The Homophobic Mind addresses a host of myths and fabrications that have functioned over the centuries to rationalize prejudice and discrimination affecting GLBT people. The history of homophobia does not disclose a monolithic entity; instead, it is an amalgam of disparate elements. This book examines more than forty separate tropes or motifs. These tropes have varied origins, stemming from the realms of religion, philosophy, medicine, psychology, and folklore. In each case the essence of the myth is briefly stated, followed by an analysis of its origins and development, and concluding with a response. Given the progress of human knowledge, one might have expected that such archaic thought-patterns would all have withered away by now. However, the myths show a zombie-like capacity to persist - and even to revive once again after their apparent demise. Accordingly, this book provides not simply a historical account, but is a lesson for our times.

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.

"Coming Out of Nowhere," The social networking memoir that chronicles the cyber culture of social networking and the use of virtual identity for self-expression and interaction over the Internet via Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. This book contains unedited conversations and deeply personal life experiences from members against, associated with and inside of the LBGTQ community. It contains the virtual replies, post, messages and comments received as a result of some discussing their sexual orientation and some just discussing their feelings towards homosexuality on the Internet. The conversations are raw, honest, and often painful in their uninhibited rhetoric, undereducated and shockingly illiterate online activity, which varies, from the supportive, the indifferent, homophobic and to the violent. In displaying this content simply as it is, Miller hopes readers will pause to reflect on the consequences of their behavior in both the real and virtual worlds. Social networking sites are amazing tools that allow users to communicate their thoughts and ideas to mass audiences, giving users the option to reveal more of the person that they are or giving users the option and platform to pretend to be someone else. Some subscribers use the web only as means of entertainment, while other subscribers use the web as a means of making profound statements of love and acceptance or to construct a virtual platform for promoting hate and intolerance. Most subscribers are blind to the fact that cyber bullying is taking lives and taking place, just one page or one click over. "Coming Out of Nowhere" allows readers to mentally and emotionally "log-in" to their favorite websites (Facebook, Twitter and Youtube) and view the opinions of others on religion, hate, suicide, love, tragedy, entertainment, sickness, politics, Cyber bullying, freedom of choice, homophobia and all things surrounding homosexuality by simply turning a page.

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.

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.

The Untold Truth Revealed, Lifestyle of a Lesbian will answer the question many are asking, why women engage in the lesbian lifestyle. This book will give a clear view of the lifestyle and broaden your perspective.

In today's fast paced world, the internet can provide quick answers to personal questions. But when an individual raised by society to live, breathe and look at the world with female eyes transitions to male, some of the most enlightening, helpful and profound advice can only come in retrospect. Letter to my Brothers, features essays from respected transmen mentors who share the wisdom they wish they would have known at the beginning of their journey into manhood.

Yvonne Cruz' Rachel & Eden is the first of an intriguing fictional trilogy about two women who meet at very different times in their lives...and how they find what they're looking for in each other. Read as it takes you through the journey of two highly successful women living in Seattle and their mutual obsession with music, movies, pop culture memorabilia...and ultimately each other. You will fall in love with Rachel & Eden. This book contains explicit content suitable for adults.

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." Getting It Together is a collection of information and guides to help people fully understand the many aspects of bondage and fetish interests. It includes: 8 Information Sheets 12 Talking Points Letters from the Fetters files So I Like To Get Tied Up, So What?

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." Man to Man Stuff was developed with the permission of the original author. The story focuses on an ambitious young police officer and his man-to-man power-trips and how he controls his victims. With superb attention to detail, this story explores the conventions of masculinity, sexual identity and homo-erotic fantasy.

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." Brighton Front is a story based on actual experiences and focuses on the fantasy and reality of approaching a stranger in a public place, especially when the stranger is a tough ex-army man. A suspenseful tale of temptation and risk-taking.

Poetry. LGBT Studies. Matthew Hittinger's SKIN SHIFT assembles a metamorphosis taxonomy in poems that spider spin, that nimbus twirl into Wonder Woman and leap with the Aboriginal kangaroo woman, that escape from a sub-trunk with Houdini and seduce like the Amazon's pink river dolphin man. Traditional forms morph into experimental narratives, lyrics and dramatic monologues that present an invitation to slip inside the skins of others and to experience the mythologies that resonate in modern times."Matthew Hittinger's poems have all the cool of an exquisitely-chiseled statue, but the blood that charges through their veins is pure hot glory."--Mary Biddinger

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." Black Prince is a story about the slick, sensual fabric used for bike waterproofs ""in the old days."" It is remembered with lustful enthusiasm as the author vividly describes the watching, wanting, wearing and eventually getting trussed-up in this unique motorcycle gear. The sight, smell, feel and sound of being encased in heavily pungent material comes alive off the page.

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." The physical details and psychological effects of willingly encasing oneself in a fetish fabric are vividly captured here. Is being forced to stay in it long past the time when it is enjoyable a penalty or a bonus? For serious oilskin and PVC, fanatics the devil is in the described detail.

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." The Agency follows an Irish laborour looking for heterosexual action. Unemployed, he is tempted to join a group of men who enjoy elaborate and demanding man-to-man challenges. He finds himself involved in physical endurance where none of the usual rules apply. The reality of sometimes violent survival games are explored in various 'tests' the tough Irishman is subjected to.

Quite early in life, Sebastian knew that he liked men and more specifically, that he was turned on by men in heavy waterproof kit, particularly bikers. With his love of words, Sebastian found books on escapology confirmed his growing interest in bondage. After being encouraged to put down his fantasies on paper, his growing body of work features many real life situations. Amsterdam Blues is the second book from Sebastian and continues his story as he explores his love of waterproofs and bondage. This book contains the following stories: Encounter in the Rain Amsterdam Blues Black Prince Encounter

Gay Paranormal Romance. Four fantastical, sensual, m/m tales of lust, love, and obsession. Erotic and literary stories featuring explicit scenes of men making love. For mature readers only. A dark angel practices erotic salvation to resurrect a famous singer's dying voice. A pair of lovers rescue a mysterious, shipwrecked titan and risk it all when they cross the line into new realms of eros. A tropical vampire leads a sassy tour guide on unusual sightseeing trips, tempting him down a dangerous path toward the ultimate satisfaction and sacrifice. The sea washes a stranger with sealskin eyes into the arms of a man with a dead soul. Stories formerly published in: Best Gay Love Stories 2005 and 2006; Friction 7: Best Gay Erotic Fiction; Wet Nightmares, Wet Dreams: Literotica; VelvetMafia.com; and MindCaviar.com.

Quite early in life, Sebastian knew that he liked men rather than women; more specifically, that he was turned on by men in heavy waterproof kit, particularly bikers. Books on escapology confirmed a growing interest in bondage. Youthful experiences grew more sophisticated; friendships with people with similar interests were established and maintained. One of these friends encouraged Sebastian to start writing, an initial few words has grown into a large collection of stories; each story has a true event as a jumping off point and the detail in them is deliberate because ideas and plans from the stories have been used in encounters and sessions. Sebastian lives and works in the south east of the UK; he continues to write and do what he enjoys doing. Beginnings is the first stories from Sebastian and contain: Beginnings Next Steps: a Continuation of Beginnings Closing Games A must for any fan of waterproof gear and bondage.

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.

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

This book is the result of countless hours of research and life experience in the transgender community. The articles are designed to help, inform and stimulate conversations on the subject of transgender people. Often marginalized and misunderstood, transgender people struggle on a daily basis with discrimination and harassment from the general population. It is my firm hope that this book helps give you some of the tools to deal with some of the aspects of transitioning and being a transgender person.

"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."

Representing some of the most talented writers at work today, the 26 original essays in Love, Christopher Street encompass revealing, intense, profound, funny, personal, and queer reflections that span forty years of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender life in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island. Together these essays create an LGBT love letter to New York City from native New Yorkers, American transplants, and international writers. This book continues the Lambda Award-winning series of LGBT tributes to great cities. Just a few of the quintessentially queer essays include the Rev. Irene Monroe's account of the hot summer night in 1969 when she witnessed police raiding the Stonewall Inn on Christopher Street and the drag queens who fought back; Bob Smith's memoir of his life as an out stand-up comedian in the 1980s and how he has kept his fierce humor while faced with the diagnosis of ALS; Penny Arcade's saga of being a runaway in NYC and taken in off the streets by gay men who introduced her to Warhol's Factory; Ocean Vuong's chronicle of how he went from being a couch-surfing college student to homeless in Penn Station; and civil rights activist Brendan Fay reveals what took him all the way from Ireland to "Finding Jesus on Christopher Street." Contributors include Mark Ameen, Penny Arcade, Christopher Bram, Brendan Fay, Thomas Glave, Jewelle Gomez, Aaron Hamburger, Martin Hyatt, Fay Jacobs, G. Winston James, Michele Karlsberg, Shaun Levin, Amos Mac, David McConnell, Val McDermid, Rev. Irene Monroe, Rabbi Andrea Myers, Nicky Paraiso, Felice Picano, Charles Rice-Gonzalez, Eddie Sarfaty, Justine Saracen, Bob Smith, Shawn Syms, Charlie Vazquez, Ocean Vuong, and Kathleen Warnock.

Coming out as Transgender is different than coming out as gay or lesbian because everything changes! Your name and pronouns change. Your appearance changes. Every relationship you have ever had gets torqued into a new direction. Some will accept. Some will not. Along the way, you will meet some fantastic people and have some extraordinary adventures! Best of all, you discover a voice you never had and a backbone you never knew was missing. Come and journey with me!