Excerpt from publisher's book description: "Drawing on new archival material, original research, and interviews, this spellbinding book is the first major biography of James Baldwin in three decades, revealing how profoundly his personal relationships shaped his life and work."
Excerpt from publisher's book description: "Organized into 4 parts paralleling today’s controversies over gender identity (kids, activists, workers, and athletes), Before Gender introduces [30] figures whose forgotten stories transform the discussion: Mark and David Ferrow, 2 of the first trans teens to access gender-affirming medical treatment following overwhelming support from their friends, family, and neighbors; Gerda von Zobeltitz, a trans countess who instigated an LGBTQ+ riot 40 years before Stonewall; Frank Williams, a young trans man who was fired from over a dozen jobs for his gender; [and] Frances Anderson, the world’s greatest female billiards player of the 1910s."
Description: "A collection of subject-coded materials charting the gay rights movement in America, showing the civil rights codified into law in the 20th and 21st centuries, as well as the inequalities that still exist today. "
Non-profit Lambda Legal reviewed its archives to create this book for its 50th anniversary. "Dozens of 'game-changing' legal cases winning and shaping the civil rights of the LGBTQ community are presented alongside a collection of curated archival material and historical images, chronicling the history and vital mission of the organization to advocate for the free and equal lives of LGBTQ people and people living with HIV."
In this book's Preface, author Eric Marcus notes: "This is a selective oral history, an assortment of recollections representing a cross-section of people...."
Excerpt from publisher's book description: "So Many Stars knits together the voices of [20] trans, nonbinary, genderqueer, and two-spirit elders of color as they share authentic, intimate accounts of how they created space for themselves and their communities in the world."
Summary: "Explores the dramatic event that launched a worldwide rights movement. When police raided a Mafia-run gay bar in Greenwich Village, the Stonewall Inn on June 28, 1969, gay men and women did something they had not done before: they fought back. As the streets of New York erupted into violent protests and street demonstrations, the collective anger announced that the gay rights movement had arrived."
Excerpt from publisher's book description: "Hugh Ryan’s When Brooklyn Was Queer is a groundbreaking exploration of the LGBT history of Brooklyn, from the early days of Walt Whitman in the 1850s up through the queer women who worked at the Brooklyn Navy Yard during World War II, and beyond."
Excerpt from 9.21.2022 description of a BLS book talk/discussion: "'When I first started researching queer history, over and over again the trail led me back to prisons, as places of confinement, as places of community, and as vast unexplored archives of LGBTQ history,' said historian and curator Hugh Ryan, during an in-person Sept. 19 book talk, at Brooklyn Law School’s Subotnick Center, attended by more than 100 people." Kate Mogulescu, BLS Professor of Clinical Law and Director of the Criminal Defense & Advocacy Clinic, moderated this event and the BLS Center for Criminal Justice sponsored it.