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	All Books by Patrick Merla - Author of : Boys Like Us : Gay Writers Tell Their Coming Out Stories Paperback - 366 pages Reprint edition (October 1997) Avon Books (Pap Trd); ISBN: 0380788357 "Gay Studies Books; In stunning essays written especially for this collection, 29 noted gay writers recount their true "coming out" stories, intensely personal histories of the primal process by which men come to terms with their homosexuality." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Gerald V. Miller - Author of : The Gay Male's Odyssey in the Corporate World : From Disempowerment to Empowerment Paperback - 165 pages (November 1995) Haworth (T); ISBN: 1560238674 "Gay Studies Books; Miller draws on his own experience, a survey of 200 gay managers and executives of large companies, and 40 in-depth interviews to explore how gay men can move upward in the corporate structure while maintaining their dignity and identity. He shows the relationship between corporate culture and the gay male frame of reference, and suggests methods for overcoming the general fear of difference and outright bias." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Roger Myrick - Editor of : AIDs, Communication, and Empowerment : Gay Male Identity and the Politics of Public Health Messages Paperback - 141 pages (January 1997) Haworth (T); ISBN: 1560239077 "Gay Studies Books; Myrick critically analyzes institutional processes embedded in the proliferation of information about HIV/AIDS, and how the messages that the public receives serve to further stigmatize the gay population. The cultural study uses Michel Foucault's theories of sexuality and identity as a basis for understanding the historical dimensions of gay politics, and the current medicalization of the community's identity. The author applies his theoretical analysis to a review of national public service announcements about AIDS and community based education programs." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Rictor Norton - Author of : The Myth of the Modern Homosexual: Queer History and the Search for Cultural Unity Paperback - 224 pages (6 November, 1997) Continuum International Publishing Group - Academic and Professional; ISBN: 0304338923 "Gay Studies Books; Challenging the idea that "the homosexual" is a species invented in the modern age, this text argues a case for the autonomy of queer identities and culture." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Leon E. Pettiway - Author of : Honey, Honey, Miss Thang : Being Black, Gay, and on the Streets Paperback - 270 pages (October 1996) Temple Univ Press; ISBN: 1566394988 "Gay Studies Books; This work describes the experiences of five Afro-American gay transvestites who are struggling to maintain a life of value in the face of their drug abuse and criminal activities. The book evokes questions and aims to encourage discussion and re-evaluation of those who are labeled "deviant"." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Paul A. Robinson - Author of : Gay Lives : Homosexual Autobiography from John Addington Symonds to Paul Monette Hardcover - 456 pages (April 1999) University of Chicago Press (Trd); ISBN: 0226721809 "Gay Studies Books; Paul Robinson's Gay Lives is a comprehensive study of how the gay male memoir evolved over the course of the 20th century. Focusing on writers from Great Britain, France, and the United States, Robinson creates a series of dialogues among his 14 subjects as he examines how each deals with issues such as what it means to be a "man," how to view oneself in relationship to a gay community, and how one deals with having, or claiming, an outsider identity. Quoting at length from writers such as John Addington Symonds (who can be viewed as the father of the modern gay memoir), André Gide, G. Lowes Dickinson (a close friend of E.M. Forster), and contemporary writers including the late Paul Monette and Martin Duberman, Gay Lives is not only a crash course on gay literary history but a meditation on how often gay men (in varying degrees of closetedness) have greatly influenced what we call "mainstream culture." It is perhaps here that Gay Lives is most startling; Robinson both explicitly and implicitly forces us to reexamine how ideas of the personal, the political, and truth shape all writing. Gay Lives is an important--and provocative--addition to the critical literature on life writing. - Michael Bronski (Amazon.com)." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Ritch C. Savin-Williams - Author of : And Then I Became Gay: Young Men's Stories Paperback - 272 pages 1 edition (December 1997) Routledge; ISBN: 0415916771 "Gay Studies Books; "...And Then I Became Gay is about the lives of young men who express the complications, adversities, and satisfactions of being a sexual outsider in North America during the 1980s and 1990s. Consisting of narratives which chronicle developmental progression from first memories of being attracted to other males to a subsequent integration of their sexual identity with a personal identity, this book is also unique in its cross-section of men from different ethnic backgrounds. Although each story in this volume has a personal meaning to the individual youth disclosing it, aspects of these narratives can express a normative experience growing up gay or bisexual during the past two decades. For many of the contributors and readers, these stories may prove to be not only ones of coming out, but coming of age." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Michael Scarce - Author of : Male on Male Rape: The Hidden Toll of Stigma and Shame Hardcover - 300 pages (October 1997) Perseus Pr; ISBN: 0306456273 "Gay Studies Books; False assumptions and popular stereotypes help us to ignore one society's most troubling problems - the rape of men by other men. A subject rarely discussed, let alone explored beyond tasteless jokes, same-sex sexual violence can burden survivors with an overwhelming sense of misery and confusion. Male on Male Rape examines a form of violence that, despite worldwide prevalence, remains vastly underreported and unrecognized. Michael Scarce, coordinator of a rape education and prevention program and a survivor of adult male rape, investigates the substantial effects of male-on-male sexual violence on individuals and society, dispelling popular myths and questioning why most communities cannot or will not confront the problem of same-sex sexual violence. This groundbreaking book is the culmination of years of research that includes numerous interviews with straight and gay male rape survivors, an analysis of popular media, case studies, and the author's own personal and professional experience." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Michael Scarce - Author of : Smearing the Queer: Medical Bias in the Health Care of Gay Men Paperback - 183 pages (August 1999) Harrington Park Pr; ISBN: 1560239263 *~~ Featured Book Review ~~* "Gay Studies Books; Smearing the Queer explores how social prejudices embedded in scientific research and practice often work as a detriment to gay men's health. This book provides an agenda for addressing heterosexism in the health sciences and in medical care while broadening approaches to gay male wellness beyond the limiting scope of HIV infection. This groundbreaking book explores a number of neglected concerns affecting the sexual health of gay men, calling for the recognition of their scientific, political, and cultural significance. Readers will appreciate the in-depth examination of topics such as: research and development on rectal microbicides; why many gay men should be receiving periodic anal Pap smears to screen for anorectal cancer; a critique of the problematic medical diagnosis of "Gay Bowel Syndrome;" gay men's use of the Reality Female Condom for anal sex; Viagra's impact on gay men's sexual cultures, erectile dysfunction, and recreational drug use; a broad-based advocacy agenda for improving relations between gay men and the health sciences; and the politics surrounding gay men's restricted access to new and prospective safer sex technologies." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Jacobo Schifter - Author of : Macho Love : Sex Behind Bars in Central America Paperback - 120 pages (September 1999) Harrington Park Pr; ISBN: 1560239662 "Gay Studies Books; Macho Love: Sex Behind Bars in Central America is the first in-depth study of sexual culture and AIDS in Latin prisons. Psychologists, social workers, criminologists, and AIDS specialists will discover a shocking realization of how the interplay of sexual ideals, prostitution, manipulation, resistance, and power relationships among prisoners and some staff are based on money, sex, drugs, and violence. Macho Love gives you a stirring and emotional look at the various risks and dangers lurking in the Latin American prison culture and discusses how Costa Rican and Central American prisons are improving the situation with new intervention programs. Fascinating and informative, Macho Love explores the dangerous Latin prison culture as it discusses: - new HIV/AIDS prevention programs implemented in some Costa Rican and Central American prisons - the frequency and types of prostitution and rape in prison - drug and alcohol addiction and their effects on the spread of HIV/AIDS - an understanding of why rehabilitation programs fail or succeed - the lack of opportunities to work or to study that leaves the inmates vulnerable to the only freedom they have left-sex - why a "cachero," or a man who penetrates another man, is not considered a homosexual and often refuses to wear a condom, which tremendously increases the risk of HIV/AIDS. Macho Love explores the life-threatening sexual culture in prisons to bring you the realities of the Latin prison culture. This revealing book examines the different types of relationships which occur in prisons and the factors that place inmates at risk for contracting the HIV virus, such as not wearing a condom because of intoxication due to drugs and alcohol. Macho Love also shows you how the new HIV/AIDS intervention programs in Costa Rica are combating these serious problems to lower HIV infection rates and avoid the spread of this deadly and dangerous disease." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:

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