Explores the multiple unfixed meanings that the term “Latino” takes on as this category is reappropriated and translated by LGBT “Latinos” in Washington, DC, San Salvador, and Quito. Using an anthropology-based, interdisciplinary approach, she exposes the creative ways in which …
Queer crips: disabled gay men and their stories
by Guter, Bob
fromHaworth gay & lesbian studies
Why do LGBT research? -- What's "queer" got to do with it? Enlightening mainstream research / Perry Silverschanz -- Doing it right: ethical standards in conducting research -- Applying ethical standards to research and evaluations involving lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgende…
Whistling in the dark: twenty-one queer interviews
Hoshang Merchant -- Sushil Patil -- Manish Pawar -- Kama Maureemootoo -- Christopher Benninger & Ram Naidu -- Satish Ranadive -- Mahohar Shitole -- Thomas Waugh -- Narendra Binner -- Arman Pasha -- Aslam Shaikh -- Ana Garcia-Arroyo -- Avinash Gaitonde -- Ankit Gupta -- Ganesh Ho…
"Based on extensive research of primary sources and relentless FOIA requests, Charles provides the first comprehensive history of J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI's systematic (some would say obsessive) targeting, investigation, and harassment of homosexuals for the half century that…
"At the FBI, the "Sex Deviates" program covered a lot of ground, literally; at its peak, J. Edgar Hoover's notorious "Sex Deviates" file encompassed nearly 99 cubic feet or more than 330,000 pages of information. In 1977-1978 these files were destroyed--and it would seem that fo…
The sudden and powerful attraction between a teenage boy and a summer guest at his parents' house on the Italian Riviera has a profound and lasting influence that will mark them both for a lifetime.
Polari - the lost language of gay men
by Baker, Paul
fromRoutledge studies in linguistics