LIBROS DE Ensayo en inglés

Art & Queer Culture

2ª Ed. Revised and Updated

Catherine Lord; Richard Meyer

Phaidon. Marzo 2019

A revised, updated edition of the acclaimed historical overview of Queer art – available for the first time in paperback

Art & Queer Culture is an unprecedented survey of visual art and alternative sexuality from the late nineteenth century to the present. Beautifully illustrated and clearly written, this second edition has been updated to ...

Guru

RuPaul

Brown. Enero 2018

A glossy book filled with stunning pics of our hero in and out of drag, accompanied by his own musings on everything from love and career to confidence and spirituality . . . [T]here are more than a few hilarious pearls of wisdom from the renowned star that might induce a chuckle . . . as a stocking filler ...

Ravensbrück

Life And Death In Hitler´s Concentration Camp For Women

Sarah Helm

Anchor Books. Noviembre 2016

Months before the outbreak of World War II, Heinrich Himmler—prime architect of the Holocaust—designed a special concentration camp for women, located fifty miles north of Berlin. Only a small number of the prisoners were Jewish. Ravensbrück was primarily a place for the Nazis to hold other inferior beings: Jehovah’s Witnesses, Resistance fighters, lesbians, prostitutes ...

Homophobia in 1970s Spain: Psychiatry, Fascism and the Transition to Democracy

Manuel Ángel Soriano

Egales. Agosto 2016

Four decades after Spain began its transition to democracy, homophobia is still thriving in some conservative parts of Spanish society. LGBT Spaniards have, of course, made great legal strides: Parliament decriminalized homosexuality in 1979, passed the Marriage Equality Act in 2005, and approved the Gender Identity Act in 2007. Even so, a great many ...

The Homoerotics Of Orientalism

Joseph Allen Boone

Columbia University Press. Abril 2016

One of the largely untold stories of Orientalism is the degree to which the Middle East has been associated with "deviant" male homosexuality by scores of Western travelers, historians, writers, and artists for well over four hundred years. And this story stands to shatter our preconceptions of Orientalism.

To illuminate why and how the ...

Beyond Magenta

Transgender teens speak out

Susan Kuklin

Candlewick Press. Enero 2016

A Stonewall Honor Book, 2015

A groundbreaking work of LGBT literature takes an honest look at the life, love, and struggles of transgender teens. Author and photographer Susan Kuklin met and interviewed six transgender or gender-neutral young adults and used her considerable skills to represent them thoughtfully and respectfully before, during, and after their ...

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

York Notes Advanced

Jeanette Winterson

York Press. Septiembre 2015

Jeanette, the protagonist of Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit and the author's namesake, has issues--"unnatural" ones: her adopted mam thinks she's the Chosen one from God; she's beginning to fancy girls; and an orange demon keeps popping into her psyche. Already Jeanette Winterson's semi-autobiographical first novel is not ...

Oscar Wilde´s Scandalous Summer

the 1894 worthing holiday and the aftermath

Antony Edmonds

Amberley Publishing. Septiembre 2015

In the summer of 1894 Oscar Wilde spent eight weeks in Worthing, and it was during this family holiday that he wrote his masterpiece, The Importance of Being Earnest. The Worthing holiday was a microcosm of Wilde's turbulent life during the three years between his falling in love with Lord Alfred Douglas in ...