Download or read book An Evening at the Garden of Allah written by Don Paulson and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within the pages of this book lies the story of the community of lesbians and gays that blossomed around America's first gay-owned cabaret, the Garden of Allah, in seedy downtown Seattle.

Download or read book The Lesbian Community written by Deborah Goleman Wolf and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bringing Lesbian and Gay Rights Into the Mainstream written by Vicki Eaklor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively memoir of LGBT activist Steve Endean—one of the most influential political strategists ever to lobby Washington DC! Bringing Lesbian and Gay Rights Into the Mainstream: Twenty Years of Progress is the spirited and provocative memoir that blows the lid off the complex machinations of state and national politics. LGBT activist Steve Endean’s autobiographical chronicle, completed shortly before his death in 1993, tells insider stories that are sometimes rousing, other times infuriating, recounting the fight for lesbian and gay rights from the trenches of the Minnesota state capital to the Washington Beltway. Readers get a clear view of the political activism of building grassroots support systems, fundraising efforts, lobbying to rally support for bills, and the election/reelection of sympathetic political representatives. Bringing Lesbian and Gay Rights Into the Mainstream: Twenty Years of Progress dynamically recounts Endean’s activism and instrumental leadership of the LGBT movement from 1973 to just before his death in 1993. From being the first Executive Director of the Gay Rights National Lobby, founder and Executive Director of the Human Rights Campaign Fund, and founder of the Speak Out mailgram campaigns for grassroots pressure on congresspersons on G/L rights issues, the author discusses with amusing anecdotes and self-effacing humor his strategies, victories, and failures as movement leader. This lively mix of the accomplishments in those crucial years and the “dos and don’ts” of political activism is peopled with well-known and lesser-known movers and shakers on the political landscape. Bringing Lesbian and Gay Rights Into the Mainstream: Twenty Years of Progress gives an inside look at the political process, discussing: the political roots of Steve Endean—from his activist beginnings in Minnesota his rise from state to national politics the basics of fundraising lobbying representatives the LGBT internal conflicts building grassroots support the hypocrisy and lack of courage inherent in politics protest activities From the book: “I began to ge a sense of what a challenge I had ahead when Mayo asked what brought me to DC. Exhausted from a long flight, coping with tons of luggage, and very nervous about such a big move, I mustered the energy to explain earnestly that I'd been hired to be the first director and lobbyist for the Gay Rights National Lobby. To my shock, this distinguished gentleman doubled up with laughter and, in his charming Southern drawl, told me the Gay Rights National Lobby was dead as a doornail. He went on to suggest if that is what really brought me to Washington, DC, I might not want to haul all those boxes upstairs and perhaps I should just pack up and catch a return flight to Minnesota. That was my welcome to Washington, DC. Cold, white Minnesota never looked so appealing.” Bringing Lesbian and Gay Rights Into the Mainstream: Twenty Years of Progress is stimulating, eye-opening reading for educators, students, activists in search of guidance in the political process, anyone interested in LGBT history and political history, and anyone who knew the late Steve Endean.

Download or read book Lesbian Feminism written by Niharika Banerjea and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-15 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the incredible wealth of diversity of languages, cultures and movements in which lesbian feminisms have been articulated, this book confronts the historic devaluation of lesbian-feminist politics within Anglo-American discourse and ignites a transnational and transgenerational discussion regarding the relevance of lesbian feminisms in today's world, a discussion that challenges the view of lesbian feminism as static and essentialist. Through careful consideration of contemporary debates, these writers, theorists, academics and activists consider the wider place of lesbian feminisms within queer theory, post-colonial feminism, and the movement for LGBT rights. It considers how lesbian feminisms can contribute to discussions on intersectionality, engage with trans activism and the need for trans-inclusion, to ultimately show how lesbian feminisms can offer a transformative approach to today's sexual and gender politics.

Download or read book Lesbian Geographies written by Kath Browne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has long been recognised that the spatialisation of sexual lives is always gendered. Sexism and male dominance are a pervasive reality and lesbian issues are rarely afforded the same prominence as gay issues. Thus, lesbian geographies continue to be a salient axis of difference, challenging the conflation of lesbians and gay men, as well as the trope that homonormativity affects lesbians and gay men in the same ways. This volume explores lesbian geographies in diverse geographical, social and cultural contexts and presents new approaches, using English as a working language but not as a cultural framework. Going beyond the dominant trace of Anglo-American perspectives of research in sexualities, this book presents research in a wide range of countries including Australia, Argentina, Israel, Canada, USA, Russia, Poland, Spain, Hungary and Mexico.

Download or read book A Mature Touch A May December Lesbian Romance written by Evette White and published by Evette White. This book was released on with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The moment I saw Bea at the wedding reception, I was besotted. She was much older than I, but she was glorious. I wanted her immediately, and fought tooth and nail to quell my urges, and to not get caught staring. It was a silly infatuation… a younger woman lusting after an older woman. Bea was graceful… sexy… and she had an aura about her. Just thinking about her made me… you know what in between my legs. But she was a married woman… married to a man. She’s got to be straight as an arrow. There’s no way she’d be interested in a younger girl like me. But when she invites me to a private meeting with her, I don’t know what to think. I’m a nervous, mumbling, shaking wreck. But when, by accident, our lips meet, there’s electricity. I departed the meeting hoping I’d left an impression. And my heart skipped when I got a message from her asking if she could see me again… * A Mature Touch: A Lesbian Romance is a sweet, steamy, and sensual May-December love story of two women finding love in an unexpected pairing.

Download or read book The Butterfly Effect written by Susan Hawthorne and published by Spinifex Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a concept from physics in which it is surmised that small actions can have enormous consequences, and that the flutter of a butterfly's wing on one side of the world can cause devastating storms on the other side. This work includes poems on a range of subjects, including death, history, culture physics, and more.

Download or read book The Lesbian Index written by Kim Emery and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adds historical and philosophical perspectives to current debates over whether lesbian identity is socially constructed or genetically based.

Download or read book The Gay Lesbian Theatrical Legacy written by Billy J. Harbin and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recovers the hidden history of theater professionals who transgressed the gendered expectations of their time

Download or read book Lesbian Inscriptions in Francophone Society and Culture written by Renate Günther and published by Durham Modern Languages. This book was released on 2007 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Steven Petrow s Complete Gay Lesbian Manners written by Steven Petrow and published by Workman Publishing. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents information and etiquette advice on questions including coming out, dating, tying the knot, and starting a family.

Download or read book Misplaced How To Survive Being A Gay Lesbian or Bisexual Teen written by Misplaced Master and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-05-15 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being a bisexual, gay or lesbian teen can be hell if you just sit back and pretend to be normal. I don't mean that you have to come out of the closet and flaunt it to be happy, just that whether you choose to come out or not you can still successfully make a play for people you want to be with as long as you use tact and common sense. I hope to have you learn from my successes and failures, as well as those of my readers. Whatever you do, DO NOT GIVE UP! Never think about surrendering your life for anything or because of anyone. This book is all about how me and my friends managed to link up with others like us, or those we hoped were like us, and how you can use these timeless and modern examples to do the same or avoid some of the problems that we encountered along the way. It can apply to people of all ages, but is primarily for teenagers who are thirteen to eighteen years of age.

Download or read book Sapphic Violets Lesbian Classics Boxed Set written by Sappho and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2021-06-14 with total page 683 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics" contains the beautiful verses of the versatile Classical Greek poet that have been celebrated for centuries for its lyricism and beauty._x000D_ "Regiment of Women" is the debut novel of Winifred Ashton writing as Clemence Dane. First published in 1917, the novel has gained some notoriety due to its more or less veiled treatment of lesbian relationships inside and outside a school setting. It is said to have inspired Radclyffe Hall to write The Well of Loneliness._x000D_ "Carmilla" is narrated by a young woman preyed upon by a female vampire named Carmilla, later revealed to be Mircalla, Countess Karnstein (Carmilla is an anagram of Mircalla). Le Fanu presents the story as part of the casebook of Dr. Hesselius, whose departures from medical orthodoxy rank him as the first occult doctor in literature. The story is one of the earliest works of vampire fiction, predating Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897) by 26 years.

Download or read book Internet Lesbian and Gay Television Series 1996 2014 written by Vincent Terrace and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-05-23 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Created around the world and available only on the Web, internet "television" series are independently produced, mostly low budget shows that often feature talented but unknown performers. Typically financed through crowd-funding, they are filmed with borrowed equipment and volunteer casts and crews, and viewers find them through word of mouth or by chance. The third of five volumes on Internet TV series, this book covers 335 alphabetically arranged gay and lesbian programs, 1996-2014, giving casts, credits, story lines, episode descriptions, websites, dates and commentary. A complete index lists program titles and headings for gay, lesbian, bi-sexual, transgender and drag queen shows.

Download or read book Guide To Psychotherapy With Gay Lesbian Clients A written by John Gonsiorek and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-02-16 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the basic resource for therapists who work with homosexual clients. Written by professionals for professionals, A Guide to Psychotherapy With Gay and Lesbian Clients is an excellent compilation of data and sound suggestions for understanding the unique issues and concerns facing gay men and lesbians.

Download or read book Straight Women Discover Lesbian Pleasures Vol 56 written by Kathryn Owens and published by . This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compilation book deals with real stories of heterosexual women who, due to life circumstances, end up enjoying lesbian relations in secret, in many cases being unfaithful to their partners, personal data has been modified to protect privacy, enjoy these morbid stories.

Download or read book Lesbian Desire in the Lyrics of Sappho written by Jane McIntosh Snyder and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lyrics of Sappho are the earliest surviving examples of explicitly homoerotic literature and have often been analyzed in terms of their revelations about the island society of Lesbos. This volume examines Sappho's poetry through the lens of lesbian desire. It focuses on the active female gaze in the texts and the narrative voice - one that describes female experience and desires as primary, not secondary to the dominant (male) culture.