Erin McHugh is a writer and former publishing executive and is the author of "The Portable Queer" series (Alyson Books) and "The 5 W's" (Sterling)....

This first ethnography on the development of working-class lesbian communities from the 1930s to the 1960s focuses on a Buffalo, New York, lesbian community. Unlike gay men, gay women, by dressing the way they wanted, going to bars regularly, being financially independe...

Women Out of Place: The Gender of Agency and the Race of Nationality...

“According to Kripal, mysticism is very m (Peter Homans Journal of Religion )William Blake once wrote that "the road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." Inspired by these poetic terms, Jeffrey J. Kripal reflects on how the modern study of mysticism has ofte...

Since 1988 the work of novelist, essayist, memoirist (whose autobiographical Becoming a Man garnered a National Book Award), and poet Monette has grown out of his experience of AIDS. Not surprisingly, the strongest works in this selection of recent and previously publis...

Authors Jason Berry (Lead Us Not into Temptation) and Gerald Renner (retired reporter for the Hartford Courant) team up for this highly accusatory report on the sex abuse scandal within the Catholic Church. The "vows of silence" speak to the Church's self-protective sec...

Degrees of Provocation: A Novel of Anger...

The Mismeasure of Desire: The Science, Theory, and Ethics of Sexual Orientation (Ideologies of Desire)...

Lusty Adventures of the Prince of Knossos...

Fires of Aggar (The Amazons of Aggar)...