The Spartacus Gay Guide is the most successful travel guide for the gay market! The guide has information for more than 160 countries world wide. Each country is described in an extensive introductory text, with the legal and social situation of gay men including unique cultural situations. In addition there are small informative texts regarding gay life in many selected cities.
By Richard Canning. Homosexuality was at the core of Victorian social and cultural history. Nameless Offences shows how the homosexual ‘closet’ was created and yet was both hidden and rejected by English sources for long periods of the 19th century. It was not just by the operation of the law and increasing police enforcement, but also by the efforts of successive governments, politicians and journalists to marginalize homosexuality in civil...
By Noah Tsika. This book examines Gods and Monsters from a variety of perspectives, highlighting the complexity and significance of its achievements, including its fusion of fantasy and biography. It also delves into a history of gay Hollywood during this era, including both its homophobic surface and its queer underpinnings.
By José Quiroga. This book examines the political and social context in which Almodóvar created Law of Desire, as well as its impact on LGBT cinema both in Europe and around the world.
By Jon Davies. The book examines the film in the context of Morrissey and Warhol's legendary partnership, with a special focus on Woodlawn's acclaimed performance: a glorious embodiment of "trash" and glamour that was so stunning, director George Cukor led a campaign (albeit unsuccessful) to win her an Oscar nomination.
By David L. Chapman and Brett Josef Grubisic. American Hunks is a fascinating collection of images (many in full colour) depicting the muscular American male as documented in popular culture from 1860 to 1970. The book, divided into specific historic eras, includes such personalities as bodybuilder Charles Atlas; pioneer weightlifter Eugene Sandow; movie stars like Steve "Hercules" Reeves and Johnny "Tarzan" Weismuller; and publications such as the 1920s-era magazine Physical Culture and the 1950s-era comic book Mr. Muscles. It also touches on the use of masculine, homoerotic imagery...
By Mikey Walsh. Walsh's un-put-downable memoir about growing up in trailers, moving between camping sites across the country and pulling scams with his family. Fifty pages in and all romanticism is abruptly stripped away with some shocking descriptions of systematic abuse. Growing up in the shadow of a renowned gypsy prize-fighter, Walsh is subjected to daily beatings in order to toughen him up to follow in his father's footsteps. Alienated by his inability to live up to his father's expectations and the secret knowledge that he is gay he finds himself trapped in a cycle of violence and oppression.
By Tom Ambrose. Looks at gay exile through the experiences of some of the most eminent homosexual men and women in history, including artists such as thewild living Benvenuto Cellini and poets and writers such as poets such as Thomas Gray, W. H. Auden and Henry James. Some like William Beckford, Lord Byron or Oscar Wilde, had tragic experiences; others were triumphant in exile, such as the Ladies of Llangollen who became the most famous lesbians in Europe.
By Sean Brady. This important book is part of a new generation of historical research that challenges prevailing arguments for the medical and legal construction of homosexual identities in late 19th century Britain. Sean Brady demonstrates that British society could not tolerate the discussion necessary to form medical or legal concepts of "the homosexual". The development of masculinity as a social status is examined, for its influence in shaping societal attitudes towards sex and sexuality between men and fostering resistance to any kind of recognition of these phenomena.
By H. C. Cocks. Homosexuality was at the core of Victorian social and cultural history. Nameless Offences shows how the homosexual ‘closet’ was created and yet was both hidden and rejected by English sources for long periods of the 19th century. It was not just by the operation of the law and increasing police enforcement, but also by the efforts of successive governments, politicians and journalists to marginalize homosexuality in civil...
By Keith Stern. The first comprehensive biographical compendium of important historical and contemporary figures who were - or are - gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender. The hundreds of people whose stories appear in this book are some of the most intriguing personalities of their times - actors, writers, musicians, businessmen, politicians, scientists and soldiers.
This book is Gore Vidal's visual memoir of his remarkable and famously well-lived life. In this collection of photographs, letters, manuscripts, and other selections from Vidal's vast personal archives, readers are now escorted by one of America's wittiest insiders into the Kennedys' Camelot, as well as onto the set of Ben Hur, and into the private lives of Eleanor Roosevelt, Paul Newman, and Tennessee Williams, to name just a few.
