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Law and the Gay Rights Story: The Long Search for Equal Justice in a Divided Democracy (None)
For much of the 20th century, American gays and lesbians lived in fear that public exposure of their sexualities might cause them to be fired, blackmailed, or even arrested. Today, they are enjoying an unprecedented number of legal rights and protections. Clearly, the tides...- $40.95
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Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema, 1908-1934
2016 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Finalist for 2016 Richard Wall Memorial Award from the Theatre Library Association Long-listed for the 2017 Best Photography Book Award from the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo, and Katharine Hepburn all made lasting impressions with the cinematic cross-dressing...- $40.95
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Games: A Global History of the Olympics
For millions of people around the world, the Summer and Winter Games are a joy and a treasure, but how did they develop into a global colossus? How have they been buffeted by--and, in turn, affected by--world events? Why do we care about them...- $29.95
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You Only Live Twice: Sex, Death, and Transition
YOLT explores two artists' lives before and after transitions: from female to male, and from near-dead to alive. The unspoken promise was that in our second life we would become the question to every answer, jumping across borders until they finally dissolve. Man and...- $13.95
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Literary Philadelphia: A History of Poetry and Prose in the City of Brotherly Love
Since Thomas Paine and Benjamin Franklin put type to printing press, Philadelphia has been a haven and an inspiration for writers. Local essayist Agnes Repplier once shared a glass of whiskey with Walt Whitman, who frequently strolled Market Street. Gothic writers like Edgar Allan...- $21.99
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Anna Howard Shaw: The Work of Woman Suffrage
With this first scholarly biography of Anna Howard Shaw (1847-1919), Trisha Franzen sheds new light on an important woman suffrage leader who has too often been overlooked and misunderstood.An immigrant from a poor family, Shaw grew up in an economic reality that encouraged the...- $32.00
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Atlantis: Three Tales
Three marvelously structured stories trace the intricate interdependencies of memory, experience, and the self.Wesleyan University Press has made a significant commitment to the publication of the work of Samuel R. Delany, including this recent fiction, now available in paperback. The three long stories collected...- $17.95
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Settler Common Sense: Queerness and Everyday Colonialism in the American Renaissance
In Settler Common Sense, Mark Rifkin explores how canonical American writers take part in the legacy of displacing Native Americans. Although the books he focuses on are not about Indians, they serve as examples of what Rifkin calls "settler common sense," taking for granted...- $28.00
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Blackmail, My Love: A Murder Mystery
Lambda Award 2015 for Best Gay Mystery! Foreword Reviews' 2014 INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award Winner Josie O'Conner travels to San Francisco in 1951 to locate her gay brother, a private eye investigating a blackmail ring targeting lesbians and gay men. Jimmy's friends...- $16.95
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Forcing the Spring: Inside the Fight for Marriage Equality
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year A Washington Post Best Book of the Year "[A] riveting legal drama, a snapshot in time, when the gay rights movement altered course and public opinion shifted with the speed of a bullet train... Becker's...- $18.00
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Legendary Locals of Center City Philadelphia
Philadelphia is a hard mistress when it comes to honoring native talent, and the city has more than its fair share of notable figures. Consider colorful politicians like Frank Rizzo and Richardson Dilworth, international celebrities like Grace Kelly, sports legends like Connie Mack, Philadelphia...- $24.99
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LGBT Baltimore
Baltimore has long had an LGBT community, but it was not until the 1960s that this ostracized minority of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals began demanding equality. By 1973, Metropolitan Community Church was established, and in 1975, a brave band of a dozen...- $24.99
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Backward Glances: Cruising Queer Streets of New York and London
Backward Glances is an exploration of the history of male street cruising. Too often in discussions of urban space and interpretations of urban culture, streetwalking implies a rigid model for the way we inhabit the streets. Beginning with the simple premise that we all...- $32.00
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Cherokee Rose: A Novel of Gardens and Ghosts
Three contemporary women discover historical truths about the Cherokee slaveholder who owned the Georgia plantation where their ancestors lived.- $16.95
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David Bowie: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations
A revealing collection of interviews with the shape-shifting, genre-bending, wildly influential musician and song writer David Bowie was an icon, not only his stunning musical output, but also his fascinating refusal to stay the same--the same as other trending artists, or even the same...- $19.99
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History of Pictures: From the Cave to the Computer Screen
A picture, says David Hockney, is the only way that we can communicate what we see. Here, in a collaboration with art critic Martin Gayford, he explores the many ways that artists have pictured the world, sharing sparkling insights and ideas that will delight...- $45.00
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Why I March: Images from the Women's March Around the World
An inspiring photographic account of the worldwide Women's March of 2017--one of the biggest peaceful protests in history.On January 21, 2017, five million people in eighty-two countries and on all seven continents stood up with one voice. The Women's March began with one cause,...- $14.95
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Pretend I'm Not Here: How I Worked with Three Newspaper Icons, One Powerful First Lady, and Still Managed to Dig Myself Out of the Washington Swamp
An accomplished former ghostwriter and book researcher who worked with Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein, Ben Bradlee, and Hillary Clinton goes behind-the-scenes of the nation's capital to tell the story of how she survived the exciting, but self-important and self-promoting world of the Beltway.Barbara Feinman...- $27.99
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Smash the Church, Smash the State!: The Early Years of Gay Liberation
This anthology by former members of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) captures the history and spirit of the revolutionary time just after Stonewall, when thousands came out of the closet to claim their sexuality, and when queer resistance coalesced into a turbulent, joyous liberation...- $19.95
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Chaneysville Incident
This celebrated novel about a black man's search for his past "rivals Toni Morrison's "Song of Solomon" as the best novel about the Black experience in America since Ellison's "Invisible Man.""-- "Christian Science Monitor"- $15.99
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