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Author: Eiynah
Publisher:
Published: 2014
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780993806209
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAhmed lives with his parents, baby sister, grandmother, and paternal uncle (chacha) in Karachi, Pakistan. Ahmed's uncle is gay, but Ahmed doesn't love him any less and undertands that the way his mother and father love each other is the same way his uncle loves his boyfriend Faheem.
Author: M. D. Jenkins
Publisher: Cleis Press
Published: 2021-03-09
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 1627785221
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs a closeted teen, Ian wondered if he would ever fall in love or be able to live openly with a male partner. Years later, he had not one but two partners in a polyamorous throuple, and the support of family, friends, and coworkers. But something was still missing. Spurred by a friend’s donation of two embryos, Ian, Alan, and Jeremy embarked on a sometimes hilarious, sometimes tearful quest to become parents. Along the way, they faced IVF failures, the threat of Zika virus, a battle at their clinic that forced them into an urgent hunt for a new doctor, pregnancy-threatening bleeds, costly legal battles, and a reluctant superior court judge. Ultimately the grace of women—embryo donors, their egg donor, their surrogate, even a surprise milk donor—allowed them to complete their family with one perfect girl. And in fighting for their family, they became the first polyamorous family ever named as the legal parents of a child.
Author: Adriaan van Klinken
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2019-11-01
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 0271085606
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPopular narratives cite religion as the driving force behind homophobia in Africa, portraying Christianity and LGBT expression as incompatible. Without denying Christianity’s contribution to the stigma, discrimination, and exclusion of same-sex-attracted and gender-variant people on the continent, Adriaan van Klinken presents an alternative narrative, foregrounding the ways in which religion also appears as a critical site of LGBT activism. Taking up the notion of “arts of resistance,” Kenyan, Christian, Queer presents four case studies of grassroots LGBT activism through artistic and creative expressions—including the literary and cultural work of Binyavanga Wainaina, the “Same Love” music video produced by gay gospel musician George Barasa, the Stories of Our Lives anthology project, and the LGBT-affirming Cosmopolitan Affirming Church. Through these case studies, Van Klinken demonstrates how Kenyan traditions, black African identities, and Christian beliefs and practices are being navigated, appropriated, and transformed in order to allow for queer Kenyan Christian imaginations. Transdisciplinary in scope and poignantly intimate in tone, Kenyan, Christian, Queer opens up critical avenues for rethinking the nature and future of the relationship between Christianity and queer activism in Kenya and elsewhere in Africa.
Author: Libba Bray
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2011-05-24
Total Pages: 472
ISBN-13: 0545388716
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom bestselling, Printz Award-winning author Libba Bray, the story of a plane of beauty pageant contestants that crashes on a desert island.Teen beauty queens. A "Lost"-like island. Mysteries and dangers. No access to emall. And the spirit of fierce, feral competition that lives underground in girls, a savage brutality that can only be revealed by a journey into the heart of non-exfoliated darkness. Oh, the horror, the horror! Only funnier. With evening gowns. And a body count.
Author: Leigh W. Rutledge
Publisher:
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781555834401
DOWNLOAD EBOOKListless debutantes, long-suffering mothers, ruthless social climbers, and women in bras staggering through motel rooms swigging booze straight from the bottle are celebrated alongside Bible heroines mouthing the most staggeringly awful dialogue ever to issue forth from the minds of Hollywood screenwriters in this celebration of the best, worst, and campiest lines from Hollywood's past and present. Get ready to cringe in horror, howl with laughter, and gasp in astonishment at the most memorable collection of movie lines ever assembled.
Author: Rohinton Mistry
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Published: 2010-10-29
Total Pages: 834
ISBN-13: 1551991381
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry’s stunning internationally acclaimed bestseller, is set in mid-1970s India. It tells the story of four unlikely people whose lives come together during a time of political turmoil soon after the government declares a “State of Internal Emergency.” Through days of bleakness and hope, their circumstances – and their fates – become inextricably linked in ways no one could have foreseen. Mistry’s prose is alive with enduring images and a cast of unforgettable characters. Written with compassion, humour, and insight, A Fine Balance is a vivid, richly textured, and powerful novel written by one of the most gifted writers of our time.
Author: Roald Dahl
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2012-08-28
Total Pages: 239
ISBN-13: 1101605421
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMeet Oswald Hendryks Cornelius, Roald Dahl's most disgraceful and extraordinary character . . . Aside from being thoroughly debauched, strikingly attractive and astonishingly wealthy, Uncle Oswald was the greatest bounder, bon vivant and fornicator of all time. In this instalment of his scorchingly frank memoirs he tells of his early career and erotic education at the hands of a number of enthusiastic teachers, of discovering the invigorating properties of the Sudanese Blister Beetle, and of the gorgeous Yasmin Howcomely, his electrifying partner in a most unusual series of thefts . . . 'Raunchy and cheeky entertainment' Sunday Express 'Immense fun' Daily Telegraph Roald Dahl, the brilliant and worldwide acclaimed author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, and many more classics for children, also wrote scores of short stories for adults. These delightfully disturbing tales have often been filmed and were most recently the inspiration for the West End play, Roald Dahl's Twisted Tales by Jeremy Dyson. Roald Dahl's stories continue to make readers shiver today.
Author: Shakuntala Devi
Publisher: New Delhi : Vikas Publishing House
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA sympathetic investigation of the world of the gay, containing personal interviews with homosexuals in India and abroad.
Author: Suryakant Tripathi Nirala
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2018-03-05
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9352774965
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSuryakant Tripathi 'Nirala', the first modern Hindi poet of India, is all of sixteen and not conversant with the Khari Boli Hindi of the litterateurs yet when his father gets him married and sends him off to his in-laws' in Dalmau to fetch his bride. There he meets a strange man called Kulli Bhaat who claims descent from a family of bards and, despite his mother-in-law's reservations about Kulli's sexuality, Nirala finds himself drawn to Kulli. Then an influenza epidemic breaks out, claiming numerous lives, and Nirala's bereavement leaves him without mooring. Adrift on the boat of time, he seeks employment in various places but finds himself unable to stay away from Dalmau for long. Kulli, in the meanwhile, has taken a Muslim wife and become a champion of the untouchables. Set in pre-Independence India, A Life Misspent is as much the account of an unlikely friendship as it is a coming-of-age story. A memoir on the making of one of the greatest poets of all time.
Author: Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2016-03-22
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 0813576423
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner of the 2017 Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies from the Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS) From Caitlyn Jenner to Laverne Cox, transgender people have rapidly gained public visibility, contesting many basic assumptions about what gender and embodiment mean. The vibrant discipline of Trans Studies explores such challenges in depth, building on the insights of queer and feminist theory to raise provocative questions about the relationships among gender, sexuality, and accepted social norms. Trans Studies is an interdisciplinary essay collection, bringing together leading experts in this burgeoning field and offering insights about how transgender activism and scholarship might transform scholarship and public policy. Taking an intersectional approach, this theoretically sophisticated book deeply grounded in real-world concerns bridges the gaps between activism and academia by offering examples of cutting-edge activism, research, and pedagogy.
