Customer Review: I have watched this DVD more times than I can count. Now am reading the book, makes you really think about. What else have we been persuaded to look the other way about? There seems to be an awful lot of cover ups that go on in our government, CDC and the drug industry. E Teal
Customer Review: While E. J. Graff gives a broad social history of marriage, she does not delve deeply enough into the religious history of marriage which leads to errors in her arguments. From her book, one could conclude that the Catholic Church did not consider marriage to be a sacrament until the 13th century.... more info
Customer Review: I read the 1981 edition of the 1980 book. With 448 pages the book appears to be exhaustive. However, subtract the bibliography etc. and the 67 p appendixes of quoted and/or translated historic documents and we are left with 338 pages. These in turn have to get halved, because of the extensive... more info
Customer Review: George Chauncey has written an engaging and informative book that provides entry into another American era's conceptualizations of what we today think of as homosexuality. Gay New York takes great pains to debunk what Chauncey terms "the three myths" of isolation (gay men led solitary lives... more info
Customer Review: While this book is an asset in learning about lesbian history it is seriously lacking in connecting ideas and seperating fact from oppinion. While some points are made well there are some that are so far off that they devalue what ever point the author was trying to make.
Customer Review: Written in the first person, this book describes in vivid detail the horror of day to day life in a Nazi concentration camp. It's one man's eyewitness account of the camps, the death and degradation he faced on a daily basis, and how he clung to his humanity ~ and his life ~ against such unbearable... more info
Customer Review: In reviewing other reviews of this book, it's apparent that those approving of it / objecting to it are mostly people who approve of / object to same-sex marriage. Which tells us little about the book's veracity or validity. There are no truly neutral observers, simply variations in the degree... more info
Customer Review: This is one of the early books dealing with the bible and homosexuality written in 1983 just after John Boswell's book (Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality, 1980. In his commentary on 1 Corinthians Gordon D Fee says that this book "is a model of fairness to all sides". The book is... more info
Customer Review: Miller, Neil. "Out of the Past: Gay and Lesbian History from 1869 to the Present". Advocate Books, revised edition, 2008. Reclaiming Our History Amos Lassen I would be willing to guess that many members of the GLBT community do not know a lot about out history and we have a wonderful... more info