There has long been an assumption in the West that views on sex and sexuality are basically similar worldwide. This has never been the case. Many ancient cultures actively ...

Collects essays from "non-heterosexuals" who do not conform to the popular images of gay people

A collection of documents provides a continuous chronicle of homosexuality in America, from colonial times to the present, and of the persecution of gay males and lesbians ...

Winner of two Lambda Rising Awards. "A landmark of a book and a landmark of ideas that will shatter ignorance and delusion."-Catharine Stimpson.

Stating that the homosexual community has not been granted actual civil equality, an analysis of the gay presence in the American mainstream cites the ways in which gay ...

For both the film buff and the general moviegoer a handbook that unlocks the secrets of a hundred noir movies "Gifford knows his noir. The essays are better than some of the ...

Since 1969, the word Stonewall has been synonymous with gay resistance to oppression. Yet remarkably, the full story of the Stonewall riots has never been told. Now historian ...