Queer Nuns: Religion, Activism, and Serious Parody by Melissa M. Wilcox
$54.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Sexual Cultures Ser.
An engaging look into the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, queer activists devoted to social justice The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence make up an unlikely order of nuns. Self-described as "twenty-first century queer nuns," the Sisters began in 1979 when three bored gay men donned retired Roman Cath ...Show more
Queering the Underworld: Slumming, Literature, and the Undoing of Lesbian and Gay History
$38.95 AUD
Category: History
At the start of the twentieth century, tales of how the other half lives experienced a surge in popularity. People looking to go slumming without leaving home turned to these narratives for spectacular revelations of the underworld and sordid details about the deviants who populated it. In this major re ...Show more
Queerstory - An Infographic History of the Fight for LGBTQ+ Rights by Rebecca Strickson (Illustrator)
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Celebrate the remarkable stories, events, and landmarks of the global LGBTQ+ movement with this inspirational and empowering infographic guide to the path toward equality throughout history. There have been many ups and downs during the long and arduous fight for LGBTQ+ rights all over the world, but i ...Show more
Racism and the Making of Gay Rights: A Sexologist, His Student, and the Empire of Queer Love by Laurie Marhoefer
$59.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
In 1931, a sexologist arrived in colonial Shanghai to give a public lecture about homosexuality. In the audience was a medical student. The sexologist, Magnus Hirschfeld, fell in love with the medical student, Li Shiu Tong. Li became Hirschfeld's assistant on a lecture tour around the world. Racism and ...Show more
Radically Gay: Gay Liberation I the Words of Its Founder by Harry Hay
$39.95 AUD
Category: History
This is the first collection of the words and speeches of the founder of the Mattachine Society and the modern gay movement.
Rainbow History Class: Your Guide Through Queer and Trans History by Hannah McElhinney
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
Rainbow History Class is your entry into LGBTQ+ history, sharing queer and trans stories from Ancient civilisations all the way up to the internet. So much of queer and trans history and culture has been erased, but Hannah McElhinney, writer and creator of Rainbow History Class (as seen on TikTok), is ...Show more
Resistance - The LGBT Fight Against Fascism in World War II by Avery Cassell (Editor, Illustrator); Diane Kanzler (Editor, Illustrator)
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
Resistance: The LGBT Fight Against Fascism in WWII is a 2019 Lambda Literary Award Finalist London, Paris, and Berlin were exciting and vibrant hubs for LGBT culture in Europe in the 1920s and early 1930s, flush with gay clubs, newspapers, drag shows, literature, art, and more. All that changed with the ...Show more
Restricted Country 2nd Edition by Joan Nestle
$19.95 AUD
Category: LGBTI & Queer Studies
A proud working class woman, an "out" lesbian long before the Rainbow revolution, Joan Nestle has stood at the forefront of American freedom struggles from the McCarthy era to the present day. Available for the first time in years, this revised classic collection of personal essays offers an intimate ac ...Show more
Revolution is for US: The Left and Gay Liberation in Australia by Liz Ross
$36.99 AUD
Category: History
"The homosexual is essential to the sexual revolution; there can be no revolution, no liberation, without us." Australia's Gay Liberation movement arose at a time in world history when revolution was in the air and gays wanted to be part of it. It was the Left which championed revolution, which had a th ...Show more
Roman Homosexuality - Second Edition by Craig A. Williams
$66.99 AUD
Category: History
Ten years after its original publication, Roman Homosexuality remains the definitive statement of this interesting but often misunderstood aspect of Roman culture. Learned yet accessible, the book has reached both students and general readers with an interest in ancient sexuality. This second edition fe ...Show more
Same Sex Intimacies: Families of Choice by by Catherine Donovan (Author), Brian Heaphy (Author), Jeffrey Weeks (Author)
$91.99 AUD
Category: LGBTI & Queer Studies
Our families are increasingly a matter of choice, and the choices are widening all the time. This is particularly true of the non-heterosexual world, where the last ten years have seen a popular acceptance of same sex partnerships and, to a lesser extent, of same sex parenting. Based on extensive inter ...Show more
Same-sex Unions in Premodern Europe by John Boswell
$26.99 AUD
Category: History
Both highly praised and intensely controversial, this brilliant book produces dramatic evidence that at one time the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches not only sanctioned unions between partners of the same sex, but sanctified them — in ceremonies strikingly similar to heterosexual marriage ceremon ...Show more