American Exxxtasy - My 30-Year Search for a Happy Ending by John Amero
$54.99 AUD
Category: History
How does a young man from a small New England town become one of the most influential makers of exploitation films in the 1960s? How does the same filmmaker come to be a pioneer of hardcore sex movies in the 1970s and 1980s, including groundbreaking gay features? And how does that very same director mov ...Show more
American Radicals - How Nineteenth-Century Counterculture Shaped the Nation by Holly Jackson
$46.00 AUD
Category: History
A dynamic, timely history of nineteenth-century activists--free-lovers and socialists, abolitionists and vigilantes--and the social revolution they sparked in the turbulent Civil War era "In the tradition of Howard Zinn's people's histories, American Radicals reveals a forgotten yet inspiring past."--Me ...Show more
An American Queer: The Amazon Trail by Lee Lynch
$24.95 AUD
Category: History
This collection of Lee Lynch's columns chronicles over a quarter century of queer life in the United States, from the last decades of the twentieth century into the twenty-first. "From the beginning of my writing career, I just wanted to write about lesbian/gay life as I experienced it. Like so many, I ...Show more
An Angel in Sodom - Henry Gerber and the Birth of the Gay Rights Movement by Jim Elledge
$54.99 AUD
Category: History
Henry Gerber was the father of American gay liberation. Born in 1892 in Germany, Henry Gerber was expelled from school as a boy and lost several jobs as a young man because of his homosexual activities. He emigrated to the United States and enlisted in the army for employment. After his release, he exp ...Show more
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts
$32.99 AUD
Category: HIV & AIDS Studies
A masterpiece of investigative reporting on the AIDS crisis in the USA; an international bestseller and winner of the Stonewall Book Award, which inspired an award-winning film. 'A heroic work of journalism on what must rank as one of the foremost catastrophes of modern history.' - The New York Times 'S ...Show more
Arresting Dress: Cross-Dressing, Law, and Fascination in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco by Clare Sears
$44.95 AUD
Category: History
In 1863, San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors passed a law that criminalized appearing in public in “a dress not belonging to his or her sex.” Adopted as part of a broader anti-indecency campaign, the cross-dressing law became a flexible tool for policing multiple gender transgressions, facilitating ove ...Show more
Bacon in Moscow by James Birch; Michael Hodges
$34.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The hilarious account of one man's quest to mount a Francis Bacon exhibition in the Soviet Union. This funny and personal memoir is the account of an audacious attempt by James Birch, a young British curator, to mount the ground-breaking retrospective of Francis Bacon's work at the newly refurbished Ce ...Show more
Bad Gays: A Homosexual History by Huw Lemmey; Ben Miller
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
An unconventional history of homosexuality. We all remember Oscar Wilde, but who speaks for Bosie? What about those 'bad gays' whose unexemplary lives reveal more than we might expect? Many popular histories seek to establish homosexual heroes, pioneers, and martyrs but, as Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller ...Show more
Bad Girls Throughout History by Ann Shen
$37.99 AUD
Category: History
Looking for coffee table books that do more than look great on your table? Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World, delivers on both counts. Featuring 100 women who made history, it's a book you can be proud to display in your home.Aphra Behn, first female professional w ...Show more
Bayard Rustin - A Legacy of Protest and Politics by Michael G. Long (Editor); Clayborne Carson (Foreword by)
$63.99 AUD
Category: Gay Male & Bi Biography/Memoir
Celebrates the life and legacy of Bayard Rustin, the civil rights leader behind the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom While we can all recall images of Martin Luther King Jr. giving his "I Have a Dream" speech in front of a massive crowd at Lincoln Memorial, few of us remember the man who o ...Show more
Before We Were Trans A New History of Gender by Kit Heyam
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
One of History Today's Best Books of 2022'I felt exquisitely anchored reading this wonderful book' Juno Roche'A thoughtful, fun, and refreshingly readable romp through the history of gender variance' Susan Stryker'A searing, reflexive read . . . that needs to be in everyone's hands expeditiously' Paula ...Show more
Before We Were Trans: A new history of gender by Kit Heyam
$32.99 AUD
Category: Trans, Intersex, Gender Diverse & Gender Non-Binary
'A beautiful, brilliant, lively book that weaves together fascinating and moving examples with thoughtful analysis. Both heartfelt and rigorous, entertaining and scholarly, Before We Were Trans invites us to expand our sense of communities - past and present - in welcoming ways, rather than contracting ...Show more