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Author : Robert Aldrich
Release : 2010
Genre : Gays
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 071/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Gay Life and Culture by : Robert Aldrich
Download or read book Gay Life and Culture written by Robert Aldrich. This book was released on 2010. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: London: Thames & Hudson Ltd., 2006.
Author : Robert Aldrich
Release : 2006
Genre : Art
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Book Synopsis Gay Life and Culture by : Robert Aldrich
Download or read book Gay Life and Culture written by Robert Aldrich. This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gay Life and Culture is the first ever comprehensive, global account of gay history. It is spectacularly illustrated throughout and includes an extensive selection of images, many of them only recently recovered. From Theocritus' verses to Queer as Folk, from the berdaches of North America to the boywives of Aboriginal Australia, this extraordinarily wide-ranging book illustrates both the commonality of love and lust, and the various ways in which such desires have been constructed through the ages.
Author : Frederic Martel
Release : 2018-04-27
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 117/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Global Gay by : Frederic Martel
Download or read book Global Gay written by Frederic Martel. This book was released on 2018-04-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A panoramic view of gay rights, gay life, and the gay experience around the world. In Global Gay, Frédéric Martel visits more than fifty countries and documents a revolution underway around the world: the globalization of LGBT rights. From Saudi Arabia to South Africa, from Amsterdam to Tel Aviv, from Singapore to the United States, activists, culture warriors, and ordinary people are part of a movement. Martel interviews the proprietor of a “gay-friendly” café in Amman, Jordan; a Cuban-American television journalist in Fort Lauderdale, Florida; a South African jurist who worked with Nelson Mandela to enshrine gay rights in the country's constitution; an American lawyer who worked on the campaign for marriage equality; an Egyptian man who fled his country after escaping a raid on a gay club; and many others. He tells us that in China, homosexuality is neither prohibited nor permitted, and that much Chinese gay life takes place on social media; that in Iran, because of the strict separation of the sexes, it seems almost easier to be gay than heterosexual; and that Raul Castro's daughter, a gay rights icon in Cuba, expressed her lingering anti-American sentiments by calling for Pride celebrations in May rather than June. Ten countries maintain the death penalty for homosexuals. “Homophobia is what Arab governments give to Islamists to keep them calm,” one activist tells Martel. Martel finds that although the “gay American way of life” has created a global template for gay activism and culture, each country offers distinctly local variations. And around the world, the status of gay rights has become a measure of a country's democracy and modernity. This English edition, which has been thoroughly revised and updated, has received the French Voices Award for excellence in publication and translation, supported by a grant from the French-American Book Fund.
Author : Robert Aldrich
Release : 2023-03-02
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 442/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Gay Life Stories by : Robert Aldrich
Download or read book Gay Life Stories written by Robert Aldrich. This book was released on 2023-03-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives a voice to more than eighty people from every major continent and from all walks of life. It includes poets and philosophers, rulers and spies, activists and artists. Alongside such celebrated figures as Michelangelo, Frederick the Great and Harvey Milk are lesser-known but no less surprising individuals: Dong Xian and the Chinese emperor Ai, whose passion flourished in the 1st century BC; the unfortunate Robert De Péronne, first to be burned at the stake for sodomy; Katharine Philips, writing proto-lesbian poetry in seventeenth-century England; and 'Aimee' and 'Jaguar', whose love defied the death camps of wartime Germany. With many striking illustrations, Gay Life Stories will entertain, give pause for thought, and ultimately celebrate the diversity of human history.
Author : Frank Browning
Release : 2012-03-07
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 598/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Culture of Desire by : Frank Browning
Download or read book The Culture of Desire written by Frank Browning. This book was released on 2012-03-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is there such a thing as an American gay culture--a set of styles, values, and behaviors that arises not from ethnicity or religion but from sexual orientation? How is that culture transmitted? And how is it likely to survive the depradations of homophobia and AIDS? These questions are explored by Browning, a reporter for NPR.
