Download or read book Turning Point A Sexy Lesbian Romance written by Ally Adair and published by Ally Adair. This book was released on with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They say college is where you learn a lot about yourself. Well… in college I learned I wasn’t as straight as I thought I was… …And that I could fall in love with a woman. It was Angela who taught me that. We were just roommates. Two out-of-our-minds-horny roommates. At first I thought what I was feeling was a strange kind of displaced lust. I mean… I was innocent. I didn’t have a boyfriend. But the way my body would react when I saw her… The way I would focus on her lips… imagine them on mine. The way heat surged into my center. I couldn’t explain it. Then I started to notice something else. When I was with her… the world seemed brighter. When she laughed, my heart leapt. When she met my eyes… I felt like I was falling into her gaze. But we’re just two straight girls who happen to be roommates. This can’t possibly be happening… can it? Turning Point is a steamy lesbian romance-with-a-happy-ending that tells the story of two roommates finding their true selves, and stumbling upon unexpected true love.

Download or read book Turning Point written by Lara Zielinsky and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's Hollywood. Actresses hate getting passed over for roles and cold shoulders are common. Petty sniping is part of the fabric of the place, but it takes two to fight. Actress Cassidy Hyland is throwing a birthday party for her son which she hopes will spark a truce with her cold co-star Brenna Lanigan. Instead the encounter becomes the first step of a journey neither woman ever imagined her heart could take: to love another woman. Turning Point explores the struggle of these women caught between what is safe and sure, and what the heart truly wants even if it doesn't understand. Brenna is "just over the hill" by Hollywood standards. She's 41, with two teenage sons, and a second husband back in her Midwest hometown. She has spent from age 18 onward working in theaters, movies, and television, living out roles that other people write. Cassidy is relatively new to the industry. At 32, she came to California after majoring in Literature and Drama in college. She did a little modeling, got small parts, had a child, and escaped her abusive marriage when she landed on "Time Trails."

Download or read book Turning Together written by Lara Zielinsky and published by . This book was released on 2023-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Woman s Love Lesbian Romance Collection written by Ally Adair and published by Ally Adair. This book was released on with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Woman’s Love is a bundle of 3 of Ally Adair’s sexy LGBTQ+ F/F lesbian love stories that tell the stories of 3 couples falling in love. A Woman’s Love contains 3 lesbian romances that are steamy, sensual, and sweet. These stories contain hidden secrets of lesbian love, to first times and new experiences, and they all have happy endings. Contained in this collection are the books Chances, Everlasting, and Turning Point. * Chances You can take a chance for passion… But can you take a chance for love? Lesbians have it easy when it comes to finding passion. It’s not hard at all. That’s something a lot of straight people don’t know. No, the hard part is not getting laid, but falling in love. Because, so often, it requires taking a chance… I took a chance on Jodie, an older woman. She took a chance on me, a tatted-up twenty-something. I knew it would lead me to fantastic heights of pleasure. I knew with her experience she’d make me see white, make me feel heavenly bliss. But what I didn’t expect was for her to understand me in a way I didn’t. What I didn’t expect was to… fall in love. Sometimes, you have to take a chance. Passion is always promised… …but sometimes, you find something more. * Everlasting Ava was unforgettable. The moment I met her, I was frozen, stunned into silence. She was unrelentingly beautiful. Elegantly exquisite. Sinfully sexy. She was the kind of woman I dreamed of being with… The kind of woman no red-blooded lesbian woman ever, truly thinks they’ll find. I fell so fast, it might have killed me. It was a whirlwind ripping through wheat fields. My whole life changed, was turned upside down and inside out. We explored each other endlessly. I touched and tasted every inch of her gorgeous body. We burned as bright as a thousand suns. We soared into white-hot bliss together. And she took up residence in my heart, a permanent home. Everlasting. This is our story. It wasn’t all good – after all, what romance is? But she was the very best thing to ever happen to me. * Turning Point They say college is where you learn a lot about yourself. Well… in college I learned I wasn’t as straight as I thought I was… …And that I could fall in love with a woman. It was Angela who taught me that. We were just roommates. Two out-of-our-minds-horny roommates. At first I thought what I was feeling was a strange kind of displaced lust. I mean… I was innocent. I didn’t have a boyfriend. But the way my body would react when I saw her… The way I would focus on her lips… imagine them on mine. The way heat surged into my center. I couldn’t explain it. Then I started to notice something else. When I was with her… the world seemed brighter. When she laughed, my heart leapt. When she met my eyes… I felt like I was falling into her gaze. But we’re just two straight girls who happen to be roommates. This can’t possibly be happening… can it?

Download or read book My Lucky Star written by Kelsey Blaine and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-03 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does a little alcohol and a lot of sexual tension get you? Well, in Heather and Gina’s case, one night of rugged passion. Gina I have been told all my life that I defy all the red-haired stereotypes, I am cool, I am calm, and I am collected, that is the only reason I survive after taking the most stressful job as the personal assistant to one of the biggest names in Hollywood. I expected her to act like a princess—her reputation preceded her—I however didn’t expect to find myself in her bed one drunken night, and I definitely didn’t expect to have my world rocked. Heather I am used to getting my way, that is how it has always been since my mom took me to a talent show and I showed the world what I was made of, everybody gets me what I want because of what they can get from me, and it gets tiring. In walks Gina, more than ten years younger than me but way more mature, and she doesn’t cower to my will like the others, but instead treats me like any ordinary person. I like it, I like her, no surprise then that we end up in bed together A Standalone Short Story with No Cliffhanger! KEYWORDS: Lesbian Romance, FF romance, Lesbian romance novels books, first time lesbian books, true event stories, LGBT romance books, FF romance sex, LGBT romance fiction, New adult romance, Young adult romance, First time lesbian romance

Download or read book Turn for Home written by Lara Zielinsky and published by . This book was released on 2022-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Falling in love wasn't easy. Staying together may be impossible. In this sequel to Turning Point, as her divorce proceeds, Brenna Lanigan struggles with her sons' cold shoulders and opposition to her intimate relationship with Cassidy Hyland. Cassidy's son Ryan eagerly accepts their relationship, making Thomas and James' lack of support even more upsetting. When the women return from holiday hiatus to resume shooting on "Time Trails," they sneak precious moments of intimacy in shadows and trailers. As many in the cast and crew openly show support, Cassidy and Brenna try to date. The paparazzi give chase. When the romance is publicized, the revelation sets off Cassidy's ex-husband. Mitch Hyland will take his son from the lesbian couple... by force if necessary.

Download or read book Youth Culture in Global Cinema written by Timothy Shary and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Love Between Women written by Bernadette J. Brooten and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-02-15 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love Between Women examines female homoeroticism and the role of women in the ancient Roman world. Employing an unparalleled range of cultural sources, Brooten finds evidence of marriages between women and establishes that condemnations of female homoerotic practices were based on widespread awareness of love between women. "An extraordinary accomplishment. . . . A definitive source for all future discussion of homoeroticism and the Bible."—Mary Rose D'Angelo, Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review "[Brooten's] convincing analysis . . . not only profoundly reshapes our understanding of the past, but it should also shape the way in which that past, particularly the early Christian texts with their immense normative weight, will be used for the future."—Anne L. Clark, Journal of Lesbian Studies "Love Between Women gives contemporary debates on sexuality a carefully delineated past. It boldly insists upon a different future, one informed by history but not tyrannized by it."—Susan Ackerman, Lambda Book Report "Fascinating, provocative and lucid. . . . Brooten has made a fundamental contribution to women's and gender studies, gay and lesbian studies, and classics."—Elizabeth A. Castelli, Women's Review of Books Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Best Lesbian Studies Book, 1997

Download or read book Passionate Communities written by Marilyn R. Schuster and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1999-06 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new full-length study of Jane Rule's life and work, Marilyn Schuster argues that Rule's novels provide a way of "writing and reading lesbian" that resists and subverts dominant discourses of gender and sexuality-both those of mainstream culture and of political and sexual subcultures. From her earliest novel, Desert of the Heart (1964), Rule's fiction has provided a challenge to the concept of a fixed identity and to the identity politics founded on such a concept. Incorporating all of Jane Rule's early work-including unpublished manuscripts, letters, magazine and newspaper columns, as well as fan mail she received-Schuster also draws on interviews, conversations, and personal encounters with the author to elicit the ways in which Rule interrogates the meanings and politics of sexuality, the relationship between sexuality and language, and the stakes of communities in individual claims on identity. Passionate Communities is a thorough, engaging, and long-overdue study of an important voice in lesbian literature and gay and lesbian politics.

Download or read book Protection of Sexual Minorities since Stonewall written by Phil C.W. Chan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Stonewall Riot in New York in 1969 marked the birth of the sexual minority rights movement worldwide. In the subsequent four decades, equality and related rights on grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity have been enshrined in many African, Asian, Australasian, European and North American countries, thanks to better informed discourses of the natures of sexual orientation, gender identity, equality and rights that systematic scientific and socio-legal research has generated. Discrimination, harassment and persecution on grounds of a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity, however, continue to pervade the laws and social norms in all developed and developing countries. In tribute to the courage of those who participated in the Stonewall Riot, this book examines the progress and stalemate in various countries on five continents, as well as in the development of international law, concerning the rights of persons belonging to sexual minorities. This book covers issues including homophobic bullying and gay–straight alliances in schools; the merits and problems that legislation prohibiting hate speech on grounds of sexual orientation presents; criminal justice systems in relation to male rape victims and to criminalisation of HIV exposure and transmission; the development of sexual minority rights, from historical and socio-legal perspectives, in Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, and Zimbabwe; the lives of transgender persons in Asian countries; the evolution, operation and impact of international and domestic refugee laws on sexual orientation and gender identity as grounds for refugee status and asylum; and the conflicts between law, religion and sexual minority equality rights that inhere in the same-sex marriage debate in Ireland. This book was previously published as a special double issue of The International Journal of Human Rights.

Download or read book The Right to Be Out written by Stuart Biegel and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Queerly Canadian Second Edition written by Scott Rayter and published by Canadian Scholars. This book was released on 2022-09-14 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the second edition of this remarkable and comprehensive anthology, many of Canada's leading sexuality studies scholars examine the fundamental role that sexuality has played—and continues to play—in the building of our nation, and in our national narratives, myths, and anxieties about Canadian identity. Thoroughly updated, this new edition features twenty-six new chapters on topics including Indigenous kinship, Blackness, masculinity, disability, queer resistance, and sex education. Covering both historical and contemporary perspectives on nation and community, law and criminal justice, organizing and activism, health and medicine, education, marriage and family, sport, and popular culture and representation, the essays also take a strong intersectional approach, integrating analyses of race, class, and gender. This interdisciplinary collection is essential for the Canadian sexuality studies classroom, and for anyone interested in the mythologies and realities of queer life in Canada. FEATURES: - Sixty percent new and expanded content with twenty-six new chapters - Thoroughly updated to reflect a strong emphasis on the diversity of queer experiences and identities in Canada - Each chapter includes a brief introduction, written for this collection by the author, that provides helpful context about their work for both students and teachers

Download or read book Backward Glances written by Fran Martin and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-19 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Backward Glances reveals that the passionate love one woman feels for another occupies a position of unsuspected centrality in contemporary Chinese mass cultures. By examining representations of erotic and romantic love between women in popular films, elite and pulp fiction, and television dramas, Fran Martin shows how youthful same-sex love is often framed as a universal, even ennobling, feminine experience. She argues that a temporal logic dominates depictions of female homoeroticism, and she traces that logic across texts produced and consumed in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan during the twentieth century and the early twenty-first. Attentive to both transnational cultural flows and local particularities, Martin shows how loving relations between women in mass culture are usually represented as past experiences. Adult protagonists revel in the repeated, mournful narration of their memories. Yet these portrayals do not simply or finally consign the same-sex loving woman to the past—they also cause her to reappear ceaselessly in the present. As Martin explains, memorial schoolgirl love stories are popular throughout contemporary Chinese cultures. The same-sex attracted young woman appears in both openly homophobic and proudly queer-affirmative narratives, as well as in stories whose ideological valence is less immediately clear. Martin demonstrates that the stories, television programs, and films she analyzes are not idiosyncratic depictions of marginal figures, but manifestations of a broader, mainstream cultural preoccupation. Her investigation of representations of same-sex love between women sheds new light on contemporary Chinese understandings of sex, love, gender, marriage, and the cultural ordering of human life.

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Queer Cinema written by Ronald Gregg and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-12 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The term "queer cinema" is often used to name at least three cultural events: 1) an emergent visual culture that boldly identifies as queer; 2) a body of narrative, documentary, and experimental work previously collated under the rubric of homosexual or lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans (LGBT) cinema; 3) a means of critically reading and evaluating films and other visual media through the lens of sexuality. By this expansive account, queer cinema encompasses more than a century of filmmaking, film criticism, and film reception, and the past twenty-five years have seen the idea of "queer cinema" expand further as a descriptor for a global arts practice. As the first of its kind, The Oxford Handbook of Queer Cinema treats these three currents as art and critical practice, bringing the canon of queer cinema together with a new generation of makers and scholars. The Handbook's contributors include scholars who research the worldwide canon of queer cinema, those who are uniquely positioned to address three decades of its particular importance, and those best positioned to ponder the forms it is taking or may take in our new century, namely digital media that moves in new circuits. In eight sections, they explore the many forms that queer cinema takes across time, discussing narrative, experimental, documentary, and genre filmmaking, including pornography. Likewise, although the study of cinema and media is not restricted to a single method, chapters showcase the unique combination of textual analysis, industrial and production history, interpretation, ethnography, and archival research that this field enables. For example, chapters analyze the ways in which queer cinema both is and is not self-evidently an object for study by examining films that reinforce negative understandings of queerness alongside those that liberate the subject; and by naming the films that are newly queered, while noting that many queerly-made texts await discovery. Finally, chapters necessarily assert that queer cinema is not an Anglophone phenomenon, nor is it restricted to the medium of film.

Download or read book Heavenly Love written by Gabriele Griffin and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book New Our Right to Love written by Ginny Vida and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its original publications in 1978, Our Right to Love's resources, interviews, and essays have evolved to cover every aspect of the ever-changing, everyday lives of lesbians. The complete lesbian resource guide, Our Right to Love instantly became a classic when it was first published in 1978. Now fully revised and expanded for the 1990s, this new edition includes over 60 articles and interviews covering the many aspects of lesbian life: relationships, sexuality, health, activism, education and sports, religion and spirituality, the law and legal issues, multiethnic lesbian experience, and lesbian culture. A group of essays explores the lesbian experience across cultures (African American, Latina, Asian, Native American) and age groups. Interviews with notable lesbians Martina Navratilova, Melissa Etheridge, Margarethe Cammermeyer, and Minnesota State Representative Karen Clark examine the particular experiences of highly visible out lesbians. An extensive bibliography, resource lists, and index make this the complete lesbian reference.

Download or read book Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory written by Michael Groden and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This helpful guide serves as an introduction to contemporary literary theory. Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory: The Johns Hopkins Guide is a clear, accessible, and detailed overview of the most important thinkers and topics in the field. Written by specialists from across disciplines, its entries cover contemporary theory from Adorno to Žižek, providing an informative and reliable introduction to a vast, challenging area of inquiry. Materials include newly commissioned articles along with essays drawn from The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism, known as the definitive resource for students and scholars of literary theory and for philosophical reflection on literature and culture.