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  • Winning Marriage

    The Inside Story of How Same-Sex Couples Took on the Politicians and Pundits—and Won

    by Marc Solomon ...
    Ten years ago no state allowed same-sex couples to marry, support for gay marriage nationwide hovered around 30 percent, and politicians everywhere thought of it as the third rail of American politics—draw near at your peril. Today, same-sex couples can marry in seventeen states, polls consistently show majority support, and nearly three-quarters of Americans believe legalization is inevitable. In ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Winning Marriage

    The Inside Story of How Same-Sex Couples Took on the Politicians and Pundits—and Won

    by Marc Solomon ...
    In this updated, paperback edition of Winning Marriage, Marc Solomon, a veteran leader in the movement for marriage equality, gives the reader a seat at the strategy-setting and decision-making table in the campaign to win and protect the freedom to marry. With depth and grace he reveals the inner workings of the advocacy movement that has championed and protected advances won in legislative, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • When We Rise

    My Life in the Movement

    by Cleve Jones ...
    This sweeping memoir tells the life story of longtime LGBTQ and AIDS activist Cleve Jones in a profoundly moving account from sexually liberated 1970s San Francisco, through the AIDS crisis, and up to his involvement with the marriage equality battle.Born in 1954, Cleve Jones was among the last generation of gay Americans who grew up wondering if there were others out there like himself. There ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Unspeakable Love

    Gay and Lesbian Life in the Middle East

    Homosexuality is a taboo subject in the Arab world. While clerics denounce it as a heinous sin, newspapers write cryptically of 'shameful acts' and 'deviant behaviour'. Amid the calls for reform in the Middle East, homosexuality is one issue that almost everyone in the region would prefer to ignore. In this absorbing account, Guardian journalist Brian Whitaker calls attention to the voices of men ... Read more

    $10.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Time on Two Crosses

    The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin

    In 1956 Bayard Rustin taught Martin Luther King Jr. strategies of nonviolence during the Montgomery Bus Boycott, thereby launching the civil rights movement. Widely acclaimed as a founding father of modern black protest, Rustin reached international notoriety in 1963 as the openly gay organizer of the March on Washington.Long before the March on Washington, Rustin's leadership placed him at the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • To Believe in Women

    What Lesbians Have Done For America - A History

    A unique and "often quite moving" look at gay women's role in US history ( The Washington Post).In this "essential and impassioned addition to American history," the three-time Lambda Literary Award winner and author of Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers focuses on a select group of late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century lesbians who were in the forefront of the battle to procure the rights and ... Read more

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  • Out at the Movies

    A History of Gay Cinema

    Over the decades, gay cinema has reflected the community's journey from persecution to emancipation to acceptance. Politicized dramas like Victim in the 1960s, The Naked Civil Servant in the 1970s, and the AIDS cinema of the 1980s have given way in recent years to films which celebrate a vast array of gay lifestyles. Gay films have undergone a major shift from the fringe to the mainstream—2005's ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • "You Can Tell Just By Looking"

    And 20 Other Myths about LGBT Life and People

    Series Book 3 - Myths Made in America
    **2014 Lambda Literary Award Finalist: LGBT NonfictionBreaks down the most commonly held misconceptions about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and their lives**In “You Can Tell Just by Looking” three scholars and activists come together to unpack enduring, popular, and deeply held myths about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people, culture, and life in America. Myths, such as ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • God vs. Gay?

    The Religious Case for Equality

    Series Book 6 - Queer Ideas/Queer Action
    A passionate argument for LGBTQ equality within religious communities—“a book for our times and a book for the ages” (EDGE)The myth that the Bible forbids homosexuality—the myth of “God versus Gay”—is behind some of the most divisive and painful conflicts of our day. In this provocative and game-changing book, scholar and activist Jay Michaelson shows that the Bible does not prohibit same-sex ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Conduct Unbecoming

    Gays & Lesbians in the U.S. Military

    by Randy Shilts ...
    "A thoroughly researched and engrossingly readable history" of gay men and women in the American armed forces by the author of And the Band Played On ( The New York Times Book Review).Published during the same year the American military instituted Don't Ask, Don't Tell, and eighteen years before President Barack Obama repealed it, Conduct Unbecoming is a landmark work of social justice and a ... Read more

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  • It's Not Over

    Getting Beyond Tolerance, Defeating Homophobia, & Winning True Equality

    The author of Queer in America offers "brilliant advice" for safeguarding the future of gay rights ( The Advocate).Marriage equality is the law of the land. Closet doors have burst open in business, entertainment, and even major league sports. But as Michelangelo Signorile argues in his most provocative book yet, the excitement of such breathless change makes this moment more dangerous than ever. ... Read more

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  • The Meaning of Freedom

    And Other Difficult Dialogues

    Series series City Lights Open Media
    Want to Better Understand Socialism? New York Magazine recommends The Meaning of FreedomWhat is the meaning of freedom? Angela Y. Davis' life and work have been dedicated to examining this fundamental question and to ending all forms of oppression that deny people their political, cultural, and sexual freedom. In this collection of twelve searing, previously unpublished speeches, Davis confronts ... Read more

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