Queer history of the ballet

Queer Folk Tales

A long-awaited set of traditional tales focusing solely on the queer community, showing princesses can fall in love with lady bards, warriors with the

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The ABCs of Queer History

A Through-the-Alphabet Celebration of Queer History in the US, from the Publisher of the New York Times Bestseller The ABCs of Black History

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Plane Queer

Beginning with the founding of profession in late 1920s and continuing into post-September 11 era, this title examines the history of men who joined w

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British Queer History

Takes stock of the â€new British queer history’. Topics range from newspaper reporting of sodomy cases, to homoerotic representations in art, t

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British Queer History

Takes stock of the ‘new British queer history’. Topics range from newspaper reporting of sodomy cases, to homoerotic representations in art, to quee

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Short History of Queer Women

Dispensing with the patriarchal bullshit, Kirsty Loehr exposes centuries of outrageous straightwashing

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Queer History of the United States

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Queer Lives across the Wall

Queer Lives across the Wall draws on personal letters, photo albums, and state records in order to tell the history of East and West Berlin in the ear

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Queer Heroes

A beautiful, bold book of biographies celebrating the achievements of LGBT people through history and from around the world.

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Queer Art

Explore LGBTQ+ history with Queer Art, an intoxicating and energetic curation of iconic artworks that express queerness in all its forms, from the twe

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Queer London

A timely and accessible introduction to London's LGBTQ+ scene, past and present. This book delves into the cultural history of queerness in the capita

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Queer Blues

A long-overdue look at the history of LGBTQ communities within early blues, jazz, and soul music. Considers musicians including Ma Rainey, Bessie Smit

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New Directions in Queer Oral History

This comprehensive international collection reflects on the practice, purpose and functionality of queer oral history, and in doing so, demonstrates t

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Queer X Design

Published in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Stonewall and the Gay Pride Parade, this is the first-ever illustrated history of the iconic art,

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British Queer Cinema

Drawing together a range of essays, this is the history of lesbian, gay and queer representation in British cinema. From the early years of 'Pre-Gay,

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Ballet and Modern Dance

A guide to the rich history of western dance in all its incarnations from 16th-century court ballet to the genre-shattering contortions of 21st-centur

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Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day (0099592940)

Kniha - autor Peter Ackroyd, 400 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Peter Ackroyd is our preeminent chronicler of London. In Queer City, he looks at the metropolis in a whole new way – through the history and experiences of its gay population. In Roman Londinium the penis was worshipped and homosexuality was considered admirable. The city was dotted with lupan...

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It Came From the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror - Vallese Joe

Anotace: "Horror opened me up to new possibilities for survival ... I saw power in freakery and transgression and wondered if it could be mine."The relationship between horror films and the LGBTQ+ community? It`s complicated. Haunted houses, forbidden desires and the monstrous can have striking resonance for those who`ve been marginalised. But the genre`s murky history o...

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LGBT Activism and the Making of Europe

This book explores the alleged uniqueness of the European experience, and investigates its ties to a long history of LGBT and queer movements in the r

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Sex in the Archives

This book is an experiment in writing an American sexual history, spanning the spectrum of queer, trans, and the allegedly ‘normal’. The sexual his

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365 Gays of the Year (Plus 1 for a Leap Year)

365 Gays of the Year is a celebration of Queer history told through one LGBTQ+ figure for each day of the year.

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The House of Hidden Meanings: A Memoir - RuPaul

Anotace: From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and personal work to date-a brutally honest, surprisingly poignant, and deeply intimate memoir of growing up Black, poor, and queer in a broken home to discovering the power of performance, found family, and self-acceptance. A profound introspec...

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The House of Hidden Meanings: A Memoir - RuPaul

<p>From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and personal work to date-a brutally honest, surprisingly poignant, and deeply intimate memoir of growing up Black, poor, and queer in a broken home to discovering the power of performance, found family, and self-acceptance. A profound introsp...

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Flung Out of Space - Grace Ellis

<p>Flung Out of Space isa graphic fictionalized account of infamous author Patricia Highsmith caught up in the longing and obsession that would inspire her groundbreaking work of queer fiction, The Price of Salt. New York Times bestselling author Grace Ellis and illustrator Hannah Templer have teamed up to tell Patricia Highsmith’s story through the author’s eyes&a...

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Big Reveal, An Illustrated Manifesto of Drag HarperCollins Publishers Inc

â€Drag embodies the queer possibility that exists within each of us—the infinite ways in which gender, good taste, and art can be lived.†–Sasha VelourThis book is a quilt, piecing together memoir, history, and theory into a living portrait of an artist and an art....

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All the Flowers Kneeling - Paul Tran

<p>A NEW YORKER BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Gorgeous ... intense ... shimmering ... [an] unforgettable collection' Observer'Beautiful, sensuous and plural ... a vital and visceral collection. Breathtaking' Joelle Taylor, author of C+nto &amp; Othered Poems'Brave ... this striking collection ... articulates the unspeakable from various angles ... often nightmarish and dar...

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He Who Drowned the World - Parker-Chan Shelley

Anotace: Mulan meets The Song of Achilles in He Who Drowned the World by Shelley Parker-Chan - a dazzling queer historical fantasy of war and destiny set in an epic alternate China, and sequel to Sunday Times bestselling She Who Became the Sun. What would you give to win the world? Zhu Yuanzhang, the Radiant King, is riding high after her victory - one that tore southe...

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He Who Drowned the World - Shelley Parker-Chan

<p>Mulan meets The Song of Achilles in He Who Drowned the World by Shelley Parker-Chan - a dazzling queer historical fantasy of war and destiny set in an epic alternate China, and sequel to Sunday Times bestselling She Who Became the Sun.What would you give to win the world?Zhu Yuanzhang, the Radiant King, is riding high after her victory – one that tore southern Ch...

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Gender: A Graphic Guide

An exciting new exploration of gender from the creators of the groundbreaking Queer: A Graphic History

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La Nijinska

La Nijinska is the first biography of twentieth-century ballet's premier female choreographer, shedding new light on the modern history of ballet, and

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Sexuality

From the dream team creators of Queer: A Graphic History and Gender: A Graphic Guide.

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Passion and Elegance

The book commences with the history of Indian, Egyptian, Arab, and flamenco dance then compares and contrasts the history of both classical ballet and

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Apollo's Angels

The definitive history of ballet and one of Granta's 2010 bestsellers, Apollo's Angels was ecstatically reviewed on publication.

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Nutcracker

Featuring the full text of Dumas' 'The History of a Nutcracker' - the story that inspired the classic ballet - this book features hundreds of vintage

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Love That Dares

An intimate and inspiring collection of letters revealing some of the greatest queer love stories in history

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Many Struggles

Explores the long history of Black people in Britain, with an emphasis on women, queer projects and political activism

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There's a Disco Ball Between Us

Jafari S. Allen offers a sweeping and lively ethnographic and intellectual history of Black queer politics, culture, and history in the 1980s as they

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Novel Gazing

Offers a collection of queer criticism on the history of the novel. This title includes startingly imaginative essays that explore critical practices

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Fox Tossing, Octopus Wrestling and Other Forgotten Sports

Some of the most dangerous and downright bizarre sports in history brought vividly back to life, from Fox Tossing to Ski Ballet

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Ten

The social history of fashion in 10 items: White T-shirt, Miniskirt, Hoodie, Jeans, Ballet flat, Breton top, Biker jacket, Little black dress, Stilett

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Queeriodic Table

Celebrate the richness of modern queer culture and its vast history with this fascinating introduction to the essential 'queeriodic' elements, from th

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Bars Are Ours

Lucas Hilderbrand offers a panoramic history of gay bars in the United States, demonstrating the central roles that bars have played in queer public l

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Insufferable: Beckett, Gender and Sexuality

This Element brings to Beckett questions that have emerged from gender, queer, and trans theory, engages with the history of feminism and sexuality st

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Menergy

In Menergy, author Louis Niebur offers a fascinating new look at gay history through the sounds of San Francisco's queer nightlife. In doing so he als

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Rainbows, Unicorns, and Triangles

An illustrated guide to LGBTQIA2S+ codes and symbols for children 5+. With an exploration of queer underground culture throughout history to the prese

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Bestiary - Ming Chang

Anotace: Three generations of Taiwanese American women are haunted by the myths of their homeland in this blazing debut of one family's queer desires, violent impulses and buried secrets. One evening, Mother tells Daughter a story about a tiger spirit who lived in a woman's body. Her name was Hu Gu Po, and she hungered to eat children, especially their toes. S...

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Art Since 1900: Modernism * Antimodernism * Postmodernism - Foster Hal

Anotace: Groundbreaking in both its content and its presentation, Art Since 1900 has been hailed as a landmark study in the history of art. Conceived by some of the most influential art historians of our time, this extraordinary book has now been revised, expanded and brought right up to date to include the latest developments in the study and practice of art. With a cl...

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Gender: A Graphic Guide (1785784528)

Kniha - 176 stran, anglicky, Brožovaná bez přebalu matná - autor Meg-John Barker; Julia Scheele, 176 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Join the creators of Queer: A Graphic History (`Could totally change the way you think about sex and gender' VICE) on an illustrated journey of gender exploration. We'll look at how gender has been `done' differently - from pa...

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Payback´s a Witch - Lana Harper

<p> </p> <p>Two witches plot revenge but end up falling in love in this sparkling, magical romantic comedy . . . Emmy Harlow is a witch in exile. She hasn't been home to the magical town of Thistle Grove in years, which has a lot to do with a complicated family history and a desire to forge her own way in the world, and only the very tiniest bit to do ...

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Vagabonds!

VAGABONDS! is a tumultuous and unexpectedly joyous novel of oppression and defiance among the people and spirits of Lagos.'You don't read this novel. You swan dive into it, then gasp in wonder' Marlon James, author of A Brief History of Seven Killings'Spectacular' Akwaeke Emezi, author of Freshwater'This novel astounded me' Dantiel W. Moniz, author of Milk Blood HeatLagos...

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Sizzle Reel: A Novel - Greenwald Carlyn

Anotace: An unputdownable queer coming-of-age rom-com about life and love in Hollywood."This vibrant, sun-drenched romantic comedy is both an irresistible love story and a riveting exploration of Hollywood dynamics." --Rachel Lynn Solomon, New York Times bestselling author of The Ex TalkFor aspiring cinematographer Luna Roth, coming out as bisexual at twenty-four is prov...

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Sizzle Reel: A Novel - Carlyn Greenwald

<p>An unputdownable queer coming-of-age rom-com about life and love in Hollywood. "This vibrant, sun-drenched romantic comedy is both an irresistible love story and a riveting exploration of Hollywood dynamics." --Rachel Lynn Solomon, New York Times bestselling author of The Ex Talk For aspiring cinematographer Luna Roth, coming out as bisexual at twenty...

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