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Book Cherry Grove  Fire Island

Download or read book Cherry Grove Fire Island written by Esther Newton and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-20 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1993, the award-winning Cherry Grove, Fire Island tells the story of the extraordinary gay and lesbian resort community near New York City. This new paperback edition includes a new preface by the author.

Book My World is an Island

Download or read book My World is an Island written by Elisabeth Ogilvie and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir of the well-loved writer's life on a Maine island, this updated edition offers a moving, humorous account of adjustment to a way of life that has sustained Ogilvie through the creation of 42 popular novels.

Book The Island Experience

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  • Author : Parker Avrile
  • Publisher : Paris April Press
  • Release : 2020-01-31
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 173 pages

Download or read book The Island Experience written by Parker Avrile and published by Paris April Press. This book was released on 2020-01-31 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A forbidden cruise ship romance leaves Sheldon and Kyler stranded on a mysterious island. Sheldon: My father thinks he has me trapped, but I'm still my own man. I decide what life I live― and who I live it with. This prison island won't hold me. Kyler: Sheldon comes from a background of wealth and privilege. Will he walk away when he finds out I'm not the rich man he thought I was? Maybe I don't need to worry about that. We might not survive the escape from this lost island. As the third book in this steamy gay romance trilogy, The Island Experience ends with a guaranteed Happily Ever After. The complete Dreamboat Experience trilogy is best read in this order: *The Loveboat Experience *The Dreamboat Experience *The Island Experience Keywords: gay romance, gay beach, cruise romance, cruise ship romance, vacation romance, contemporary romance, LGBT, gay contemporary romance, gay romantic suspense, gay fiction, island, desert island, castaway, stranded together, island romance, sinister island, sail, sailing, cruising, cruise, sea adventure, gay sea adventure. Other books and series by Parker Avrile: Assured Elites, Assured Elites trilogy, Assured Elites celebrity matchmaker, Parker Avrile, Parker Avrile novel, Parker Avrile gay romance, Darke and Flare mystery, Darke and Flare trilogy, Married for the Millions, Tonight's Encore, Scripted.

Book Rainbow Islands

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  • Author : Devin Harnois
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2018-04-20
  • ISBN : 9781987737578
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book Rainbow Islands written by Devin Harnois and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-04-20 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: n the Christian Republic, homosexual people are given two choices-a camp to "fix" them, or exile to the distant islands populated by lesbians and gay men. Sixteen-year-old Jason chooses exile and expects a hardscrabble life but instead finds a thriving, supportive community. While exploring his identity as a transgender boy he also discovers adventure: kraken attacks, naval battles, a flying island built by asexual people, and a daring escape involving glow-in-the-dark paint. He also has a desperate crush on Sky, a spirited buccaneer girl, but fear keeps him from expressing his feelings. When Jason and his companions discover the Republicans are planning a war of extermination, they rally the people of the Rainbow Islands to fight back. Shy, bookish Jason will have to find his inner courage or everything and everyone he loves will be lost forever.

Book Island  6

Download or read book Island 6 written by Onta and published by Image Comics. This book was released on 2016-01-27 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Onta shows how two very different guys spend a day at the gay pride parade. Plus the recolored return of Fil Barlow's Fun bizarre, Plastoid conspiracy science fiction: ZOONIVERSE! and more.

Book Mainstreaming Gays

Download or read book Mainstreaming Gays written by Eve Ng and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2023-09-15 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mainstreaming Gays discusses a key transitional period linking the eras of legacy and streaming, analyzing how queer production and interaction that had earlier occurred outside the mainstream was transformed by multiple converging trends: the emergence of digital media, the rising influence of fan cultures, and increasing interest in LGBTQ content within commercial media. The U.S. networks Bravo and Logo broke new ground in the early 2000s and 2010s with their channel programming, as well as bringing in a new cohort of LGBTQ digital content creators, providing unprecedented opportunities for independent queer producers, and hosting distinctive spaces for queer interaction online centered on pop culture and politics rather than dating. These developments constituted the ground from which recent developments for LGBTQ content and queer sociality online have emerged. Mainstreaming Gays is critical reading for those interested in media production, fandom, subcultures, and LGBTQ digital media.

Book Island Boys

Download or read book Island Boys written by Brad Nichols and published by Alyson Books. This book was released on 2008-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sun, sand, and simmering heat populate this all-new collection of island-themed gay erotica.

Book Pilot of Arctic Canada

Download or read book Pilot of Arctic Canada written by Canadian Hydrographic Service and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains information on Canadian arctic as a whole; also a gazetteer of place names for the islands of the Canadian Archipelago and mainland coast north and west of Hudson Bay.

Book Conduct Unbecoming

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  • Author : Randy Shilts
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 2005-07
  • ISBN : 9780312342647
  • Pages : 836 pages

Download or read book Conduct Unbecoming written by Randy Shilts and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-07 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive book on lesbians and gay men in the US military. Randy Shilts, author of the classic documentary history of the AIDS epidemic And The Band Played On, was acclaimed for his ability to take epic histories and molding them into gripping, intimate narratives. Conduct Unbecoming, his groundbreaking exploration of lesbians and gays in the military, came out of hundreds of interviews conducted with servicepeople at all levels of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps and intense research uncovering thousands of documents resulting in a unique history of gays in the military as well as the persecution of gays in the military. Conduct Unbecoming will leave readers moved and imbued with a better understanding of the pressing situation in our nation's military. "A sober, thoroughly researched and engrossingly readable history on the subject. [Shilts's] chronicle is excellent military history, closely woven with an enthralling analysis of the changing definitions of sexuality and personal relationships in American society....[A] landmark book....Remarkable." --New York Times Book Review "A masterpiece of investigative reporting...Shilts has shown us the honor homosexuals have brought, and continue to bring, to the uniforms they wear and the country they serve." - Boston Globe "Gays, we are told, would damage morale in the military. Shilts documents the fact that morale has already been eaten away by hypocrisy, contradictions, and favoritism...This book will be to gay and lesbian liberation what Betty Friedan's was to early feminism or Rachel Carson's to ecological consciousness. No fair-minded person can read Conduct Unbecoming and consider the present system defensible. - USA Today "Gripping reading....the history of homosexual people and the movement for gay/lesbian equality in the United States can nowhere be more clearly told." - Los Angeles Times

Book The Enemy of the New Man

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  • Author : Lorenzo Benadusi
  • Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
  • Release : 2012-04-23
  • ISBN : 0299283933
  • Pages : 458 pages

Download or read book The Enemy of the New Man written by Lorenzo Benadusi and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2012-04-23 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first in-depth historical study of homosexuality in Fascist Italy, Lorenzo Benadusi brings to light immensely important archival documents regarding the sexual politics of the Italian Fascist regime; he adds new insights to the study of the complex relationships of masculinity, sexuality, and Fascism; he explores the connections between new Fascist values and preexisting Italian traditional and Roman Catholic views on morality; he documents both the Fascist regime’s denial of the existence of homosexuality in Italy and its clandestine strategies and motivations for repressing and imprisoning homosexuals; he uncovers the ways that accusations of homosexuality (whether true or false) were used against political and personal enemies; and above all, he shows how homosexuality was deemed the enemy of the Fascist “New Man,” an ideal of a virile warrior and dominating husband vigorously devoted to the “political” function of producing children for the Fascist state. Benadusi investigates the regulation and regimentation of gender in Fascist Italy, and the extent to which, in uneasy concert with the Catholic Church, the regime engaged in the cultural and legal engineering of masculinity and femininity. He cites a wealth of unpublished documents, official speeches, letters, coerced confessions, private letters and diaries, legal documents, and government memos to reveal and analyze how the orders issued by the regime attempted to protect the “integrity of the Italian race.” For the first time, documents from the Vatican archives illuminate how the Catholic Church dealt with issues related to homosexuality during the Fascist period in Italy.

Book Bad Gays

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  • Author : Huw Lemmey
  • Publisher : Verso Books
  • Release : 2023-05-30
  • ISBN : 1839763280
  • Pages : 369 pages

Download or read book Bad Gays written by Huw Lemmey and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2023-05-30 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unconventional history of homosexuality We all remember Oscar Wilde, but who speaks for Bosie? What about those ‘bad gays’ whose unexemplary lives reveal more than we might expect? Many popular histories seek to establish homosexual heroes, pioneers, and martyrs but, as Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller argue, the past is filled with queer people whose sexualities and dastardly deeds have been overlooked despite their being informative and instructive. Based on the hugely popular podcast series of the same name, Bad Gays asks what we can learn about LGBTQ+ history, sexuality and identity through its villains, failures, and baddies. With characters such as the Emperor Hadrian, anthropologist Margaret Mead and notorious gangster Ronnie Kray, the authors tell the story of how the figure of the white gay man was born, and how he failed. They examine a cast of kings, fascist thugs, artists and debauched bon viveurs. Imperial-era figures Lawrence of Arabia and Roger Casement get a look-in, as do FBI boss J. Edgar Hoover, lawyer Roy Cohn, and architect Philip Johnson. Together these amazing life stories expand and challenge mainstream assumptions about sexual identity: showing that homosexuality itself was an idea that emerged in the nineteenth century, one central to major historical events. Bad Gays is a passionate argument for rethinking gay politics beyond questions of identity, compelling readers to search for solidarity across boundaries.

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  • Author : Bill Brewster
  • Publisher : Grove Press
  • Release : 2014-01-14
  • ISBN : 0802146104
  • Pages : 626 pages

Download or read book written by Bill Brewster and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on in-depth interviews with DJs, critics, musicians, recording executives, and others, two music journalists traces the definitive role of the disc jockey as a primary factor in the evolution of popular music, tracing the the dramatic influence of DJs on music over the past forty years and profiling some of the most important DJs in the business. Original. 30,000 first printing.

Book The Destroyers

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  • Author : Christopher Bollen
  • Publisher : HarperCollins
  • Release : 2017-06-27
  • ISBN : 0062330004
  • Pages : 650 pages

Download or read book The Destroyers written by Christopher Bollen and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-06-27 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Esquire Best Book of the Year • A Paste Best Novel of the Year Recommended by the New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, TIME, Vogue, Paste, New York Post, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Seattle Times, Yahoo!, Refinery29, BBC, PopSugar, Boston Herald, New York Social Diary, Library Journal, Bookstr, Kirkus “A seductive and richly atmospheric literary thriller with a sleek Patricia Highsmith surface." —New York Times Book Review "Equal parts Graham Greene, Patricia Highsmith, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Destroyers is at once lyrical and suspenseful, thoughtful and riveting." —Garth Greenwell, author of What Belongs to You “Superb. . . . A read-all-night of a book.” —Alan Furst, author of A Hero of France Arriving on the stunning Greek island of Patmos, Ian Bledsoe is broke, humiliated, and fleeing the fallout from his father’s death. His childhood friend Charlie—rich, exuberant, and basking in the success of his new venture on the island—could be his last hope. At first Patmos appears to be a dream—long, sun-soaked days on Charlie’s yacht and the reappearance of a girlfriend from Ian’s past—and Charlie readily offers Ian the lifeline he so desperately needs. But, like Charlie himself, this beautiful island conceals a darkness beneath, and it isn’t long before the dream begins to fragment. When Charlie suddenly vanishes, Ian finds himself caught up in deception after deception. As he grapples with the turmoil left in his friend’s wake, he is reminded of an imaginary game called Destroyers they invented as children—a game, he now realizes, they may have never stopped playing.

Book Koitz Gay Fire Island

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  • Author : Patrick Ryan
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-05-15
  • ISBN : 9781734624205
  • Pages : 152 pages

Download or read book Koitz Gay Fire Island written by Patrick Ryan and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "koitz Gay Fire Island: It's Good to be Us'", also known as "Gay Fire Island" covers 14 summers of queer life on the two mostly gay and lesbian communities of Fire Island. The photographs Koitz presents in this book come from his work in both Cherry Grove and the Fire Island Pines, where for years he has documented local events, big and small, such as the Invasion of the Pines, the Pines party or the Underwear party. In addition to this public aspect, his friendships in both communities have given him exceptional access to capture private moments that define, always in Koitz's revealing and highly individual perspective, the singular atmosphere found only in Cherry Grove and Fire Island Pines. Koitz continues in a distinguished line of tradition-challenging Fire Islanders like visual artists Paul Cadmus, Jared French, and Margaret Hoening, who, in their collaborative work under the name PaJaMa, also explored the beauty of the human figure in the stark, almost austere landscape of sea, sky and sand. What makes these photographs so celebratory is that they capture the spirit that has everyone welcoming the next ferry, the spirit that makes some of us dress in drag, or as pixies, or as house-blessing nuns, the spirit that allows some of us to dress as a framed Mona Lisa at happy hour and some of us to undress in places where we might otherwise have stayed covered up. A crowd at Low Tea, captured from above with fading light and a long exposure, looks as graceful and slippery as a school of koi. A pair of go-go boys, dancing in the foreground as Valley of the Dolls is projected onto a sheet behind them, looks simultaneously like dolls before giants and giants before dolls. A pack of friends wandering through the Meat Rack at night becomes an impromptu birthday party that is transformed, through Koitz's lens, into a stolen moment from A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Book We   ve Been Here All Along

Download or read book We ve Been Here All Along written by R. Richard Wagner and published by Wisconsin Historical Society. This book was released on 2019-05-30 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first of two groundbreaking volumes on gay history in Wisconsin, We’ve Been Here All Along provides an illuminating and nuanced picture of Wisconsin’s gay history from the reporting on the Oscar Wilde trials of 1895 to the landmark Stonewall Riots of 1969. Throughout these decades, gay Wisconsinites developed identities, created support networks, and found ways to thrive in their communities despite various forms of suppression—from the anti-vice crusades of the early twentieth century to the post-war labeling of homosexuality as an illness to the Lavender Scare of the 1950s. In We’ve Been Here All Along, R. Richard Wagner draws on historical research and materials from his own extensive archive to uncover previously hidden stories of gay Wisconsinites. This book honors their legacy and confirms that they have been foundational to the development and evolution of the state since its earliest days

Book Men Who Beat the Men Who Love Them

Download or read book Men Who Beat the Men Who Love Them written by Patrick Letellier and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-02 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Domestic violence in gay male relationships is the third largest health problem for gay men in America today. Men Who Beat the Men Who Love Them breaks the silence surrounding gay male domestic violence and exposes this hidden yet prevalent and destructive problem. The authors paint a vivid picture of gay men’s domestic violence, bringing its brutality to life by including personal narratives, written by one of the authors, by clearly defining what it is and what it is not through lists of violent acts and criminal code categories, and by thoroughly examining and analyzing the criminal, mental health, medical, political, and interpersonal issues involved. The authors boldly depart from the battered women’s literature by asserting that batterers have a diagnosable mental disorder, that battering is not gender based, and that much further criminalization of domestic violence is necessary. Striving for victim advocacy, the book underscores the idea that gay men’s domestic violence is totally unacceptable and is caused solely by individual abusive gay men who choose to batter. The book builds on and departs from what is known about domestic violence, with the authors challenging several fundamental premises in the literature, unabashedly identifying battering as a mental disorder. The authors explain that victims cannot stop their battering partners from battering and virtually all batterers choose to harm their partners in a premeditated fashion. The authors provide practical steps and suggestions for victims who want to leave and stay away from their violent partners and for friends who want to help battered gay men. Chapters describe the scope of the problem and refute myths and misconceptions. There are several detailed theory chapters in which the authors explain why gay men’s domestic violence occurs, who the batterers are, who the victims are at different stages of victimization, and how domestic violence can be stopped. A visionary, wide-ranging governmental and private plan of action is introduced, including lists of necessary laws and policies, as well as outlines of strong education, training, and advertising problems needed in various sectors of society. As a self-help book, Men Who Beat the Men Who Love Them provides practical information on a never-before discussed topic. As a trainer’s manual or teaching guide, it includes specific criteria for understanding the problem and for providing treatment.

Book A complete set of nautical tables

Download or read book A complete set of nautical tables written by John William Norie and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: