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Mad River, Marjorie Rowland, and the Quest for LGBTQ Teachers’ Rights
Mad River, Marjorie Rowland, and the Quest for LGBTQ Teachers’ Rights addresses an important legal case that set the stage for today’s LGBTQ civil rights–a case that almost no one has heard of. Marjorie Rowland v. Mad River School District involves an Ohio guidance counselor fired in 1974 for being bisexual. Rowland’s case made it to the U.S. Supreme Court, but the justices declined to consider it. In a spectacular published dissent, Justice Brennan laid out arguments for why the First and Fourteenth Amendments apply to bisexuals, gays, and lesbians. That dissent has been the foundation for LGBTQ civil rights advances since.
In the first in-depth treatment of this foundational legal case, authors Margaret A. Nash and Karen L. Graves tell the story of that case and of Marjorie Rowland, the pioneer who fought for employment rights for LGBTQ educators and who paid a heavy price for that fight. It brings the story of LGBTQ educators’ rights to the present, including commentary on Bostock v Clayton County , the 2020 Supreme Court case that struck down employment discrimination against LGBT workers.
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Contingent figure : chronic pain and queer embodiment
\"A masterful synthesis of literary readings and poetic reflections, making profound contributions to our understanding of chronic pain\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Closet Space
Is the closet just a metaphor? Closet Space provides a highly original account of the spatial metaphor of \"the closet\", and is the first geography text to focus on this important issue. Using a variety of research techniques and materials, the book explores the closet through texts including: * the oral histories of gay men in the UK and US * the sexualised landscape of a New Zealand city * the national census of Britain and the US * international travel guides and travelogues and refers to the work of Butler, Lefebvre and Foucault.
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Ivy Aberdeen's letter to the world
\"Twelve-year-old Ivy Aberdeen's house is destroyed in a tornado, and in the aftermath of the storm, she begins to develop feelings for another girl at school\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Dude, you're a fag
High school and the difficult terrain of sexuality and gender identity are brilliantly explored in this smart, incisive ethnography. Based on eighteen months of fieldwork in a racially diverse working-class high school, Dude, You're a Fag sheds new light on masculinity both as a field of meaning and as a set of social practices. C. J. Pascoe's unorthodox approach analyzes masculinity as not only a gendered process but also a sexual one. She demonstrates how the \"specter of the fag\" becomes a disciplinary mechanism for regulating heterosexual as well as homosexual boys and how the \"fag discourse\" is as much tied to gender as it is to sexuality.
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A work in progress : a memoir
\"In this intimate memoir of life beyond the camera, YouTube star Connor Franta shares the lessons he has learned on his journey from small-town boy to Internet sensation so far\"-- Provided by publisher.
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COMING OUT: THE HISTORY OF THE LESBIAN MOVEMENT IN MACEIO/SAINDO DO ARMARIO: A HISTORIA DO MOVIMENTO LESBICO EM MACEIO
The goal of this article is to portray the History of the lesbian movement in the city of Maceio, based on the speeches of some activists which were engaged on it from the years of 1990 to 2000. It is characterized as a qualitative research using semi-structured interviews with five activists that were on stage in the period of the emancipation and strengthening of the lesbian movement in the city of Maceio. In addition, it was made a bibliographic review about the movement on national context in order to build parallel between both: local and national History. This research brings us a kind of society that is strongly influenced by the patriarchal model and makes women invisible and oppresses their experiences, particularly the lesbian ones. Whereas, the portraying of these stories enables visibility and protagonism to the strength possessed by the lesbian women resisting on the movements, also their lives and fights.
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Look on the bright side
\"A new year of school is starting, and Brit finds herself struggling with feelings for a seemingly rude boy from class who might have a soft side. Meanwhile, Christine can't deny that she likes her best friend Abby...as more than just a friend. The only question is, does Abby have feelings for Christine, too? And will their feelings for each other mess things up in their friend group? Misunderstandings, betrayal, and jealousy are bound to get in the way. But hey! Look on the bright side: They're in this together. Always. Heartful, romantic, and sizzling with the excitement of navigating first love, Lily Williams and Karen Schneemann's brilliant follow up to Go With the Flow is a bright spot you will not want to miss\"-- Publisher's description.
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Invisible families
Mignon R. Moore brings to light the family life of a group that has been largely invisible—gay women of color—in a book that challenges long-standing ideas about racial identity, family formation, and motherhood. Drawing from interviews and surveys of one hundred black gay women in New York City, Invisible Families explores the ways that race and class have influenced how these women understand their sexual orientation, find partners, and form families. In particular, the study looks at the ways in which the past experiences of women who came of age in the 1960s and 1970s shape their thinking, and have structured their lives in communities that are not always accepting of their openly gay status. Overturning generalizations about lesbian families derived largely from research focused on white, middle-class feminists, Invisible Families reveals experiences within black American and Caribbean communities as it asks how people with multiple stigmatized identities imagine and construct an individual and collective sense of self.
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