Authors: Eds Martin Duberman, Martha Vicinus & George Chauncery. Jr. Title: Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay & Lesbian Past Call No: 306.766 DUB A collection of 30 essays which explore homosexuality in various cultures, and different eras, from late imperial China and Renaissance Italy to “Jazz-Age” America and from London to Harlem and Japan. […]
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Book Review: People Like Us
Authors: Eds Joseph Lo and Huang Guoqin Title: People Like Us Call No: 305.906 LO This bold and insightful book provides a unique glimpse into the world of sexual minorities in Singapore. Various gay related issues have been included such as identity, culture, religion, rights, responsibilities, theatre etc. … as well as lighter topics such […]
Book Review: Coming out to Parents
Author: Mary V.Borhek Title: Coming out to Parents Call No: 306.87 BOR Listed by American Bookseller as “among the most important gay and lesbian books that should be represented in any general bookstore,” Borhek’s original edition of this book (1983) has also been praised as “sound, sympathetic, and helpful” (St. Luke’s Journal of Theology). In […]
Book Review: The Men with the Pink Triangle
Author: Heinz Heger Title: The Men with the Pink Triangle Call No: 940.547 HEG For decades history ignored the Nazi persecution of gay people. Only with the rise of the gay movement in the 1970’s did historians finally recognize that homosexuals, like Jews and others deemed “undesirable,” suffered enormously at the hads of the Third […]
Book Review: Positive Image – A Portrait of Gay America
Author: Stephen Steward Title: Positive Image – A Portrait of Gay America Call No: 779.930 STE “Only in the past few decades has photography realized its paramount role in creating and capturing a positive image of gay men and lesbians in America. In our visually oriented Western culture, ‘seeing is believing,’ and photographs have a […]