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God Believes in Love
Straight Talk About Gay Marriage
Written by Gene Robinson
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $15.00
Straight Talk About Gay Marriage
Written by Gene Robinson
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $15.00
From the IX Bishop of the Diocese of New Hampshire in the Episcopal Church, the first openly gay person elected to the episcopate and the world’s leading religious spokesperson for gay rights and gay marriage—a groundbreaking book that persuasively makes the case for same-sex marriage using a commonsense, reasoned, religious argument.
Robinson...
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Family Pride
What LGBT Families Should Know about Navigating Home, School, and Safety in Their Neighborhoods
Written by Michael Shelton
Foreword by Elizabeth Castellana, Colage
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: January 15, 2013
Price: $16.00
What LGBT Families Should Know about Navigating Home, School, and Safety in Their Neighborhoods
Written by Michael Shelton
Foreword by Elizabeth Castellana, Colage
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: January 15, 2013
Price: $16.00
An invaluable portrait and roadmap on how to thrive as an LGBT family
The overwhelming success of Dan Savage’s “It Gets Better” YouTube project aimed at queer youth highlighted that despite the progress made in gay rights, LGBT people are still at high risk of being victimized. While the...
Also available as an
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Family Pride
What LGBT Families Should Know about Navigating Home, School, and Safety in Their Neighborhoods
Written by Michael Shelton
Foreword by Elizabeth Castellana, Colage
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 15, 2013
Price: $16.00
What LGBT Families Should Know about Navigating Home, School, and Safety in Their Neighborhoods
Written by Michael Shelton
Foreword by Elizabeth Castellana, Colage
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 15, 2013
Price: $16.00
An invaluable portrait and roadmap on how to thrive as an LGBT family
The overwhelming success of Dan Savage’s “It Gets Better” YouTube project aimed at queer youth highlighted that despite the progress made in gay rights, LGBT people are still at high risk of being victimized. While the...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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A Queer Geography
Journeys Toward a Sexual Self
Written by Frank Browning
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: January 2, 2013
Price: $14.99
What is the gay identity? Do gay people even exist? The bestselling author of The Culture of Desire journeys into the minds of gay men in America and elsewhere to discover how their lives are shaped by time, nation, and desire. In a brilliant argument, Browning shows how and why the... Read more >
Journeys Toward a Sexual Self
Written by Frank Browning
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: January 2, 2013
Price: $14.99
What is the gay identity? Do gay people even exist? The bestselling author of The Culture of Desire journeys into the minds of gay men in America and elsewhere to discover how their lives are shaped by time, nation, and desire. In a brilliant argument, Browning shows how and why the... Read more >
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Born This Way
Real Stories of Growing Up Gay
Written by Paul Vitagliano
Format: Hardcover, 128 pages
On Sale: October 9, 2012
Price: $14.95
Real Stories of Growing Up Gay
Written by Paul Vitagliano
Format: Hardcover, 128 pages
On Sale: October 9, 2012
Price: $14.95
Based on the hugely popular blog of the same name, Born This Way shares 100 different memories of growing up LGBTQ. Childhood photographs are accompanied by sweet, funny, and at times heartbreaking personal stories. Collected from around the world and dating from the 1940s to today, these memories speak to the...
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Also available as an
eBook.
Born This Way
Real Stories of Growing Up Gay
Written by Paul Vitagliano
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 9, 2012
Price: $14.95
Real Stories of Growing Up Gay
Written by Paul Vitagliano
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 9, 2012
Price: $14.95
Based on the hugely popular blog of the same name, Born This Way shares 100 different memories of growing up LGBTQ. Childhood photographs are accompanied by sweet, funny, and at times heartbreaking personal stories. Collected from around the world and dating from the 1940s to today, these memories speak to the...
Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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God Believes in Love
Straight Talk About Gay Marriage
Written by Gene Robinson
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: September 18, 2012
Price: $24.00
From the Bishop of the Diocese of New Hampshire in the Episcopal Church, the first openly gay person elected (in 2003) to the historic episcopate and the world's leading religious spokesperson for gay rights and gay marriage—a groundbreaking book that lovingly and persuasively makes the case for same-sex marriage using a... Read more >
Straight Talk About Gay Marriage
Written by Gene Robinson
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: September 18, 2012
Price: $24.00
From the Bishop of the Diocese of New Hampshire in the Episcopal Church, the first openly gay person elected (in 2003) to the historic episcopate and the world's leading religious spokesperson for gay rights and gay marriage—a groundbreaking book that lovingly and persuasively makes the case for same-sex marriage using a... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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God Believes in Love
Straight Talk About Gay Marriage
Written by Gene Robinson
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: September 18, 2012
Price: $12.99
From the Bishop of the Diocese of New Hampshire in the Episcopal Church, the first openly gay person elected (in 2003) to the historic episcopate and the world's leading religious spokesperson for gay rights and gay marriage—a groundbreaking book that lovingly and persuasively makes the case for same-sex marriage using a... Read more >
Straight Talk About Gay Marriage
Written by Gene Robinson
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: September 18, 2012
Price: $12.99
From the Bishop of the Diocese of New Hampshire in the Episcopal Church, the first openly gay person elected (in 2003) to the historic episcopate and the world's leading religious spokesperson for gay rights and gay marriage—a groundbreaking book that lovingly and persuasively makes the case for same-sex marriage using a... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Straight
The Surprisingly Short History of Hetrosexuality
Written by Hanne Blank
Format: Trade Paperback
On Sale: August 28, 2012
Price: $18.00
Like the typewriter and the light bulb, the heterosexual was invented in the 1860s and swiftly transformed Western culture. The idea of “the heterosexual” was unprecedented. After all, men and women had been having sex, marrying, building families, and sometimes even falling in love for millennia without having any special name... Read more >
The Surprisingly Short History of Hetrosexuality
Written by Hanne Blank
Format: Trade Paperback
On Sale: August 28, 2012
Price: $18.00
Like the typewriter and the light bulb, the heterosexual was invented in the 1860s and swiftly transformed Western culture. The idea of “the heterosexual” was unprecedented. After all, men and women had been having sex, marrying, building families, and sometimes even falling in love for millennia without having any special name... Read more >
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Outing Yourself
How to Come Out to Your Family, Your Friends, and Your Coworkers
Written by Michelangelo Signorile
Format: eBook, 176 pages
On Sale: July 11, 2012
Price: $11.99
From the author of Queer in America comes a complete, step-by-step guide to coming out of the closet--the first coming-out guide to the '90s. Signorile's pull-no-punches style gives this book a Susan Powter-ish Stop the Insanity! approach to a difficult and often mishandled experience. Read more >
How to Come Out to Your Family, Your Friends, and Your Coworkers
Written by Michelangelo Signorile
Format: eBook, 176 pages
On Sale: July 11, 2012
Price: $11.99
From the author of Queer in America comes a complete, step-by-step guide to coming out of the closet--the first coming-out guide to the '90s. Signorile's pull-no-punches style gives this book a Susan Powter-ish Stop the Insanity! approach to a difficult and often mishandled experience. Read more >
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The Fan Who Knew Too Much
Aretha Franklin, the Rise of the Soap Opera, Children of the Gospel Church, and Other Meditations
Written by Anthony Heilbut
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: June 19, 2012
Price: $15.99
A dazzling exploration of American culture—from high pop to highbrow—by acclaimed music authority, cultural historian, and biographer Anthony Heilbut, author of the now classic The Gospel Sound (“Definitive” —Rolling Stone), Exiled in Paradise, and Thomas Mann (“Electric”—Harold Brodkey).
In The Fan Who Knew Too Much, Heilbut writes about art and... Read more >
Aretha Franklin, the Rise of the Soap Opera, Children of the Gospel Church, and Other Meditations
Written by Anthony Heilbut
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: June 19, 2012
Price: $15.99
A dazzling exploration of American culture—from high pop to highbrow—by acclaimed music authority, cultural historian, and biographer Anthony Heilbut, author of the now classic The Gospel Sound (“Definitive” —Rolling Stone), Exiled in Paradise, and Thomas Mann (“Electric”—Harold Brodkey).
In The Fan Who Knew Too Much, Heilbut writes about art and... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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The Fan Who Knew Too Much
Aretha Franklin, the Rise of the Soap Opera, Children of the Gospel Church, and Other Meditations
Written by Anthony Heilbut
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: June 19, 2012
Price: $30.00
A dazzling exploration of American culture—from high pop to highbrow—by acclaimed music authority, cultural historian, and biographer Anthony Heilbut, author of the now classic The Gospel Sound (“Definitive” —Rolling Stone), Exiled in Paradise, and Thomas Mann (“Electric”—Harold Brodkey).
In The Fan Who Knew Too Much, Heilbut writes about art and... Read more >
Aretha Franklin, the Rise of the Soap Opera, Children of the Gospel Church, and Other Meditations
Written by Anthony Heilbut
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: June 19, 2012
Price: $30.00
A dazzling exploration of American culture—from high pop to highbrow—by acclaimed music authority, cultural historian, and biographer Anthony Heilbut, author of the now classic The Gospel Sound (“Definitive” —Rolling Stone), Exiled in Paradise, and Thomas Mann (“Electric”—Harold Brodkey).
In The Fan Who Knew Too Much, Heilbut writes about art and... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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A Queer History of the United States
Written by Michael Bronski
Format: Trade Paperback, 312 pages
On Sale: May 15, 2012
Price: $17.00
Winner of a 2012 Stonewall Book Award in nonfiction
A Queer History of the United States is more than a “who’s who” of queer history: it is a book that radically challenges how we understand American history. Drawing upon primary-source documents, literature, and cultural histories, scholar and activist Michael Bronski... Read more >
Written by Michael Bronski
Format: Trade Paperback, 312 pages
On Sale: May 15, 2012
Price: $17.00
Winner of a 2012 Stonewall Book Award in nonfiction
A Queer History of the United States is more than a “who’s who” of queer history: it is a book that radically challenges how we understand American history. Drawing upon primary-source documents, literature, and cultural histories, scholar and activist Michael Bronski... Read more >
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God vs. Gay?
The Religious Case for Equality
Written by Jay Michaelson
Format: Trade Paperback, 232 pages
On Sale: May 8, 2012
Price: $16.00
Does the Bible prohibit homosexuality? No, says Bible scholar and activist Jay Michaelson. But not only that: Michaelson also shows that the vast majority of our shared religious traditions support the full equality and dignity of LGBT people. In this accessible, passionate, and provocative book, Michaelson argues for equality, not despite... Read more >
The Religious Case for Equality
Written by Jay Michaelson
Format: Trade Paperback, 232 pages
On Sale: May 8, 2012
Price: $16.00
Does the Bible prohibit homosexuality? No, says Bible scholar and activist Jay Michaelson. But not only that: Michaelson also shows that the vast majority of our shared religious traditions support the full equality and dignity of LGBT people. In this accessible, passionate, and provocative book, Michaelson argues for equality, not despite... Read more >
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The Culture of Desire
Paradox and Perversity in Gay Lives Today
Written by Frank Browning
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: March 7, 2012
Price: $12.99
Is there such a thing as an American gay culture--a set of styles, values, and behaviors that arises not from ethnicity or religion but from sexual orientation? How is that culture transmitted? And how is it likely to survive the depradations of homophobia and AIDS? These questions are explored by Browning... Read more >
Paradox and Perversity in Gay Lives Today
Written by Frank Browning
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: March 7, 2012
Price: $12.99
Is there such a thing as an American gay culture--a set of styles, values, and behaviors that arises not from ethnicity or religion but from sexual orientation? How is that culture transmitted? And how is it likely to survive the depradations of homophobia and AIDS? These questions are explored by Browning... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Straight
The Surprisingly Short History of Hetrosexuality
Written by Hanne Blank
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 31, 2012
Price: $26.95
It's surprising that the term "heterosexuality" is less than 150 years old and that heterosexuality's history has never before been written, given how obsessed we are with it. In Straight, independent scholar Hanne Blank delves deep into the contemporary psyche as well as the historical record to chronicle the realm of... Read more >
The Surprisingly Short History of Hetrosexuality
Written by Hanne Blank
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 31, 2012
Price: $26.95
It's surprising that the term "heterosexuality" is less than 150 years old and that heterosexuality's history has never before been written, given how obsessed we are with it. In Straight, independent scholar Hanne Blank delves deep into the contemporary psyche as well as the historical record to chronicle the realm of... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Cruising
Written by Chad States
Contribution by Alec Soth
Format: Hardcover, 100 pages
On Sale: November 8, 2011
Price: $40.00
Sit in your car in your car and wait or take a walk through the trees.
“Cruising” has always been a part of gay culture; the word itself is a code, innocuous to outsiders, but representing an incognito hunt for sexual partners to those in the know. Over the years, men... Read more >
Written by Chad States
Contribution by Alec Soth
Format: Hardcover, 100 pages
On Sale: November 8, 2011
Price: $40.00
Sit in your car in your car and wait or take a walk through the trees.
“Cruising” has always been a part of gay culture; the word itself is a code, innocuous to outsiders, but representing an incognito hunt for sexual partners to those in the know. Over the years, men... Read more >
God vs. Gay?
The Religious Case for Equality
Written by Jay Michaelson
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 25, 2011
Price: $25.95
Does the Bible prohibit homosexuality? No, says Bible scholar and activist Jay Michaelson. But not only that: Michaelson also shows that the vast majority of our shared religious traditions support the full equality and dignity of LGBT people. In this accessible, passionate, and provocative book, Michaelson argues for equality, not despite... Read more >
The Religious Case for Equality
Written by Jay Michaelson
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 25, 2011
Price: $25.95
Does the Bible prohibit homosexuality? No, says Bible scholar and activist Jay Michaelson. But not only that: Michaelson also shows that the vast majority of our shared religious traditions support the full equality and dignity of LGBT people. In this accessible, passionate, and provocative book, Michaelson argues for equality, not despite... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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God vs. Gay?
The Religious Case for Equality
Written by Jay Michaelson
Format: Hardcover, 232 pages
On Sale: October 25, 2011
Price: $25.95
Does the Bible prohibit homosexuality? No, says Bible scholar and activist Jay Michaelson. But not only that: Michaelson also shows that the vast majority of our shared religious traditions support the full equality and dignity of LGBT people. In this accessible, passionate, and provocative book, Michaelson argues for equality, not despite... Read more >
The Religious Case for Equality
Written by Jay Michaelson
Format: Hardcover, 232 pages
On Sale: October 25, 2011
Price: $25.95
Does the Bible prohibit homosexuality? No, says Bible scholar and activist Jay Michaelson. But not only that: Michaelson also shows that the vast majority of our shared religious traditions support the full equality and dignity of LGBT people. In this accessible, passionate, and provocative book, Michaelson argues for equality, not despite... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Idols
Written by Gilles Larrain
Contribution by Ryan McGinley
Format: Hardcover, 144 pages
On Sale: September 20, 2011
Price: $35.00
“I can’t remember when I first saw the book Idols by Gilles Larrain. All I know is that ever since I got it, it’s been a huge influenceon me. Idols is one of the best photographic books I’ve ever seen. It was published in 1973 and is a collection of studio... Read more >
Written by Gilles Larrain
Contribution by Ryan McGinley
Format: Hardcover, 144 pages
On Sale: September 20, 2011
Price: $35.00
“I can’t remember when I first saw the book Idols by Gilles Larrain. All I know is that ever since I got it, it’s been a huge influenceon me. Idols is one of the best photographic books I’ve ever seen. It was published in 1973 and is a collection of studio... Read more >
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It's Always Darkest Before Dawn
Contribution by Eric C. Shiner and Ladyfag
Photographed by Jeremy Kost
Format: Hardcover, 80 pages
On Sale: May 20, 2011
Price: $49.95
For nearly a decade, through his enigmatic and compelling Polaroids, Jeremy Kost has been telling the stories of New York nights from within its hottest party spots.
In 2002, while staying with friends in Chelsea, Kost borrowed the camera of one of his hosts and took it to The Cock. Ever since that fateful night... Read more >
Contribution by Eric C. Shiner and Ladyfag
Photographed by Jeremy Kost
Format: Hardcover, 80 pages
On Sale: May 20, 2011
Price: $49.95
For nearly a decade, through his enigmatic and compelling Polaroids, Jeremy Kost has been telling the stories of New York nights from within its hottest party spots.
In 2002, while staying with friends in Chelsea, Kost borrowed the camera of one of his hosts and took it to The Cock. Ever since that fateful night... Read more >
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The Ins and Outs of Gay Sex
Written by Stephen E. Goldstone
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: May 11, 2011
Price: $11.99
Finally--the book for every gay man's bedside table.
At last! Answers to the questions you're too embarrassed to ask--but always wanted to know!
Why does it hurt down there? Is it really safe to do that? What does it mean when something looks like this--and how do I make it go away?
Chances are you never... Read more >
Written by Stephen E. Goldstone
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: May 11, 2011
Price: $11.99
Finally--the book for every gay man's bedside table.
At last! Answers to the questions you're too embarrassed to ask--but always wanted to know!
Why does it hurt down there? Is it really safe to do that? What does it mean when something looks like this--and how do I make it go away?
Chances are you never... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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From the Closet to the Courtroom
Five LGBT Rights Lawsuits That Have Changed Our Nation
Written by Carlos A. Ball and Michael Bronski
Format: Trade Paperback, 296 pages
On Sale: May 10, 2011
Price: $18.00
Engaging and largely untold, From the Closet to the Courtroom explores how five pivotal lawsuits have altered LGBT history. Beginning each case narrative at the center—with the litigants and their lawyers—law professor Carlos Ball follows the stories behind each crucial lawsuit. He traces the parties from their communities to the courtroom... Read more >
Five LGBT Rights Lawsuits That Have Changed Our Nation
Written by Carlos A. Ball and Michael Bronski
Format: Trade Paperback, 296 pages
On Sale: May 10, 2011
Price: $18.00
Engaging and largely untold, From the Closet to the Courtroom explores how five pivotal lawsuits have altered LGBT history. Beginning each case narrative at the center—with the litigants and their lawyers—law professor Carlos Ball follows the stories behind each crucial lawsuit. He traces the parties from their communities to the courtroom... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
A Queer History of the United States
Written by Michael Bronski
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 10, 2011
Price: $27.95
Winner of a 2012 Stonewall Book Award in nonfiction
The first book to cover the entirety of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender history, from pre-1492 to the present.
In the 1620s, Thomas Morton broke from Plymouth Colony and founded Merrymount, which celebrated same-sex desire, atheism, and interracial marriage. Transgender evangelist Jemima Wilkinson, in... Read more >
Written by Michael Bronski
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 10, 2011
Price: $27.95
Winner of a 2012 Stonewall Book Award in nonfiction
The first book to cover the entirety of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender history, from pre-1492 to the present.
In the 1620s, Thomas Morton broke from Plymouth Colony and founded Merrymount, which celebrated same-sex desire, atheism, and interracial marriage. Transgender evangelist Jemima Wilkinson, in... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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A Queer History of the United States
Written by Michael Bronski
Format: Hardcover, 312 pages
On Sale: May 10, 2011
Price: $27.95
Winner of a 2012 Stonewall Book Award in nonfiction
The first book to cover the entirety of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender history, from pre-1492 to the present.
In the 1620s, Thomas Morton broke from Plymouth Colony and founded Merrymount, which celebrated same-sex desire, atheism, and interracial marriage. Transgender evangelist Jemima Wilkinson, in... Read more >
Written by Michael Bronski
Format: Hardcover, 312 pages
On Sale: May 10, 2011
Price: $27.95
Winner of a 2012 Stonewall Book Award in nonfiction
The first book to cover the entirety of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender history, from pre-1492 to the present.
In the 1620s, Thomas Morton broke from Plymouth Colony and founded Merrymount, which celebrated same-sex desire, atheism, and interracial marriage. Transgender evangelist Jemima Wilkinson, in... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
