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    Journal of Homosexuality,The Haworth Press.
    Devoted to theoretical, empirical, and historical research on homosexuality, heterosexuality, sexual identity, social sex roles, and the sexual relationships of both men and women.
  • Dennis Altman, et al, (1989), “Homosexuality, which homosexuality? Essays from the International Scientific Conference on Lesbian and Gay Studies”, GMP, 253 pages, ISBN 0854490914,SBU library Main Bookstock 306.766.
  • Paula Bennett and Vernon A. Rosario II, (editors), (1996), “Solitary pleasures: the historical, literary, and artistic discourses of autoeroticism”, Routledge, ISBN 0 415 91173 7, 286 pages.
    Reviewed byJeffrey Weeks, (1996), in “The hidden hand of market forces?”, in The Times Higher Education Supplement, 16th. February, page 24. “But literary subversion combines with more conventional social and cultural analysis in this book to provide a fascinating overview of how, and why, innocent pleasures have become the object of so much fevered writing and moral sanction. The book has two guiding preoccupations. The first is with the relationship between the individual act and artistic creation.”
    “So why did masturbation become so central to the sexual imagination in the 18th and 19th centuries? This is the book’s second main preoccupation . . . “
  • Bob Cant, (editor), (1993), “Footsteps and Witnesses: Lesbian and Gay Lifestories from Scotland”, Edinburgh: Polygon, 210 pages, ISBN 0 7486 6170 0 (paperback).
    Keeping it in the familyby Bob Cant inGay Times, April, 1993, issue 175, pages 46-7. A preview of the book in a special Scottish issue ofThe Gay Times. “There are all kinds of ways of letting our families know about our sexuality. A discreet whisper which is passed round like a party game; an explosive scene resulting in tears and maybe hugs; a letter from far away; an unspoken agreement that the subject will never be mentioned; and, worst of all, the decision to lie, to pretend, to lead a double life. The one thing that all these approaches have in common is that no one, however dizzy, ever forgets if they have come out to their family.Footsteps and Witnesses, a forthcoming collection of interviews with Scots lesbians and gay men, gives us some insight into three generations of coming out.”
  • Bob Cant, (1997), “Invented Identities? Lesbians and Gays Talk about Migration”, Cassell, 184 pages, ISBN 0-304-33555-X (hardback)/0-304-33556-8 (paperback).
    Blurb:“Migration has long been an option, and often a necessity, for people who desired others of the same sex. Either to avoid the stigma attached to homosexuality in their home community or to seek out more people like themselves, lesbians and gays have been drawn to anonymity of big cities as a place to re-invent themselves and to shed the oppressive values of their earlier lives and backgrounds.”
    “With a diverse group of contibutors, this unique book analyses the impetus for migration and the psychological and sociology barriers to a process to total re-invention. Many migration lesbians and gays experience and identity conflict which is exacerbated by differences of class, ethnic origin and religion.Invented Identities?explores these conflicts and their resolutions at a personal and political level and considers what it means to ‘belong’ in any given community.”
    “After 20 years in London, BOB CANT went ‘home’ to live in Scotland. But now he’s back. Like many gay men and lesbians, he has had a lot of problems deciding just exactly where ‘home’ is.”Worlds Apart, Gay Times, issue 220, January, 1997, pages 26-97.
    The book contains life histories of eighteen people who have migrated.
    Page 133: “Gregg Blachfordwas born in 1950 and brought up in a Toronto suburb. He became involved in the gay community on migrating to Sydney and London. After a year-long return to Toronto, he is now living in French-speaking Montreal.”
    Page 138: “I arrived in Sydney in early 1972 and, within a month of my arrival, I’d found theGay Liberation Frontmeetings and the beginning of my new identity - now not only gay, but gay activist. Everything was new and exciting and I didn’t have to worry about anyone finding out. This was the heyday of the GLF: appearing in radical drag, organizing demos against a church that had fired a gay secretary, picketing the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and their ‘closet media gays’ and getting a gay contingent into the annual Labour Day Parade. I met dozens of exciting people. Through my new-found consciousness-raising group, my political education developed rapidly, finding out about new ways of relating to each other and understanding why we were treated so badly by straights. They had to be zapped, of course. We would boldly walk down main streets holding hands and wearing dazzling make-up. We organized GLF dances, larger than any gay club in town. My radical drag (with beard and visible chest hair) career reached its apotheosis when I appeared at one of these dances in the actual outfit which Barbra Streisand wore in the Roller Skate Rag number forFunny Girl. Apparently it got to Sydney as part of a publicity stunt and was swiped by a friend. It’s been downhill ever since - dragwise”
    “I lived in a commune-ish terrace house with a gay couple and a political dyke near Sydney’s commercial gay heart. Robert, who became a lifelong friend, introduced me to the finer elements of Art Deco, cooking and the importance of a good moisturizer - all essential parts of the gay socialization process.”
    Page 141: By 1973 Gregg Blachford had moved to London.“I did join the socialist‘rank and file’group of my teaching union and, with its support, proposed the first gay rights motion at the union’sNational Conference. (It won by a small margin.) As a college teacher, I came out as gay to some of my classes. The car mechanics, telephone engineers and plummers to whom I taught communication skills were initially quite shocked by my ‘admission’, but were admiring of my ‘courage’, especially if I didn’t seem fazed by their questions. (Them: ‘Sir, are you really a practising homosexual?’Me: ‘No. I’ve got rather good at it by now.’) It usually led to a better relationship with them and confirmed my belief that, when in doubt, come out.”
  • Coxon, A. P. M., (1987), “Homosexual sexual behaviour”, University College Cardiff, Social Research Unit.SBU library Pamphlet Boxes 306.7662.
  • Coxon, A. P. M., Davies, P. M., and McManus, T. J., (1990), “Logitudinal study of the sexual behaviour of homosexual males under the impact of AIDS: final report to the Department of Health”, University College Cardiff, Social Research Unit.SBU library ?
  • Davies, P. M. and Simpson, P. J., (1987), “On the contemporary forms of male homosexual prostitution in London”, University College Cardiff, Social Research Unit,SBU library Pamphlet Boxes 306.74309421.
  • Dynes, W. R., (1987), “Homosexuality: a research guide”, Garland, ISBN 0824086929,SBU library Reference Collection 306.766.
  • John Donald Gustav-Wrathall, (1999), “Take the Young Stranger by the Hand: Same-Sex Relationships and the YMCA”, University of Chicago Press, 267 pages, ISBN 0 226 90784 8.
    Why it was fun to stay at the Yby James Eli Adams inThe Times Higher Education Supplement, 12th. November, 1999, page 29. “A programme founded to rescue young men from the lures of the Victorian city grew into the space of sexual possibility celebrated in the camp 1979 disco anthem ‘YMCA’, which arguably brought gay sexuality in America to a wider audience than anything before.”
    “Founded in an ascetic, evangelistic tradition that encouraged passionate same-sex friendships, the YMCA ultimately undermined that tradition through a growing emphasis on ‘physical culture’ (including sex education) that made the body a focal point of increasingly anxious self-consciousness. The homoerotic desire elicited by late Victorian preoccupation with the male body was both allurement and anathema: Y officials unwittingly created an arena for homosexual activity even as they stressed the dangers of intimacy among men.”
    “Take the Young Stranger by the Handelicits a rich trove of evidence for historians of sexuality and gender, but the study is ultimately more a traditional (albeit lucid and accessible) social history of sexuality. More attention to work in gay history and queer theory would have enriched the engaging story Gustav-Wrathall tells, enlarging its significance while provoking greater clarity and economy in its analysis of same-sex desire.”
  • David M. Halperin, (1996), “Saint Foucault: Towards a Gay Hagiography”, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0 19 509371 2, 246 pages.
    Reviewed by Lois McNay, (1996), in “A professor’s posthumous promotion”, in The Times Higher Educational Supplement, 16th. February, page 24. “The book comprises two essays, the first being a study of the stimulating impact Foucault’s work has had on gay politics, in particular the ‘queer’ movement.”
    “The second essay is a critique of recent biographies of Foucault.”
  • Daniel Harris, (1997), “The Rise and Fall of Gay Culture”, Hyperion.
    See Daniel Harris’sweb site:http://www.geocities.com/westhollywood/heights/4130/
    Daniel Harris can be seen reading from his book on an on-line talking magazine,VoiceChannel:http://fargo.itp.tsoa.nyu.edu/~knafo/VoiceChannel
  • Hocquenghem, G., (1978), “Homosexual desire”, Allison and Busby, ISBN 085031206X,SBU library Main Bookstock 306.766.
  • Celia Kitzinger, (1987), “The Social Construction of Lesbianism”, London: Sage.
  • Bryan Magee, (1969), “One in Twenty”, London: Corgi Books, 181 pages.
    Pages 8-9: “By the time the reader has finished this book - in which I have done my best to cover everything of interest or importance that has been said on the subject by sociologists, psychiatrists, and the rest - I hope he will be stimulated to turn to the novelists for understanding of a different order. I would recommend first and foremost Mary Renault’sThe Charioteer; then perhapsChristopher Isherwood‘sA Single Man, andJames Baldwin‘sAnother Country. But the truly great homosexual love story has yet to be written.”
  • Masters, W. H. and Johnson, V. E., (1982), “Homosexuality in perspective”, ISBN 0553208098,SBU library ?.
  • McManus, T. J. and McEvoy, M., (1987), “A preliminary study of some aspects of male homosexual behaviour in the United Kingdom”, University Colleg Cardiff, Social Research Unit.SBU Pamphlet Boxes 306.7662.
  • Paul, W., (1982), “Homosexuality: psychological, and biological issues”, ISBN 0803918259,SBU library ?.
  • Ken Plummer, (1981), “The making of the modern homosexual”, Hutchinson, 280 pages, ISBN 0091431506,SBU library Main Bookstock 306.766.
    Contains the essay “The homosexual role” byMary McIntosh. It also contains articles byKen Plummer,Jeffrey Weeks, Annabel Faraday, John Marshall, Dave King, and Gregg Blachford.
  • Ken Plummer, (editor), (1992), “Modern Homosexualities”, London: Routledge, 281 pages, ISBN 0-415-06420-1, ISBN 0-415-06421-X (pbk).
    Nineteen essays by Ken Plummer, Stephen O. Murray, Huseyin Tapinc, Judith Schuyf, Valerie Jenness,Peter Davies, Maggie French, Pat Romans, Peter M. Nardi, John Hart, Tim Edwards, Beth E. Schneider, Barry D. Adam, Diane Richardson, Anna Marie Smith, Vicki Carter, Jason Annetts, Bill Thompson,Peter Tatchell.
    BlurbThese nineteen original essays by activists and academics document and analyse ‘fragments’ of the complex comtemporary lesbian and gay experience, showing just how much it has changed over the last twenty years. They chart the growth of lesbian and gay studies and examine key issues around communities, identities, relationships, sexualities and politics. This collection, edited by a leading author in the field, heralds a new confidence and maturity in the growing area of lesbian and gay studies.
    “This important book sets out the parameters of lesbian and gay studies for the 1990s . . . . It moves us beyond the period of ‘gay history’ - fascinating and valuable though that has been - and towards a time when we can focus moresuccinctly on contemporary experience.”
    Elizabeth Wilson,North London Polytechnic
  • Kevin PorterandJeffrey Weeks, (editors), (1991), “Between the Acts: Lives of homosexual men 1885-1967”, Routledge, 153 pages, ISBN 0-415-00944-8SBU Library Main Bookstock 306.7662 POR.
    • Blurb:“Between the Actsis the story of fifteen homosexual men who lived between 1885 and 1967, told in a series of moving and immensely readable interviews. Their memories and experiences give us exceptional insights into how gay men made sense of their needs and desires, and fashioned for themselves manageable personal and social identities.”
    • Brief review by Nigel AshfordinThe Times Literary Supplement, 6th. November, 1998, page 32. “This book is a series of fifteen interviews with British homosexual men, all of whom lived during the years between theLabouchere amendmentin 1885, that criminilized male homosexuality, and theSexual Offences Act of 1967, when it was partially legalized. The emphasis is on the unknown and ordinary men in contrast to the literary or the scandalous.”
      “But are these life stories of sufficient merit to justify an academic publication? The claims on the jacket that the book belongs to five different disciplines suggests a lack of intellectual substance, and indeed there is no attempt by the editors to interpret the significance of these stories, as if the mere diversity of these tales was sufficient justification.”
      “Why therefore does this warrant publication as an academic work, when there is no theory, analysis or explanation of methodology? Lax proof-reading and a blurring of editorial comments with those of the interviewees compound the problem. The first edition of this book was published in 1991, and the only addition here is a new preface that adds little. Intellectual, scholarly and publishing rigour requires something more.”
  • Michael W. Ross, (editor), (1985), “Homosexuality, Masculinity & Femininity”, Harrington Park Press: New York, ISBN 0-918393-04-3.
    Originally published as “Journal of Homosexuality”, Volume 9, Number 1, Autumn 1983. Includes eight articles by various authors. 107 pages.
  • Peter Tatchell, (1992), “Europe in the pink: lesbian and gay equality in the new Europe”, GMP, 158 pages, ISBN 0854491589,SBU Library Main Bookstock 306.766094.
  • C. A. Tripp, (1976), “The Homosexual Matrix”, New York: New American Library, 304 pages.
  • Alison Utley, (1997), “Nuclear family meltdown?”,The Times Higher Education Supplement, 26th. September, No. 1,299, page 22. “Alison Utley reports on new research which claims that same-sex relationships are reordering the British household.”
    “New sociological research suggests that young women, far from fearing the shackles of marriage and motherhood, actually long for them. The research is at odds though with the findings of leading theorists of gay and lesbian culture who insist that a generation of teenagers is rejecting the heterosexual ideal, striving instead for cross-sex friendships that replace the family.”
    “A radical shift is under way signalling the new dominance of homosexual desire. ‘Individuals are being released from traditional heterosexual scripts whereby a man and a woman who are sexually active with each other form a household together’, says Sasha Roseneil, a sociologist from Leeds University and supporter of the ‘queering’ of sociology. ‘Queer has become, in British popular culture, not an identity category, but an attitude and a stance which rocks the hetero/homo binary, and it is one to which a generation aspires’.”
    “Last month a report from the Office for National Statistics published figures further confirming the disintegration of the nuclear family. Since 1970 the number of divorces have trebled, the number of first-time marriages halved and numbers of lone parents have grown to comprise 22 per cent of all families with children.”
    “Research among young women of Middle England by Ian Procter paints quite another picture. ‘People have been harking back to a golden age of the family ever since Shakespeare’, says Procter, a senior lecturer in sociology from Warwick University.” “Procter’s research, including 78 women aged 18 to 27 for his book,Young Adult Women Living a Contradiction, found that for many, bringing up a child alone was anathema.” “ ‘The family has been an evolving institution since the 18th. century’, he says. ‘Family stability is a myth because of the changing context in which the family operates. The idea of a ‘normal’ family with two children is a very recent phenomenon and may be a stereotype but is one to which many people still aspire’.”
  • M. Warner, (editor), (1993), “Fear of a queer planet: queer politics and social theory”, University of Minnesota Press, 334 pages, ISBN 0816623341,SBU Library Main Bookstock 305.90664
  • Jeffrey Weeks, (1977), “Coming out: homsexual politics in Britain, from the nineteenth century to the present”, Quartet Books, 278 pages, ISBN 0704331756,SBU library Main Bookstock 345.0253.
    Reviewed three times inLicata and Peterson (1981):
    • Arthur N. Gilbert, pages 214-6: “To sum up,Coming Outis, at its best, a straightforward narrative of the trials and successes of homosexual men and women over the past 100 years or so, but it fails to explain either the nature of or the reason for the changes that have occurred since the eighteenth century. Weeks has not taken the time and effort to understand thoroughly English society in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries or, in particular, the meaning of the changes that have taken place in modern times.”
    • Barry D. Adam, page 217: “Jeffrey Weeks’Coming Outjoins James Steakley’sThe Homosexual Emancipation Movement in Germanyin a very select school of quality scholarly investigation into gay history.” “Weeks’ book is destined to become a classic in gay studies. It is hoped that it will inspire equally careful and comprehensive histories of gay communities in other nations.”
    • John D’Emilio, pages 218-9: “Jeffrey Weeks’ excellent book,Coming Out, represents a major advance in the historiography of homosexuality. A monographic study of homosexual politics in Great Britain over the last 100 years, it attempts to construct a theoretical framework for understanding gay politics and gay identity. Weeks sharply distinguishes homosexual behavior, which is universal, from homosexual identity, which is historically specific.” “It is surprising that Weeks, a Marxist, has not looked for more direct, material explanations within the social relations of capitalism for the emergence of a gay identity. What impact, for instance, does the free-labor system of capitalism, which allows individuals to earn a living independently of the family, have in terms of increasing the options for men and women to pursue their sexual and emotional preferences for members of the same sex? What about the tendency of commodity production to expand until one can buy all the goods necessary for life, so that families are no longer necessary as producing units and individuals have a greater freedom tochoosethe shape of their personal life, including their sexual orientation?” “Still Weeks’ book is major contribution toward uncovering a homosexual past. His argument that gay identity is historically specific will set the terms for further exploration into gay history, and his analysis of the different strands of homosexual politics should serve as a model for future efforts.”
  • Jeffrey Weeks, (1981), “Sex politics and society: the regulation of sexuality since 1800”, Longman, 306 pages, ISBN 0582483344,SBU Library Main Bookstock 306.7.
    (1989), revised edition, 326 pages.
  • Jeffrey Weeks, (1985), “Sexuality and its discontents: meanings, myths and modern sexualities”, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 324 pages, ISBN 0710205643,SBU Library Main Bookstock 306.7.
  • Jeffrey Weeks, (1986), “Sexuality”, Ellis Horwood/Rouledge, 127 pages, ISBN 0853128790,SBU Library Main Bookstock 306.7.
  • Jeffrey Weeks, (1991), “Against nature: essays on history, sexuality and identity”, Rivers Oram, 224 pages, ISBN 1854890042,SBU Library Main Bookstock 306.7.
    Blurb:“Sexual identities, Jeffrey Weeks argues, are both historically invented and essential in day-to-day life. They are constructed in a traceable history, but are the crucial means through which we negotiate the hazards of contempary lives. They are necessary fictions.”
    “The essays explore a number of interrelated themes: the making of homosexual identities; the personal and cultural impact of the AIDS crisis; and the politics and values of the period we increasingly think of as ‘post-modern’.”
  • Jeffrey WeeksandJanet Holland, (editors), (1996), “Sexual Cultures: Communities, Values and Intimacy”, Macmillan Press Limited, 317 pages, ISBN 10-333-65003-4 (hardcover)/0-333-65004-2 (papberback),SBU Library Main Bookstock 306.7 WEE.
    • Blurb:“The new sociology of sexuality has a two-fold aim: to demonstrate how the social shapes the sexual; and to analyse how the sexual in turn becomes a focal point for personal identity, cultural anxiety value debates and political action. Drawing on papers from the 1994 British Sociological Association annual conference on ‘Sexualities in Social Context’, this volume brings together key contributors to this stimulating new approach. Topics covered include theoretical developments, the relationship between history and contempory controversies, community and identity, especially in the context od AIDS, value conflicts and changes in the meaning of intimacy. The book as a whole offers a significant contribution into debates on sexuality as well as to the more general broadening of the sociological agenda.”
    • Discussed bySteven Seidman, (1998), in the first issue of the journalSexualities
  • Donald J. West, (1968), “Homosexuality”, Penguin, ISBN 0140204776,SBU library Main Bookstock 306.766.
    “I was aware that I was attracted to boys and men from about the age of twelve or fourteen, but although I was brought up in London I still didn’t find it very easy to have any sort of contact with other gay men. I was extremely scared of actually meeting people and, having readHomosexualityby D.J. West, it really terrified me, the prospect of meeting these strange people. It didn’t give me a very positive image to actually find other people, but I used to go to South London drag pubs, such as the Vauxhall, with schoolfriends when we were in sixth form. I wasn’t acknowledged as being gay.”

    Mark Streevesin conversation with Bill Thorneycroft andJeffrey Weeks, page 159 ofThe liberation of affectioninRadical Recordsby Bob Cant and Susan Hemmings, (1988).

  • Donald J. West, (1977), “Homosexuality re-examined”, Duckworth, ISBN 0715609351,SBU library Main Bookstock 306.766.
  • Gordon Westwood, (1960), “A Minority: A Report on the Life of the Male Homosexual in Great Britain”, Longmans.
    Michael Schofield." title="Gordon Westwood is an alias ofMichael Schofield.">Gordon Westwood is an alias ofMichael Schofield. Discusses the results of a survey of 127 male homosexuals. Forward byJohn Wolfenden. 134 references. 216 pages.

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