For many years, Edward Tejirian has been like a twentieth century Sherlock Holmes, tracking down the clues to the development of sexuality and gender identity. In MALE TO MALE he ignores the orthodox view that sexuality is biologically determined, instead viewing masculinity and sexual orientation as a path which men can choose, but only when society allows it. The confessions, he elicits from his subjects - young, straight, or straight-acting men - who recount homoerotic dreams and daydreams make this book a spellbinding read.

Homosexual Rites of Passage: A Road to Visibility and Validation will help you, as a gay or lesbian individual, work through identity issues, come out, and become visible in a healthy and safe manner. You will find this unique book to be an excellent resource for validation and support during your courageous acts of personal growth. Furthermore, you will discover a positive affirmation of homosexual identities as well as issues that impede or prevent your positive homosexual identity formation. Homosexual Rites of Passage facilitates your journey toward visibility and personal validation by...

Take a journey toward visibility and personal validation Homosexual Rites of Passage will help readers work through confusing identity issues, come out, and become socially visible in a healthy and safe manner. This uplifting source of guidance and support examines the essential relationship between homosexual identity development and rites of passage, or the life experiences and events that mark emotional, familial, and growth transitions in life. Readers will discover how important these rituals are in order to recognize the stages of homosexual identity formation, define a view of self...

Rather than a scholarly analysis of the mid-life issues of gay men, this volume offers 16 diverse personal perspectives on this developmental juncture. Ellis (Harvey Milk Institute, San Francisco State U.) introduces the theme of confronting stereotypes of aging gay men. Bay area psychotherapist-columnist Tom Moon writes of his spiritual growth wit

Today, that literary blindness is being remedied. Take an in-depth look into the lives of fifteen gay men and how they relate to their own ageing with GAY MEN AT MIDLIFE, a fascinating new book that explores and clarifies the issues that confront gay men as they age. The 15 essays presented here offer a realistic picture of both the challenges and the joys that present themselves in the lives of gay men at midlife. Without glossing over the difficulties of the experience, readers will truly come to understand that each gay man is not alone in confronting the pain and mourning that may...

An imagined series of conversations between the author and a fictional male prostitute. Whatever insights the study contains are obscured by the author's clumsy attempt to invent characters and dialogue. Paper edition (0-918393-96-5), $8.95. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

A vivid picture of gay men's domestic violence (including personal narratives written by one of the authors), defining what it is and what it is not through lists of violent acts and criminal code categories, and by examining and analyzing the criminal, mental health, medical, political, and interpe

Here is the most comprehensive empirical study ever published about male prostitutes and their clients. Written by one of the most distinguished international scholars in psychiatry and criminal justice, this book provides a carefully designed presentation of in-depth interviews with several hundred London rent boys. The interviews included a large sample of one-to-one conversations in a private room tape-recorded with the consent of the interviewees. Dr. West and his colleague, Mr. de Villiers, bring you squarely into the everyday lives of male prostitutes and cover little known details of...

Among all the literature published on gays in the military, Steven Zeeland s first book remains one of a kind. Barrack Buddies and Soldier Lovers is a raw, unsanitized personal record of conversations the author had with young soldiers and airmen stationed in Frankfurt, Germany. Zeeland s intimate involvement with these men enabled him to document in honest, visceral terms the day-to-day reality of gay military men s lives and how they work, play, and, in many instances, how the military actually helped them come out.

Ironically, despite the military s antigay policies, these men...

Soon to be translated into Japanese The Bisexual Option explores bisexuality, explains the bisexual, and explodes myths surrounding this large "unseen" segment of the population. Now in its second edition, this intriguing book gives an overview of bisexuality. As there is still no book that covers the subject like this one, it is must reading for establishing a contemporary view of bisexuality and those committed to a bisexual lifestyle. Fritz Klein, an experienced psychiatrist and expert in bisexuality and sexual orientation, explains the concept and the variables of sexual orientation and...