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  • 1
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    Against My Better Judgment : An Intimate Memoir of an Eminent Gay Psychologist (2014)
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    ISBN: 9780789000873
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (264 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Against My Better Judgment : An Intimate Memoir of an Eminent Gay Psychologist
    DDC: 306.76/62/092
    Keywords: Brown, Roger ; 1925-1997 ; Gay men ; Biography ; Older gay men ; Social conditions ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Against My Better Judgment: An Intimate Memoir of an Eminent Gay Psychologist is an extraordinary and moving account of the life of a gay man in his late 60s after he loses his companion of 40 years to cancer. A leading professor of psychology at Harvard University, Roger Brown bravely comes forth with his compelling story of grief, loneliness, and a relentless search for intimacy, healing, and self-acceptance. Readers gain insight into a stage of life experienced by gay men of which little is written or spoken due to the ageism that characterizes homosexual culture. Against My Better Judgment
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1. Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun; Chapter 2. Career Crisis; Chapter 3. Dream Boys; Chapter 4. Face-Lift; Chapter 5. Skippy; Chapter 6. Grant; Chapter 7. Patrick; Chapter 8. Lie Down with Panthers
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    Lila's House : Male Prostitution in Latin America (2014)
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    ISBN: 9780789005939
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (145 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Lila's House : Male Prostitution in Latin America
    DDC: 306.74/2/0972863
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    Abstract: Lila's House: Male Prostitution in Latin America presents insight into male prostitution in a truly global array of Latin American countries. This study focuses on a very specific sexual culture within the realm of male prostitution: the young men of a lower/middle-class brothel catering to a broad range of clients. You will explore the culture of juvenile prostitution and learn from the immediate intervention program that was implemented. Twenty-five young men between the ages of 13 and 27 were interviewed for this study. They share with you their views on:sexual initiationsexual definitionse
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Why Write About the Forbidden?; Chapter 1. The House and the Money; The House; The Clients; Cacheros; The Brothel Owner; Profit and Money Laundering; Chapter 2. Cacheros Are Masculine; Chapter 3. The Rules of Cacherismo; Materialism; Lack of Contact with the Gay Community; A Day in the Life; A Clean Slate; Indifference; Pagadores; Different Sexual Practices; Double Standards; Chapter 4. The Realities of Cachero Life; Fantasy and Pleasure; Flirting; Money and Drugs
    Description / Table of Contents: Family and ChildrenNew Demands; Romantic Love; Empathy; Chapter 5. Sodom and Gomorrah Revisited; Cacherismo, Condemnation, and Guilt; AIDS Prevention; The End of the House; Glossary; Notes; Index
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    Dry Bones Breathe : Gay Men Creating Post-AIDS Identities and Cultures (2015)
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    ISBN: 9780789004703
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (368 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Dry Bones Breathe : Gay Men Creating Post-AIDS Identities and Cultures
    DDC: 305.38/9664
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    Abstract: Dry Bones Breathe: Gay Men Creating Post-AIDS Identities and Cultures breaks new ground in offering an original and insightful interpretation of gay men's shifting experience of the AIDS epidemic. From Dry Bones Breathe, you'll gain a deeper understanding of current community debates focused on circuit parties, unprotected sex, and gay men's sexual cultures, and you will learn how social, political, and biomedical changes are dramatically transforming gay identities and cultures.Dry Bones Breathe is Eric Rofes'explosive follow-up to Reviving the Tribe, a book which broke open debates in gay co
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; SECTION I: IN THE AFTERMATH OF DECIMATION; Chapter 1: Now That It's Over; Harbingers of a New Era; What It Was Like and What It's Like Now; Mass Exodus from the State of Emergency; Dry Bones Breathe; Chapter 2: The Protease Moment Takes Hold; Relief, Hope, and Proliferating Possibilities; The Incredible Shrinking Obituary Pages; What We Mean When We Say "The AIDS Crisis Is Over"; Marketing the Protease Moment; Making Magic of Pharmaceuticals; The Mixed-Status Couple Faces the Protease Moment
    Description / Table of Contents: Putting All Our Eggs in the Protease BasketBetween AIDS-As-Crisis and AIDS-As-Over; Our First Deep Breath in Twenty Years; Chapter 3: Creating Post-AIDS Lives; Death, Departure, and Diversification Create New Epidemic Events; Long-Term Uninfected Gay Men: Lost Generation or Post-AIDS Pioneers?; Gay Men of Color: Building Communities Amid Multiple Threats; Young Gay Men: Constructing Identities Beyond Crisis; Chapter 4: Vacating the Bomb Shelters; Rural Gay Men: Forging Connections Within Local Epidemic Contexts; HIV-Positive Gay Men: Postcrisis, Awaiting Crisis, and in Crisis
    Description / Table of Contents: Scrutinizing Space AliensSECTION II: SEX AFTER CRISIS; Chapter 5: Don't Fuck with Gay Culture; Springtime in San Francisco; Seeing Dick, Dick, and Only Dick: Larry Kramer's "Sex and Sensibility"; Michelangelo Signorile: Sound-Bite Solutions to Complex Social Problems; Self-Esteem versus Social Change: San Francisco's Health Professionals Check In; Why Is Gay Culture Being Censured at This Time?; Reducing American Culture to Let's Make a Deal; Chapter 6: Scapegoating Circuit Boys; Sex War Schisms Hit New York City and San Francisco; Emerging Moral Panics Throughout the Nation
    Description / Table of Contents: Scapegoating Circuit BoysA Post-AIDS Perspective on Continuing Infections; A Visit to Leather Buddies; Chapter 7: A Framework for Low-Risk Promiscuity; What the Centers for Disease Control Have Yet to Understand. . .; Making Room for Monogamy; Just Say Yes; Rationing Rimming; Shifting from AIDS Prevention to Gay Men's Health; SECTION III: HIV WORK BEYOND THE PROTEASE MOMENT; Chapter 8: Closing Down Prevention Programs; Tackling Big-Picture Barriers to Health; Save-Our-Sex Activism; Mindful Strategies for Community Building: Seattle's Gay City Health Project
    Description / Table of Contents: Building Community Through Informal Structures: Atlanta's Second SundayQueer Promise Keepers: Designing Our Own Mass Rituals; Abandoning the Role of Moral Judge of the Community; Chapter 9: The Final Days of AIDS Inc.; Stuffing the Red Ribbon Rhetoric; Restructuring HIV Work for a Post-AIDS Era; AIDS Service Organizations: Reconceived, Restructured, or Retired?; What Else Has to Change?; Epilogue: Alive in My Own Life Story; Leaving Behind the Funereal Feelings; Learning to Fuck Again; The Kind Who Can't Forget; Notes; Index
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    Behind the Mask of the Mattachine : The Hal Call Chronicles and the Early Movement for Homosexual Emancipation (2013)
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    ISBN: 9781560231875
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (600 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Behind the Mask of the Mattachine : The Hal Call Chronicles and the Early Movement for Homosexual Emancipation
    DDC: 306.76/6092
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    Abstract: Take a revealing look at gay sex and gay history?and the man who helped kick-start gay activism in today's societyThe Mattachine is the origin of the contemporary American gay movement. One of the major players in this movement was Hal Call, America's first openly gay journalist and the man most responsible for the end of government censorship of frontal male nude photography through the mail. Behind the Mask of the Mattachine: The Early Movement for Homosexual Emancipation, the Hal Call Chronicles travels back to the times before Stonewall and its aftermath, to the beginnings of the modern ho
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Behind the Mask of the Mattachine; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Logos, Eros, and Psyche; SECTION I: RELATIONSHIPS; Chapter 1. Who Was Hal Call?; Chapter 2. The Final Visit; Chapter 3. In a Dream; Chapter 4. Q&A; SECTION II: FOUNDATIONS; Chapter 5. German Roots; Chapter 6. Boyhood; Chapter 7. Egos and Eros; Chapter 8. Making Contacts; Chapter 9. Three-Cornered Conversation; Chapter 10. War Buddies; Chapter 11. The Fifth Order; Chapter 12. Letters Home; Chapter 13. Coming Out
    Description / Table of Contents: SECTION III: MATTACHINE (1950-1953)Chapter 14. Organizing in the Bay Area; Chapter 15. Cracks in the Foundation; Chapter 16. Conventional Wisdom; Chapter 17. Chuck and Gerry; Chapter 18. Conflict Across the Bay; Chapter 19. On the Edge of Midnight; Chapter 20. The "Unravelment of Dreams"; Chapter 21. Q&A II; Chapter 22. Mattachine Melee; Chapter 23. Gerry's Farewell; Chapter 24. Moments in Time; SECTION IV: SEXUALITIES; Chapter 25. 1973: Theater of the Absurd; Chapter 26. 1964-1965: Our Man Flint; Chapter 27. 1954: Pan-Graphic; Chapter 28. 1985: Sexual Rebels; Chapter 29. 2000: Harold and Hal
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 30. 1956: Fear and RespectabilityChapter 31. 1957: Game of Fools; Chapter 32. January 28, 1958: Hal's Turn; Chapter 33. 1958: Bitchery-Butchery; Chapter 34. 1959: Calling Shots, Dispelling Darkness, Going Public; Chapter 35. 2006: A Candid Conversation Across Gay Generations; Chapter 36. 1960: Verboten; Chapter 37. 1960: A House Divided; Chapter 38. 1961: The Rejected; Chapter 39. 1967: The Furtive Fraternity; Chapter 40. The Mask of Desire; Index;
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    A Sea of Stories : The Shaping Power of Narrative in Gay and Lesbian Cultures: A Festschrift for John P. DeCecco (2013)
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    ISBN: 9781560239550
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (274 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version A Sea of Stories : The Shaping Power of Narrative in Gay and Lesbian Cultures: A Festschrift for John P. DeCecco
    DDC: 306.766
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    Abstract: Take a look at how narrative has shaped gay and lesbian cultureA Sea of Stories: The Shaping Power of Narrative in Gay and Lesbian Cultures: A Festschrift for John P. De Cecco is an unforgettable collection of personal narratives that explores the historical, psychological, and sociological contexts of homosexuality in locations ranging from Nazi Germany to Colorado. Some of the prominent authors in this collection include David Bergman, Louis Crew, Diana Hume George, and Ruth Vanita. Scholars in gay and lesbian studies, political movements, cultural studies, and narratology, and anyone intere
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Cover; A Sea of Stories; Copyright Page; Contents; About the Editor; Contributors; Introduction: A Festschrift for John P. De Cecco: Sonya L. Jones; Apologia Pro Gay and Lesbian Studies: My "History and Memory" As Allegheny Student and Editor of the Journal of Homosexuality: John P. De Cecco; Section I: Strictly statistic? The social science narratives; Chapter 1. The Historical Evolution of Our Stories: The Persecution of Homosexuals During the Third Reich: J. Scott Van Der Meid; The Weimar Republic; Legislation Under the National Socialists; Persecution
    Description / Table of Contents: Life in the Concentration CampsLife After 1945; Chapter 2. Selling Gay Literature Before Stonewall: David Bergman; Chapter 3. Workplace Narratives: Using Coming-Out Stories to Enhance Workplace Diversity: Alan L. Ellis; The Development of Attitudes Regarding Sexuality; Attitude Change and the Role of Contact; The Use of Narrative As a Form of "Indirect Contact"; The Power of Narrative As a Catalyst for Change; Using Narrative in the Workplace; The Bottom Line: Coming Out, Productivity, and Job Satisfaction; To Tell or Not to Tell One's Story; The Current Literature on Workplace Issues
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 4. Queer Youth: Old Stories, New Stories: Glenda M. Russell, Janis S. Bohan and David LillyThe Context; The Study, The Story; Queer Narratives: The Stories Youth Live; Conclusion; Section II: The Big Tease-sexuality and Textuality; Chapter 5. "Melodramatic Maybe, It Seems to Me Now": Langston Hughes and the Underwritten Self: Laura Quinn; Chapter 6. In the Body's Ghetto: Walter Holland; Becoming Men: Gay Male Memoir and Autobiography from the 1940s Onward; Un-Becoming Men: The Postmodern Burlesque and Satire; The Many Kinds of Open: Six Lesbian Voices from the American 1970s
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 7. Embracing the Past by Retelling the Stories: Ruth VanitaGrowing Up Gay in India; "I'm an Excellent Animal": Cows, Motherhood, and Love Between Women; Section III: Creative Nonfiction-Love Stories, War Stories, Oral Stories, and Bibliographies; Chapter 8. Telling Lives: A Community Responds to AIDS: Jeanne Braham and Pamela Peterson; Chapter 9. Two Grooms: Revisited, Celebrated,and Remembered: Louie Crew, Reverend Canon Elizabeth Kaeton and Maxine Turner; Fort Valley, Georgia, 1976; After the Honeymoon; Two Grooms, Continued: The Renewal of Vows-February 2, 1999
    Description / Table of Contents: The Love That Need Not Speak Its Name: Sex and Sin in the SouthChapter 10. "I Would Prefer Not To"-Loving Karen: Diana Hume George; Chapter 11. A Professional Queer Remembers: Bibliography, Narrative, and the Saving Power of Memory: Raymond-Jean Frontain; Prelude One (Fall 1978); Prelude Two (Winter 1975); Prelude Three (Summer 1996); Memory As Survival; Narrative As Redemption; Bibliography As Narrative; Conclusion: Branches from a Green Tree; Section IV: Post-Stonewall and Postmodern-The "Real" Storytellers; Chapter 12. A Kiss in the Cane: Robert J. Balfour; Index;
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    Looking Queer : Body Image and Identity in Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, and Transgender Communities (2012)
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    ISBN: 9780789004635
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (527 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Looking Queer : Body Image and Identity in Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, and Transgender Communities
    DDC: 306.766
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    Abstract: Looking Queer: Body Image in Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, and Transgender Communities contains research, firsthand accounts, poetry, theory, and journalistic essays that address and outline the special needs of sexual minorities when dealing with eating disorders and appearance obsession. Looking Queer will give members of these communities hope, insight, and information into body image issues, helping you to accept and to love your body. In addition, scholars, health care professionals, and body image activists will not only learn about queer experiences and identity and how they affect individual
    Description / Table of Contents: Looking Queer: Body Image and Identity in Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, and Transgender Communities; Copyright; Contents; About the Editor; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Looking Queer; Section A: Women, Wimmin, Womyn; Part 1: Constructing Ourselves; Beauty Is a Beast; Living into My Body; Beauty Mandates and the Appearance Obsession: Are Lesbians Any Better Off?; Resistance and Reinscription: Sexual Identity and Body Image Among Lesbian and Bisexual Women; Contradictions of the Spirit: Theories and Realities of Lesbian Body Image
    Description / Table of Contents: Lesbians and the (Re/De)Construction of the Female BodyPart 2: Looking Dyke; The Ugly Dyke; Woman Eats Brownies, Gets Laid; Professionally Q: A Day in the Life of a Career Counselor; The Beauty Norm: A Femme Strikes Back; It's Not What You Wear: Fashioning a Queer Identity; Hair Piece; Out-of-Body Experiences; Movement; Part 3: Searching a Way Out; Vanishing Point; Autobiographical Slices: Life in the Queer Kitchen; That Other Girl Who Is Not Me; Moving Like a Dyke; Tattoo Me; Part 4: A Woman's Love Heals; Mirror; Big Grrl; Ode to My Vibrator; Dressing Room Blues; My Ideal Becoming Real
    Description / Table of Contents: Part 5: Coming Out, Leaving BehindComing Out; Power, Beauty, and Dykes; My Big Fat Body; My Mother's Journals; Be, Being, Becoming; Boogeywoman; Section B: One, Both, Neither; Part 6: Crossing the Divide; The Razor's Edge: Walking the Fine Line of the Self; My Life As an Erroneous Sonogram; Holding My Breath Underwater; Part 7: Square Pegs; Affronting Reason; In(to)Visibility: Intersexuality in the Field of Queer; Agdistis' Children: Living Bi-Gendered in a Single-Gendered World; Part 8: Boyz, Grrls, Queers; Flunking Basic Gender Training: Butches and Butch Style Today
    Description / Table of Contents: Frankly Feminine: Rejecting and Embracing Standards for BeautyFaggot Rant; Beautiful Boy: A Girl's Own Story; Section C: Beyond the Pale; Part 9: Color Vision; "I" is for Intersection: At the Crux of Black and White and Gay and Straight; Piece of Man: Redefining the Myths Around the Black Male Phallus; Mapping My Desire: Hunting Down the Male Erotic in India and America; "Undressing the Oriental Boy": The Gay Asian in the Social Imaginary of the Gay White Male; I Like My Chi-i-sa-i Body Now; Part 10: Access to the Look; When Pigs Have Wings; Inside/Outside; Body Language
    Description / Table of Contents: The Imperfections of Beauty: On Being Gay and DisabledLove Poem; Section D: Men, Boys, and Trolls; Part 11: The Uniform Doesn't Fit; Queer Crash Test Dummies: Theory, Aging, and Embodied Problematics; Laws of Desire: Has Our Imagery Become Overidealized?; A Matter of Size; Justify My Love Handles: How the Queer Community Trims the Fat; Fatness and the Feminized Man; Part 12: Feeling the Burn; But to Hear THEM Tell It... Or: Looksism, Beauty's Evil Stepsister; Reps; Your Dreamworld Is Just About to End; Learning the F Words; Part 13: Reenvisioning Men; Why I Hate The Beatles and The Supremes
    Description / Table of Contents: If Only I Were Cute: Looksism and Internalized Homophobia in the Gay Male Community
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    Navigating Differences : Friendships Between Gay and Straight Men (2013)
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    ISBN: 9780789006196
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (188 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Navigating Differences : Friendships Between Gay and Straight Men
    DDC: 302.34081
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    Abstract: Navigating Differences: Friendships Between Gay and Straight Men is a one-of-a-kind cross-sexual study that shows you how today's gay and straight men build, maintain, and foster true friendships. In this activist, participatory study, you'll get a day-in-the-life look at 44 pairs of cross-sexual men's friendships and see what helps them negotiate the terrain of their emotional, sexual, psychological, and social differences in today's climate of often publicly defended homophobia and heterosexism.Navigating Differences succeeds in bringing the true picture of cross-sexual men's relat
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Navigating Differences: Friendships Between Gay and Straight Men; Copyright; CONTENTS; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 Literature Review; MEN'S FRIENDSHIPS; MEN AND EMOTIONS; GENDER; MEN DOING GENDER; Chapter 2 Methods; DATA COLLECTION; DATA ANALYSIS; GROUP DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS; Chapter 3 Embracing Differences; TIME TOGETHER; EMBEDDEDNESS; EMOTIONAL COMMUNICATION; SEXUAL CHALLENGES; CONCLUSION; Chapter 4 Ignoring Differences; TIME TOGETHER; EMBEDDEDNESS; EMOTIONAL COMMUNICATION; SEXUAL CHALLENGES; CONCLUSION; Chapter 5 Struggling with Differences
    Description / Table of Contents: TIME TOGETHEREMBEDDEDNESS; EMOTIONAL COMMUNICATION; SEXUAL CHALLENGES; CONCLUSION; Chapter 6 Power, Difference, and Multiplicity; GENDER ENACTMENT; TAKING THE ROLE OF ""DIFFERENT"" OTHER; ADDITIONAL EXPLANATIONS; INTEGRATING SEXUALITY AND GENDER; CONCLUSION; Chapter 7 Methodological Reflections; SAMPLE LIMITATIONS; RESEARCHER/PARTICIPANT DYNAMICS; IMPACT ON THE MEN'S LIVES; Chapter 8 Conclusion: Activism As an Unintended Consequence of Value-Committed Research; INFLUENCE OF ACTIVISM ON RESEARCH; GETTING STARTED; SHIFTING THE POSITION OF POWER; CONCLUSION
    Description / Table of Contents: Appendix A: Interview Guide for Gay MenAppendix B: Interview Guide for Straight Men; Appendix C: Informed Consent; Appendix D: Transcription Confidentiality; Notes; References; Index
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    Homosexual Rites of Passage : A Road to Visibility and Validation (2013)
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    ISBN: 9781560239772
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (128 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Homosexual Rites of Passage : A Road to Visibility and Validation
    DDC: 305.9/0664
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    Abstract: Homosexual Rites of Passage: A Road to Visibility and Validation will help you, as a gay or lesbian individual, work through identity issues, come out, and become visible in a healthy and safe manner. You will find this unique book to be an excellent resource for validation and support during your courageous acts of personal growth. Furthermore, you will discover a positive affirmation of homosexual identities as well as issues that impede or prevent your positive homosexual identity formation. Homosexual Rites of Passage facilitates your journey toward visibility and personal validation by na
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Original Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Setting the Stage; Chapter 2. Positive Homosexual Identity Development; Chapter 3. Understanding Fear; Chapter 4. Overcoming Shame; Chapter 5. Homosexual Personal Power; Chapter 6. The Significance of Rites of Passage; Chapter 7. Acknowledging Homosexual Feelings: The Importance of "Firsts"; Chapter 8. Coming Out; Chapter 9. Bridging the Gap: Friendships, Dating, Relationships, and Love; Chapter 10. Commitment Rituals; Chapter 11. Family Planning: Pregnancy, Adoption, Childbirth, and Parenting
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 12. Aging RitesChapter 13. A Road to Visibility and Validation; Bibliography; Index
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    The Bear Book : Readings in the History and Evolution of a Gay Male Subculture (2013)
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    ISBN: 9780789000910
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (309 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version The Bear Book : Readings in the History and Evolution of a Gay Male Subculture
    DDC: 305.38/9664
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    Abstract: The Bear Book brings together an impressive range of bear--usually big, hairy men who favor full-face beards and prefer to wear jeans and flannel shirts--viewpoints to explore this unique social and cultural phenomenon that stretches from America to western Europe to Australia! On the personal level, you learn what beardom means to different people in their daily lives, and on a broader level, its cultural implications for not only the gay community, but also society as a whole. As this book moves across the wide spectrum of bear identities, you learn about the defining forces of identity, the
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; About the Editor; Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Theoretical Bears; Introduction; The Indeterminacy of Social Identity; Utopia, Queer Nationalism, and Bears in Community; Bears and the Beauty Myth; Bears Among the Social Classes; Bears as a Response to AIDS; Section I: History; Chapter 1. A Concise History of Self-Identifying Bears; Roots; First-Wave Bears of the Zeitgeist, 1986-1989; Play Parties; BEAR Magazine; ""Cybearspace""; Second Wave: Formalizing, 1989-1994
    Description / Table of Contents: A Decade of Bears: Globalization or Tribalism?Chapter 2. Bear Roots; Chapter 3. The Bear Clan: North American Totemic Mythology, Belief, and Legend; The Bear as ""Healer""; The Bear as ""Creator""; The Bear as ""Warrior""; The Bear as ""Renewer""; Chapter 4. Aroused from Hibernation; Chapter 5. Bearaphernalia: An Exercise in Social Definition; Chapter 6. Academics as Bears: Thoughts on Middle-Class Eroticization of Workingmen's Bodies; Class, Silences, and Ursine Representations; The Subtext of Erotic Class Warfare; Bears, Ideology, and the Urge for Reunification; Section II: Bear Images
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 7. Male Images in the Gay Mass Media and Bear-Oriented Magazines: Analysis and ContrastIntroduction; Male Body Imagery in the Mass Media; A Content Analysis of Gay Mass Media Images; A Beauty Myth for Gay Men?; Body Types, Self-Esteem, and Identity; Voices in the Woods-‒The Rise of Bear Media; What Does a Bear Look Like?; The ""Superbear"" Stereotype; Conclusion and Areas for Further Research; Chapter 8. Beardom; Chapter 9. The Natural Bears Classification System: A Classification System for Bears and Bearlike Men Version 1.10; The Classification Scheme; Other Classifiers for Bears
    Description / Table of Contents: Additional PunctuationChapter 10. John Rand, Photographer: An Interview with Les Wright; Section III: Bear Spaces; Chapter 11. The Original Bears Mailing List: An Interview with Steve Dyer; Chapter 12. Front Range Bears: A History; Chapter 13. The Bear Essentials of Country Music; Section IV: Bear Spaces: San Francisco; Chapter 14. The Bear Hug Group: An Interview with Sam Ganczaruk; Chapter 15. BEAR Magazine; Chapter 16. Bear Mecca: The Lone Star Saloon Revisited; Section V: Bears Abroad; Chapter 17. Bears in the Land Down Under; Bear Clubs in Oz; The Demise of Ozbears
    Description / Table of Contents: The Future of Bears in AustraliaChapter 18. Kiwi Bears; Chapter 19. Atlantic Crossing: The Development of the Eurobear; Bear Mark I‒The American Model; Bear Mark II‒Eurobear: The General Model; Bear Mark III‒Eurobear: The German Model; Bear Mark IV‒Whither Eurobear?; Chapter 20. A French Bear Asks: Are Bears an American Thing?; Index
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    Tricks and Treats : Sex Workers Write About Their Clients (2014)
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    ISBN: 9780789007032
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (196 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Tricks and Treats : Sex Workers Write About Their Clients
    DDC: 306.74
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    Abstract: Learn about the real lives of sex workers by exploring the sex industry from the inside!Explore the insightful--and oftentimes intense--accounts of sex workers who look squarely into the eyes of their clients, the sex industry, and society as a whole. Tricks and Treats delivers private stories about homo- and heterosexual encounters that sex workers usually confide only in each other. Not another "why I became a prostitute" book, it provocatively turns the tables on the buyers of sex, giving you a window into sex workers'lives. Tricks and Treats gives you straightforward accounts by sex worker
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Tricks and Treats: An Introduction; TRICKS; 1. Shut Up; 2. My Path to Sanity; 3. Man of God; 4. The Porn Queen; 5. Champagne Tastes on a Crystal Budget; 6. Getting Fucked; 7. Porn Moguls; 8. A Slice of "The Life"; TREATS; 9. Bodhisattvas Among Us: Compassionate Sex Workers; 10. Clocking In; 11. The House I Grew Up In; 12. Numbers; 13. Joel; 14. Toward a Taxonomy of Tricks: A Whore Considers the Age-Old Question, "What Do Clients Want?"; 15. In Love with My Work; TRICKS AND TREATS; 16. Thirty Years
    Description / Table of Contents: 17. A Few Friends18. Scrapbook; 19. Two Sides; 20. A Complicated Business; 21. Payment by Donation: Every Sperm Is Sacred; 22. Orange Phone; 23. Outreach; 24. Luck; Contributors
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