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Why should Americans who are not gay care about gay rights? In Created Equal, Michael Nava and Robert Dawidoff argue that the movement for gay equality is central to the continuing defense of individual liberty in America. Beginning with an examination of the determined assault on gay issues by the religious right, the authors show how this sectarian movement to legislate private religious morality into law undermines the purpose of American constitutional...
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The first comprehensive history of homophobia-from ancient Athens to the halls of Congress-this bold, original work is certain to become a classic.
It is the last acceptable prejudice. In an age when racial and ethnic name-calling are viewed with distaste, and physical epithets are frowned upon, hatred of homosexuals remains rife. Now, in a tour de force of historical and literary research, Byrne Fone chronicles the evolution of homophobia through...
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Luis Alegre ha escrito un libro divertido y riguroso, inteligente y mordaz. Un libro terapéutico y liberador para homosexuales y heterosexuales por igual. Más de diez semanas en la lista de libros más vendidos de no ficción del diario El Mundo y de la prestigiosa librería La Central.
La Edad de Oro de la heterosexualidad está tocando a su fin, y esto es motivo de celebración para todos. También para los heterosexuales, que hasta ahora se...
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Germany in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries witnessed key developments in LGBT history, including the growth of the world's first homosexual organizations and gay and lesbian magazines, as well as an influential community of German sexologists and psychoanalysts. Queer Identities and Politics in Germany describes these events in detail, from vibrant gay social scenes to the Nazi persecution that sent many LGBT people to concentration...
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"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1994" "Named an Outstanding Book by the Gustavus Meyers Center for the Study of Human Rights in North America for 1998" Marc Wolinsky is a partner of the New York law firm of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, and co-counsel to Joseph C. Steffan in association with Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund. Kenneth Sherrill is Professor of Political Science and Chair of the College Senate at Hunter College,...
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Since their birth in the late 1960's as a working class subcultural response to what was seen as a feminised, bourgeois-hippy parent culture, the skinhead has since held a semi-mythological status amongst the UK's street tribes. But from the off, queer undercurrents inevitably ran through skinhead culture, as shaven heads, shiny DMs and tight Levis fed inevitably into fantasies and fetishes based around notions of ultra-masculinity. In this updated...
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Amores oblicuos: La homosexualidad en Colombia desde la literatura, la prensa y la pintura, 1890-1990 detalla la manera como en el país se buscó proscribir y demonizar, mediante la prensa escrita, las relaciones homoeróticas, y el modo como, desde el arte, se logró proponer y posicionar otras formas de representación de las sexualidades disidentes, en la vía del reconocimiento y la aceptación de expresiones que han estado presentes en la sociedad...
10) Hasta que el amor les dure: Debates en torno a las parejas del mismo sexo en el contexto colombiano
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Hasta que el amor les dure: debates en torno a las parejas del mismo sexo en el contexto colombiano presenta un panorama general de los principales debates y discursos relacionados con la visibilidad, existencia y subjetividad de las parejas del mismo sexo. Para esto, se analizaron más de 300 notas de prensa publicadas en los principales diarios de circulación nacional en Colombia en el periodo 2007-2010, en las cuales se representaran tales uniones....
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En los 90 años comprendidos entre el Código Penal de 1890 y el de 1980, las relaciones sexuales entre hombres estuvieron penalizadas en Colombia. Raros se orientó hacia la construcción, durante ese periodo y bajo el enfoque de la historia cultural, de las formas como fueron representados los hombres que vivieron una práctica sexual disidente, o desterrada, del orden regular establecido en términos eróticos y sexuales en Medellín. A lo largo...
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DERECHOS HUMANOS Y EL DEPARTAMENTO DE SEGURIDAD DOMESTICA, DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS LE DAN DERECHOS CIVILES A TODOS SUS CIUDADANOS Y RESIDENTES, EN EL USO DEL SEXO. NO PERMITEN VIOLACIONES A MENORES DE EDAD, NI A MAYORES DE EDAD, EL ACOSO SEXUAL Y LA DISCRIMINACIN BASADA CON PERFIL RACIAL, TNICO, RELIGIN, COLOR, ORIGEN NACIONAL, ESTADO LEGAL, INCAPACIDAD, INTIMIDACION Y MALA ORIENTACIN HOMOSEXUAL O CREENCIA POLTICA, ESTO ES ILEGAL EN LOS.,ESTADOS UNIDOS....
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The act of "coming out" has the power to transform every aspect of a woman's life: family, friendships, career, sexuality, spirituality. An essential element of self-realization, it is the unabashed acceptance of one's "outlaw" standing in a predominantly heterosexual world. These accounts -- sometimes heart-wrenching, often exhilarating -- encompass a wide breadth of backgrounds and experiences. From a teenager institutionalized for her passion for...
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In 2012 and 2013, masses of French citizens took to the streets to demonstrate against a bill on gay marriage. But demonstrators were not merely denouncing its damaging effects; they were also claiming that its origins lay in "gender theory," an ideology imported from the United States. By "gender theory" they meant queer theory in general and, more specifically, the work of noted scholar Judith Butler. Now French opponents to gay marriage, supported...
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Pour les minorités sexuelles, Internet est devenu un puissant moyen de s'organiser, d'informer et d'intervenir dans le champ de la santé. Des chercheurs et des intervenants font état des recherches et des projets entourant les sites Web visant l'amélioration de la santé mentale et physique des lesbiennes, gais, bisexuels et transgenres.
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Mediante una aproximación antropológica al trabajo y la presencia del Grupo Unigay en el Movimiento Lésbico, Gay, Bisexual y Transgenérico (LGBT) de la Ciudad de México a finales de los años noventa del siglo pasado, en este libro se exponen los desarrollos académicos y socioculturales del movimiento gay global y local, y sus contribuciones a la construcción de la identidad gay como una categoría teórica y social legítima en los estudios...
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This comprehensive anthology traces the rhetoric of the gay rights movement from the late nineteenth century to the present. It chronicles the progression from its deeply clandestine beginnings to the battle for recognition, through political struggles and victories of the mid-twentieth century to its current position-at the forefront of the mainstream political debate concerning the fight for marriage equality. The speeches include Robert G. Ingersoll's...
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Este libro habla del deseo. Deseo homoerótico que franquea los controles, la censura, los temores e incluso la autorrepresión. Deseo que no sabe de razas, jerarquías u ordenamientos sociales. Deseo que se realiza y satisface en la carne, pero sin renunciar a la fantasía. Más allá de la maraña de explicaciones, admoniciones y reprimendas que en ocasiones despierta el deseo homoerótico en sociedades que lo niegan, invisibilizan y proscriben,...
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That Man from C.A.M.P., Jackie Holmes, says: "And away we go! Back to that little room. No, not that one-the one just on the other side of that place they call the dining area. The kitchen, of course. Now, I'm sure you know your way around the other rooms, especially the one with the queen-sized you-know-what, but as I'm prone to mention from time to time, one of the ways to a man's heart is through his stomach, which means you'll have to spend some...
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