Homo Thug
Author : Asante Kahari
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,74 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Author : Asante Kahari
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,74 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Author : Shane Allison
Publisher : STARbooks Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 14,63 MB
Release : 2010-12-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1934187798
Packed with dangerous thugs in tattered jeans, leather-clad jackets and gang colours and promising hot sex under the threat of a switch blade, these sizzling stories pay homage to the bad boys of the night who keep the streets (and a lot of other locales) sultry and erotically dangerous. Edited by popular author Shane Allison, Homo Thugs includes stories by Christopher Pierce, Jay Starre, Peter Eros, Landon Dixon and many more seasoned writers, who capture the sleazier side of the masculine brutes from gay gangbangers to queer mob bosses and pimps on the down low.
Author : Asante Kahari
Publisher : Aaron Fraser
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 24,80 MB
Release : 2003
Category : African American gays
ISBN :
Author : Vanessa R. Panfil
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 23,53 MB
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1479857106
Honorable Mention, 2018 Distinguished Book Award presented by the American Sociological Association’s Sociology of Sexualities Section The first inside look at gay gang members. Many people believe that gangs are made up of violent thugs who are in and out of jail, and who are hyper-masculine and heterosexual. In The Gang’s All Queer, Vanessa Panfil introduces us to a different world. Meet gay gang members – sometimes referred to in popular culture as “homo thugs” – whose gay identity complicates criminology’s portrayal and representation of gangs, gang members, and gang life. In vivid detail, Panfil provides an in-depth understanding of how gay gang members construct and negotiate both masculine and gay identities through crime and gang membership. The Gang’s All Queer draws from interviews with over 50 gay gang- and crime-involved young men in Columbus, Ohio, the majority of whom are men of color in their late teens and early twenties, as well as on-the-ground ethnographic fieldwork with men who are in gay, hybrid, and straight gangs. Panfil provides an eye-opening portrait of how even members of straight gangs are connected to a same-sex oriented underground world. Most of these young men still present a traditionally masculine persona and voice deeply-held affection for their fellow gang members. They also fight with their enemies, many of whom are in rival gay gangs. Most come from impoverished, ‘rough’ neighborhoods, and seek to defy negative stereotypes of gay and Black men as deadbeats, though sometimes through illegal activity. Some are still closeted to their fellow gang members and families, yet others fight to defend members of the gay community, even those who they deem to be “fags,” despite distaste for these flamboyant members of the community. And some perform in drag shows or sell sex to survive. The Gang’s All Queer poignantly illustrates how these men both respond to and resist societal marginalization. Timely, powerful, and engaging, this book will challenge us to think differently about gangs, gay men, and urban life.
Author : Vanessa R. Panfil
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 40,41 MB
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1479870021
Many people believe that gangs are made up of violent thugs who are in and out of jail, and who are hyper-masculine and heterosexual. Vanessa Panfil introduces us to a different world. Meet gay gang members - sometimes referred to in popular culture as "homo thugs" - whose gay identity complicates criminology's portrayal and representation of gangs, gang members, and gang life. In vivid detail, Panfil provides an in-depth understanding of how gay gang members construct and negotiate both masculine and gay identities through crime and gang membership. She draws from interviews with over 50 gay gang- and crime-involved young men in Columbus, Ohio, the majority of whom are men of color in their late teens and early twenties, as well as on-the-ground ethnographic fieldwork with men who are in gay, hybrid, and straight gangs. Panfil provides an eye-opening portrait of how even members of straight gangs are connected to a same-sex oriented underground world. Most of these young men still present a traditionally masculine persona and voice deeply-held affection for their fellow gang members. They also fight with their enemies, many of whom are in rival gay gangs. Most come from impoverished, 'rough' neighborhoods, and seek to defy negative stereotypes of gay and Black men as deadbeats, though sometimes through illegal activity. Some are still closeted to their fellow gang members and families, yet others fight to defend members of the gay community, even those who they deem to be "fags, " despite distaste for these flamboyant members of the community.
Author : Huw Lemmey
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 27,80 MB
Release : 2023-05-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1839763280
An unconventional history of homosexuality We all remember Oscar Wilde, but who speaks for Bosie? What about those ‘bad gays’ whose unexemplary lives reveal more than we might expect? Many popular histories seek to establish homosexual heroes, pioneers, and martyrs but, as Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller argue, the past is filled with queer people whose sexualities and dastardly deeds have been overlooked despite their being informative and instructive. Based on the hugely popular podcast series of the same name, Bad Gays asks what we can learn about LGBTQ+ history, sexuality and identity through its villains, failures, and baddies. With characters such as the Emperor Hadrian, anthropologist Margaret Mead and notorious gangster Ronnie Kray, the authors tell the story of how the figure of the white gay man was born, and how he failed. They examine a cast of kings, fascist thugs, artists and debauched bon viveurs. Imperial-era figures Lawrence of Arabia and Roger Casement get a look-in, as do FBI boss J. Edgar Hoover, lawyer Roy Cohn, and architect Philip Johnson. Together these amazing life stories expand and challenge mainstream assumptions about sexual identity: showing that homosexuality itself was an idea that emerged in the nineteenth century, one central to major historical events. Bad Gays is a passionate argument for rethinking gay politics beyond questions of identity, compelling readers to search for solidarity across boundaries.
Author : Abram Ray Jackson
Publisher :
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 15,31 MB
Release : 2007
Category : African American gay men
ISBN :
Author : Anthony London
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 31,38 MB
Release : 2015-08-25
Category :
ISBN : 9781517167721
Jordan Adams a young bi racial African American and Hispanic graduates high school and at the height of his life feels like he's finally becoming a man. On a wild night with his friends he ends up meeting what unexpectedly becomes his lover and shares with his new found friend "Santos" something special he had been holding on to. Jordan lands a new job as his life seems to be falling into place. An unsuspected night of sex, drugs and partying just might change everything. Find out where love, sex, drugs and lust leave Jordan and Santos, in this short story, "A Thugs First Time".
Author : Mike Frost
Publisher : Mike Frost
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 49,85 MB
Release : 2011-01-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1456389432
David Werden wants nothing more than to lead a quiet, ordinary life. But his world is turned upside down when an unknown event changes the face of the planet. Realizing he cannot live alone in the ruins of the old world, and compelled by a strange internal force to reach the sea, he sets out on foot, carrying what he can, struggling against the harsh post-apocalyptic environment to search out others who may still be alive. Thrust into the leadership of a band of survivors, David struggles to scratch out the necessities of life while dealing with the staggering destruction and overwhelming sense of loss - and begins to understand the tragic and marvelous events that have occurred to the planet and to humanity itself. Finding love and betrayal, he must fight those who cling to the old world with all their strength and those who wish to stamp out the growing number of people coming to terms with their new levels of perception and insight into the Universal Mind.
Author : Masha Gessen
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 21,35 MB
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 159463453X
WINNER OF THE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTION FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS WINNER OF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY'S HELEN BERNSTEIN BOOK AWARD NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2017 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, LOS ANGELES TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, BOSTON GLOBE, SEATTLE TIMES, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR, NEWSWEEK, PASTE, and POP SUGAR The essential journalist and bestselling biographer of Vladimir Putin reveals how, in the space of a generation, Russia surrendered to a more virulent and invincible new strain of autocracy. Award-winning journalist Masha Gessen's understanding of the events and forces that have wracked Russia in recent times is unparalleled. In The Future Is History, Gessen follows the lives of four people born at what promised to be the dawn of democracy. Each of them came of age with unprecedented expectations, some as the children and grandchildren of the very architects of the new Russia, each with newfound aspirations of their own--as entrepreneurs, activists, thinkers, and writers, sexual and social beings. Gessen charts their paths against the machinations of the regime that would crush them all, and against the war it waged on understanding itself, which ensured the unobstructed reemergence of the old Soviet order in the form of today's terrifying and seemingly unstoppable mafia state. Powerful and urgent, The Future Is History is a cautionary tale for our time and for all time.