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BASHING BACK: WAYNE BESEN ON GLBT PEOPLE, POLITICS, AND CULTURE

GLBT PEOPLE

by Wayne R. Besen Publisher: Harrington Park Press reviewJesse Monteagudo is a freelance author and activist who lives in South Florida. Reach him at jessemonteagudo@aol.com. Book Review by Jesse Monteagudo In a perfect world, Wayne R. Besen would be as well-known as Andrew Sullivan; writing articles for “Time” and “The New Republic” and making periodic

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The Age Taboo: Gay Male Sexuality, Power and Consent

Age Taboo

by Daniel Tsang Nonfiction Publisher: Alyson Books Publication Date: 1981 178 pages reviewRod Powell: Daniel Tsang, the Editor of this collection of articles and short essays, strove to provide material from which the reader can make up his/her mind on the issues that make up intergenerational sex. This collection focuses on intergenerational sex between gay

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The Song of Songs, a Gay Love Poem

Gay Love

by Dr. Paul R. Johnson Nonfiction Publisher: Fidelity Press Publication Date: 1995 144 pp. reviewJim Kepner: Jim Kepner was founder of the International Gay and Lesbian Archives, and co-founder of ONE Institute. A major pioneer of the Gay movement as well as a founder of Gay Studies, he died in 1997. His most recent book

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The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality and the Movies

Homosexuality

by Vito Russo Nonfiction Publisher: Harper & Row, Publishers Publication Date: 1987 368 pages reviewHarmony H. Wu: Harmony H. Wu is pursuing her doctorate in the Division of Critical Studies in University of Southern California’s School of Cinema-Television. Her dissertation is on international horror hybridity and the intersections of genre, gender, sexuality and national identity.

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Epistemology of the Closet

Epistemology of the Closet

by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Nonfiction Publisher: University of California Press Publication Date: 1990 258 pages, index, bibliographical references reviewMark Anthony Masterson: ark Anthony Masterson is Ph.D. student in Classics at the University of Southern California. He is conducting research on the construction of masculinity and sexuality in the fourth century CE Roman Empire. He also

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Queer Sites: Gay Urban Histories Since 1600

Gay Urban Histories

edited by David Higgs Nonfiction Publisher: Routledge Publication Date: 1999 viii + 214 pages; illustrations and bibliography reviewBrett Abrams: Queer Sites traces the development of dissident sexualities in seven cities worldwide. The locations investigated include four European capitals: London, Lisbon, Moscow, and Paris, plus Amsterdam and San Francisco. The six authors provide readers with insight

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Critique of Patriarchal Reason

Critique of Patriarchal Reason

by Arthur Evans Nonfiction Publisher: White Crane Press Publication Date: 1997 reviewToby Johnson: Toby Johnson is General Editor of White Crane. His latest book, “Gay Perspective: Things Our Homosexuality Tells Us about the Nature of God and the Universe” is published by Alyson Publications in July, 2003. This article was originally published in White Crane

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Gay Science: The Ethics of Sexual Orientation Research

Sexual Orientation

by Timothy F. Murphy Nonfiction Publisher: Columbia University Press Publication Date: 1999 272 pages; epilogue, notes, index review James Bohling: James Bohling is a graduate student in the Annenberg School for Communication’s school of Broadcast Journalism at the University of Southern California. He holds a Master’s Degree in French from the University of California at

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Buddhism Pure and Simple

Buddhism Pure and Simple

by Hsing Yun (Translated by Tom Graham) Nonfiction Publisher: Weatherhill, Inc. Publication Date: 2001 reviewWalter L. Williams: Walter L. Williams, Ph.D., is Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies at the University of Southern California. He has published several books, most notably The Spirit and the Flesh and Overcoming Heterosexism and Homophobia. He is former president

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