Love and Resistance - Out of the Closet into the Stonewall Era by Roxane Gay; Diana Davies; Kay Tobin Lahusen
$38.95 AUD
Category: History
More than one hundred vivid photographs of the LGBTQ revolution--and its public and intimate moments in the 1960s and 70s--that lit a fire still burning today. A ragtag group of women protesting behind a police line in the rain. A face in a crowd holding a sign that says, "Hi Mom, Guess What!" at a gay ...Show more
Love in a Time of Hate by Florian Illies; Simon Pare (Translator)
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
A Financial Times 'Book to Read in 2023'1930s Europe - as the Roaring Twenties wind down and the world rumbles towards war, the great minds of the time have other concerns. Jean-Paul Sartre waits anxiously in a Parisian café for his first date with no-show Simone de Beauvoir. Marlene Dietrich slips from ...Show more
Madame Brussels: The Life and Times of Melbourne's Most Notorious Woman by Barbara Minchinton, Philip Bentley
$36.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir
Madame Brussels, the most legendary brothel keeper in nineteenth-century Melbourne, is still remembered and celebrated today. But until now, little has been known about Caroline Hodgson, the woman behind the alter ego. Born in Prussia to a working-class family, Caroline arrived in Melbourne in 1871. Lef ...Show more
Maiden Voyages - Women and the golden age of transatlantic travel by Siân Evans
$22.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
A VIVID PORTRAIT OF WOMEN'S LIVES DURING THE GOLDEN AGE OF TRANSATLANTIC TRAVEL Before convenient air travel, transatlantic travel was the province of the great ocean liners and never more so than in the glory days of the interwar years. It was an extraordinary undertaking made by many women. Some trav ...Show more
Making Gay History: The Half Century Fight for Lesbian and Gay Equal Rights by Eric Marcus
$38.99 AUD
Category: History
From the Boy Scouts and the U.S. military to marriage and adoption, the gay civil rights movement has exploded on the national stage. Eric Marcus takes us back in time to the earliest days of that struggle in a newly revised and thoroughly updated edition of Making History, originally published in 1992 ...Show more
Man's Country - More Than a Bathhouse by Owen Keehnen
$26.99 AUD
Category: History
More Than a BathhouseWhen Chuck Renslow opened Man's Country in 1973, he wanted it to be someplace special-and he succeeded. The bathhouse was a part of Chicago gay life for 45 years-serving a number of changing roles, supporting the larger community, and spawning countless memories.Rudolph Nureyev ran ...Show more
Martin Smith — Australia's first gay historian by Paul Knobel
$8.00 AUD
Category: History
Martin Smith (1932–90) was journalist, poet, playwright, Jewish historian and gay historian. He was an eccentric in a nation lacking in eccentrics. From a gay and lesbian perspective, his efforts at writing gay and lesbian history, however imperfect, constitutes his most enduring achievement. He attempt ...Show more
Matchmaking in the Archive - 19 Conversations with the Dead and 3 Encounters with Ghosts by Jonathan D. Katz (Contribution by); Chris Vargas (Contribution by); Michelle Tea (Contribution by); E. G. Crichton
$54.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Q+ Public Ser.
Though today's LGBTQ people owe a lot to the generations who came before them, their historical inheritances are not always obvious. Working with the archives of the Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Historical Society, artist E.G. Crichton decided to do something to bridge this generation gap. She sel ...Show more
Men Without Maps - Some Gay Males of the Generation Before Stonewall by John Ibson
$52.99 AUD
Category: LGBTI & Queer Studies
For many men of various sexual inclinations, the Second World War offered an unprecedented release from the constraints of civilian life. However, when they returned home they had to face the harsh realities of a restrictive society. Men Without Maps continues the story of these men, whom John Ibson fir ...Show more
Moby Dyke - An Obsessive Quest to Track down the Last Remaining Lesbian Bars in America by Krista Burton (Contribution by)
$59.99 AUD
Category: History
A former Rookie contributor and creator of the popular blog Effing Dykes investigates the disappearance of America's lesbian bars by visiting the last few in existence. Lesbian bars have always been treasured safe spaces for their customers, providing not only a good time but a shelter from societal al ...Show more
Moonlite: The Tragic Love Story of Captain Moonlite and the Bloody End of the Bushrangers by Garry Linnell
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
A gay bushranger with a love of poetry and guns. A grotesque hangman with a passion for flowers and gardening.A broken young man desperate for love and respect. These men - two of them lovers - are about to bring the era ofAustralia's outlaws to a torrid and bloody climax. Moonlite is the true and epic ...Show more
My Darlinghurst
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
Growing up in Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs in the 1980s and 90s, I remember the pull of Darlinghurst. As a teenager, I would catch the 380 bus, get off at Taylor Square and dive gratefully into the slipstream broadmindedness — of lives lived imaginatively.Darlinghurst, a triangle of 80 hectares, sits on the ...Show more