies    3. Bible Commentary    4. Biblical teaching    5. History of doctrines    6. Homosexuality    7. Homosexuality in the Bible    8. Religion    9. Religion - Biblical Studies    10. Religious aspects   

Editorial Review

Writing about events within living memory is one of the hardest tasks for a historian--there is too much information, too many perspectives. The authors of Read more

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Inaccurate, mean-spirited and boring.
This is an unsatisfactory book, mean-spirited and inaccurate.The authors reduce the homophile (pre-Stonewall) movement, the Gay Liberation Front, and the Gay Activists Alliance to a series of petty squabbles.They utterly fail to appreciate the courage and magnanimity of the pioneers in the struggle for gay rights.They fail to convey the radical vision of GLF or the political savvy of GAA.The most important publications, activities and demonstrations are not even mentioned. People who willingly sacrificed their careers for the movement are denigrated in crass physical terms -- as "roly poly" or looking like a "string bean" or a "turtle", or having a "nasal" voice, or sounding like a "foghorn", or being "tight little-old-mannish". There are dozens and dozens of mistakes.The authors seem unaware that Morty Manford was a President of GAA.They don't know the year of the GAA fire (1974), or that GAA continued on a smaller scale for a number of years after that. Above all, the book is BORING.And whatever else you can say about the gay liberation movement of the '70s, it was not boring.

Extremely interesting.. A Great Read!
This is far from a dry, boring history. It is full of colorful stories that keep you reading through the night while informing you of the realstruggle of real people. This book really helps you to know how far we'vecome and how much further we really have to go.... BRAVO on a very wellwritten book!

Great facts and timeline, no themes or deeper understanding
The stories and the narrative here are great and well-explained. True, the authors don't explain much about where the characters come from and just tell us that the characters are there and deal with it. Another fault hereis that the authors don't really try to carry themes through the book orexplain anything within a broader picture. The entire book is in the hereand now and there is no big-picture thought. It's good at what it is but Iwish the authors had tried to do more. Or maybe they'll write anotherbook...Read more

Subjects:  1. Gay Studies    2. Gay liberation movement    3. Gay rights    4. Gender Studies    5. History    6. Homosexuality    7. Lesbian Studies    8. Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights    9. Politics and government    10. Social Movements    11. Social Science    12. Sociology    13. United States    14. Social Science / Gay Studies   

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Poignant Look At An Ordinary American Who Became A Hero
In the aftermath of 9/11, several news articles mentioned that Mark Bingham was gay and a Republican. As a gay Republican myself, this naturally interested me. However, according to this biography, he was actually a Libertarian, though like most Libertarians he agreed with the GOP on many issues and on at least one occasion he worked for a Republican's campaign.
America's New Hero
This book has been successfully written to tell the story like it should be told. Mark Bingham and the others on United Flight 93 have given new meaning to the term Hero!!This book is a wonderful addition to any collection of the events of 9/11!! Mark stood up in the face of terror and paid the ultimate sacrifice. It is because of him and the other heroes, that an even greater tragedy was avoided.This day could have been much worse if not for the courageous efforts of people like Mark Bingham!!!

Moving for what it is, not how it's written
This short biography of Mark Bingham, who died on Flight 93 that terrible day of September 11, 2001, most likely as a member of a heroic group attempting to thwart the hijackers who had taken over his plane, is carefully written and researched by one of the senior editors of the Advocate. He's done the best job possible of presenting Mark Bingham as the human being he was, which includes the fact that he was a gay man. The parallels and differences drawn between Bingham and the gay man who saved Gerald Ford from possible assassination by Sara Jane Moore are very striking and food for thought. Most of the quotes are carefully chosen and only occasionally, as in a long string of e-mail correspondence between Bingham and a friend, is there a suspicion of padding.Read more

Subjects:  1. 1970-2001    2. Bingham, Mark,    3. Biography    4. Biography & Autobiography    5. Biography / Autobiography    6. Biography/Autobiography    7. Gay heroes    8. General    9. Historical - U.S.    10. Rugby football players    11. United Airlines Flight 93 Hijacking Incident, 2001    12. United States    13. Bingham, Mark    14. Biography & Autobiography / General    15. Biography: general   

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Subjects:  1. Art    2. Art & Art Instruction    3. Collecting    4. Collectors and collecting    5. Desire in art    6. Feminism & Feminist Theory    7. Gay Studies    8. History    9. History - General    10. Homosexuality in art    11. Subjects & Themes - General    12. ART_COLLECTORS AND COLLECTING    13. Art / Subjects & Themes / General    14. Exhibition catalogues and specific collections    15. Gay & Lesbian studies    16. History Of Art / Art & Design Styles    17. Modern period, c 1500 onwards    18. The Arts: General Issues   

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Too much like a textbook
I was really excited to get this book and very disappointed with it when it arrived. It is very dry, and presented like a textbook. For such a subject, the author takes things way too seriously, and could of had a lot more fun with this, as opposed to just presenting a dry textbook style report. Good pictures though

Fascinating, But Meant for Academia !
Scholarly?...yes.Fascinating?...yes?Intellectually challenging?....yesAuthoratiative?...yes?Well researched?...yes.All in all, a very subtantial piece of academic work, but MOST ASSUREDLY NOT FOR THE CASUAL READER.The title is perhaps a bit misleading if you are looking for a night-stand book.If you want a good socio-economic-historic look at the topic...THIS IS YOUR BOOK.

An Important Document, A Very Interesting Read
Mack Friedman has done his research very well indeed and has the ability to write historical data accurately and with style.STRAPPED FOR CASH: A History of American Hustler Culture is not the usual titillating gossip book that the unfortunate choice of cover and format might suggest. Friedman has studied the history of sex workers from the 1600s to the present.His emphasis is on male and transgender sex workers which he reports to be as old an industry as the 'world's oldest business - prostitution'.He very smoothly and with considerable style writes about centuries of documents which reveal the fact that male sex workers (now known as hustlers) have been active throughout the world in the major cities.His resources include many papers form the Kinsey Report and he follows the lives and reportings of a number of Kinsey's informants, pages of interesting and illuminating facts.Friedman also devotes an entire chapter to the history of male nude photography, at times accompanying the photographs with notes about the models and the photographers.He addresses the changes in the sex worker culture that accompanied the Industrial Revolution and both World Wars, the influence of the military on the sex market, the introduction of drugs as an accompaniment to the field, the use of the media ads including the Internet as a replacement for the brothels and street corners, and then adds the impact of AIDS and the gentrification or urban development in the major cities on the lives of those sex workers dependent on the streets for their livelihood.Read more

Subjects:  1. Education    2. Gay Studies    3. Gender Studies    4. History    5. Human Sexuality    6. Male prostitution    7. Multicultural Education    8. Popular Culture - General    9. United States    10. Education / Multicultural Education    11. Gay studies (Gay men)    12. Prostitution    13. USA   

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Toward a Queer of Color Critique
In this brilliant book, Rod Ferguson interrogates canonical sociologys' regulation of sexual difference as part of its pathologization of African American culture.Sophisticated in its critiques of race, gender, and sexuality within analyses of cultural, economic,and epistemological formations, this book breaks new ground in sociology, American studies, queer theory, and women of color feminism.Great for graduate and undergraduate courses on the problematic history of the discipline of sociology as well as courses on sexuality and queer theory. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. 20th century    2. African American authors    3. American - African American & Black    4. American fiction    5. Gay & Lesbian    6. Gay Studies    7. General    8. History    9. History and criticism    10. Homosexuality and literature    11. Literature - Classics / Criticism    12. Social Science    13. Sociology    14. United States    15. American studies    16. Black studies    17. Gay & Lesbian studies    18. USA   

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Caveat Emptor
This was the last book I read before my most recent relapse.I cannot be sure that I decided to reinvestigate drugs because of the trigger potential in the interviews, or simply to block out the poor writing quality, lack of epidemiological inquiry, or the fact that it comes off as patronizing and uninformed.
2stars actually:Time for a new strategy
The problem with books such as these is that they rely on the more rare, over-the-top stories. This will only prevent would-be users if they don't already know a typical user.
Was this book written by a Scientologist?Me thinks so..
This book is easily dismissed.Sure, the author makes liberal use of vivd case studies, but so do late-night infomercials.The vignettes are almost exclusively "horror stories", and rarely illustrate the casual, or binge user.
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Subjects:  1. Drug use    2. Gay Studies    3. Gays    4. General    5. History    6. History: American    7. Methamphetamine abuse    8. Politics / Current Events    9. United States    10. United States - 20th Century    11. Coping with drug & alcohol abuse    12. Drug addiction & substance abuse    13. Gay studies (Gay men)    14. History / United States / 20th Century    15. USA   

Subjects:  1. Gay Studies    2. General    3. History    4. History - General History    5. History: American    6. USA   

Subjects:  1. 1830-1886    2. American - General    3. American poetry    4. Criticism and interpretation    5. Dickinson, Emily,    6. Gay & Lesbian    7. History and criticism    8. Intellectual life    9. Lesbians    10. Lesbians' writings, American    11. Literary Criticism    12. Literature - Classics / Criticism    13. United States    14. Women Authors    15. American English    16. English    17. Gay & Lesbian studies    18. Literary Criticism & Collections / American    19. Poetry & poets: 19th century    20. Poetry & poets: from c 1900 -    21. USA    22. Women's studies   

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200 articles on GLBT artists and their art
Everything you wanted to know about GLBT art and didn't know where to look -
Great Browsing
The Queer Encyclopedia of the Visual Arts is a great resource. It is packed with all kinds of information. It is wonderful to browse, and is written to be very accessible to a wide audience, but it is also very solid. The surveys of American and European Art are especially valuable, as is the series of "Subjects of the Visual Art." Equally important are the essays on topics such as censorship and AIDS activism in the arts and biographical entries on glbtq artists, from major figures of the past like Michaelangelo, Leonardo, El Greco, etc. to contemporary artists such as Keith Haring, David Hockney, Janet Cooling, Tee Corinne, and many others. This volume and its companion The Queer Encyclopedia of Music, Dance, and Musical Theater highlight the great contributions glbtq people have made to world culture. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Art    2. Encyclopedias    3. Gay Studies    4. Gender Studies    5. History - Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945)    6. Homosexuality and art    7. Reference    8. Gay & Lesbian studies    9. History Of Art / Art & Design Styles    10. Reference works   

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History of Homosexuality in Ancient Cultures
This is a good book to read if you wish to study the history of homosexuality in the ancient East as well as the Biblical cultures. Nissinen does a pretty thorough study of homosexuality in Assyrian, Roman, Mesopotamian, and Greek cultures--as well as Israelite culture.Nissinen indicates that homosexuality was not the same in each culture.Some viewed it as a display of power and oppression and others viewed it as an expression of love and romance. WELL WRITTEN BOOK
This ia a very interesting book to read. Much well written than theinfamous book "OUT OF ORDER" (by Donald J. Wold) which is stainedby the prejudice or superstitional bias. However, I'd like to know whyand until when not a few of westerners want to cling to the"strange" religion/superstition named Christianity or Judaismusor Islam ? For us Japanese , such a "religion" which makes somepeople unhappy is not worth for the name of "true religion". ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Bible - Commentaries - General    2. Bible - CriticismInterpretation - General    3. Bible Commentary    4. Biblical teaching    5. Gay Studies    6. History    7. Homosexuality    8. Homosexuality in the Bible    9. Religion    10. Religion - Commentaries / Reference    11. To 1500    12. Gender studies    13. Sexual behaviour    14. The Bible   

Editorial Review

History not only moves quickly--it is, in essence, what happened yesterday--but it is also quickly forgotten. This is especially true when many of the people who made it are gone or dying. Benjamin Heim Shepard's beautifully composed, and wonderfully moving Read more

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Different Experiences
This book is a good read, even though it can occasionally be dry. The book uses commentary from various individuals to cover the many aspects of AIDS, from the beginning to about 1995 in one city, San Francisco. Every group is represented, not just gay men. Overall, a valuable addition to your library. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. AIDS & HIV    2. AIDS (Disease)    3. California    4. Diseases - AIDS & HIV    5. Gay Studies    6. History    7. Medical    8. San Francisco    9. Sociology    10. AIDS: social aspects    11. Gay & Lesbian studies    12. HIV / AIDS    13. USA    14. c 1960 to c 1970    15. c 1970 to c 1980    16. c 1980 to c 1990    17. c 1990 to c 2000   

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A stunning work of criticism
Given the importance of this book, I find myself puzzled by thefact that I am the first to review it..., but am delighted tohave the opportunity. This book was a real milestone when itappeared. In a very factual, unbiassed but totally proficient andpersuasive way it demonstrated in great detail that the persona of thepoems is presented, through them..... Sonnet 20 is of course a crucial targetfor Pequigney, and he reads it superbly, but he is hardly less good ona great many other of Shakespeare's wonderful poems, and is by nomeans narrow or obsessive about his point of view: on the contrary, hehas an excellent notion of how his argument fits into a wider schemeof things. Those who read the poems in Katherine Jones's disappointingArden 3 edition will realise, if they examine Pequigney's work, thatthat editor's claims about the supposed novelty of her views on thebisexuality presented within the poems is greatly exaggerated, andthat Pequigney makes many of the important points both earlier andbetter. Anyone seriously interested in the Sonnets will want to readthis book, which I would rank as one of the most significant and bestworks concerned with those poems: more essential to read than, forexample, John Kerrigan's edition, competent though that is, and insome ways more to the point than Stephen Booth's excellenttome. Someone reading both Pequigney and Helen Vendler would perhapsbenefit more from those two books than any others, though I wouldrecommend using Ingram and Redpath's edition of the Sonnets alongsidethese critical works.... ... Read more

Subjects:  1. 1564-1616    2. England    3. English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh    4. History    5. History and criticism    6. Homosexuality and literature    7. Literary Criticism    8. Love poetry, English    9. Poetry    10. Shakespeare, William,    11. Sonnets    12. Sonnets, English    13. English    14. Poetry / Single Author / British & Irish    15. Shakespeare studies & criticism    16. United Kingdom, Great Britain   

Subjects:  1. 16th century    2. 17th century    3. Drama    4. Early modern and Elizabethan,    5. Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600    6. England    7. English drama    8. English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh    9. Gay Studies    10. History    11. History and criticism    12. Homosexuality and literature    13. Literary Criticism    14. Plays / Drama    15. Renaissance    16. Drama / British & Irish    17. Drama-English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh    18. English    19. English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600--History and criticism    20. Literary Criticism-Renaissance    21. Literature and society    22. Plays & playwrights: 16th to 18th centuries    23. Social Science / Gay Studies   

Subjects:  1. 20th century    2. England    3. English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh    4. Feminism and literature    5. History    6. Homosexuality and literature    7. Literary Criticism    8. Literature - Classics / Criticism    9. United States    10. British Isles    11. English    12. Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh    13. Poetry & poets: from c 1900 -   

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Williams in the context of his homosexuality
Gentlemen Callers is a penetrating look at the work of Tennessee Williams in the context of his homosexuality and the pervasive homophobia in the midst of which he grew up and created some of the most moving and significant works of drama in the English language.Gentlemen Callers describes in all its chilling reality the emergence of intense homophobia in the mid-20th century, intentionally fostered by government agencies, and discusses how this homophobia impacted his life and his work.Author Paller makes a particular effort to point out the wrongmidedness of latter day gay liberationist critics who pilloried Williams for supposedly creating characters from an internalized homophobia, criticism which failed to appreciate the process of artistic creation and the characters themselves in their dramatic settings.Paller analyzes a number of the most developmentally significant of Williams' plays in the light of the homosexuality that was such an important motif in his oeuvre.Gentlemen Callers is an engaging study, and the most substantial examination of this writer in the context of the homosexuality that so signficantly informed his work.

The Man, The Time, and Life in America
This book is kind of a mixture. Partly it's a biographical sketch of Tennesee Williams, partly it's a review of the struggles gay and lesbian people had during the 1940's and '50's, partly it's an analysis of the homosexuality in Williams plays, partly it's an analysis of the critics writing about his plays. And all of that is a lot to put in one rather small book.
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Subjects:  1. 1911-1983    2. 20th century    3. American    4. Criticism and interpretation    5. Drama    6. Gay Studies    7. History    8. Homosexuality and literature    9. Homosexuality, Male, in literature    10. Performing Arts    11. Sexual orientation in literature    12. Social Science    13. Sociology    14. Theater - History & Criticism    15. United States    16. Williams, Tennessee,    17. Biography & Autobiography    18. Drama-American    19. Literary Criticism-Drama    20. Performing Arts / Theater / History & Criticism    21. Sex in literature    22. Social Science / Gay Studies   

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Superb Scholarship
Pflugfelder's book, the product of 20 years of research, provides a necessary foundation for students of Japanese history and sexology. What is much more, he resists reinforcing the kinds of master narratives that this kind of history usually inforces. "Homosexual," for instance, becomes not an identity but a term situated in time and space with certain uses by and for certain people. His Foucauldian approach focuses mostly on shifts and resists any notion of progress. I think this book is important to students of History as a model for their own scholarship, not just as a substantial contribution to the more specific field of Japanese Studies.

INTERESTING STUDY
It is very interesting to read a this kind of book for us Japanese. However, as far as I know, we don't have a religious prejudice tohomosexuality at all, therefore it sounds a little bit strange that inMeiji-era the goverment of Japan made a "Sodomy Law" imitatingthe western countries ---- of course it was soon repealed. I prefer to reada book on male/male love of pre-Tokugawa period, since in those days,especially in Muromachi-period, male homoeroticism was most flourished andprosperous. And I also want to read about the history of male-love inKorea, Tibet and Southeastern Asia. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Asia - Japan    2. Asian    3. Asian - Japanese    4. Gay Studies    5. Gender Studies    6. History    7. History and criticism    8. Homosexuality    9. Homosexuality and literature    10. Japan    11. Japanese Literature    12. Legal literature    13. Literary Collections    14. Literary Criticism    15. Sexuality In Literature    16. Asian / Middle Eastern history: c 1500 to c 1900    17. Asian / Middle Eastern history: postwar, from c 1945 -    18. Cultural studies    19. Gay studies (Gay men)    20. History / General    21. Lesbian studies    22. Modern period, c 1500 onwards   

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Mighty, mighty real
Magic happens where reality and fantasy overlap. It's a space that dance music star Sylvester effortlessly occupied during the outrageous and flamboyant club scene of the mid-70s to early 80s, when those lines were happily blurred on a nightly basis.
Fabulous
It took 17 years for someone to realize that the world needed to know who Sylvester was and how he impacted music and society.This book was wonderful.Being a huge fan of Sylvester, this was truly a treat.A very good read.I must say, I did learn some things about Syl that were very shocking, but I am glad that I have finally been told his true life story.It is so sad that we can not hear that wonderful falsetto voice anymore.He will always be missed.I met him early in 1987 and he was truly fabulous!

You Would Only Want To - - - - Read This
This book is by far the best book I have read this year. I travel alot so I read about1 to 2 books a week. The Fabulous Sylvester is absolutely fabulous. This book made me Cry, made me Laugh, made me Sing, made me Rejoice, and made me Remember. If you were there in days of disco weather the early, middle or last days of it, take a stroll down memory lane with Gamson's accurate discription of the Garage. And although I learned alot about Sylvester I did not know, this book is a great tribute to the Disco era, as well as the Fabulous Sylvester himself. Like I said YOU WOULD ONLY WANT TO. (DATING MYSELF HERE) ... Read more

Subjects:  1. 1947-1988    2. Biography    3. Biography & Autobiography    4. Biography / Autobiography    5. Biography/Autobiography    6. California    7. Composers & Musicians - Pop    8. Disco music    9. Disco musicians    10. Entertainment & Performing Arts - General    11. Genres & Styles - Dance    12. History and criticism    13. People of Color    14. San Francisco    15. Singers    16. Specific Groups - Male Gay Studies    17. Sylvester,    18. United States    19. Social Science / Popular Culture   

Subjects:  1. Gender Studies    2. Gender identity in music    3. General    4. Genres & Styles - Classical    5. History and criticism    6. Homosexuality and music    7. Instruction & Study - Theory    8. Music    9. Music and literature    10. Music/Songbooks    11. Gay & Lesbian studies    12. Music / General    13. Theory of music & musicology