The years following the Second World War saw a change to the face of America in terms of identities and gender roles. This had significant impact on the development of visible homosexual communities across the USA which, over time, led to the preliminary formation of a sense of homosexual identity. On a cultural level, part of this exploration of identity included the emergence of young homosexual writers who used their works to share ideas and analyse their own experience of stigma and its consequences. This book presents a literary study of selected titles from four such writers: Gore Vidal, Truman Capote, James Baldwin and Allen Ginsberg. Not simply a literary review, it explores aspects of queer history as they are revealed through literature, with analysis of the texts presenting an exploration of unique but comparative experience. To expand upon the content of the novels, selected paragraphs of text are related to theoretical works from writers including Michel Foucault, Julia Kristeva, Hal Foster and Sarah Schulman, along with the work of prominent gay rights activist, Harry Hay.
Dawn Amber Harvey
(Un)Natural Desires: Representations of Homosexuals in Post-War American Literature
Tupelo Hassman’s sharp and loving teen girls’ navigation of Traumas, with big and little T’s, is well stocked with tools of mysticism, sparkling humor, and unflinching sexuality. In gods with a little g, she unfolds what Y.A. can be, offering a road map of survival with hope and heart intact.
Tupelo Hassman
iO Tillet Wright has the rare and exquisite gift of peeling back layers of identity and showing how we carry not just our stories but our forebears with us in forming our identities – with none of the usual one-dimensional blaming or hostility.
iO Tillett Wright
Self Evident Truths: 10,000 Portraits of Queer America
Bessel van der Kolk
Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Sid Garza-Hillman
Small Steps, Less Stress, and a Thriving Family
Mandy Aftel
Death of a Rolling Stone: The Brian Jones Story
Essence and Alchemy: A Natural History of Perfume
Fragrant: The Secret Life of Scent
Scents and Sensibilities: Creating Solid Perfumes for Well-Being
The Story of Your Life: Becoming the Author of Your Experience
Anohni
Levi Asher
Action Poetry: Literary Tribes for the Internet Age
Beats In Time: A Literary Generation’s Legacy
The Cards I’m Playing: Poker and Postmodern Literature
Chiaroscuro: Assorted Literary Essays
Why Ayn Rand Is Wrong (and Why It Matters)
Mona Awad
13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl
Jo Ann Beard
Jennifer Belle
Steven Blush
American Hardcore: A Tribal History (2nd edition)
Peter Bogdanovich
The Killing of the Unicorn: Dorothy Stratten, 1960–1980
Jennifer Finney Boylan
She’s Not There: A Life in Two Genders
Stuck in the Middle with You: A Memoir of Parenting in Three Genders
Catherine Burns and The Moth
Stephanie Burt
Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry
The Forms of Youth: Twentieth-Century Poetry and Adolescence
Jade Chang
Bill Clegg
Ninety Days: A Memoir of Recovery
Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man: A Memoir
Sean Thor Conroe
Billy Corgan
Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
Lori Duron
Raising My Rainbow: Adventures in Raising a Fabulous, Gender Creative Son
Marilyn Easter
Resilience: Bravery in the Face of Racism, Corruption, and Privilege in the Halls of Academia
Dave Eggers
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
It Is Right to Draw Their Fur: Animal Renderings
Surviving Justice: America’s Wrongfully Convicted and Exonerated
Teachers Have It Easy: The Big Sacrifices and Small Salaries of America’s Teachers
Nathan Englander
Dinner at the Center of the Earth
For the Relief of Unbearable Urges
What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank
Grant Faulkner
All the Comfort Sin Can Provide
Fissures: 100 One-Word Stories
Nothing Short Of: Selected Tales from 100 Word Story
Pep Talks for Writers: 52 Insights and Actions To Boost Your Creative Mojo
Grant Faulkner and Rebecca Stern
Brave the Page: A Young Writer’s Guide to Telling Epic Stories
Alan Feuer
El Jefe: The Stalking of Chapo Guzmán
I Hope You Find Me: The Love Poems of craigslist’s Missed Connections
Over There: From The Bronx To Baghdad
Alan Feuer and Ric Burns
Kate Flannery
Nick Flynn
Another Bullshit Night in Suck City: A Memoir
Stay: Threads, Conversations, Collaborations
This Is the Night Our House Will Catch Fire
Nicole V. Gagné
Historical Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Classical Music
Sheila Heti
Ron Hogan
The Stewardess Is Flying the Plane! American Films of the 1970s
Ted Hope
Michael Imperioli
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Steven Klein
Madonna and Steven Klein: X-STaTIC PRO-CeSS
Christian Lacroix
Christian Lacroix and the Tale of Sleeping Beauty: A Fashion Fairy Tale Memoir
Christian Lacroix: The Diary of a Collection
Christian Lacroix: Universe of Fashion
Pieces of a Pattern: Lacroix by Lacroix
Adam Langer
The Film Festival Guide: For Filmmakers, Film Buffs, and Industry Professionals
Leigh Ledare
Double Bind (with Rhea Anastas)
Gary Lippman
Set the Controls for the Heart of Sharon Tate
We Loved the World but Could Not Stay
Lydia Lunch
The War Is Never Over: A Companion to the Film by Beth B
with Exene Cervenka
Hilary Mantel
The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher
Eight Months on Ghazzah Street
The Wolf Hall Trilogy:
Mary Ellen Mark
Extraordinary Child: Disabled Children in Iceland
On the Portrait and the Moment
Photographers at Work: The Photo Essay
Photographs of Mother Teresa’s Missions of Charity in Calcutta
Seen Behind the Scene: 40 Years of Photographing on Set
Taiyo Matsumoto/Michael Arias
Fernanda Melchor
Paul Mendez
David Milch
Deadwood: Stories of the Black Hills
True Blue: The Real Stories Behind “NYPD Blue”
Errol Morris
Believing Is Seeing (Observations on the Mysteries of Photography)
Nonfiction: Photographs by Nubar Alexanian from the Film Sets of Errol Morris
A Wilderness of Error: The Trials of Jeffrey MacDonald
Lindsay Morris
Daniel Nicoletta
LGBT San Francisco: The Daniel Nicoletta Photographs
Daniel Nicoletta with Adrian Brooks
Flights of Angels: My Life with the Angels of Light
Daniel Nicoletta with Harvey Milk
Emi Nietfeld
Lou Reed
Pass Thru Fire: The Collected Lyrics
Nathaniel Rich
Losing Earth: A Recent History
Second Nature: Scenes from a World Remade
David Sedaris
Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls
When You Are Engulfed in Flames
Kenneth Sherman
Brooke Smith
Adam Smyer
Pamela Sneed
Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom than Slavery
Amy Sohn
Joey Solloway
She Wants It: Desire, Power, and Toppling the Patriarchy
Morgan Spurlock
Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope
Supersized: Strange Tales from a Fast-Food Culture
Joan Stanford
John Strausbaugh
Black Like You: Blackface, Whiteface, Insult & Imitation in American Popular Culture
City of Sedition: The History of New York City During the Civil War
E: Reflections on the Birth of the Elvis Faith
Rock Till You Drop: The Decline from Rebellion to Nostalgia
Sissy Nation: How America Became a Culture of Wimps & Stoopits
Victory City: A History of New York and New Yorkers during World War II
The Village: 400 Years of Beats and Bohemians, Radicals and Rogues
Catherine Texier
Wells Tower
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned
Gus Van Sant
Conversations with Gus Van Sant
Betony Vernon
The Boudoir Bible: The Uninhibited Sex Guide for Today
Timothy Wang
Brenda Webster
Irvine Welsh
If You Liked School, You’ll Love Work
Reheated Cabbage: Tales of Chemical Degeneration
The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins
Robert Wilson
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