-
Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution
David Carter's Stonewall is the basis of the PBS American Experience documentary Stonewall Uprising. In 1969, a series of riots over police action against The Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City's Greenwich Village, changed the longtime landscape of the homosexual in...- $22.00
- $22.00
- Unit price
- per
-
Stonewall Riots: A Documentary History
On the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary, the most important moment in LGBTQ history--depicted by the people who influenced, recorded, and reacted to it. June 28, 1969, Greenwich Village: The New York City Police Department, fueled by bigoted liquor licensing practices and an omnipresent...- $39.00
- $39.00
- Unit price
- per
-
America's Champion Swimmer: Gertrude Ederle
Trudy Ederle loved to swim, and she was determined to be the best. At seventeen Trudy won three medals at the 1924 Olympics in Paris. But what she planned to do next had never been done by a woman: She would swim across the...- $11.99
- $11.99
- Unit price
- per
-
Curse of Oak Island: The Story of the World's Longest Treasure Hunt
From longtime Rolling Stone contributing editor and journalist Randall Sullivan, The Curse of Oak Island explores the curious history of Oak Island and the generations of individuals who have tried and failed to unlock its secrets. An investigation into the "curse" of Oak Island,...- $27.00
- $27.00
- Unit price
- per
-
Lady's Last Song: The U.S. Government's War on Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday, 'Lady Day, ' was just coming into her own when she was convinced to sing 'Strange Fruit, ' a protest against lynching. That one act put her in the cross-hairs of Harry Anslinger, the man in charge of the Federal Bureau of...- $7.95
- $7.95
- Unit price
- per
-
Making My Pitch: A Woman's Baseball Odyssey
Making My Pitch tells the story of Ila Jane Borders, who despite formidable obstacles became a Little League prodigy, MVP of her otherwise all-male middle school and high school teams, the first woman awarded a college baseball scholarship, and the first to pitch and...- $19.95
- $19.95
- Unit price
- per
-
American Legends: The Life of Billie Holiday
*Includes pictures *Includes Holliday's quotes *Includes footnotes and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents "Don't threaten me with love, baby, let's just go walking in the rain" - Billie Holiday A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives...- $8.14
- $8.14
- Unit price
- per
-
Religion Around Billie Holiday
Soulful jazz singer Billie Holiday is remembered today for her unique sound, troubled personal history, and a catalogue that includes such resonant songs as "Strange Fruit" and "God Bless the Child." Holiday and her music were also strongly shaped by religion, often in surprising...- $15.99
- $15.99
- Unit price
- per
-
After the Rise and Stall of American Feminism: Taking Back a Revolution
It is more than fifty years since Betty Friedan diagnosed malaise among suburban housewives and the National Organization of Women was founded. Across the decades, the feminist movement brought about significant progress on workplace discrimination, reproductive rights, and sexual assault. Yet, the proverbial million-dollar...- $26.00
- $26.00
- Unit price
- per
-
Justify My Sins: A Hollywood Novel in Three Acts
Victor Regina should be perfectly happy in New York City. His novels are best sellers, he has a kick-ass agent, and the upcoming Black Party at the exclusive Club Flamingo promises to be a cornucopia of gay desire. But New York is hard. The...- $19.95
- $19.95
- Unit price
- per
-
Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation
The graphic novel adaptation of Octavia E. Butler's bestselling dystopian science-fiction masterpiece Kindred is a #1 New York Times bestseller and the winner of the Eisner Award for Best Adaptation from Another Medium. Frightening, compelling, and richly imagined, Kindred offers an unflinching look at...- $19.99
- $19.99
- Unit price
- per
-
Not Straight, Not White: Black Gay Men from the March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis
This compelling book recounts the history of black gay men from the 1950s to the 1990s, tracing how the major movements of the times--from civil rights to black power to gay liberation to AIDS activism--helped shape the cultural stigmas that surrounded race and homosexuality....- $37.50
- $37.50
- Unit price
- per
-
Sixteen
A famous Soviet composer kills himself upon the announcement of Stalin's death, leaving behind a symphony that provokes mass defections. A haunting tale of love, loss and obsession, Sixteen is also a literary thriller centered around the mystery that is music. But can music...- $16.95
- $16.95
- Unit price
- per
-
We Make It Better: The LGBTQ Community and Their Positive Contributions to Society (Gender Identity Book for Teens, Gay Rights, Transgender, for Reade
Celebrate the LGBT Community"For all LGBTQ teens and young adults, this book will help inspire and empower you to become your best selves."―Dustin Lance Black, Academy Award-winning Screenwriter, "Milk#1 Bestseller in LGBT Studies, Lesbian StudiesLGBT history is as old as history itself. In that...- $16.99
- $16.99
- Unit price
- per
-
What Was Stonewall?
How did a spontaneous protest outside of a New York City bar fifty years ago spark a social movement across America? Find out about the history of LGBTQ rights in this Who HQ title. In the early-morning hours of June 28, 1969, police arrived...- $7.99
- $7.99
- Unit price
- per
-
When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt
This riveting narrative explores the lives of six remarkable female pharaohs, from Hatshepsut to Cleopatra--women who ruled with real power--and shines a piercing light on our own perceptions of women in power today. Female rulers are a rare phenomenon--but thousands of years ago in...- $28.00
- $28.00
- Unit price
- per
-
Counternarratives
Ranging from the seventeenth century to the present, and crossing multiple continents, Counternarratives draws upon memoirs, newspaper accounts, detective stories, and interrogation transcripts to create new and strange perspectives on our past and present. "An Outtake" chronicles an escaped slave's take on liberty and...- $16.95
- $16.95
- Unit price
- per
-
Moon, Sun and Witches: Gender Ideologies and Class in Inca and Colonial Peru
When the Spanish arrived in Peru in 1532, men of the Inca Empire worshipped the Sun as Father and their dead kings as ancestor heroes, while women venerated the Moon and her daughters, the Inca queens, as founders of female dynasties. In the pre-Inca...- $53.00
- $53.00
- Unit price
- per
-
Erotic Islands: Art and Activism in the Queer Caribbean
In Erotic Islands, Lyndon K. Gill maps a long queer presence at a crossroads of the Caribbean. This transdisciplinary book foregrounds the queer histories of Carnival, calypso, and HIV/AIDS in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. At its heart is an extension of Audre...- $40.00
- $40.00
- Unit price
- per
-
Confessions of the Fox
A New York Times Editors' Choice: "A mind-bending romp through a gender-fluid, eighteenth century London . . . a joyous mash-up of literary genres shot through with queer theory and awash in sex, crime, and revolution." NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE...- $18.00
- $18.00
- Unit price
- per

