Download or read book Gay Vegas written by Steve Friess and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gay Vegas addresses the needs--and desires--of both visitors and locals, with a brutally honest, completely un-PC take on where to go and, perhaps even more important, where not to go when you touch down. It's the only gay guide to Las Vegas you'll ever need.
Download or read book LGBTQ Las Vegas written by Dennis McBride and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being gay in Las Vegas until the 1990s was a felony with a hefty fine and long prison sentence. The Las Vegas LGBTQ community did not organize to fight for its rights until the late 1970s and by the early 1980s had made headway, before AIDS stopped their momentum. While AIDS was devastating, it taught compassion, self-reliance, and political savvy. By 2017, Las Vegas was a city among the most welcoming of the nation's queer community.
Download or read book Las Vegas The Stapleton 2015 Long Weekend Gay Guide written by Jon Stapleton and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-01-19 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complete Gay Guide to LAS VEGAS, including lodgings, restaurants, attractions, casinos, outdoor sports, tours and excursions, shopping and everything else you'd want to do in Vegas - edited with an emphasis on the gay traveler. "One good thing about this handy guide is that it's not 'just gay.' It's got loads of listings that any gay traveler would find interesting even though they are not specifically gay-related." ---Johnnie W., Louisville Stapleton Gay Guides are published for South Beach, Greater Miami, San Francisco, Vegas, New York, Fort Lauderdale, Walt Disney World / Orlando, among other cities. They are updated throughout the year
Download or read book The Tolerance Trap written by Suzanna Danuta Walters and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Froma Glee ato gay marriage, from lesbian senators to out gay Marines, we have undoubtedly experienced a seismic shift in attitudes about gays in American politics and culture. Our reigning national story is that a new era of rainbow acceptance is at hand. But dig a bit deeper, and this seemingly brave new gay world is disappointing. For all of the undeniable changes, the plea for tolerance has sabotaged the full integration of gays into American life. Same-sex marriage is unrecognized and unpopular in the vast majority of states, hate crimes proliferate, and even in the much vaunted gay friendly world of Hollywood and celebrity culture, precious few stars are openly gay. Ina The Tolerance Trap, Suzanna Walters takes on received wisdom about gay identities and gay rights, arguing that we are not almost there, but on the contrary have settled for a watered-down goal of tolerance and acceptance rather than a robust claim to full civil rights. After all, wea tolerate aunpleasant realities: medicine with strong side effects, a long commute, an annoying relative. Drawing on a vast array of sources and sharing her own personal journey, Walters shows how the low bar of tolerance demeans rather than ennobles both gays and straights alike. Her fascinating examination covers the gains in political inclusion and the persistence of anti-gay laws, the easy-out sexual freedom of queer youth and the suicides and murders of those in decidedly intolerant environments. She challenges both born that way storylines that root civil rights in biology, and god made me that way arguments that similarly situate sexuality as innate and impervious to decisions we make to shape it. A sharp and provocative cultural critique, this book deftly argues that a too-soon declaration of victory short-circuits full equality and deprives us all of the transformative possibilities of full integration.Tolerance is not the end goal, but a dead end. Ina The Tolerance Trap, Walters presents a complicated snapshot of a world-shifting moment in American historyOCoone that is both a wake-up call and a call to arms for anyone seeking true equality."
Download or read book The Stapleton 2013 Gay Guide to Las Vegas written by Jon Stapleton and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Stapleton Guide is a comprehensive travel guide to Las Vegas, focusing on the interests of gays and lesbians. Lodgings-- restaurants -- attractions -- shopping -- nightlife, updated several times a year in ebook form and a printed version. Though slanted toward the gay world, the Guide is quite comprehensive, covering all other aspects of Vegas of interest to anyone. "Just the kind of book we needed for our first trip to Vegas." ---George M., Anchorage, online review "Concise listings make for easy scrolling on my cell phone." --- Bruce W., Tampa, online review OTHER STAPLETON GUIDES ARE PUBLISHED FOR: South Beach Miami & South Beach Key West Walt Disney World & Orlando San Francisco Fort Lauderdale
Download or read book The Peoples Of Las Vegas written by Jerry L Simich and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2005-03-07 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beneath the glitzy surface of the resorts and the seemingly cookie-cutter suburban sprawl of Las Vegas lies a vibrant and diverse ethnic life. People of varied origins make up the population of nearly two million and yet, until now, little mention of the city has been made in studies and discussion of ethnicity or immigration. The Peoples of Las Vegas: One City, Many Faces fills this void by presenting the work of seventeen scholars of history, political science, sociology, anthropology, law, urban studies, cultural studies, literature, social work, and ethnic studies to provide profiles of thirteen of the city’s many ethnic groups. The book’s introduction and opening chapters explore the historical and demographic context of these groups, as well as analyze the economic and social conditions that make Las Vegas so attractive to recent immigrants. Each group is the subject of the subsequent chapters, outlining migration motivations and processes, economic pursuits, cultural institutions and means of transmitting culture, involvement in the broader community, ties to homelands, and recent demographic trends.
Download or read book Las Vegas Gay written by Glenn Springs and published by . This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things.The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.The nineteenth century dislike of realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a glass.The nineteenth century dislike of romanticism is the rage of Caliban not seeing his own face in a glass. The moral life of man forms part of the subject-matter of the artist, but the morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium.No artist desires to prove anything. Even things that are true can be proved. No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art. Vice and virtue are to the artist materials for an art. From the point of view of form, the type of all the arts is the art of the musician. From the point of view of feeling, the actor's craft is the type. All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself. We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.All art is quite useless.
Download or read book Sex Tips for Straight Women From a Gay Man written by Dan Anderson and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2012-08-10 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Witty sex guide which will appeal to watchers of Sex and the City and Will and Grace. A huge word-of-mouth success in the States.
Download or read book Las Vegas The Stapleton 2016 Long Weekend Gay Guide written by Jon Stapleton and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-10-17 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complete Gay Guide to LAS VEGAS, including lodgings, restaurants, attractions, casinos, outdoor sports, tours and excursions, shopping and everything else you'd want to do in Vegas - edited with an emphasis on the gay traveler. "One good thing about this handy guide is that it's not 'just gay.' It's got loads of listings that any gay traveler would find interesting even though they are not specifically gay-related." ---Johnnie W., Louisville Stapleton Gay Guides are published for South Beach, Greater Miami, San Francisco, Vegas, New York, Fort Lauderdale, Walt Disney World / Orlando, among other cities. They are updated throughout the year
Download or read book The Stapleton 2014 Long Weekend Guide to Gay Las Vegas written by Jon Stapleton and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-11-08 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complete Gay Guide to LAS VEGAS, including lodgings, restaurants, attractions, casinos, outdoor sports, tours and excursions, shopping and everything else you'd want to do in Vegas - edited with an emphasis on the gay traveler. "One good thing about this handy guide is that it's not 'just gay.' It's got loads of listings that any gay traveler would find interesting even though they are not specifically gay-related.”---Johnnie W., Louisville Stapleton Gay Guides are published for South Beach, Greater Miami, San Francisco, Vegas, New York, Fort Lauderdale, Walt Disney World / Orlando, among other cities. They are updated throughout the year
Download or read book This is a Book for Parents of Gay Kids written by Dannielle Owens-Reid and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in an accessible Q&A format, here, finally, is the go-to resource for parents hoping to understand and communicate with their gay child. Through their LGBTQ-oriented site, the authors are uniquely experienced to answer parents' many questions and share insight and guidance on both emotional and practical topics. Filled with real-life experiences from gay kids and parents, this is the book gay kids want their parents to read.
Download or read book Vegas Friend A Steamy Gay Romance written by Parker Avrile and published by Paris April Press. This book was released on with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gay poker players mm romance about two men ready to take a gamble on love. "My business is making friends... but he wants more." If you're rich and lonely, I'll drive your car, carry your shopping bags, and be your arm candy to make your friends jealous. But Jason just wants to get you into a dirty poker game so he can take down your cash. It's a career choice that means he's attracting a lot of attention from the wrong kind of people, including the police and the gangs. I need to stay very far away from Jason. The trouble is we can't seem to keep our hands off each other. Vegas Friend is a 10,800-word male/male contemporary gay romance novella about two bad boy gamblers who need to make a choice about when it's time to get out of the game. This is a complete standalone story including a Happy Ever After and absolutely no cliffhangers.
Download or read book LGBTQ Las Vegas written by Dennis McBride and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Las Vegas is known around the world as a flashy, libertarian oasis where an individual's pursuit of happiness and profit is paramount. This was not true for the city's queer community. Being gay in Las Vegas until the 1990s was a felony with a hefty fine and long prison sentence. The Las Vegas LGBTQ community did not organize to fight for its rights until the late 1970s and by the early 1980s had made significant headway, before AIDS stopped their momentum. While the plague was devastating, it taught compassion, self-reliance, and political savvy. In 1993, the community persuaded the Nevada State Legislature to repeal the state's sodomy law, and throughout the 1990s and 2000s--even with some significant setbacks--Las Vegas rapidly caught up with more enlightened places in the United States. By 2017, Las Vegas was a city among the most welcoming of the nation's queer community.
Download or read book Gay Bar written by Jeremy Atherton Lin and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY: The New York Times * NPR * Vogue * Gay Times * Artforum * “Gay Bar is an absolute tour de force.” –Maggie Nelson "Atherton Lin has a five-octave, Mariah Carey-esque range for discussing gay sex.” –New York Times Book Review As gay bars continue to close at an alarming rate, a writer looks back to find out what’s being lost in this indispensable, intimate, and stylish celebration of queer history. Strobing lights and dark rooms; throbbing house and drag queens on counters; first kisses, last call: the gay bar has long been a place of solidarity and sexual expression—whatever your scene, whoever you’re seeking. But in urban centers around the world, they are closing, a cultural demolition that has Jeremy Atherton Lin wondering: What was the gay bar? How have they shaped him? And could this spell the end of gay identity as we know it? In Gay Bar, the author embarks upon a transatlantic tour of the hangouts that marked his life, with each club, pub, and dive revealing itself to be a palimpsest of queer history. In prose as exuberant as a hit of poppers and dazzling as a disco ball, he time-travels from Hollywood nights in the 1970s to a warren of cruising tunnels built beneath London in the 1770s; from chichi bars in the aftermath of AIDS to today’s fluid queer spaces; through glory holes, into Crisco-slicked dungeons and down San Francisco alleys. He charts police raids and riots, posing and passing out—and a chance encounter one restless night that would change his life forever. The journey that emerges is a stylish and nuanced inquiry into the connection between place and identity—a tale of liberation, but one that invites us to go beyond the simplified Stonewall mythology and enter lesser-known battlefields in the struggle to carve out a territory. Elegiac, randy, and sparkling with wry wit, Gay Bar is at once a serious critical inquiry, a love story and an epic night out to remember.
Download or read book The Rough Guide to Las Vegas written by Rough Guides and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rough Guide to Las Vegas is the definitive guide to the most dynamic and fascinating city in the US. Get the full lowdown on all its world-famous casinos, from Caesar's Palace to City Center, and see how they've grown from their murky Mob-owned roots to the flamboyant fantasylands of today. Read witty, well-informed reviews of the vibrant dining scene, from bargain buffets to the latest gourmet restaurants, keep up with Sin City's no-holds-barred nightlife, and learn where and how to gamble, whether your game's blackjack, poker or roulette. Full-color features explore Las Vegas' role as the entertainment capital of the world, covering music and movies as well as the legendary shows, from the feather-and-rhinestone days up to the Cirque de Soleil, and celebrate the city's mind-boggling architecture. Detailed maps and casino floor plans guide your every step, and there's comprehensive coverage of nearby natural wonders like the Grand Canyon and Zion National Park. Cut through the cliché and the hype, and get the plain-spoken truth with The Rough Guide to Las Vegas.
Download or read book 50 Fabulous Gay friendly Places to Live written by Gregory A. Kompes and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers looking for a gay-friendly place to call home but unable to decide among the urban hustle of New York, the laidback seaside of Key West, or the open, daily life of Minneapolis will find inspiration in this profile of 50 of America's gay-friendliest cities. Includes interactive CD. Consumable.
Download or read book Single Use Only written by Pender MacKie and published by . This book was released on 2014-09-23 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mike Strenton is tired of the hook-up scene. All the men he meets in the Las Vegas gay bars are interested in only one thing and only one night. Been there done that. About to turn thirty-eight, Mike avoids casual sex until his need for contact is too great to ignore. He secretly longs to meet someone who sees beyond his laugh lines and broad shoulders to the sensitive lover underneath. A man who'll choose him over the walk of shame. Twenty-seven-year-old Chris Bennington has never even been to a gay bar though he's into men as well as women. He sees the funny side of just about everything, even his first time with Mike. Chris wants a lover who doesn't have a problem with his quirky sense of humor, his inability to cook, or his bisexuality, and he thinks Mike fits the bill. All he has to do is convince the big guy he's not just sticking around for breakfast.
