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Free Download Jens Rydström, "Odd Couples: A History of Gay Marriage in Scandinavia"
English | 2011 | pages: 247 | ISBN: 9052603812 | PDF | 5,1 mb
The concept of marriage as a union of a man and a woman was fundamentally challenged by the introduction of registered partnership in Denmark in 1989. Odd Couples is the first comprehensive history of registered partnership and gay marriage in Scandinavia. It traces the origins of laws which initially were extremely controversial-inside and outside the gay community-but have now gained broad popular and political support, as well as the positive effects and risks involved in state recognition of lesbian and gay couples. Through a comparison of how these laws have been received and practiced in all of the Scandinavian countries, including Greenland and the Faroe Islands, the author presents a nuanced study of a fascinating political process that began in the 1960s and continues to change the way we understand family, sexuality and nation.

Free Download Not Gay: Sex between Straight White Men (Sexual Cultures) by Jane Ward
English | July 31, 2015 | ISBN: 1479860689, 1479825174 | True EPUB | 240 pages | 2.3 MB
A different look at heterosexuality in the twenty-first century

Free Download Rustam Alexander, "Gay Lives and ‘Aversion Therapy’ in Brezhnev’s Russia, 1964-1982 "
English | ISBN: 3031458699 | 2023 | 179 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This book examines the autobiographies and diaries of Soviet homosexual men who underwent psychotherapy during the period from 1970 to 1980 under the guidance of Yan Goland, a psychiatrist-sexopathologist from Gorky. The examination of these unique and little known documents contributes to our scant knowledge about the practices that many would call a Soviet proto-type of ‘aversion therapy’. It also helps us understand the way homosexual people faced "queer dilemmas" of the self and how they sought to reconcile their queer desire with being Soviet.

Free Download Coming Out Republican: A History of the Gay Right
by Neil J. Young
English | 2024 | ISBN: 0226818055 | 400 Pages | True ePUB | 1.51 MB

Free Download Comic relief : Nietzsche’s Gay science By Higgins, Kathleen Marie; Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
2000 | 249 Pages | ISBN: 0195126912 | PDF | 17 MB
This book offers a lively and unorthodox analysis of Nietzsche by examining a neglected aspect of his scholarly personality–his sense of humor. While often thought of as ponderous and melancholy, the Nietzsche of Higgins’s study is a surprisingly subtle and light-hearted writer. She presents a close reading of The Gay Science to show how the numerous literary risks that Nietzsche takes reveal humor to be central to his project. Higgins argues that his use of humor is intended to dislodge readers from their usual, somber detachment and to incite imaginative thinking

Free Download Alan R Warren, "Bruce McArthur: The Toronto Gay Village Murders"
English | ISBN: 1989980686 | 2022 | 220 pages | EPUB | 970 KB
Killer Queens is a new series of historical fiction books based on true stories. The series explores the world of murder in the gay community, whether the victims or the killers themselves and sometimes both, are homosexual. While the previous books looked at murders in the gay communities of Germany, England, and the United States, this fourth edition of the series visits Canada-a country that has embraced the gay community overall.

Free Download Asian American sexualities : dimensions of the gay and lesbian experience By Leong, Russell
1996 | 254 Pages | ISBN: 0415914361 | EPUB | 3 MB
Asian American Sexualities works to dispel the stereotype of oriental sexual decadence, as well as the "model minority" heterosexual Asian sterotype in the US. Writing from an impressive array of interdisciplinary perspectives, the contributors discuss a variety of topics, including sexuality and identity politics; community activism and gay activism; transnational aspects of love between women in Thailand; queer South Asian culture in the US; gay and lesbian filmmakers; same-sex sexuality in Pacific literature; and Asian American male homosexuality and AIDS. The relationship of the gay and lesbian experience to Asian American studies and Ethnic Studies is also explored

Free Download Joe Kort, "Gay Affirmative Therapy for the Straight Clinician: The Essential Guide"
English | 2008 | pages: 304 | ISBN: 0393704971 | EPUB | 0,8 mb
All the answers straight clinicians need to work effectively with gay and lesbian clients.

Free Download We Are Everywhere: A Historical Sourcebook of Gay and Lesbian Politics By Mark Blasius, Shane Phelan (eds.)
1997 | 844 Pages | ISBN: 0415908582 | PDF | 39 MB
An important and original new contribution to lesbian and gay studies, We Are Everywhere brings together the key primary sources relating to the politics of homosexuality. Presenting political, historical, legal, literary, and psychological documents which trace the evolution of the lesbian and gay movement, it includes documents as diverse as organization pamphlets, essays, polemics, speeches, newspaper and journal articles, and academic papers. We Are Everywhere includes writings from the beginnings of the gay and lesbian movement in the 19th century by Karl Ulrichs, Magnus Hirschfeld, and John Addington Symonds; legal and government studies concerning rights of gay and lesbian citizens; articles from the early US liberation movement publications such as Mattachine Review, The Ladder and ONE ; documents from the first days of the AIDS epidemic to current activism; statements and writings from the movements within "the movement" (bisexuals, S/M, conservatives); and finally, a look at the future of lesbian and gay politics. Together the documents allow readers to examine a diverse set of issues: the concept of gay love before "homosexuality," the development of political movements based on homosexual identity, the history of government persecution of homosexuality, the impact of feminism on the modern lesbian and gay rights movement, and the emergence of queer theory.

Free Download The Path to Gay Rights: How Activism and Coming Out Changed Public Opinion By Jeremiah J. Garretson
2018 | 305 Pages | ISBN: 1479850071 | PDF | 6 MB
An innovative, data-driven explanation of how public opinion shifted on LGBTQ rightsThe Path to Gay Rights is the first social science analysis of how and why the LGBTQ movement achieved its most unexpected victory-transforming gay people from a despised group of social deviants into a minority worthy of rights and protections in the eyes of most Americans. The book weaves together a narrative of LGBTQ history with new findings from the field of political psychology to provide an understanding of how social movements affect mass attitudes in the United States and globally.Using data going back to the 1970s, the book argues that the current understanding of how social movements change mass opinion-through sympathetic media coverage and endorsements from political leaders-cannot provide an adequate explanation for the phenomenal success of the LGBTQ movement at changing the public’s views. In The Path to Gay Rights, Jeremiah Garretson argues that the LGBTQ community’s response to the AIDS crisis was a turning point for public support of gay rights. ACT-UP and related AIDS organizations strategically targeted political and media leaders, normalizing news coverage of LGBTQ issues and AIDS and signaled to LGBTQ people across the United States that their lives were valued. The net result was an increase in the number of LGBTQ people who came out and lived their lives openly, and with increased contact with gay people, public attitudes began to warm and change. Garretson goes beyond the story of LGBTQ rights to develop an evidence-based argument for how social movements can alter mass opinion on any contentious topic.