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462 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map, portraits ; 24 cm

Mr Foote's other leg / by Ian Kelly.

"The Straight State is the most expansive study of the federal regulation of homosexuality yet written. Unearthing new evidence from the National Archives, Margot Canaday shows how the state systematically came to penalize homosexuality, giving rise to a regime of second-class citizenship that sexual minorities still live under today. Canaday looks at three key arenas of government control - immigration, the military, and welfare - and demonstrates how federal enforcement of sexual norms emerged with the rise of the modern bureaucratic state."--BOOK JACKET.

Politics and society in twentieth-century America

The straight state : sexuality and citizenship in twentieth-century America / Margot Canaday.

Postcard advertising the DVD release of a documentary film by Goa and Voto about Jean Le Bitoux, founder of French gay magazine, 'Gay Pied' who died in 2010 who campaigned for the recognition and commemoration of the forgotten gay men deported by the nazis during the WW2 occupation of France. Le Bitoux was HIV positive.

AIDS ephemera : France. Box 1.

Epicentre Films présente Le Gai Tapant : un film de Voto et Goa : un documentaire sure Jean Le Bitoux, le "Harvey Milk" français ... sortie en DVD le 28 juin 2011.

Masculinity and male homosexuality in Britain, 1861-1913 / Sean Brady.

384 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 27 cm

Gay life and culture : a world history / edited by Robert Aldrich.

Collana Mondo naif

173 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 21 cm.

In Italia sono tutti maschi / Luca De Santis, Sara Colaone.

Gay rights and moral panic : the origins of America's debate on homosexuality / Fred Fejes.

240 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 21 cm

Clouds move : my journey of  living openly with HIV / Derrick Fine.

"In a hugely ambitious study which crosses continents, languages, and almost a century, Gregory Woods identifies the ways in which homosexuality has helped shape Western culture. Extending from the trials of Oscar Wilde to the gay liberation era, this book examines a period in which increased visibility made acceptance of homosexuality one of the measures of modernity. Woods shines a revealing light on the diverse, informal networks of gay people in the arts and other creative fields. Uneasily called "the Homintern" (an echo of Lenin's "Comintern") by those suspicious of an international homosexual conspiracy, such networks connected gay writers, actors, artists, musicians, dancers, filmmakers, politicians, and spies. While providing some defense against dominant heterosexual exclusion, the grouping brought solidarity, celebrated talent, and, in doing so, invigorated the majority culture. Woods introduces an enormous cast of gifted and extraordinary characters, most of them operating with surprising openness; but also explores such issues as artistic influence, the coping strategies of minorities, the hypocrisies of conservatism, and the effects of positive and negative discrimination. Traveling from Harlem in the 1910s to 1920s Paris, 1930s Berlin, 1950s New York and beyond, this sharply observed, warm-spirited book presents a surpassing portrait of twentieth-century gay culture and the men and women who both redefined themselves and changed history"--

xv, 421 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : black and white illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

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Mr Foote's other leg / by Ian Kelly.

The straight state : sexuality and citizenship in twentieth-century America / Margot Canaday.

Epicentre Films présente Le Gai Tapant : un film de Voto et Goa : un documentaire sure Jean Le Bitoux, le "Harvey Milk" français ... sortie en DVD le 28 juin 2011.

Masculinity and male homosexuality in Britain, 1861-1913 / Sean Brady.

Gay life and culture : a world history / edited by Robert Aldrich.

In Italia sono tutti maschi / Luca De Santis, Sara Colaone.

Gay rights and moral panic : the origins of America's debate on homosexuality / Fred Fejes.

Clouds move : my journey of living openly with HIV / Derrick Fine.

Homintern : how gay culture liberated the modern world / Gregory Woods.

The way out : a history of homosexuality in modern Britain / Sebastian Buckle.

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Mr Foote's other leg / by Ian Kelly.

The straight state : sexuality and citizenship in twentieth-century America / Margot Canaday.

Epicentre Films présente Le Gai Tapant : un film de Voto et Goa : un documentaire sure Jean Le Bitoux, le "Harvey Milk" français ... sortie en DVD le 28 juin 2011.

Masculinity and male homosexuality in Britain, 1861-1913 / Sean Brady.

Gay life and culture : a world history / edited by Robert Aldrich.

In Italia sono tutti maschi / Luca De Santis, Sara Colaone.

Gay rights and moral panic : the origins of America's debate on homosexuality / Fred Fejes.

Clouds move : my journey of living openly with HIV / Derrick Fine.

Homintern : how gay culture liberated the modern world / Gregory Woods.

The way out : a history of homosexuality in modern Britain / Sebastian Buckle.

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