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Sarah Schulman
A new edition of Sarah Schulman’s funny, sexy, surprising novel about a heartbroken waitress looking for love in New York.
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The twenty-four interviews collected in Conversations with Sarah Schulman, roughly a fifth of those that exist, have enabled Schulman to expound upon her distinctive fusion of art and social commitment…
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Jaroslaw Milewski
Queer Kinship in Sarah Schulman's AIDS Novels is the first book to extensively discuss the works of Sarah Schulman, a journalist, activist and globally recognized novelist.
OUR LITERARY LEGEND
Lambda-Award-winning author and editor Tom Cardamone brings together a diverse collection of queer writers and their supporters to celebrate the rich, innovative works of Edmund White, the…
Explores families role in creating homophobia.
Little Sister’s Classic: Provocative, observant, and daring, this is a reissue of a 1992 novel by one of America’s pre-eminent lesbian writers and thinkers.
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Two unlikely friends, cast out of their own families, search for understanding in 1950s Bohemian New York City.
Offers a part gossipy narrative, part behind-the-scenes glimpse into the New York theatre culture, and part polemic on how mainstream artists co-opt the work of marginal artists to give an…
A brilliantly rendered, wonderfully evocative novel of three ambitious people in post-World War II New York City, by the author of Rat Bohemia, Empathy, People in Trouble , and After…
A controversial novel exploring the parameters of queer teen sexuality against a backdrop of hysteria and sanctioned homophobia in the USA.
A former police detective’s addictions jeopardise a murder case in this iconic queer writer’s return to pulp fiction.
Sarah Schulman’s writing is bold, provocative and refreshingly unrepentant. My American History, combines critical commentary with a rich and varied collection of news articles, letters, interviews and reports in which…
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It’s summer in New York and at the Kitsch-Inn, the girls are hard at work on their lesbian version of A Streetcar Named Desire . As the temperature rises, enter…
A groundbreaking history of ACT UP and the AIDS crisis –
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‘A book of resistance and love, as urgently necessary now as it was thirty years ago’ Olivia Laing First published in 1990, discover this blistering novel about a love triangle…
First published in 1995, this award-winning novel, written from the epicentre of the AIDS crisis, is a bold, achingly honest story set in the rat bohemia of New York City…
Recalls how much of the rebellious queer culture, cheap rents, and a vibrant downtown arts movement vanished almost overnight to be replaced by gay conservative spokespeople and mainstream consumerism.
In just six years, ACT UP, New York, a broad and unlikely coalition of activists from all races, genders, sexualities, and backgrounds, changed the world. Armed with rancor, desperation, intelligence…
At once a memoir, a call to support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, and an argument for queer solidarity across borders, this book tells the story of how novelist…
Offers a part gossipy narrative, part behind-the-scenes glimpse into the New York theatre culture, and part polemic on how mainstream artists co-opt the work of marginal artists. This book uses…
A fascinating perpsective on the use of difference to justify abuse.
Alice Neel, Hilton Als
Alice Neel's unstinting, visionary engagement with the lives of those around her resulted in a queered, inclusive oeuvre. This aspect of her work is explored for the first time in…
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Stan Leventhal,Sarah Schulman
Collected together for the first time in one volume, Short Stories 1988 - 1991, are the twenty-nine stories Stan Leventhal included in a tiny herd of elephants and Candy Holidays…
Gord Tulloch,Sarah Schulman
The social sector is stuck. But how do you change it? This book is for anyone who plays a role in the social service ecosystem, for social innovators and intrapreneurs…
Heinz Heger
Finally back in print, the classic, powerful first-hand account of Nazi persecution of gay people.
Helen Schulman
From Helen Schulman, the acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller This Beautiful Life, comes another gripping, potent, and blisteringly well-written story of family, dilemma, and consequence (Elizabeth Gilbert)a…
Taking place over three non-consecutive but vitally important days in the lives of Amy, Dan, and their three sons, Come with Me is searing, entertaining, and unexpected–a dark comedy that…
Sarah M Schulman
The Lesbian Avenger Handbook contains everything a budding troublemaker needs to know. From how to hold a meeting to a step-by-step guide to mind-blowing actions. With new content essential for…
Julie Ault (*1957) is an artist, curator, writer, and editor, whose work emphasizes and celebrates the complex interrelationships between cultural production and politics. The collection of artworks Ault has assembled…
An essential anthology of leading academics, activists, and artists on the state of queer studies today.Founded in 1992, the David R. Kessler lectures represent the foreground of queer studies in…
