by Leslie Feinberg Although readers familiar with Feinberg's earlier books will not find much new material here, this collection of hir (this transgendered author's pronoun of choice) speeches, presented with a few essays by other transgendered writers, serves as a good introduction to Feinberg's ideas about the complexities of gender expression and to hir vision for a future "beyond pink or blue."
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by David Deitcher, David Frankel, Amada Cruz (Introduction), Isaac Julien England’s reigning black gay filmmaker offers critical writings and recaps his major art and video exhibits.
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by Colm Toibin
Dublin-based writer Toibin offers nine case studies in as many chapters of how "gay life" has informed our readings of writers, artists and filmmakers like Oscar Wilde, Francis Bacon, Elizabeth Bishop, James Baldwin, Pedro Almodovar and Mark Doty. The chapter "Goodbye to Catholic Ireland" wonders if Cathal ¢ Searchaigh is the first gay poet in the Irish language, and speaks against the Church's continued hold on the Irish life of the mind.
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by Donald F. Reuter Gaydar is a must-have for those thousands (maybe millions) of hapless gay men and unwary straight women who’ve encountered such embarrassing revelatory moments as, “Oh, I thought you were . . .” or “Oh, I didn’t know you were . . .” or the ever-popular “But isn’t he married?!” and so on.
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The Social Impact of Lesbian and Gay Issues in Education in Australia and New Zealand by Kerry H. Robinson (Editor), Jude Irwin (Editor), Tania Ferfolja (Editor)
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by David A. J. Richards Central to David Richards's elegant and provocative Identity and the Case for Gay Rights is the injustice of what he calls "moral slavery." This concept describes the cultural construction of stereotypes that dehumanize the affected group and are rationalized in the context of historical structural injustices. The burdens moral slavery places on individual's identity formation are similar to those associated with discrimination on the basis of race, gender, and religion, and are similarly unconstitutional and inhumane.
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