Book giveaways!
April 30, 2013
It finally feels like spring! We’re celebrating the season by hosting Goodreads giveaways for two new titles from our spring catalog. Check ’em out below, and enter to win a… READ MORE
Category: LGBT Studies
Marriage equality and the law, 1967 and 2013
April 18, 2013
—Howard Ball In 1967, when a good cigar only cost five cents, a very different U.S. Supreme Court, led by a very different Chief Justice (Earl Warren), faced a choice… READ MORE
Hooking up as Women’s History
March 12, 2013
—Leila J. Rupp Women’s History Month is a time to celebrate the contributions of women to history, society, and culture. For me, it’s also a good time to reflect on… READ MORE
Single on Valentine’s Day? Celebrate your inner Bartleby
February 14, 2013
—Michael Cobb, author of Single: Arguments for the Uncoupled [Editor’s note: This piece originally appeared on our blog last year on Valentine’s Day. We loved it so much, we had to share it… READ MORE
Gay rights, a gay mayor, and the tiny town of Vicco, Kentucky
February 4, 2013
—Bernadette Barton Last November, I was a guest on a radio call-in show based in Baltimore, Maryland. We were discussing my book Pray the Gay Away: The Extraordinary Lives of… READ MORE
Transgender people and domestic violence
January 28, 2013
In a recent Huffington Post article, Toni Newman puts a spotlight on transgender people and domestic violence—and the failure of the legal system to respond to cases of intimate partner abuse… READ MORE
Praying the gay away
October 9, 2012
Last week, California banned the use of sexuality-conversion therapy, and became the first state in the country to do so. Although the decision was heralded as a milestone in gay… READ MORE
Super-queering Jesus
September 28, 2012
—Bernadette Barton We tackled queer theory this week in an upper-level undergraduate Religion and Sexuality course I teach at a regional university in Kentucky. After allowing students the space to… READ MORE