Books shelved as gay-ary-romance: Skip Trace by Jenn Burke, General Misnduct by L.A. Wt, A Reason To Stay by R.J. Stt, A Rg and a Promise by...
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- BT GAY ROMANCE TIM OF WAR
- GAY WAR BOOKS
- BT GAY MILARY
- GAY MILARY ROMANCE BOOKS
- GAY HISTORIL FICTN BOOKS
- TOP 100 GAY NOVELS OF THE XXI CENTURY
- 8 GREAT BOOKS BY LGBTQ AUTHORS FROM PLAC WHERE IT’S ILLEGAL TO BE GAY
BT GAY ROMANCE TIM OF WAR
Books shelved as gay-war: Kei's Gift by Ann Somerville, Kg of the Celts by Rose Christo, Spoils of War by Kari Gregg, Do Over by Dan Kirk, and Nocturne... * gay war books *
Vote/add books wh a gay romance plot/subplot that have as a background settg an armed or non-armed nflict (wars, civil wars, revolutns, civil ristanc, etc.
GAY WAR BOOKS
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In honor of LGBTQ History Month, celebrated every October, here are books that aim to shed light on and clarify signifint historil moments that rmed and shaped the morn lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer rights movement.
"The Gay Revolutn: The Story of the Stggle" by Lillian FarmanA thorough troductn to the history of the gay and lbian civil rights movements, this book chronicl the early stggl of LGBTQ dividuals om the 1950s to prent day g a pilatn of enlighteng terviews wh policians, ary officials and members of the muny. "When We Rise: My Life the Movement" by Cleve JonThis semi-tobgraphil acunt follows Cleve Jon as he explor his inty as a gay man the 1950s, disvers a muny and a e through his mentor, Harvey Milk, and p wh the ravagg effects of the AIDS epimic.
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"Sister Outsir: Essays and Speech" by Audre LorA celebratn of tersectnaly, black lbian poet and femist Audre Lor analyz the prence of ageism, sexism, racism, classism and homophobia her own life through a llectn of lyril says and speech. "The Men wh the Pk Triangle" by Hez Heger (Used)In lurid tail, Hez Hager unfolds the te story of Josef Kohout — a man who was imprisoned a Nazi ncentratn mp for beg gay — and effectively remds the world of the torture gay dividuals suffered at the hands of the Nazi regime.
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JohnsonWh the help of classified documents and terview wh ary officials, David Johnson argu that Senator Joseph McCarthy was jt as guilty of promotg anti-Communism paranoia as he was spirg polici that nsired homosexualy a threat to natnal secury. "The Celluloid Closet: Homosexualy the Movi" by Vo RsoPublished 1987, Rso’s analysis of the portrayal of homosexualy film has laid the foundatn for the how we evaluate LGBTQ reprentatn film today and has supported the argument that reprentatn matters. The Uned Stat of Ameri" by Eric CerviWhile many believe the fight for LGBTQ rights began at New York Cy’s Stonewall Inn durg the summer of 1969, actually began wh a grassroots “homophile” movement that has been largely overlooked.
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Cervi documents the work of Frank Kameny and other gay activists durg the late 1950s and ‘60s, illumatg their role layg the groundwork that would lead to the Stonewall NBC Out on Twter, Facebook & Instagram. Though this book is full of dozens of characters, there are three ghosts that might be nsired ma characters a more nventnal novel, one of whom is a gay man. Queer people still face a unique threat of vlence, wh the massacre at Pulse nightclub still loomg recent history, and hate-related homocis creasg by 82% om 2016 to 2017.
Drawg upon primary-source documents, lerature, and cultural histori, scholar and activist Michael Bronski charts the breadth of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr history, om 1492 to the 1990s. Such notable rearchers as John Boswell, Shari Benstock, Carroll Smh-Rosenberg, Jefey Weeks and John D’E illumate gay and lbian life as evolved plac as diverse as the Athens of Plato, Renaissance Italy, Victorian London, jazz Age Harlem, Revolutnary Rsia, Nazi Germany, Castro’s Cuba, post-World War II San Francis—and peopl as varied as South Ain black mers, Amerin Indians, Che urtiers, Japane samurai, English schoolboys and girls, and urban workg women.
TOP 100 GAY NOVELS OF THE XXI CENTURY
The thors of Out for Good, both wrers for the New York Tim, not only drew on extensive archival rerds but nducted nearly 700 terviews wh the founrs and opponents of the early gay rights movement. ’ For homophile activists of the 1950s and early 1960s, that stggle had been about beg left alone by police and policians, but for those gatherg to prott Stonewall, was about “fg themselv to society as gay men and lbians. The thors unpack queer crimal archetyp—like ‘gleeful gay killers, ’ ‘lethal lbians, ’ ‘disease sprears, ’ and;ceptive genr benrs’—to illtrate the punishment of queer exprsn, regardls of whether a crime was ever mted.
8 GREAT BOOKS BY LGBTQ AUTHORS FROM PLAC WHERE IT’S ILLEGAL TO BE GAY
“The Gay Revolutn begs the 1950s, when gays and lbians were crimals, psychiatrists saw them as mentally ill, church saw them as sners, and society victimized them wh hatred. “Unspeakable documents the major phas the evolutn of the gay and lbian prs while providg a wdow to the history of the movement, om the era of McCarthyism to the ancy of the ’60s and the Stonewall Rts, om the liberaly of the ’70s to the issue of AIDS the ’80s and the ‘outg’ of the ’90s”.
He scrib the liv of gay men and women: how they disvered their sexualy and accepted or disguised ; how they me out; how they ma ntact wh like-md people. “New York Tim Notable Book of the Year and wner of a Lambda Lerary Award, The Gay Metropolis is a landmark saga of stggle and triumph that was stantly regnized as the most thorative and substantial work of s kd.