During Mardi Gras 1973, Stewart Butler fell in love with Alfred Doolittle-a wealthy socialite and schizophrenic from San Francisco. Their relationship was an improbable love story that changed the course of LGBTQ+ history. With Doolittle's money, Butler was able to retire and devote his life to political activism in the cause of queer liberation. A survivor of the horrific UpStairs Lounge arson, Butler was a founding member of the first statewide lesbian and gay rights organization in Louisiana and an early champion for transgender rights, playing a key role in the eight-year struggle to persuade PFLAG to become the first national LGBTQ+ organization to include trans people in its mission statement. In Political Animal: The Life and Times of Stewart Butler, author Frank Perez traces Butler's amazing life from his early childhood in Depression-era New Orleans, his adolescence at Carville where his father worked, his first unsuccessful attempt at college, his time in the army as a closeted gay man, his adventures in Alaska, his transformation into a hippie in the 1960s, his love affair with Doolittle, his decades as a gay rights advocate, and ultimately, his twilight years as an elder statesman. Based on Butler's own personal papers, including hundreds of letters, and dozens of interviews, Political Animal paints an intimate portrait of a legendary figure in gay politics and the times in which he lived.

"In Exile: The History and Lore Surrounding New Orleans Gay Culture and Its Oldest Gay Bar" is the first comprehensive treatment of the history of gay New Orleans. Drawn primarily on the recollections of dozens of gay men and women, Frank Perez and Jeffrey Palmquist weave a fascinating narrative of how gay New Orleans evolved throughout the twentieth century. In addition to showing the incredible and previously unrecognized contributions gay people have made to New Orleans culture, In Exile also illuminates the darkness in which ordinary gay people lived secret double-lives for decades and chronicles the social forces which ultimately enabled gay New Orleanians to live openly and honestly. Written with graceful insight and thoughtful perception, In Exile is not only a captivating history book, it is also a beautiful meditation on the intersection of place and identity.

La informacion y las tecnologias que la soportan juegan un papel fundamental en el exito de una empresa hoy en dia, y son para muchas organizaciones el sustento principal de sus procesos de negocio, es por ello que la administracion efectiva de las tecnologias de informacion (TI) adquiere una gran importancia en la actualidad. En funcion de esto han surgido estandares, metodologias y buenas practicas que hacen posible la gestion de las TI. El marco de trabajo que ofrece COBIT (Control Objectives and related Information Technologies) esta basado en la filosofia de que los recursos de TI necesitan ser administrados por un conjunto de procesos naturalmente agrupados para proveer la informacion pertinente y confiable que requiere una organizacion para lograr sus objetivos. El objetivo de esta investigacion es desarrollar una metodologia que permita disenar el flujo de procesos para la planificacion y organizacion de las Tecnologias de Informacion basado en el framework COBIT. Aplicandose la metodologia disenada en la empresa de telecomunicaciones."