Read or Download USA - Pride - San Francisco PDF
Similar gay & lesbian books
Male Sexuality under Surveillance: The Office in American Literature
Male Sexuality lower than Surveillance is a full of life, clever, and expertly argued research of the development of male sexuality within the enterprise workplace. Graham Thompson interweaves 3 major threads: a historicized cultural research of the improvement of the trendy company place of work from its beginnings within the early 19th century to the current day, a Foucauldian dialogue of the place of work because the web site of assorted disciplinary practices, and a queer-theoretical dialogue of the textualization of the homosexual male physique as a tool for generating a taxonomy of male-male kin.
Summer time, 1976. A aircraft crashes on a farm within the Cambridgeshire fens. Out of the flames walks younger Maggie Beck, clutching a toddler in her fingers. Twenty-seven years later, investigative journalist Philip Dryden - vacationing his spouse, Laura, in health facility - is witness to Maggie's deathbed confession. yet a few secrets and techniques are top stored mystery, and what began for Dryden as a small and curious tale concerning the in basic terms survivor of an almost-forgotten airplane crash quickly escalates right into a full-blown homicide research.
The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government
In chilly warfare the USA, Senator Joseph McCarthy loved great aid within the struggle opposed to what he known as atheistic communism. yet that help stemmed much less from his wild fees approximately communists than his extra substantiated fees that "sex perverts" had infiltrated govt organizations. even if now remembered as an assault on suspected disloyalty, McCarthyism brought "moral values" into the yank political arsenal.
Doubting Sex: Inscriptions, Bodies and Selves in Nineteenth-Century Hermaphrodite Case Histories
A teenager lady is mocked whilst she takes a bathtub together with her friends, simply because her genitals appear like these of a boy. a pair visits a physician asking to ‘create extra space’ within the girl for sex. a physician unearths testicular tissue in a lady with appendicitis, and makes a decision to maintain his findings quiet.
- English Literary Sexology: Translations of Inversion, 1860-1930 (Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture)
- Auden's Games of Knowledge: Poetry and the Meanings of Homosexuality (Between Men~Between Women: Lesbian and Gay Studies)
- Sex, Preference, and Family: Essays on Law and Nature
- Imago
Additional info for USA - Pride - San Francisco
Example text
She asked. “I am,” answered that lady, somewhat shortly, her hand on the doorknob, her ear on the baby, her nose still remorsefully in the kitchen, her eyes fixed sternly on her visitor the while; as she wondered whether it was literature, cosmetics, or medicine. Porne‘s particularly revered minister, and stated that she had heard there was a vacancy in her kitchen and she would like the place. ” “I don‘t know—” said Mrs. “I—” Just then there was a dull falling sound followed by a sharp rising one, and she rushed into the parlor without more words.
Ross had turned to her—was holding out his arms to her. ” he said. 10,” said Diantha. 41 What Diantha Did CHAPTER IV. ” The Lover at last did say. It was a poor dinner. She hated the smell of cooking in her garments; hated it worse on her white fingers; and now to look at the graceful erect figure, the round throat with the silver necklace about it, the soft smooth hair, silver‐filletted, the negative beauty of the dove‐colored gown, specially designed for home evenings, one would never dream she had set the table so well—and cooked the steak so abominably.
That lady pushed the plans away from her, and went to the many cushioned lounge in the wide west window, where she sat so long silent that Isabel followed at last and took her hand. ” she asked softly. ” was the surprising answer. Porne. ” Isabel was puzzled. “I knew you so well in school,” she said, “and that gay year in Paris. ” “Nothing that anybody can help,” said her friend. “Nothing that matters. What does matter, anyway? Fuss and fuss and fuss. Dress and entertain. Travel till you‘re tired, and rest till you‘re crazy!