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0241388066 
Hardback 
Year: 2019
Language: English
Interest category: Living & learning
Media class: Hardback
Content type: Bibliography
Publisher: Allen Lane
Resource type: Physical
Note: Published outside the British Isles Even in our modern progressive world, it's not easy to be a gay man. While young gay men often come out more readily, even those from the most liberal of backgrounds still struggle to accept themselves and experience stigma, shame and difficulties with intimate relationships. They also suffer from ongoing trauma wrought by the AIDS epidemic, something that is all too often relegated to history. Drawing on a lifetime's work as a clinical psychologist, Walt Odets uses the stories of his patients as well as the stories of his own deep relationships with other gay men to illuminate these difficulties and how they may be overcome. He explores everything from how defining gay men as merely 'homosexuals' is reductive and damaging to their emotional lives, to the way stigma, shame and trauma continue to shift and follow gay men throughout their lives even as society becomes - on a surface level - more accepting. Tertiary
xv, 347 pages ; 24 cm (hbk)
0231157134 
Paperback
Year: 2012
Language: English
Interest category: Living & learning
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Resource type: Physical
160 (Pbk)
0230340989 
Paperback
Year: 2012
Language: English
Interest category: Entertainment
Media class: Paperback
Edition: Second edition
Content type: Bibliography
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Resource type: Physical
Note: Previous edition: 2008 Published outside the British Isles This timely collection provides high-quality interdisciplinary essays which address lesbian and bisexual representation in popular television shows such as The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, E.R., Queer as Folk, Sex and the City, The L Word and The O.C. Tertiary
xi, 228 pages ; 22 cm (pbk)
0008182167 
Paperback 
Year: 2019
Language: English
Interest category: Religion
Media class: Paperback
Content type: Bibliography
Publisher: William Collins
Resource type: Physical
Note: Vicky Beeching, who The Guardian calls 'arguably the most influential Christian of her generation', tells the story of her rise to becoming a household name in Christian music until her decision to come out as gay in 2014 at the age of 35, which changed the way she was called to worship God. General adult
xiii, 288 pages ; 20 cm (pbk)
0349008590 
Paperback
Year: 2019
Language: English
Interest category: Living & learning
Media class: Paperback
Content type: Bibliography
Publisher: Virago
Resource type: Physical
Note: Lester takes the reader through the most pressing questions in the transgender debate, combined with a charged personal narrative of what it means to be a transgender person today. 'Trans Like Me' shows us how we are all defined by ideas of gender, whether we live our lives as he, she or they, and how we can strive for authenticity in a world which often seeks to limit us by way of labels. It also covers hotly contested topics such as the rise in referrals for gender variant children, feminism's treatment of the trans community, and the mainstream media's 'trans moment', among much more. General adult
ix, 229 pages ; 20 cm (pbk)
0140137343 
Paperback
Language: English, French
Interest category: Living & learning
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin
Resource type: Physical
Note: Tertiary Translation of: Histoire de la sexualit?
Title series: Penguin history
vii, 293p. ; 20 cm (pbk)
0304337498 
Paperback
Year: 1997
Interest category: Religion
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Cassell
Resource type: Physical
0415538653 
Paperback
Year: 2013
Language: English
Interest category: Living & learning
Media class: Paperback
Edition: Second edition
Publisher: Routledge
Resource type: Physical
Note: Previous edition: published as My gender workbook. 1998 Published outside the British Isles With 'My New Gender Workbook', Bornstein brings theory down to Earth and provides a practical approach to living with or without a gender. Tertiary
xiii, 293 pages, illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm (pbk)
0415969239 
Paperback
Year: 2004
Language: English
Interest category: Living & learning
Media class: Paperback
Content type: Bibliography
Publisher: Routledge
Resource type: Physical
Note: Published outside the British Isles Butler addresses the regulation of sexuality and gender that takes place in psychology, aesthetics, and social policy. These essays deepen her treatment of issues introduced by earlier work on the relationship between power and the body, the meaning & purpose of the incest taboo, and the problems of kinship. Tertiary
viii, 273 p. ; 23 cm (pbk)
080787177X 
Paperback
Year: c2010
Language: English
Interest category: Wars & warfare
Media class: Paperback
Edition: 20th anniversary ed.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Resource type: Physical
Note: Published outside the British Isles Tertiary
xix, 377 p., [16] p. of plates, ill., ports. ; 24 cm (pbk)
0750990139 
Paperback
Year: 2019
Language: English
Interest category: Entertainment
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: The History Press
Resource type: Physical
Note: With homosexuality only being partially decriminalised in the UK in 1967, the progression of LGBTQ rights and representation has seen marked improvement, especially over the last decade. One of the primary influencers for that change in social perception has been the small screen: from its invention in 1927, the television set has found its place in virtually every home in the country, and from its programming the attitudes of its viewers are shaped and moulded. This book provides an exploration of gay representation on British TV from the 'golden age' to the introduction of the first mainstream gay soap character. General adult
224 pages, illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm (pbk)
0863564836 
Paperback
Year: 2011
Language: English
Interest category: Living & learning
Media class: Paperback
Edition: Revised and updated edition
Content type: Bibliography
Publisher: Saqi Books
Resource type: Physical
Note: Previous edition: 2006 Drawing long-overdue attention to the rights of homosexuals in the Middle East, Brian Whitaker paints a disturbing picture of people who live secretive, fearful lives, often jailed, or beaten and ostracised by their families, or sent to be 'cured' by psychiatrists. General adult
259 pages ; 20 cm (pbk)
1408824744 
Paperback
Year: 2014
Language: English
Interest category: Living & learning
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Resource type: Physical
Note: Smart, clear-eyed and irreverent, 'Unspeakable Things' is a fresh look at gender and power in the 21st century which asks difficult questions about dissent and desire, money and masculinity, sexual violence, menial work, mental health, queer politics and the Internet. Journalist and activist Laurie Penny draws on a broad history of feminist thought and her own experience in radical subcultures in Britain and America to debate cultural phenomena from economic justice and the Occupy movement, through eating disorders and social control, to online dating and freedom of speech. General adult
xii, 267 pages ; 22 cm (pbk)
1350000779 
Paperback
Year: 2017
Language: English
Interest category: Living & learning
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Resource type: Physical
Note: Examining nine 'case histories' that reveal the origins and evolution of homophobic attitudes in modern Russia, Dan Healey asserts that the nation's contemporary homophobia can be traced back to the particular experience of revolution, political terror and war its people endured after 1917. He explores the roots of homophobia in the Gulag, the rise of a visible queer presence in Soviet cities after Stalin, and the political battles since 1991 over whether queer Russians can be valued citizens. He also reflects on the problems of 'memorylessness' for Russia's LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) movement more broadly and the obstacles it faces in trying to write its own history. Tertiary
288 pages, illustrations (black and white) (pbk)
0701187042 
Paperback
Year: c1992
Language: English
Interest category: Living & learning
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Sinclair-Stevenson
Resource type: Physical
Note: 'Quest for Justice' is the inside story of the battle for the Wolfenden reforms, told by one of its main protagonists. General adult
xv, 304 p., [8] p. of plates, ill., ports. ; 24 cm (pbk)
0571338917 
Paperback
Year: 2018
Language: English
Interest category: Literature & languages
Media class: Paperback
Content type: Poetry
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Resource type: Physical
Note: In this intimate and vital debut, Richard Scott creates an uncompromising portrait of love and shame, drawing upon his experience of London's gay communities. Examining how trauma becomes a part of the language we use, Scott takes us back to our roots: childhood incidents, the violence our scars betray, forgotten forebears and histories. The hungers of sexual encounters are underscored by the risks that threaten when we give ourselves to or accept another. But the poems celebrate joy and tenderness, too, as in a sequence re-imagining the love poetry of Verlaine. The collection crescendos to Scott's tour de force, 'Oh My Soho!', where a night stroll under the street lamps of Soho Square becomes a search for true lineage, a reclamation of stolen ancestors, hope for healing, and, above all, the finding of our truest selves. General adult
78 pages ; 20 cm (pbk)
147296618X 
Paperback
Year: 2019
Language: English
Interest category: Religion
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Bloomsbury Continuum
Resource type: Physical
Note: Translated from the French The celibacy of priests, the condemnation of the use of contraceptives, the cover up of countless cases of sexual abuse, the resignation of Benedict XVI, misogyny among the clergy, the dramatic fall in Europe of the number of vocations to the priesthood, the plotting against Pope Francis - all these issues are clouded in mystery and secrecy. 'In the Closet of the Vatican' is a book that reveals these secrets and penetrates this enigma. It derives from a system founded on a clerical culture of secrecy which starts in junior seminaries and continues right up to the Vatican itself. It is based on the double lives of priests and on extreme homophobia. The resulting schizophrenia in the Church is hard to fathom. But the more a prelate is homophobic, the more likely it is that he is himself gay. General adult
576 pages ; 20 cm (pbk)
1509839380 
Hardback
Year: 2016
Language: English
Interest category: Health & welfare
Media class: Hardback
Content type: Bibliography
Publisher: Picador
Resource type: Physical
Note: The riveting, powerful and profoundly moving story of the AIDS epidemic and the grass-roots movement of activists, many of them facing their own life-or-death struggles, who grabbed the reins of scientific research to help develop the drugs that turned HIV from a mostly fatal infection to a manageable disease. General adult
x, 624 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates, illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm (hbk)
1447248171 
Paperback
Year: 2013
Language: English
Interest category: Literature & languages
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Picador
Resource type: Physical
Note: Love between women crops up throughout literature: from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Charlotte Bronte, Dickens, Agatha Christie, and many more. In 'Inseparable', Emma Donoghue examines how desire between women in literature has been portrayed, from schoolgirls and vampires to runaway wives, from cross-dressing knights to contemporary murder stories. Tertiary
x, 271 pages ; 24 cm (pbk)
1785032925 
Hardback
Year: 2017
Language: English
Interest category: Living & learning
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Ebury Press
Resource type: Physical
Note: 'Good As You' is the 30 year history of British gay culture - from the identification of the HIV virus in 1984, through Manchester's self-selection as Britain's gay capital, to Eastenders' Colin and Barry's first primetime televised gay kiss and the real-time romance of Elton John and David Furnish's eventual marriage. Including candid interviews from major protagonists such as Kylie, Russell T. Davies and Holly Johnson, as well as the relative unknowns crucial to the gay community, Flynn charts the fight for equality both front of stage and in the wings. General adult
xii, 349 pages ; 25 cm (hbk)
1784881341 
Hardback
Year: 2017
Language: English
Interest category: Living & learning
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Hardie Grant Books
Resource type: Physical
Note: LGBTQ people are some of the coolest in history legendary figures such as Freddie Mercury, Virginia Woolf, Laverne Cox, Harvey Milk and Audre Lorde have made an unforgettable impact. Queer subculture has had an enormous influence on style, music, art and literature the queer community were the first to vogue, throw shade and say 'YAS' to life before it hit the mainstream. This book will celebrate the lives, work and unique perspectives of the icons who changed the world. General adult
1 volume (hbk)
1785924060 
Paperback
Year: 2018
Language: English
Interest category: Living & learning
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Resource type: Physical
Note: Frankly discussing desire, sex, and how trans people relate to their bodies and relationships, this collection of intimate interviews with leading figures from the trans and non-binary community is a call to arms for how society views gender and sexuality. General adult
168 pages ; 22 cm (pbk)
1785927469 
Paperback
Year: 2017
Language: English
Interest category: Living & learning
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Resource type: Physical
Note: Have you ever questioned your own gender identity? Do you know somebody who is transgender or who identifies as non-binary? Do you ever feel confused when people talk about gender diversity? This down-to-earth guide is for anybody who wants to know more about gender, from its biology, history and sociology, to how it plays a role in our relationships and interactions with family, friends, partners and strangers. General adult
288 pages ; 22 cm (pbk)
1785922408 
Paperback
Year: 2017
Language: English
Interest category: Living & learning
Media class: Paperback
Content type: Bibliography
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Resource type: Physical
Note: Personal, first-hand accounts from transgender and non-binary individuals and the diverse experiences and challenges they face before, during and after transition. This comprehensive introduction to trans issues details the social, physical and emotional struggles involved in becoming who you are. General adult
229 pages ; 20 cm (pbk)
1780664206 
Paperback
Year: 2017
Language: English
Interest category: Living & learning
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Pinter and Martin
Resource type: Physical
Note: 'Pride and Joy' is a practical, positive guide for lesbian, gay, bi and trans parents. It draws on experiences and advice from a diverse range of LGBT parents and their children. General adult
256 pages ; 22 cm (pbk)