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Dangerous Desires
by Wells, Peter
Tales of broken connections from the wilds of New Zealand The stories excel in showing the frustrations of gay men (and boys feeling homoerotic urges) in isolated, homophobic rural New Zealand. |
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Famous 41: Sexuality and Social Control in Mexico, 1901, The
by Irwin, Robert McKee; McCaughan, Edward J.; Nasser, Michelle Rocio
Police Latitude and Public Prejudice Collectively, those arrested in 1901 remain so notorious that in Mexico "cuarenta y una" means "faggot," numbering in Mexico skips from 40 to 42, and men born 41 ago report their age as "30+11." |
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Rice: Explorations into Gay Asian Culture + Politics
by Song Cho
A mixed bag of gay Asian/Pacific Islander frustrations The best-known of the contributors, Justin Chin, seems to blame his unhappiness on white gay men for either desiring him or not desiring him. It seems that the latter is slightly more painful, but clear that Chin regards his pains as coming entirely from white gay men. |
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Behind the Mask: My Double Life in Baseball
by Pallone, Dave
Is Baseball Ready for This? Gays have played baseball for years, and Major League Baseball certainly has its share of homosexuals (despite the denials). Former umpire Dave Pallone gives an inside view. |
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Beyond Carnival
by Green, James Naylor
One of the best studies of history of homosexuality anywhere. Green's book is clearly written, with much engaging and insightful “native” testimony. Covering developments between 1890 and 1980, it is the best place to begin to understand the appropriation of public space by gay males (the process not being confined to Brazil). |
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Way to Go, Smith!
by Smith, Bob
Growing up witty and gay in Buffalo, class of 1976 Stand-up comic Bob Smith takes on some heavy stuff, not least his forebearers. There is a lot of acute analysis of his family and the Buffalo, New York milieu in which he grew up, and only sporadic cuteness |
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Native
by Henderson, William Haywood
Ramifying, multiple losses in the remote west Even more than The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon, it seems that the hallucinatory effects Henderson was trying to achieve are those of Jim Grimsley's Dreamboy (set in the South rather than the West, but also laden with homophobic violence and not completely clear about what happens). |
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Forging Gay Identities: Organizing Sexuality in San Francisco, 1950-1994
by Armstrong, Elizabeth
How not to do social history of identity formation and mobliization Good sociology cannot be made out of bad history. |
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Colonial Affairs: Bowles, Burroughs, and Chester Write Tangier
by Mullins, Greg
American writer patrons in the interzone of postwar Tangier The American writers sought a space where they could live and write comfortably, and another kind of freedom at the margins of Europe and Africa: enjoying relatively easy access to sex with exoticized/eroticized young and masculine Morrocan males. |
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Beyond Common Sense: Sexuality and Gender in Contemporary Japan
by Lunsing, Wim
De-exoticizing Japanese sexuality Japanese seem to be relatively sophisticated in dealing with varying presentations of themselves in a variety of contexts and do not allow themselves to be led astray by the idea that they have to present unchangeable selves regardless of contexts. |
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