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Cooking Doesn't Have to Be a Drag
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Edited by Stephen J Bieniek featuring Buffy and Bimbo
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Cooking Doesn’t Have To Be A Drag’ vol. 1 is a fun and entertaining cookbook that fuses the art of cuisine with the art of drag queens. More suitable for a coffee table than the kitchen this book contains over 50 photos of the most fabulous drag queens, quotes, entertainment and of course
yummy recipes. Our very own drag artistes, Buffy & Bimbo feature with two tantalizing recipes. As an entrée, BBQ buttered New Zealand green lipped mussels and their delicious’s main, BBQ lamb chops with a Kiwi salsa. The pictures of Buffy and Bimbo sourcing the ingredients are receiving much acclaim from the American audiences. We think the girls got confused between muscles and mussels.
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Book launched at The Women's Bookshop August 12 2008 with proceeds from the door going to Queen of the Whole Universe 5th Anniversary.
City Boy : My life in New York during the 1960s and 1970s
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Edmund White
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In the 1970s Paris had fashion, London had the theatre, Berlin had a small painting scene, but New York had all these cultural attainments and more - a vibrant intellectual life. In a decade when New York City was on the verge of bankruptcy, when local headlines were dominated by urban scandal, corruption and violence, the city flourished as never before as the center of 'uncompromising high culture masquerading as slouching, grinning gee-whiz - Wallace Stevens in sneakers.' The representative figures of this New York were Susan Sontag, Jasper Johns, George Balanchine, among others - fierce cultural arbiters, 'martyr's to art' - living in a city that was still obsessed with the hierarchy of the arts and the idea of the Pure. From Isherwood to Mapplethorpe, Borges to Foucault, Brodkey to Burroughs, Edmund White knew them all, and writes about them in New York Boy with love, affection, insight and often biting wit. It is a fascinating, ...
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Male figure in the art of John.Z.Robinson
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Brent Coutts
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DoP 2009,
The just-published 176 page 'The Male Figure in the Art of John Z. Robinson' by Brent Coutts, Peter Graczer, and Malcolm Templeton is a well-produced, retrospective look at the life and work of the Dunedin painter - as seen through his paintings and sketches of male nudes.
The book is copiously and beautifully illustrated. It draws on Robinsons works from the early 1980s to the present day and is an attempt to explain just where Robinson has come from and where, perhaps, he is going.
Homosexuality is central to Robinson's work – or at least these particular works. The leading essay by Brent Coutts unearths Robinson's gay history in terms of his depiction of the male nude.
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Mates and Lovers : A History of Gay New Zealand
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Chris Brickell
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New Zealand Society of Authors E.H. McCormick Best First book Award for Non-fiction Winner
What are the historical changes through which the modern New Zealand 'gay man' has emerged? If he has not always been with us, then who preceded him?
University of Otago academic Dr Chris Brickell tells the evolving history of New Zealand gay men accessibly, through the lives of individual clerks, labourers, gardeners, soldiers, actors, writers; working class and middle class men; mostly urban but sometimes rural or small-town men. A landmark publication, this first-ever New Zealand gay male history combines lively, engaging scholarship with a remarkable collection of just under 300 images, spanning the book's period: 1830 to 1980. Written for an intelligent general, rather than an academic audience, Mates and Lovers aims to tell interesting stories along the way. The 130-odd images are integral to the stories of the text, and ...
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Cruising Utopia
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Jose E. Munoz
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The LGBT agenda for too long has been dominated by pragmatic issues like same-sex marriage and gays in the military. It has been stifled by this myopic focus on the present, which is short-sighted and assimilationist. "Cruising Utopia" seeks to break the present stagnancy by cruising ahead. Drawing on the work of Ernest Bloch, Jose Esteban Munoz recalls the queer past for guidance in presaging its future. He considers the work of seminal artists and writers such as Andy Warhol, LeRoi Jones, Frank O'Hara, Ray Johnson, Fred Herko, Samuel Delany, and Elizabeth Bishop, alongside contemporary performance and visual artists like Dynasty Handbag, My Barbarian, Luke Dowd, Tony Just, and Kevin McCarty in order to decipher the anticipatory illumination of art and its uncanny ability to open windows to the future. In a startling repudiation of what the LGBT movement has held dear, Munoz contends that queerness is instead a futurity bound ...
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Ever, Dirk
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John Coldstream
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Dirk Bogarde was known as the star of more than sixty films and a critically acclaimed author. To a privileged few, however, he was also a prolific, stimulating and treasured correspondent. Bogarde was a secretive man, who destroyed many of his own papers and diaries. Fortunately, the recipients of his letters treasured them, enabling John Coldstream to bring together this fascinating collection of hitherto unpublished material. Bogarde's letters were invariably frank, gossipy, funny and often malicious. The joy of writing, particularly as he grew older and chose to live in France, was never far away. The letters display the qualities familiar to those who knew the private Bogarde: acute observation, laser-like intelligence, impatience with the foolish, compassion for the needy, a relish for the witty metaphor, and a catastrophic disdain for correct spelling and punctuation. Above all, to read his letters is to hear him talk, and no ...
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Gay Shame
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David M Halpern & Valerie Traub
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Ever since the 1969 Stonewall Riots, 'gay pride' has been the rallying cry of the gay rights movement and the political force behind the emergence of the field of gay and lesbian studies. But has something been lost, forgotten, or buried beneath the drive to transform homosexuality from a perversion to a proud social identity? Have the political requirements of gay pride repressed discussion of the more uncomfortable or undignified aspects of homosexuality? "Gay Shame" seeks to lift this unofficial ban on the investigation of homosexuality and shame by presenting critical work from the most vibrant frontier in contemporary queer studies.An esteemed list of contributors tackles a range of issues - questions of emotion, disreputable sexual histories, dissident gender identities, and embarrassing figures and moments in gay history - as they explore the possibility of reclaiming shame as a new, even productive, way to examine lesbian and ...
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My Lives
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Edmund White
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No one has ever been more frank, lucid, rueful and entertaining about growing up gay in Middle America than Edmund White. Best known for his autobiographical novels, White takes the fiction out of his story and delivers the facts in all their shocking and absorbing verity. From an adolescence in the 1950s, an era that tried to 'cure' homosexuality, he emerged into a 1960s society which re-designated his orientation as 'acceptable (nearly)'. He describes a life touched by psychotherapy in every decade, starting with his flamboyant therapist mother who demanded that he be her own personal test case. In "My Lives", White also shares his enthusiasm for England, his passion for Paris, and introduces us to his friends and lovers, past and present. His striking and eloquent opinions on art and life make this a spectacular read, by turns moving and hilarious, outrageous and enlightening.
First published 2005.
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The Life and Times of Harvey Milk: The Mayor of Castro Street
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Randy Shilts
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This is the definitive biography of Harvey Milk: an emotionally compelling story of the life and death of the first openly gay man to be elected to US political office. 'If a bullet should enter my brain, let it destroy every closet door'. This is the definitive biography of Harvey Milk, the man whose personal life, public career, and cold-blooded assassination mirrored the dramatic emergence of the gay community as a political power in 1970s America. It is an emotionally-charged story of personal tragedy and political intrigue, murder at City Hall and massive riots in the streets, the miscarriage of justice and the affirmation of human rights and gay hope.
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The Velvet Rage : Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man's World
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Alan Downs
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The gay male world today is characterized by seductive beauty, artful creativity, flamboyant sexuality, and, encouragingly, unprecedented acceptability in society. Yet despite the progress of the recent past, gay men still find themselves asking, "Are we really better off?" The inevitable byproduct of growing up gay in a straight world continues to be the internalization of shame, a shame gay men may strive to obscure with a faade of beauty, creativity, or material success. Drawing on contemporary psychological research, the author's own journey to be free of anger and of shame, as well as the stories of many of his friends and clients, The Velvet Rage outlines the three distinct stages to emotional well-being for gay men. Offering profoundly beneficial strategies to stop the insidious cycle of avoidance and self-defeating behavior, The Velvet Rage is an empowering book that will influence the public discourse on gay culture, and ...
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When Our Children Come Out : How to Support Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Young People
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Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli
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A collection of accounts from young people, parents and teachers on the important support that families, schools and communities can provide when children come out.
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10 Smart Things Gay Men Can Do to Find Real Love
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Joe Kort
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The author of the best-selling 10 Smart Things Gay Men Can Do to Improve Their Lives turns his attention to the burning question of love. "There are few books for gay men on not only what to look for in Mr. Right but how to become Mr. Right. My book will address both. It is not just about finding him, it is what you do after you find him," says author Joe Kort. A certified Imago Relationship Therapist, Kort has employed the ideas put forth by Imago founder Harville Hendrix to transform the lives and relationships of the countless gay couples he has worked with in 20 years of private practice. In "Your Sexual Shadow," one of his new book's 10 life-altering chapters, Kort unveils a surprising and groundbreaking idea that explores how decoding sexual fantasies can often unlock the mystery to what gay men are looking for in a partner and why. This will be particularly elucidating to men who have been conditioned to believe their sexual ...
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A Companion to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Studies
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Ed. George E haggerty & Molly McGarry
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"A Companion to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Studies" is the first single volume survey of current discussions taking place in this rapidly developing area of study. Recognizing the multidisciplinary nature of the field, the editors gather new essays by an international team of established and emerging scholars Addresses the politics, economics, history, and cultural impact of sexuality Engages the future of queer studies by asking what sexuality stands for, what work it does, and how it continues to structure discussions in various academic disciplines as well as contemporary politics
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An Immaculate Mistake : Scenes from Childhood and beyond (revised ed, 2004)
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Paul Bailey
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This first volum of Paul bailey's memoirs principally converns his childhood in south London during the '40s and '50s. This is a revised edition.
"Unsentimental, touching...a funny, sad way to come to terms with the experience of childhood. If only more memoirs could be like An Immaculate Mistake" - Sunday Times
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Arts and Letters
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Edmund White
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Reading Edmund White is like sharing a café table with a witty professor, a clove-smoking aesthete, and a boy of fifteen. You never know who will speak the next line, but you know it will turn your head.
In these 39 lively essays and profiles, best-selling novelist and biographer Edmund White draws on his wide reading and his sly good humor to illuminate some of the most influential writers, artists, and cultural icons of the past century, among them Marcel Proust, Catherine Deneuve, George Eliot, Andy Warhol, André Gide, David Geffen, and Robert Mapplethorpe.
Whether he’s praising Nabokov's sensuality, critiquing Elton John’s walk ("as though he’s a wind-up doll that's been overwound and sent heading for the top of the stairs"), or describing serendipitous moments in his seven-year-long research into the life of Genet, White is unfailingly observant, erudite, and entertaining.
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Arts and Letters
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Edmund White
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A Wolf at the Table : A Memoir
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Augusten Burroughs
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From the number one New York Times bestselling author of
Running with Scissors
comes an hilarious, frightening and compulsively readable new memoir.
A Wolf at the Table
tells the story of Augusten's early childhood when he lived with his crazy father, John Robison Sr, a man only briefly touched upon in
Running with Scissors
, his spaced-out poet mother, and his delinquent older brother, John Robison Jnr (author of
Look Me in the Eye
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Told with brutal honesty and psychologically penetrating insight, it chronicles the young Augusten's increasing paranoia as he navigates a household that is by turns very funny, and very sinister. He wants his big brother to like him and his mother to understand him, but most of all he wants his father's love and acceptance, yet can't be sure he isn't a ticking time bomb...
A Wolf at the Table
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A Young Man's Passage
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Julian Clary
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This is Julian Clary’s story, in his own words - the tale of an awkward schoolboy who became a huge worldwide success on stage and screen.
After a sheltered suburban upbringing, Julian was sent to St Benedict’s, where beatings from ‘holy’ men gave him some brutal life lessons, and other ‘unholy’ boys his first awakenings of sexuality.
He had just one true friend and ally, Nick - to his other school peers, Julian’s aloof demeanour made him an enigma or simply a figure of ridicule. In school he was just another pained adolescent, but inside Julian was a new Jean Genet or Quentin Crisp bursting to get out.
Leaving St Benedict’s thankfully behind him, Julian went on to college where he found his true vocation as an entertainer with a peculiar comic brand of smut and glamour. At the same time, he was finding as much sex as he could, sometimes with remarkably less-than-glamorous characters. Periods in community theatre and the singing ...
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Bi Men: Coming Out Every Which Way
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Bi Men
is a lively collection of moving personal essays from bisexual men and those who love them, exploring what it means to be bisexual in today's monosexually oriented society.
Bisexual and bi-curious men will find comfort and camaraderie in these stories about coming out, its impact on family and marriage, evolving perspectives on bisexuals within the LGBT community, and the building of acceptance and affirmation for bisexuals. Each story is told in the honest words of bisexuals that confirm the validity of their place in the world while illustrating that there are more bi men than anybody had previously realised.
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Crossing Borders
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Will Carr
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This is a 1950's personal travelogue and journey around the Mediterranean by a then young Jewish boy who came out as gay during the trip that engaged the heart and mind.
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