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And the Category Is.: Inside New York's Vogue, House, and Ballroom Community
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A 2023 Lambda Literary Award Finalist in NonfictionAn Electric Literature “Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Book of 2022” SelectionA love letter to the le...
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Reimagining Christianity and Sexual Diversity in Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Religion is often seen as a conservative force in contemporary Africa. In particular, Christian beliefs and actors are usually depicted as driving ...
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The Postcolonial Animal: African Literature and Posthuman Ethics
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Despite the central role that animals play in African writing and daily life, African literature and African thinkers remain conspicuously absent...
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Queer Beirut
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Gender and sexual identity formation is an ongoing anthropological conversation in both Middle Eastern studies and urban studies, but the story o...
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Male Homosexuality in 21st-Century Thailand: A Longitudinal Study of Young, Rural, Same-Sex-Attracted Men Coming of Age
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /This book presents the very first analysis of male homosexuality in modern rural Thailand that is based on sociological/anthropological research di...
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Sexuality and the Rise of China: The Post-1990s Gay Generation in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China
PaperbackOriginal price $25.95 - Original price $25.95Original price $25.95$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /In Sexuality and the Rise of China Travis S. K. Kong examines the changing meanings of same-sex identities, communities, and cultures for young Chi...
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Park Cruising: What Happens When We Wander Off the Path
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /An intimate look at one of culture's most enduring taboos: public sex. Park Cruising takes a long look at the men who cruise for sex in urban parks...
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Gayma Sutra: The Complete Guide
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In, over and out? Not with the Gayma Sutra! This richly illustrated guide book will help spice up your sex life. More variety means more fun, and t...
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Queer Constellations: Subcultural Space in the Wake of the City
PaperbackOriginal price $27.00 - Original price $27.00Original price $27.00$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Chisholm (English, U. of Alberta) examines recent experiments in queer city writing through Walter Benjamin's dialectical optics on metropolitan cu...
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Stonewall: The Definitive Story of the LGBTQ Rights Uprising that Changed America
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /The definitive account of the Stonewall Riots, the first gay rights march, and the LGBTQ activists at the center of the movement. “Martin Duberma...
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Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource by and for Transgender Communities
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /There is no one way to be transgender.Trans Bodies, Trans Selves is a revolutionary resource—a comprehensive, reader-friendly guide for transgend...
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How to They/Them: A Visual Guide to Nonbinary Pronouns and the World of Gender Fluidity
HardcoverOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /“This tender, smart, personal book is a gift. Stuart Getty generously shows us, with witty illustrations and kind humor, the hows and whys of the...
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Queer X Design: 50 Years of Signs, Symbols, Banners, Logos, and Graphic Art of LGBTQ
HardcoverOriginal price $27.00Original price $27.00 - Original price $27.00Original price $27.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /The first-ever illustrated history of the iconic designs, symbols, and graphic art representing more than 5 decades of LGBTQ pride and activism.B...
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Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /An anthology exploring the act of passing-as the "right" gender, race, class, sexuality, age, ability, body type, ethnicity, and beyondNobody Pas...
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The Book of Pride: LGBTQ Heroes Who Changed the World
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /THE BOOK OF PRIDE captures the true story of the gay rights movement from the 1960s to the present, through richly detailed, stunning interviews ...
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The Gay Agenda: A Modern Queer History & Handbook
HardcoverOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A joyful celebration of the LGBTQ+ community’s development, history, and culture, packed with facts, trivia, timelines, and charts, and featuring...
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The Motion Of Light In Water: Sex And Science Fiction Writing In The East Village
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Winner of the Hugo Award for Non-fiction The unexpurgated edition of the award-winning autobiography Born in New York City’s black ghetto Harlem ...
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For Colored Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Still Not Enough: Coming of Age, Coming Out, and Coming Home
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /New York Times bestselling author and CNBC commenter Keith Boykin expands on the "It Gets Better" project by bringing together 25 essays by men of ...
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Glitter and Concrete: A Cultural History of Drag in New York City
HardcoverOriginal price $32.99Original price $32.99 - Original price $32.99Original price $32.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /An intimate, evocative history of drag in New York City exploring its dynamic role, from the Jazz Age to Drag Race, in queer liberation and urban l...
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Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Central Park birder Christian Cooper takes us beyond the viral video that shocked a nation and into a world of avian ad...
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When the Only Light Is Fire
PaperbackOriginal price $12.00 - Original price $12.00Original price $12.00$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /In his debut chapbook of poetry, Saeed Jones walks on the periphery of the South, those places on the outskirts of town, in bars after midnight, an...
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The Bars Are Ours: Histories and Cultures of Gay Bars in America,1960 and After
PaperbackOriginal price $32.95Original price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Gay bars have operated as the most visible institutions of the LGBTQ+ community in the United States for the better part of a century, from before ...
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Double Melancholy: Art, Beauty, and the Making of a Brown Queer Man
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /According to Didier Eribon, melancholy is where it all starts and where it also ends: the lifelong process of mourning that each homosexual experie...
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Transgender 101: A Simple Guide to a Complex Issue
PaperbackOriginal price $21.00 - Original price $21.00Original price $21.00$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Written by a social worker, popular educator, and member of the transgender community, this well-rounded resource combines an accessible portrait...
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