Black Men-White Men: A Gay Anthology2 reviews Prentice Hall, 1983 Book Description 'For the first time, the Afro-American and interracial gay experience: a collection of short stories, personal reminiscences, interviews, political articles, photos, poems, drawings -- from the most scholarly to the most ...             Two Spirit People: American Indian Lesbian Women and Gay Men (Monograph Published Simultaneously As the Gay & ...1 review Lester Brown Routledge, 1997 Good if you love the topic Homosexuality in pre-colonial Native American societies disproves this idea that the only "gay-affirming" culture that ever existed was Greek (and white). A huge audience for and books about gay Native Americans have been born. Whereas Sue-Ellen Jacobs' book is more anthropological, this book is ...             One of the Children: Gay Black Men in Harlem (Men and Masculinity, 2)2 reviews William G. Hawkeswood University of California Press, 1997 Beyond sympathetic identification into special pleading The book contains many incisive quotations from gay Harlemites who consider themselves black first and gay second, and whose social and sexual networks are black. The research was done in the late 1980s for a Columbia anthropology Ph.D. The author, a white New Zealander, died in 1992, and it took a ...             Pacific Homosexualities3 reviews Stephen O Murray AuthorHouse, 2002 A wealth of material on many places + Looking at homosexual roles in many places "Pacific" in the title is an understatement. There is a very long series of accounts of Siberian sex-crossing shamans, a fascinating chapter on ardent Buddhist warriors in ancient Korea, and of pederastic relationships in Australian aboriginal societies, in addition to rich descriptions of ...             Gay Voices of the Harlem Renaissance (Blacks in the Diaspora)4 reviews A. B. Christa Schwarz Indiana University Press, 2003 A Must for everyone interested in the Harlem Renaissance + Informative + A valuable contribution to black and queer studies + Not So Quiet Gay Voices!!!             The Empress Is a Man: Stories from the Life of Jose Sarria (Haworth Gay & Lesbian Studies) (Haworth Gay & ...2 reviews Michael R Gorman, Jose Sarria Routledge, 1998 Biograghy at it's best + A Profile of a Remarkable Man with Lots of Humour This book is one of the best biographies I have read in years. Mainly because it captures Sarria not as a dry historical figure, but captures who he is and the way he remembers his life and his rich and eccentric personality as well. Gorman tells about his personal struggles and views while ...             Islamic Homosexualities: Culture, History, and Literature8 reviews Will Roscoe, Stephen Murray NYU Press, 1997 A Masterpiece, You Will Love This Book + Islamic Homosexualities From the cover to the last page, *Islamic Homosexualities* is packed with information that is really useful to the queer Muslim of today. From "Slave Elites" of the Ottoman Empire to the "Gender-Defined" roles of African Homos, from the "Male Actresses" to the "Pakistani Male Prostitues," the book ...             Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin7 reviews John D'Emilio University Of Chicago Press, 2004 Anything ahead of the times has a hard time in its own time + A Complex Pacifist + Excellent Reading! Dr. King Wasn't The Total Mastermind! + Excellent biography + A name restored             Boy-Wives and Female-Husbands: Studies in African Homosexualities3 reviews Palgrave Macmillan, 1998 An Eye Opening Book + A wonderful resource + Awesome geographical and historical range! Here is a book with oral histories and folklore tales from ethnographers that went to Africa. The book is an eyeopening one into the sexuality aspect of Africans often challenging theories of sexuality. It is an excellent book to answer to the question of How & Why Does Same Sex Sexual Behavior ...             Mucho Macho: Seduction, Desire, and the Homoerotic Lives of Latin Men Chris Girman Routledge, 2004 Quality research—uniquely enhanced by the author's personal experience! This book explores the concepts—and illuminates the realities—of macho and machismo from the unique perspective of a gay sociologist who is also a sexual tourist. Unlike most of the scholars who have written about same-sex Latino male attraction, author/ethnographer Chris Girman has experienced it firsthand. ...             Amazing Grace: A Life of Beauford Delaney2 reviews David Leeming Oxford University Press, USA, 1998 SAVED BY GRACE? + Reviewed in Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review America's artistic milieu is known for dismissing from its memory those artists whose works and lives are deemed trivial and not worthy of consideration. Such an attitude has denied younger generations of artists the experience of knowing some of the great artistic man and women of our time. ...             Changing Ones: Third and Fourth Genders in Native North America2 reviews Will Roscoe Palgrave Macmillan, 2000 The best book on the topic + A fantastic resource on Native American 3rd/4th genders By starting with life experiences of some individual male and female berdache, Roscoe literally captivates readers, before carrying us into the comparative, theoretical, analytical second half which is sophisticated but clearly written. Will Roscoe's work on North American berdache/"two spirit" ...             Passions of the Cut Sleeve: The Male Homosexual Tradition in China8 reviews Bret Hinsch University of California Press, 1992 A book everyone gay, or history major should own. + The first of it's kind + Not Just for China Scholars Bret has demonstrated an academic book can be fun to read. It is both educational and entertaining. I highly recommend it.             Spirit and the Flesh: Sexual Diversity in American Indian Culture5 reviews Walter L. Williams Beacon Press, 1992 Mind-opening prespective on society's "Diversity-cide" + Eye-opening, but reverse-biased + GREAT + Finally!!             Dear Uncle Go: Male Homosexuality in Thailand1 review Peter A. Jackson Bua Luang Pub Co, 1996 White Australian writes book on Thai male homosexuality I absolutely hate the way people think that the only gay-affirming society that ever existed was Ancient Greece. It basically assumes first that no modern societies support it and more importantly that no non-Western societies, ancient, modern, (or postmodern) support it either. Thus, it's great to ...             Breaking the Surface33 reviews Greg Louganis, Eric Marcus Plume, 1996 Insightful and interesting. + Inspiration + Behind the Gold Medals + superb + Greg Got Game             Guardians of the Flutes, Volume 1: Idioms of Masculinity4 reviews Gilbert Herdt University Of Chicago Press, 1994 One of the most important books ever written.... + how do we know? + An Academic study of the Sambia in PNG + An academic text on male sexual initiation in PNG.             Icebreaker: The Autobiography of Rudy Galindo10 reviews Rudy Galindo Pocket, 1998 Makes You Feel What He Is Feeling + Great autobio of a great champion + Here's one bio that's never on thin ice + Rudy! Rudy! Rudy!             Gay Rebel of the Harlem Renaissance: Selections from the Work of Richard Bruce Nugent4 reviews Richard Bruce Nugent Duke University Press, 2002 Comprehensive tribute to a remarkable cultural figure + Discovering a forgotten Hero of the Harlem Renaissance + Persuasive reestablishment of a formidable artist! "Gay Rebel of the Harlem Renaissance: Selections from the Work of Richard Bruce Nugent" is edited by Thomas H. Wirth, who also wrote the introduction. Also included is a foreword by Henry Louis Gates Jr. Over 300 pages long, this book offers a comprehensive and compelling look at Nugent ...             Queering the Color Line: Race and the Invention of Homosexuality in American Culture (Series Q)4 reviews Siobhan B. Somerville Duke University Press, 2000 Queer theory gets a dose of history + Toward a history of sexuality AND race + New Queer Studies Queering the Color Line is a successful attempt to integrate (no pun intended) queer theory with a historically-based cultural studies methodology, which makes it all the more interesting. Somerville has done an admirable job taking popular texts and showing how they reflected contemporary ...