ImageOut is Upstate New York's longest running LGBTQ film and video festival. 2013 marks the Twenty-first Anniversary of ImageOut. In this special second volume of ImageOutWrite, twelve contemporary writers examine the topic of marriage equality and LGBTQ themes.

23 lyrics/ poems written by Jacob Tobias during 1999 whilst being subjected to homophobic bullying at school.

In Sexual Revolutions in Cuba Carrie Hamilton delves into the relationship between passion and politics in revolutionary Cuba to present a comprehensive history of sexuality on the island from the triumph of the Revolution in 1959 into the twenty-first century. Drawing on an unused body of oral history interviews as well as press accounts, literary works, and other published sources, Hamilton pushes beyond official government rhetoric and explores how the wider changes initiated by the Revolution have affected the sexual lives of Cuban citizens. She foregrounds the memories and emotions of ordinary Cubans and compares these experiences with changing policies and wider social, political, and economic developments to reveal the complex dynamic between sexual desire and repression in revolutionary Cuba. Showing how revolutionary and prerevolutionary values coexist in a potent and sometimes contradictory mix, Hamilton addresses changing patterns in heterosexual relations, competing views of masculinity and femininity, same-sex relationships and homophobia, AIDS, sexual violence, interracial relationships, and sexual tourism. Hamilton's examination of sexual experiences across generations and social groups demonstrates that sexual politics have been integral to the construction of a new revolutionary Cuban society.

The adventures of Rick Dalton, former Key West gay guest house owner, continue as he settles into a new Long Term Relationship with Andres, in their new home in fabulous South Beach, Florida. Mystery, mayhem, and murder follows him wherever he goes. His writing career gets a sudden boost as another mystery unfolds while he is filling in as manager at a South Beach modeling agency owned by his long term friend, editor, and publisher - Bradley.

A collection of short stories about modern life, UFOs, bad sex, good sex, hangovers and the crazy rancid hell that is life without love.

In everyday language, masochism is usually understood as the desire to abdicate control in exchange for sensation--pleasure, pain, or a combination thereof. Yet at its core, masochism is a site where power, bodies, and society come together. Sensational Flesh uses masochism as a lens to examine how power structures race, gender, and embodiment in different contexts. Drawing on rich and varied sources--from 19th century sexology, psychoanalysis, and critical theory to literary texts and performance art--Amber Jamilla Musser employs masochism as a powerful diagnostic tool for probing relationships between power and subjectivity. Engaging with a range of debates about lesbian S&M, racialization, femininity, and disability, as well as key texts such as Sacher-Masoch's Venus in Furs, Pauline Reage's The Story of O, and Michel Foucault's History of Sexuality, Musser renders legible the complex ways that masochism has been taken up by queer, feminist, and critical race theories. Furthering queer theory's investment in affect and materiality, she proposes "sensation" as an analytical tool for illustrating what it feels like to be embedded in structures of domination such as patriarchy, colonialism, and racism and what it means to embody femininity, blackness, and pain. Sensational Flesh is ultimately about the ways in which difference is made material through race, gender, and sexuality and how that materiality is experienced.

"Oh there you are. Come in my friend...come closer so I can see you better." "Did you come to hear my stories? If you did, then come and sit with me by the fire. I assure you it's quite relaxing." "Now before I start, I have to tell you I know some very diverse kinds of stories; none of them are the typical ones you would hear in a kid's story book. Some are more supernatural, some are versed in magic. But some...some are actually based on real life and can be quite surprising if you can open your mind." "So now...let's start."

What does God think of Homosexuality? After all He created it. He also created heterosexuality. This short book is an attempt to find out what God thinks and so we use as much scripture as we can to find out. Objectivity is difficult, when you are related to the subject. That has been the aim of the author. Also there is a willingness to abide by the conclusions. The author invites you on a journey through the Bible riding and abiding on the subject of sexuality.

Adventure begins when Trevor Sloane, a legendary photographer, and Phoenix Thornton-Jones, a fledgling journalist, accept a remarkable job: to focus on an average person's opinion on the rectification of world problems. Sloane soon falls into the younger man's mystery, as he grows aware of the idiosyncrasies of his new partner, which all lead to wild speculation over 'the accident'. Wet Season is an adventure of two men able to change world opinion, with the freedom to express their provocative thoughts in a high-priced magazine. Through stunning images by Trevor, and the poetic words of Phoenix, they begin investigating the Brazilian rainforest, where their love and anger, discovery and danger, change continually. Their conclusions are radical, as hope turns to despair and disgust turns to enlightenment, ending in an impasse with work and their romance, while success or failure looms as dark as the clouds during the wet season in Amazonia.

A collection of ten of Gage's hardest-hitting one-act plays, including: Black Eye, The Ladies' Room, The A-Mazing Yamashita and the Millennial Gold-diggers, A Labor Play, Heterosexuals Anonymous, The Boundary Trial of John Proctor, The Evil That Men Do: The Story of Thalidomide, The Gage and Mr. Comstock, The P.E. Teacher, and The Rules of the Playground.

Three full-length dramas by Carolyn Gage: The Goddess Tour: It's a dark and stormy night at a remote inn on the Burren of Western Ireland, as six American women -- strangers to each other (or are they?)-gather for a tour of ancient goddess sites. A murder mystery exploring potentially deadly mother-daughter dyads, played out amid ghostly sightings of lost children and pre-Celtic rituals involving various aspects of the goddess Ugly Ducklings: Two counselors at a summer camp struggle with their love against a backdrop of homophobia. Scenes with the campers depict with chilling accuracy the cruelty of girls towards those they perceive as outsiders. Powerful lesbian drama! Esther and Vashti: A romantic drama set against a backdrop of war in ancient Persia. A young Hebrew woman and her former lover, the Queen of Persia, struggle against their personal and political differences to form an alliance against a common enemy.

It is said that "love is the fire of life; it either consumes or purifies." In Hearts Of Fire, Durrell Owens will take you on Trey Green's trip through the flames. It is a suspenseful, romantic drama-the story of a man trying to come to terms with just how easy it is to get burned in the game of love, and what we must do to overcome it, heal the scars, and love again.

A collection of nine erotic, yet funny short stories, all featuring two men. These titles were all released separately as free stories but now is your chance to get them all in one great bundle. Stories included are: Dirty Boys Dirty Cop Dirty Fighters Dirty Zero Dirty Hero Dirty Play Dirty Drag Dirty Drag 2 Dirty Drag 3

This book is RAW and UNEDITED so the message doesn't get changed.This version of the bible is one author's perspective of the LOVE God has for all, especially directed toward the Lesbian, Gay, Bi, and Transgender people. It is so telling that this author has had people attempt to kill her. You MUST read for yourself!!!

'Counting Down The Seconds' is an original collection of short love stories for girls who like girls. Featuring writers from all over the world, it has something for everyone. From science fiction to period drama, from steamy sex comedies to darker tales of lost love, from literary fiction to "chick lit", from stories set in fantasy worlds to more down to earth settings, this diverse anthology of fifteen stories is an absolute must for your kindle collection.

FIRE ISLAND Pines is my sixth photo book in the ongoing series of gay-play books that represent my visual journal into a miniature world of action figures and make-believe. Once again, I play with the illusion of space and scale by photographing the action figures in real life environments, all around Fire Island Pines.

"A View from the Bottom" offers a major critical reassessment of male effeminacy and its racialization in visual culture. Examining portrayals of Asian and Asian American men in Hollywood cinema, European art film, gay pornography, and experimental documentary, Nguyen Tan Hoang explores the cultural meanings that accrue to sexual positions. He shows how cultural fantasies around the position of the sexual "bottom" overdetermine and refract the meanings of race, gender, sexuality, and nationality in American culture in ways that both enable and constrain Asian masculinity. Challenging the association of bottoming with passivity and abjection, Nguyen suggests ways of thinking about the bottom position that afford agency and pleasure. A more capacious conception of bottomhood--as a sexual position, a social alliance, an affective bond, and an aesthetic form--has the potential to destabilize sexual, gender, and racial norms, suggesting an ethical mode of relation organized not around dominance and mastery but around the risk of vulnerability and shame. Thus reconceived, bottomhood as a critical category creates new possibilities for arousal, receptiveness, and recognition, and offers a new framework for analyzing sexual representations in cinema as well as understanding their relation to oppositional political projects.

Maurice James Stewart-Addison: 1932-2012. Jim pursued a successful career in the theatre, was the founder of Fetters, established a playroom and workshop at "40 Fitz" and created the Houdini Connections website to bring together information and ideas. Directly and indirectly, Jim did much to maintain essential individual freedoms and gave wise counsel to a great many people, he continues to give "permission to play". A British biker on his way from Los Angeles to San Francisco, discovers that in a remote rural community, they have their own brand of home entertainment. In this rainy region of fruit-and-nut farms, the slick modern bike-gear is a tempting exotic contrast to the heavy-duty oilskins worn by the locals

The Unspoken Monologues: A Journey to equality, Volume 1 is a series of monologues to share experiences of some members of the LGBTQIA community. The monologues shared are to show some hard times and times of pure happiness. Some topics include coming out, suicide, HIV, dating, finding love and the loss of a friend. These are part of an ongoing series until there is equality for all. These monologues are to be performed as a show.

The chocolate shower tales is a collection of two erotic and provocative urban stories involving the complex and strong bond between an adult father and son,and the other story involving a man who becomes involved with two other men simultaneously. Warning:Strong sexual content and some violence,nudity and language,taboo themes.

That Man from C.A.M.P., Jackie Holmes, says: "And away we go Back to that little room. No, not that one--the one just on the other side of that place they call the dining area. The kitchen, of course. Now, I'm sure you know your way around the other rooms, especially the one with the queen-sized you-know- what; but as I'm prone to mention from time to time, one of the ways to a man's heart is through his stomach, which means that you'll have to spend some time in the kitchen cooking " This very basic guide to cooking for your guy--or for anyone else --is broken into thirteen chapters, each dealing with a particular category of food. The original edition of this companion volume to The Man from C.A.M.P. fiction series is an unobtainable modern rarity, and is now available for the first time in over four decades. It's filled with the wit, humor, and wisdom of its bestselling author.

Andre and Dorian were raised together as brothers,but their not only brothers,but shapeshifters also.They soon embark on erotic temptations and supernatural drama together. Warning:Strong sexual content and some violence.

Trans communities are in the headlines. Everybody has an opinion on 'what transsexuality is'. But how do trans people themselves describe being trans? This community based study examined this question. Findings include that the diversity and complexity of people's experience by far exceeds what is commonly acknowledged. Physical embodiment and social acceptance are important to trans people, but the most unifying themes are self-finding, self-realization and spirituality. Experiences described cover a wide range. They can in fact be mutually exclusive. This suggests that any simplistic 'one fits all' explanation will be oppressive to at least some trans people. In a sad twist, the research finds that trans people who challenge the clinical model of transsexuality the most, are also the ones who most likely will not participate in clinical studies - thus guaranteeing that much of the diversity within communities remains hidden - except to community based research like the one at hand.