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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

gods with a little g

Girlchild: A Novel

 

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

Darling Days: A Memoir

Self Evident Truths: 10,000 Portraits of Queer America

 

Bessel van der Kolk

The Body Keeps the Score:

Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

 

Sid Garza-Hillman

Raising Healthy Parents:

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

When Talk Is Not Cheap

 

Anohni

Swanlight

 

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

The Summer of the Mets

Why Ayn Rand Is Wrong (and Why It Matters)

 

Jo Ann Beard

The Boys of My Youth

In Zanesville

 

Steven Blush

American Hair Metal

American Hardcore: A Tribal History (2nd edition)

.45 Dangerous Minds

 

Peter Bogdanovich

John Ford

The Killing of the Unicorn: Dorothy Stratten, 1960–1980

Movie of the Week

Peter Bogdanovich: Interviews

This Is Orson Welles

Who The Devil Made It

Who The Hell’s In It

 

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

The Moth: 50 True Stories

 

Stephanie Burt

The Art of the Sonnet

Belmont

Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry

The Forms of Youth: Twentieth-Century Poetry and Adolescence

Parallel Play

Popular Music

Randall Jarrell and His Age

Randall Jarrell on W.H. Auden

 

Jade Chang

The Wangs vs. the World

 

Bill Clegg

Did You Ever Have a Family

The End of the Day

Ninety Days: A Memoir of Recovery

Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man: A Memoir

 

Sean Thor Conroe

Fuccboi

 

Billy Corgan

Blinking with Fists

 

Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

The Undocumented Americans

 

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

Away We Go: A Screenplay

The Circle

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

A Hologram for the King

How We Are Hungry

It Is Right to Draw Their Fur: Animal Renderings

Short Short Stories

Surviving Justice: America’s Wrongfully Convicted and Exonerated

Teachers Have It Easy: The Big Sacrifices and Small Salaries of America’s Teachers

What Is the What

The Wild Things

You Shall Know Our Velocity

Zeitoun

 

Nathan Englander

Dinner at the Center of the Earth

For the Relief of Unbearable Urges

The Ministry of Special Cases

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

Still New York

 

Nick Flynn

Another Bullshit Night in Suck City: A Memoir

Blind Huber: Poems

I Will Destroy You: Poems

My Feelings: Poems

The Reenactments: A Memoir

Some Ether: Poems

Stay: Threads, Conversations, Collaborations

This Is the Night Our House Will Catch Fire

The Ticking Is the Bomb

 

Nicole V. Gagné

Historical Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Classical Music

 

Sheila Heti

A Garden of Creatures

How Should a Person Be?

The Middle Stories

Motherhood

Pure Colour

Ticknor: A Novel

Women in Clothes

 

Ron Hogan

Getting Right with Tao

The Stewardess Is Flying the Plane! American Films of the 1970s

 

Ted Hope

Hope for Film

 

Michael Imperioli

The Perfume Burned His Eyes

 

index magazine

index A-Z

 

Steven Klein

Fotografie: Portfolio

Madonna and Steven Klein: X-STaTIC PRO-CeSS

Stag Film

 

Christian Lacroix

Christian Lacroix and the Tale of Sleeping Beauty: A Fashion Fairy Tale Memoir

Christian Lacroix on Fashion

Christian Lacroix: The Diary of a Collection

Christian Lacroix: Universe of Fashion

Pieces of a Pattern: Lacroix by Lacroix

 

Adam Langer

Crossing California

Ellington Boulevard

My Father’s Bonus March

The Film Festival Guide: For Filmmakers, Film Buffs, and Industry Professionals

The Salinger Contract

The Thieves of Manhattan

The Washington Story

 

Leigh Ledare

Double Bind (with Rhea Anastas)

Leigh Ledare, et al.

Pretend You’re Actually Alive

 

Gary Lippman

Set the Controls for the Heart of Sharon Tate

We Loved the World but Could Not Stay

 

Lydia Lunch

The Gun Is Loaded

Incriminating Evidence

The Need to Feed

Paradoxia: A Predator’s Diary

So Real It Hurts

The War Is Never Over: A Companion to the Film by Beth B

Will Work for Drugs

with Exene Cervenka

Adulterers Anonymous

 

Hilary Mantel

The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher

Beyond Black

A Change of Climate

Eight Months on Ghazzah Street

Every Day Is Mother’s Day

An Experiment in Love

Fludd

The Giant, O’Brien

Giving Up the Ghost: A Memoir

Learning to Talk

A Place of Greater Safety

Vacant Possession

The Wolf Hall Trilogy:

Bring Up the Bodies

The Mirror & the Light

Wolf Hall

 

Mary Ellen Mark

An American Odyssey 1963-1999

Extraordinary Child: Disabled Children in Iceland

Exposure

Falkland Road

Indian Circus

Man and Beast

Mark & Leibovitz

On the Portrait and the Moment

Passport

Phaidon 55’s

Photographers at Work: The Photo Essay

Photographs of Mother Teresa’s Missions of Charity in Calcutta

Portraits

Prom

Seen Behind the Scene: 40 Years of Photographing on Set

Streetwise

Tiny, Streetwise Revisited

Twins

Ward 81

25 Years

 

Taiyo Matsumoto/Michael Arias

Sunny, vol. 1

Sunny, vol. 2

Sunny, vol. 3

Sunny, vol. 4

Sunny, vol. 5

 

Fernanda Melchor

Hurricane Season

 

Paul Mendez

Rainbow Milk

 

David Milch

Deadwood: Stories of the Black Hills

Life’s Work: A Memoir

True Blue: The Real Stories Behind “NYPD Blue”

 

Errol Morris

Believing Is Seeing (Observations on the Mysteries of Photography)

Errol Morris: Interviews

Nonfiction: Photographs by Nubar Alexanian from the Film Sets of Errol Morris

A Wilderness of Error: The Trials of Jeffrey MacDonald

 

Lindsay Morris

You Are You

 

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

An Archive of Hope

 

Emi Nietfeld

Acceptance: A Memoir

 

Lou Reed

Pass Thru Fire: The Collected Lyrics

The Raven

 

Nathaniel Rich

King Zeno: A Novel

Losing Earth: A Recent History

The Mayor’s Tongue

Odds Against Tomorrow

San Francisco Noir

Second Nature: Scenes from a World Remade

 

David Sedaris

Barrel Fever

Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

Holidays on Ice

Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls

 Me Talk Pretty One Day

Naked

Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk

When You Are Engulfed in Flames

 

Kenneth Sherman

Black River

What the Furies Bring

Words for Elephant Man

 

Brooke Smith

Sunday Matinee

 

Adam Smyer

Knucklehead

 

Pamela Sneed

Funeral Diva

Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom than Slavery

Kong and Other Works

Sweet Dreams

 

Amy Sohn

The Actress

Motherland

My Old Man

Prospect Park West

Run Catch Kiss

Sex and the City

 

Joey Solloway

She Wants It: Desire, Power, and Toppling the Patriarchy

 

Morgan Spurlock

Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope

Don’t Eat This Book

Supersized: Strange Tales from a Fast-Food Culture

 

Joan Stanford

The Art of Play

 

John Strausbaugh

Alone with the President

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

 

Wells Tower

Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned

 

Gus Van Sant

Conversations with Gus Van Sant

Icons

One Step Big Shot

108 Portraits

Pink

 

Betony Vernon

The Boudoir Bible: The Uninhibited Sex Guide for Today

 

Timothy Wang

Slant

 

Brenda Webster

After Auschwitz: A Love Story

The Beheading Game

The Last Good Freudian

Vienna Triangle

Yeats: A Psychoanalytic Study

 

Irvine Welsh

The Acid House

The Blade Artist

Crime: A Novel

Dead Men’s Trousers

A Decent Ride

Ecstasy

Filth

Glue

If You Liked School, You’ll Love Work

Marabou Stork Nightmares

Porno

Reheated Cabbage: Tales of Chemical Degeneration

The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins

Skagboys

Trainspotting

 

Robert Wilson

Einstein on the Beach

Robert Wilson

Robert Wilson from Within

Space/Time

 

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