Looking Like What You Are: Sexual Style, Race, and Lesbian Identity (Cutting Edge: Lesbian Life & Literature (Paperback))

Seems to be may be deceiving, and in a society the place one's prestige and entry to chance are principally attendant on actual visual appeal, the problem of the way distinction is developed and interpreted, embraced or effaced, is of large import. Lisa Walker examines this factor with a spotlight at the questions of what it potential to seem like a lesbian, and what it capability to be a lesbian yet to not seem like one.

Masked Voices: Gay Men and Lesbians in Cold War America (SUNY series in Queer Politics and Cultures)

An research of unpublished letters to the 1st American homosexual journal finds the supplier, variation, and resistance happening within the homosexual neighborhood in the course of the McCarthy period. during this compelling social heritage, Craig M. Loftin describes how homosexual humans within the usa skilled the Fifties and early Nineteen Sixties, a time whilst swiftly transforming into homosexual and lesbian subcultures suffered frequent discrimination.

Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (Next wave)

During this pathbreaking paintings, Jasbir okay. Puar argues that configurations of sexuality, race, gender, kingdom, classification, and ethnicity are realigning when it comes to modern forces of securitization, counterterrorism, and nationalism. She examines how liberal politics contain convinced queer topics into the fold of the geographical region, via advancements together with the criminal acceptance inherent within the overturning of anti-sodomy legislation and the proliferation of extra mainstream illustration.

Nothing Can Tear Us Apart: Rage!

What might you do after the fellow of your goals battered you simply because he believed you’ve been untrue? may well you forgive this guy to whom you’ve given every bit of your center? fascinating, filthy rich homosexual Black famous person Wesley (Wes) Laurence Kelly, forty five, yearns for a permanent, pleasing love. regrettably, disastrous relationships have left him shattered and upset.