Outlaw Marriages: The Hidden Histories of Fifteen Extraordinary Same Sex Couples by Rodger Streitmatter
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
For more than a century before gay marriage became a hot-button political issue, same-sex unions flourished in America. Pairs of men and pairs of women joined together in committed unions, standing by each other "for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health" for periods of thirty or forty-sometimes ...Show more
Outrageous! - The Story of Section 28 and Britain's Battle for LGBT Education by Paul Baker
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
A personal and impassioned history of the infamous Section 28, the 1988 UK law banning the teaching "of the acceptability of homosexuality." On May 23, 1988, Paul Baker sat down with his family to eat cake on his sixteenth birthday while The Six O'Clock News played in the background. But something was n ...Show more
Outrageous! - The Story of Section 28 and Britain's Battle for LGBT Education by Paul Baker (Contribution by)
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
On 23 May 1988, Paul Baker sat down with his family to eat cake on his sixteenth birthday while The Six O'Clock News played in the background. But something was not quite right. There was muffled shouting - 'Stop Section 28!' - and a scuffle. The morning papers would announce: 'Beeb Man Sits on Lesbian' ...Show more
Outrages: Sex, Censorship and the Criminalisation of Love by Wolf, Naomi
$36.99 AUD
Category: History
The bestselling author of The Beauty Myth, Vagina and The End of America chronicles the struggles and eventual triumph of John Addington Symonds, a Victorian-era poet, biographer, and critic who penned what became a foundational text on our modern understanding of human sexual orientation and LGBTQ+ leg ...Show more
Outrages: Sex, Censorship and the Criminalisation of Love by Naomi Wolf
$32.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: near fine
The bestselling author of Vagina illuminates a dramatic history - how a single English law in 1857 led to a maelstrom, with reverberations lasting down to our day. That law was the Obscene Publications Act and it was a crucial turning point. Why? Because dissent and morality; 'deviancy' and 'normalcy'; ...Show more
Paper Bullets: Two Women Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis by Jeffrey H. Jackson
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
"A Nazi resistance story like none you've ever heard or read." --Hampton Sides, author of Ghost Soldiers and On Desperate Ground"Every page is gripping, and the amount of new research is nothing short of mind-boggling. A brilliant book for the ages!" --Douglas Brinkley, author of American Moonshot A Sto ...Show more
Passionate Friends - Mary Fullerton, Mabel Singleton and Miles Franklin by Sylvia Martin
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
Mary Fullerton (1868-1946) and Mabel Singleton (1877-1965) met in Melbourne as suffrage and peace activists in Vida Goldstein's Women's Political Association. They remained together for thirty-five years as loving friends, raising Mabel's son born in 1911. Through her literary friendship with Miles Fran ...Show more
Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic by Richard A. McKay
$74.00 AUD
Category: History
Much has been written about Gaetan Dugas, the sexually insatiable French Canadian flight attendant who came to be known as "Patient Zero," the man who has been blamed for sparking the AIDS epidemic in the United States. Newspapers around the world picked up on journalist Randy Shilts's narrative of Duga ...Show more
Pink Ink: The Golden Era for Gay and Lesbian Magazines by Bill Calder
$35.00 AUD
Category: Out of Print
The tapping of typewriters first lifted the secrecy around homosexuality, and a vibrant array of voices was soon heard. The publishers of gay magazines and newspapers were a diverse and lively lot. Some wanted to publicise where the best parties were held; some to fight the political battle; and others ...Show more
Pink Triangle Legacies by W. Jake Newsome
$66.00 AUD
Category: History
Pink Triangle Legacies traces the transformation of the pink triangle from a Nazi concentration camp badge and emblem of discrimination into a widespread, recognizable symbol of queer activism, pride, and community. W. Jake Newsome provides an overview of the Nazis' targeted violence against LGBTQ+ peop ...Show more
Platos Symposium: A Translation by Seth Benardete with Commentaries by Allan Bloom and Seth Benardete by Plato, Seth Benardete (translator)
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
Plato, Allan Bloom wrote, is "the most erotic of philosophers," and his Symposium is one of the greatest works on the nature of love ever written. This new edition brings together the English translation of the renowned Plato scholar and translator, Seth Benardete, with two illuminating commentaries on ...Show more
Portraits of Women in the American West by Dee Garceau-Hagen
$75.99 AUD
Category: Womens Photography
Men are usually the heroes of Western stories, but women also played a crucial role in developing the American frontier, and their stories have rarely been told. This anthology of biographical essays on women promises new insight into gender in the 19C American West. The women featured include Asian A ...Show more