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Pub. Date
2019
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Description
Until recently, Julia hadn?t had sex in three years.But now:? a one-night stand is accusing her of breaking his penis;? a sexually confident lesbian is making eyes at her over confrontational modern art;? and she?s wondering whether trimming her pubes makes her a bad feminist.Julia?s about to learn that she?s been looking for love - and satisfaction - in all the wrong places?.
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Publisher
Guardian Books
Pub. Date
2014
Description
More than four decades after the start of the gay liberation movement, lesbians and gay men can legally marry, adopt children, and enjoy the same rights and respect as heterosexuals - or can they? Julie Bindel, an out lesbian since 1977, tracks the changes in the gay community in the last 40 years and asks whether fighting for the right to marry has achieved genuine progress, or whether the new legal rights have neutered a once-radical social movement....
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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Illustrated with over 175 black-and-white and colour images that range from high to popular culture and from Ancient Greece to contemporary America, Christopher Reed's book reveals the deep linkages between art and homosexuality as we understand those terms.
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Publisher
Bolinda/Audible audio
Pub. Date
2015
Description
Young, gay, William Beckwith spends his time, and his trust fund, idly cruising London for erotic encounters. When he saves the life of an elderly man in a public convenience, an unlikely job opportunity presents itself - the man, Lord Nantwich, is seeking a biographer. Will agrees to take a look at Nantwich?s diaries. But in the story he unravels, a tragedy of 20th-century gay repression, lurk bitter truths about Will?s own privileged existence.
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Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Pub. Date
2006
Description
From Theocritus' verses to 'Queer as Folk', from the berdaches of North America to the boy-wives of Aboriginal Australia, this book illustrates both the commonality of love and lust, and the various ways in which such desires have been constructed through the ages.
18) Love, Simon
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Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2018
Description
A sixteen-year-old boy has to come to terms with his sexuality when a mis-directed email to his secret boyfriend and a blackmail attempt threaten to 'out' him before he is ready.
19) To be a gay man
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Pub. Date
2020
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Young gay people growing up in a climate of shame are clearly more at risk of developing low self-worth, and even self-disgust, leading to destructive behaviours in adult life. With therapy, Will has provided himself with the tools, self-knowledge and perspective to identify destructive compulsions for what they are. In 'How to be a Gay Man', he reveals the darkest extremes he has been to, sharing his vulnerabilities, tracing his own navigation through...