Glitter and Concrete - A Cultural History of Drag in New York City by Elyssa Maxx Goodman
$69.99 AUD
Category: Drag
***The Millions Most Anticipated List of 2023***"Deeply researched and featuring a cast of characters who can truly be described as fabulous, Glitter and Concrete is urban history on fire." --Thomas Dyja, author of New York, New York, New YorkAn intimate, evocative history of drag in New York City expl ...Show more
Going with the Boys: Six Extraordinary Women Writing from the Front Line by Judith Mackrell
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
'They were not just reporters; they were also pioneers, and Judith Mackrell has done them proud.' Spectator'This is a book that manages to be thoughtful and edge-of-your-seat thrilling.' Mail on Sunday'Like the copy filed by her subjects, it is an essential read.' BBC History MagazineOn the front lines ...Show more
Good As You - From Prejudice to Pride: 30 Years of Gay Britain by Paul Flynn
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
'One of the most important books about gay culture in recent times' The Quietus Long-listed for the Polari First Book Prize In 1984 the pulsing electronics and soft vocals of Smalltown Boy would become an anthem uniting gay men. A month later, an aggressive virus, HIV, would be identified and a climat ...Show more
Great LGBTQ+ Speeches: Empowering Voices That Engage And Inspire by Tea Uglow
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
Great LGBTQ+ Speeches is a book of empowering speeches celebrating the LGBTQ+ community in their own words. This influential collection spans from the 19th century up to the modern day. Great LGBTQ+ Speeches is a pioneering collection of over 40 empowering and influential speeches that chart the history ...Show more
Greek Homosexuality with Forewords by Stephen Halliwell, Mark Masterson and James Robson by K J. Dover
$66.99 AUD
Category: History
Hailed as magisterial when it first appeared, Greek Homosexuality remains an academic milestone and continues to be of major importance for students and scholars of gender studies. Kenneth Dover explores the understanding of homosexuality in ancient Greece, examining a vast array of material and textual ...Show more
Harvard's Secret Court: The Savage 1920 Purge of Campus Homosexuals by William Wright
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
In 2002, a researcher for The Harvard Crimson came across a restricted archive labeled Secret Court Files, 1920. The mystery he uncovered involved a tragic scandal in which Harvard University secretly put a dozen students on trial for homosexuality and then systematically and persistently tried to ruin ...Show more
Hold Tight Gently - Michael Callen, Essex Hemphill, and the Battlefield of AIDS by Martin Duberman
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
In December 1995, the FDA approved the release of protease inhibitors, the first effective treatment for AIDS. For countless people, the drug offered a reprieve from what had been a death sentence; for others, it was too late. In the United States alone, over 318,000 people had already died from AIDS-re ...Show more
Homoeroticism in the Biblical World - A Historical Perspective by Martti Nissinen; Kirsi Stjerna (Translator)
$46.99 AUD
Category: History
Nissinen's award-winning book surveys attitudes in the ancient world toward homoeroticism, that is, erotic same-sex relations. Focusing on the Bible and its cultural environmentMesopotamia, Greece, Rome, Israel-Nissinen concisely and readably introduces the relevant sources and their historical contexts ...Show more
Homosexuality in Greece and Rome - A Sourcebook of Basic Documents by Thomas K. Hubbard (Editor)
$70.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: A\Joan Palevsky Book in Classical Literature Ser.
The most important primary texts on homosexuality in ancient Greece and Rome are translated into modern, explicit English and collected together for the first time in this comprehensive sourcebook. Covering an extensive period-from the earliest Greek texts in the late seventh century b.c.e. to Greco-Rom ...Show more
Hot Stuff - a Brief History of Disco by John-Manuel Andriote
$24.95 AUD
Category: History
You either love it or hate it.But one thing's for sure: rumors of its death are premature. This fast paced yet in-depth look at one of the most outrageous eras in musical -- and cultural -- history discusses the fashion and the freaks, the music-makers and the celebrators, to uncover why disco was so re ...Show more
How to Survive a Plague: The Story of How Activists and Scientists Tamed AIDS by David France
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
One of The New York Times "100 Notable Books of 2016" KOBO "Best of the Year" From the creator of the seminal documentary of the same name, an Oscar finalist, the definitive history of the successful battle to halt the AIDS epidemic, and the powerful, heroic stories of the gay activists who refu ...Show more
I Don't Remember by Hilton Als
$75.00 AUD
Category: History
Hilton Als grew up in a corner of Brooklyn scarred by riots, racial segregation and sexual prejudice. As a young teenager, he began to glimpse possibility in the different cultures and ways of being he encountered through high school; in the black men and white men who found ways to be together. As a bu ...Show more