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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 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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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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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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Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out

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by Loraine Hutchins and Lani Kaahumanu Nonfiction Publisher: Alyson Publications Publication Date: 1991 379 + xxvi pp. softcover reviewRobyn Marie Westbrook: Robyn Marie Westbrook is a Ph.D. student in Counseling Psychology at the University of Southern California. She is doing research on teenage parents, bisexuality among women, and counseling issues related to the coming out

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Take the Stranger By the Hand: Same-Sex Relations and the YMCA

Take the Stranger By the Hand

Nonfiction Publisher: University of Chicago Press Publication Date: 1998 review David K. Johnson: This review, by David K. Johnson of Northwestern University, originally appeared in the Newsletter of the Committee on Lesbian and Gay History, issue 15/2(Fall 2001), and is reprinted with the permission of the Committee on Lesbian and Gay History at www.usc.edu/isd/archives/clgh online.

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