On This Day in History Sh!t Went Down: Number 2 by James Fell
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Category: History
SH!T HAPPENS. AGAIN.That famous photo of the Loch Ness Monster was faked as an act of revenge against The Daily Mail. Before "Scotty" saved the starship Enterprise a bunch of times, future actor James Doohan stormed the beaches at Normandy to help save the world from Nazis and he got shot to sh!t. Origi ...Show more
One of the Boys - Homosexuality in the Military During World War II, Second Edition by Paul Jackson Jr.; Paul Jackson
$64.99 AUD
Category: History
Using a wide array of sources - including long-closed court martial records, psychiatric and personnel files, unit war diaries, films, and oral histories - Paul Jackson relates the struggle of queer servicemen of all ranks and branches of the Canadian military to fit in to avoid losing their careers and ...Show more
Out Here: Gay and Lesbian Perspectives VI by Graham Willett
$37.95 AUD
Category: History
From homosexual law reform to drag kings; from HIV/AIDS to lesbian artists; from old age to movie-going ...gay and lesbian life in Australia has always been a vibrant canvas. In this collection, the sixth in the Gay and Lesbian Perspectives series, established and newly emerging Australian historians ca ...Show more
Out North - An Archive of Queer Activism and Kinship in Canada by Craig Jennex; Nisha Ewaran
$72.99 AUD
Category: History
The ArQuives, the largest independent LGBTQ2+ archive in the world, is dedicated to collecting, preserving, and celebrating the stories and histories of LGBTQ2+ people in Canada. Since 1973, volunteers have amassed a vast collection of important artifacts that speak to personal experiences and significa ...Show more
Out in Time - From Stonewall to Queer, How Gay Men Came of Age Across the Generations by Perry N. Halkitis
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Category: History
The civil rights of LGBTQ people have slowly yet steadily strengthened since the Stonewall Riots of June, 1969. Despite enormous opposition from some political segments and the catastrophic effects of the AIDS crisis, the last five decades have witnessed improvement in the conditions of thelives of LGBT ...Show more
Outlaw Marriages: The Hidden Histories of Fifteen Extraordinary Same Sex Couples by Rodger Streitmatter
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Category: History
For more than a century before gay marriage became a hot-button political issue, same-sex unions flourished in America. Pairs of men and pairs of women joined together in committed unions, standing by each other "for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health" for periods of thirty or forty-sometimes ...Show more
Outrageous! - The Story of Section 28 and Britain's Battle for LGBT Education by Paul Baker
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Category: History
A personal and impassioned history of the infamous Section 28, the 1988 UK law banning the teaching "of the acceptability of homosexuality." On May 23, 1988, Paul Baker sat down with his family to eat cake on his sixteenth birthday while The Six O'Clock News played in the background. But something was n ...Show more
Outrageous! - The Story of Section 28 and Britain's Battle for LGBT Education by Paul Baker (Contribution by)
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
On 23 May 1988, Paul Baker sat down with his family to eat cake on his sixteenth birthday while The Six O'Clock News played in the background. But something was not quite right. There was muffled shouting - 'Stop Section 28!' - and a scuffle. The morning papers would announce: 'Beeb Man Sits on Lesbian' ...Show more
Outrages: Sex, Censorship and the Criminalisation of Love by Wolf, Naomi
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Category: History
The bestselling author of The Beauty Myth, Vagina and The End of America chronicles the struggles and eventual triumph of John Addington Symonds, a Victorian-era poet, biographer, and critic who penned what became a foundational text on our modern understanding of human sexual orientation and LGBTQ+ leg ...Show more
Outrages: Sex, Censorship and the Criminalisation of Love by Naomi Wolf
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Category: General | Reading Level: near fine
The bestselling author of Vagina illuminates a dramatic history - how a single English law in 1857 led to a maelstrom, with reverberations lasting down to our day. That law was the Obscene Publications Act and it was a crucial turning point. Why? Because dissent and morality; 'deviancy' and 'normalcy'; ...Show more
Paper Bullets: Two Women Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis by Jeffrey H. Jackson
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Category: History
"A Nazi resistance story like none you've ever heard or read." --Hampton Sides, author of Ghost Soldiers and On Desperate Ground"Every page is gripping, and the amount of new research is nothing short of mind-boggling. A brilliant book for the ages!" --Douglas Brinkley, author of American Moonshot A Sto ...Show more