Recent acquisitions

A Travel Guide to Queer Japan : Exploring Queer Spirits

Masashi Harada

Lulu.com, 2007. - 104 p.

Japan has a long history related to love and intimate relations between the same sex. Spiritual relations and intimacy between men and the beauty of young men are accepted and respected among Japanese people. This book explores queer spirits via historical and religious locations in Japan. There are queer towns, Shinto shrines, and Buddhist temples related to queer people or queer historical persons. In addition to descriptions, more than 110 pictures and travel information with location maps are shown in this book.

Homodok: cat. (harad/tra) b

Ask and Tell : Gay and Lesbian Veterans Speak Out

Steve Estes

Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press, 2007. - 280 p.

"Don't Ask, Don't Tell" was the directive of President Clinton's 1993 military policy regarding gay and lesbian soldiers. This official silence continued a collective amnesia about the patriotic service and courageous sacrifices of homosexual troops. "Ask and Tell" recovers these lost voices, offering a rich chronicle of the history of gay and lesbian service in the U.S. military from World War II to the Iraq War. Drawing on more than 50 interviews with gay and lesbian veterans, Steve Estes charts the evolution of policy toward homosexuals in the military over the past 65 years, uncovering the ways that silence about sexuality and military service has affected the identities of gay veterans. These veteran voices - harrowing, heroic, and on the record - reveal the extraordinary stories of ordinary Americans, men and women who simply did their duty and served their country in the face of homophobia, prejudice, and enemy fire.

Homodok: cat. (estes/ask) b

Lettres d'un inverti Allemand au docteur Alexandre Lacassagne (1903-1908)

Georges Apitzsch

Paris : EPEL, 2006. - 123 p.

Brieven van de jonge Duitse homoseksueel Georges Apitzsch aan zijn Franse dokter Alexandre Lacassagne en een artikel over homoseksualiteit van de arts zelf.
Recensie/Review in: Inverses, (2007) 7, p. 183-185.

Homodok: cat. (apit/let) b

Bohemian Los Angeles and the Making of Modern Politics

Daniel Hurewitz

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, 2008. - 384 p.

"Bohemian Los Angeles" brings to life a vibrant and all-but forgotten milieu of artists, leftists, and gay men and women whose story played out over the first half of the twentieth century and continues to shape the entire American landscape. It is the story of a hidden corner of Los Angeles, where the personal first became the political, where the nation's first enduring gay rights movement emerged, and where the broad spectrum of what we now think of as identity politics was born. Portraying life over a period of more than forty years in the hilly enclave of Edendale, near downtown Los Angeles, Daniel Hurewitz considers the work of painters and printmakers, looks inside the Communist Party's intimate cultural scene, and examines the social world of gay men. In this vividly written narrative, he discovers why and how these communities, inspiring both one another and the city as a whole, transformed American notions of political identity with their ideas about self-expression, political engagement, and race relations.

Homodok: cat. (hurew/boh) b

Queer History of the Ballet

Peter Stoneley

London: Routledge, 2007. - x, 206 p.

Designed for students, scholars and general readers with an interest in dance and queer history, "A Queer History of the Ballet" focuses on how, as makers and as audiences, queer men and women have helped to develop many of the texts, images, and legends of ballet. Presenting a series of historical case studies, the book explores the ways in which, from the nineteenth century into the twentieth, ballet has been a means of conjuring homosexuality - of enabling some degree of expression and visibility for people who were otherwise declared illegal and obscene. The studies include: the perverse sororities of the Romantic ballet; the fairy in folklore, literature, and ballet; Tchaikovsky and the making of Swan Lake; Diaghilev's Ballets Russes and the emergence of queer modernity; the formation of ballet in America; the queer uses of the prima ballerina; and Genet's writings for and about ballet. Also including a consideration of how ballet's queer tradition has been memorialized by such contemporary dance-makers as Neumeier, Bausch, Bourne, and Preljocaj, this isan essential book in the study of ballet and queer history.

Homodok: cat. (stone-p/que) b

Look Both Ways : Bisexual Politics

Jennifer Baumgardner

New York, NY : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007. - 244 p.

For the acclaimed author and activist Jennifer Baumgardner, bisexuality has always been more than the "sexual non-preference of the '90s." In "Look Both Ways", Baumgardner takes a close look at the growing visibility of gay and bisexual characters, performers, and issues on the national cultural stage. Despite the prevalence of bisexuality among Generation X and Y women, she finds that it continues to be marginalized by both gay and straight cultures, and dismissed either as a phase or a cop-out.With intimacy and humour, Baumgardner discusses her own experience as a bisexual, and the struggle she's undergone to reconcile the privilege she's garnered as a woman who is perceived as straight and the empowerment and satisfaction she's derived from her relationships with women. That Baumgardner argues have bridged feminist aims with those of the gay rights movement. "Look Both Ways" is a compelling and current study in bisexual lives lived secretly and openly, and an exploration of the lessons learned by writers, artists, and activists who have refused the either/or paradigm defended by both gay and straight communities.

Homodok: cat. (baumg/loo) b

Out in Paperback : A Visual History of Gay Pulps

Ian Young

Toronto : Lester, Mason & Begg, 2007. - 80 p.

Out in Paperback is a wonderfully entertaining look at gay mass-market paperback cover art that throws new light on the important role of the book publishing industry in the development of gay popular culture. Richly illustrated with over a hundred covers of gay-themed "pulps" published between 1948 and 1998, this fascinating visual history provides new insights into a striking form of gay imagery. Following the huge demand for portable reading material during World War II, paperback publishing exploded in the postwar years. At the same time, the Kinsey report and a spate of novels and non-fiction studies about male homosexuality suggested new and sensational subject matter. Literature, mass culture, and theemerging homosexual underground combined in the accessible pulp paperback with its striking, interpretive packaging. For many readers – including young, isolated gay men–an eye-catching, pocket-sized paperback cover on a drugstore rack provided their first intriguing look into a previously concealed gay world.

Homodok: cat. (young-ian/out) b

Anders als die Andern : Ein Film und seine Geschichte

James Steakley

Hamburg : Männerschwarm, 2007. - 160 p.

"Das erste homosexuelle Filmwerk" Der Film Anders als die Andern aus dem Jahre 1919, das "erste homosexuelle Filmwerk" der Filmgeschichte (Magnus Hirschfeld), erzählt die Geschichte des Geigenvirtuosen Paul Körner und seines Schüler Kurt Sivers, der den Meister verehrt und sich immer mehr zu ihm hingezogen fühlt. Das Lehrer-Schüler-Verhältnis wird durch einen Erpresser zerstört. Körner setzt sich mit einer Anzeige gegen den Erpresser zur Wehr, empfängt dabei jedoch auch selbst vor Gericht das Kainsmal des § 175. Als Künstler gemieden und sozial geächtet, begeht er Selbstmord.......

Homodok: cat. (steak/and) b

The Greeks and Greek Love : A Radical Reappraisal of Homosexuality in Ancient Greece

	James Davidson
	London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2007. - 634 p.
	Plato wrote that same-sex lovers were more blessed than ordinary mortals. But then he changed his mind, describing the act as 'utterly unholy' and 'the ugliest of ugly things'. So why were the ancient Greeks so confused about homosexuality, asks James Davidson.
	Homodok: cat. (david-j/gre) b

Long Before Stonewall: Histories of Same-sex Sexuality in Early America

Thomas Foster

New York, NY : New York University Press, 2007. - 448 p.

Although the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York City symbolically mark the start of the gay rights movement, individuals came together long before the modern era to express their same-sex romantic and sexual attraction toward one another, and in a myriad of ways. Some reflected on their desires in quiet solitude, while othersendured verbal, physical, and legal harassment for publicly expressing homosexual interest through words or actions. "Long Before Stonewall" seeks to uncover the manyn iterations of same-sex desire in colonial America and the early Republic, as well asto expand the scope of how we define and recognize homosocial behavior. Thomas A. Foster has assembled a path-breaking, interdisciplinary collection of original and classic essays that explore topics ranging from homoerotic imagery of black men to prison reform to the development of sexual orientations. This collection spans a regional and temporal breadth that stretches from the colonial Southwest to Quaker communities in New England.

Homodok: cat. (long/bef) b

Sex and the Eighteenth Century Man : Massachusetts and the History of Sexuality in
America

Thomas Foster

Boston, MA : Beacon Press, 2006. - 223 p.

With few exceptions, sex is noticeably absent from popular histories chronicling colonial and Revolutionary America. Using court records, newspapers, sermons, andprivate papers from Massachusetts, Foster shows that sex- the behaviors, desires, and identities associated with eroticism - was a critical component of colonial understanding of the qualities considered befitting for a man.

Homodok: cat. (foste-t/sex) b

Gay Travels in The Muslim World

	Michael T. Luongo (Ed.).
	Binghamton, NY : Harrington Park Press. 2007 - 200 p.
	Travel beyond the fear and paranoia of 9/11 to experience Muslim culture. This thought-provoking book tells both Muslim and non-Muslim gay men's stories of travelling in the Middle East during today's difficult political times. The true, personal stories reveal how gay men celebrate their lives and meetings with local men, including a gay soldier's story of his tour of duty in Iraq. Insightful and sometimes sexy, this intelligent book goes beyond the present political and cultural divides to illustrate the real experiences of gay men in trouble zones.
	Homodok: cat. (gay/tra/in) b

Sodom on the Thames : sex, love, and scandal in Wilde times

	Morris B. Kaplan
	Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press. 2005 - 328 p.: ill.
	Sodom on the Thames looks closely at three episodes involving sex between men in late-nineteenth-century England. Morris Kaplan draws on extensive research into court records, contemporary newspaper accounts, personal correspondence and diaries, even a pornographic novel. He focuses on two notorious scandals and one quieter incident. In 1871, transvestites "Stella" (Ernest Boulton) and "Fanny" (Frederick Park), who had paraded around London s West End followed by enthusiastic admirers, were tried for conspiracy to commit sodomy. .......
	Homodok: cat. (kapla/sod) b

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