{"title":"LGBTQ+","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780593083987","title":"Stonewall","description":"On June 28, 1969, the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York's Greenwich Village, was raided by police. But instead of responding with the routine compliance the NYPD expected, patrons and a growing crowd decided to fight back. The five days of rioting that ensued changed forever the face of gay and lesbian life. In Stonewall, renowned historian and activist Martin Duberman tells the full story of this pivotal moment in history. With riveting narrative skill, he recreates those revolutionary, sweltering nights in vivid detail through the lives of six people who were drawn into the struggle for LGBTQ rights.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43201779269810,"sku":"9780593083987","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780593083987_e8e576c3-bd45-453d-aeba-5d0728d2e0dd.jpg?v=1786015219"},{"product_id":"9780751585940","title":"PS Burn this Letter Please","description":"\u003ci\u003eTheir greatest act of resistance was simply existing.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Drags, fags and trans-women were attracted to the Big Apple because they were able to find work as impersonators in a small number of Lower East Side clubs.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Decades before Stonewall, they occupied the margins of society, determined to live as they pleased, despite of the attentions of the police. Sometimes reduced to stealing to get their costumes, these girls were unstoppable, fearless and fabulous.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e When a cache of their letters were discovered, these individuals were given a voice where they had traditionally been silenced. The letters they wrote bear witness to a time when gay community was hard to find.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Blending social, political and cultural history with memoir, this book is an unforgettable and deeply moving encounter with a generation of incredible survivors and a necessary account of how modern drag culture was born.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43204040097970,"sku":"9780751585940","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780751585940_c72420cc-903b-4657-85ec-5248d4768cd7.jpg?v=1786016178"},{"product_id":"9781629637969","title":"Queercore","description":"Through exclusive interviews, never-before-seen photographs and reprinted zines from the time, Queercore traces the history of a scene fabricated by a few young queer punks to its emergence as a real revolution. Queercore is a first-hand account of the movement explored through the people that lived it - from punk's early queer elements to the emergence of riot grrrl as a sister movement - as well as the clothes, zines, art, film, and music that made this movement an exciting in-your-face middle finger to complacent gay and straight society.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43204928700594,"sku":"9781629637969","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781629637969_65c7a32d-912e-4003-959b-3e46458f49e8.jpg?v=1786023709"},{"product_id":"9781789145618","title":"Outrageous! – The Story of Section 28 and Britain′s Battle for LGBT Education","description":"‘Baker’s chatty, tart tone and personal asides serve to throw the heady  extremes of a not-so-distant era into even sharper relief.’ – BBC History Magazine‘Peppered with wry asides and anecdotes.’ – History Revealed magazine‘An important and fascinating deep dive into one of the most damaging pieces of legislation in modern history.’ – Matthew Todd, author of Straight Jacket and Pride‘A lovely conversational social history.’ – Paul Flynn, author of Good As YouOn 23 May 1988, Paul Baker sat down with his family to eat cake on his sixteenth birthday while The Six O’Clock News played in the background. But something was not quite right. There was muffled shouting – ‘Stop Section 28!’ – and a scuffle. The morning papers would announce: ‘Beeb Man Sits on Lesbian’.   The next day Section 28 passed into law, forbidding local authorities from teaching ‘the acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship’. It would send shockwaves through British society, silencing gay pupils and teachers while galvanizing mass protests and the formation of the LGBTQ+ rights groups OutRage! and Stonewall.   Outrageous! tells the full story: the background to the Act, how the press fanned the flames and what politicians said during debates, how protestors fought back to bring about the repeal of the law in the 2000s, and its eventual legacy. Based on detailed research, interviews with key figures – including Ian McKellen, Michael Cashman and Angela Mason – and personal recollection, it is an impassioned, warm, often moving account of unthinkable prejudice enshrined within law, and of the power of community to overcome it.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43205509251250,"sku":"9781789145618","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781789145618.jpg?v=1786026540"},{"product_id":"9780714151007","title":"A Little Gay History","description":"How old is the oldest chat-up line between men? Who was the first ‘lesbian’? Were ancient Greek men who had sex together necessarily ‘gay’? And what did Shakespeare think about cross-dressing? A Little Gay History takes objects ranging from Ancient Egyptian papyri and the erotic scenes on the Roman Warren Cup to images by modern artists including David Hockney and Bhupen Khakhar to consider questions such as these. Explored are the issues behind forty artefacts from ancient times to the present, and from cultures across the world, to ask a question that concerns us all: how easily can we recognize love in history?","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43403449335986,"sku":"9780714151007","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780714151007_fb4dc1b7-c389-4841-9dcc-b4a9adb901b0.jpg?v=1786015251"},{"product_id":"9780744087352","title":"Gay Science","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Bestseller\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eComedian Rob Anderson examines queer stereotypes and LGBTQ+ culture with humorous explanations borrowed from real principles across multiple fields of science.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eClass is in session, babe! Discover the inner workings of the LGBTQ+ community with this humorous and informative book. Author and comedian Rob Anderson borrows the familiar science textbook format to skewer ridiculous queer stereotypes with his own version of science.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUsing the principles of natural, social, and formal sciences, Rob answers extremely serious questions like: Why can’t gays sit in a chair properly? Why don’t lesbians have electricity in their movies? Are colleges turning people bisexual? How does gaydar work? Will bottoms survive the apocalypse? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYou’ll read about the three subtypes of the gay uncle species, examine the Periodic Table of LGBTQ+ Elements, understand gay crime and punishment, and get educated on the types of bacteria and viruses that exclusively affect the LGBTQs, like the state of Florida.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInspired by his viral “Gay Science” series, Rob recreates some of his most popular episodes in a literary format, and also tackles completely fresh subjects, presenting them with super empirical and totally evidence-based homosexual data.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGay Science\u003c\/i\u003e includes:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCoverage of 60 topics across 29 fields of science including biology, chemistry, physics, genetics, botany, nutrition, astronomy, anthropology, oceanography, sociology, criminology, engineering, computer science, and more!\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInformative sidebars including Get PrePared, The Tea, Serving Conclusions, The Gloss, Yas or Naur, Fagtoids, and A Lesbian Explains.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDiagrams, charts, illustrations, and maps to explain the gayest concepts.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRob Anderson is course-correcting decades of educational shortcomings by explaining the scientific reasonings behind every aspect of LGBTQ+ life. If you’re looking for a fun book that will probably be banned (if it isn’t already), add \u003ci\u003eGay Science\u003c\/i\u003e to your personal lesson plan.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44203556176050,"sku":"9780744087352","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780744087352_59153ec3-4ad1-4be9-bf69-7b708a33e6ac.jpg?v=1786014925"},{"product_id":"9780738776101","title":"Queer Rites","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEmbrace Your Personal Power with 20 Queer-Specific Rituals\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eQueer people go through all kinds of unique milestones and rites of passage as we grow into our true selves. Whether you are coming out, attending your first Pride parade, or changing your pronouns, this book will help you enter these rites of passage thoughtfully and spiritually.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eExplore rituals for honoring chosen family, going through gender transition milestones, exploring and affirming your gender and sexuality, entering your first queer relationship, and more. Enhance your rituals with a variety of magickal allies, including deities and community ancestors (such as queer activists and leaders).\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eRegardless of your skill level or spiritual tradition, \u003cem\u003eQueer Rites\u003c\/em\u003e makes it simple to connect your lived experiences to your magickal practice and commemorate occasions in a way that resonates with your unique and wonderful self.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIncludes a foreword by Ariana Serpentine, author of Sacred Gender, and rituals by guest writers Storm Faerywolf, Misha Magdalene, Brandon Weston, and Rev. Ron Padrón\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54926511210869,"sku":"9780738776101","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780738776101_ea39f21f-4270-4a01-b829-1f49950008fc.jpg?v=1786016246"},{"product_id":"9780349704616","title":"Thank You For Calling the Lesbian Line","description":"*Shortlisted for the 2026 GORDON BURN PRIZE**'Compelling, funny, intelligent . . . Thank You for Calling the Lesbian Line is a remarkable piece of work.' Kerry Hudson, Observer'Utterly essential queer reading.' Lucy Rose, author of THE LAMB'Deliciously informative and rigorously researched . . . I loved it.' Julia Bell, author of DIRTY WORKWith warmth and humour, Elizabeth Lovatt reimagines the women who both called and volunteered for the Lesbian Line in the 1990s while also tracing her own journey from accidentally coming out to disastrous dates to finding her chosen family. With callers and agents alike dealing with first crushes and breakups, sex and marriage, loneliness and illness (or simply the need to know the name of a gay bar on a night out), this is a celebration of the ordinary lives of queer women. Thank You for Calling the Lesbian Line is a timely and vital exploration of how lesbian identity continues to remake and redefine itself in the 21st century and where it might lead us in the future.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54926517830005,"sku":"9780349704616","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780349704616_c9c52681-e078-4604-816e-d8672431ea06.jpg?v=1786013457"},{"product_id":"9781836430803","title":"A Short History of Queer Parenting","description":"\u003cb\u003eA funny, bullshit-free and surprising history\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eQueer families have always existed\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eEven Sappho, the OG lesbian, had a daughter named Cleis, in honour of vaginas everywhere! For centuries, the women of ‘The Golden Orchid Society’ in Qing-dynasty China were getting married and raising daughters together – platonically, obviously... And Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson’s fabulously bisexual open marriage proved women really can have it all – a husband, two kids, a writing career \u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e Viriginia Woolf.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eMaybe you’re exploring your options. Maybe you don’t want kids but you have \u003ci\u003equestions\u003c\/i\u003e. Either way, Kirsty Loehr provides another rollicking guide to the ups and downs of queer parenthood through the ages.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55896478974325,"sku":"9781836430803","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781836430803_da2ada0b-49e5-4100-8392-d32e5386469a.jpg?v=1786028121"},{"product_id":"9780197535660","title":"The Case for Gay Reparations","description":"A compelling and timely vision for gay reparations in the United StatesIn the last two decades many nations have adopted \"gay reparations,\" or policies intended to make amends for a history of discrimination, stigmatization, and violence on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. Far from being a homogenous or uniform phenomenon, gay reparations encompass a small constellation of approaches including a formal apology to the LGBT community for past wrongdoing, financial compensation for victims of anti-LGBT laws and actions, and the erection of monuments to the memory of those who suffered because of structural homophobia. The United States, however, has been reluctant to embrace gay reparations, making the country something of an outlier among Western democracies.Beyond making the case for gay reparations in the United States, this book explores a wide range of questions provoked by the rise of the gay reparations movement. Among these questions, three stand out for what they reveal about the puzzling and complex nature of this new front in the struggle for LGBT equality. Why, after centuries of attempts to marginalize, dehumanize, and even eradicate LGBT people, are governments coming around to confront this dark and painful historical legacy? How do we make sense of the diversity of gay reparations being implemented by governments around the world? And, finally, what would an American policy of gay reparations look like?Omar G. Encarnación draws upon the rich history of reparations to confront the legacies of genocide, slavery, and political repression and argue that gay reparations are a moral obligation intended to restore dignity to those whose human rights have been violated because of their sexual orientation and gender identity. Reparations are also necessary to close painful chapters of anti-LGBT discrimination and violence and to remind future generations of past struggles for LGBT equality. To this end, he traces America's dark and painful LGBT history--from colonial-era laws criminalizing homosexual conduct, to a postwar ban on homosexuals working in the federal bureaucracy, to the government's support of the junk-science underpinning the practice of \"gay conversion\" therapy promoted by the Christian Right.The book also examines how other Western democracies notorious for their repression of homosexuals--specifically Spain, Britain, and Germany--have implemented gay reparations. These foreign experiences reveal potential pathways for gay reparations in the United States. More importantly, they show that while there is no universal approach to gay reparations it is never too late for countries to seek to right past wrongs.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56226024391029,"sku":"9780197535660","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780197535660_1297593d-8d74-4b63-aa49-82c9075c3422.jpg?v=1786011334"},{"product_id":"9780226139395","title":"Unlimited Intimacy – Reflections on the Subculture of Barebacking","description":"Barebacking - when gay men deliberately abandon condoms and embrace unprotected sex - has incited a great deal of shock, outrage, anger, and even disgust, but very little contemplation. Purposely flying in the face of decades of safe-sex campaigning and HIV\/AIDS awareness initiatives, barebacking is unquestionably radical behavior, behavior that most people would rather condemn than understand. Thus the time is ripe for \"Unlimited Intimacy\", Tim Dean's riveting investigation into barebacking and the distinctive subculture that has grown around it. Audacious and undeniably provocative, Dean's profoundly reflective account is neither a manifesto nor an apology; instead, it is a searching analysis that tests the very limits of the study of sex in the twenty-first century. Dean's extensive research into the subculture provides a tour of the scene's bars, sex clubs, and Web sites; offers an explicit but sophisticated analysis of its pornography; and, documents his own personal experiences in the culture.   But ultimately, it is HIV that animates the controversy around barebacking, and \"Unlimited Intimacy\" explores how barebackers think about transmitting the virus - especially the idea that deliberately sharing it establishes a new network of kinship among the infected. According to Dean, intimacy makes us vulnerable, exposes us to emotional risk, and forces us to drop our psychological barriers. As a committed experiment in intimacy without limits - one that makes those metaphors of intimacy quite literal - barebacking thus says a great deal about how intimacy works. Written with a fierce intelligence and uncompromising nerve, \"Unlimited Intimacy\" will prove to be a milestone in our understanding of sexual behavior.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56227513237877,"sku":"9780226139395","price":26.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780226139395_bd39e585-9987-4e66-8647-d3ad9476c9b5.jpg?v=1786012314"},{"product_id":"9780241633816","title":"It’s Not Hysteria","description":"\u003cp\u003eDid you know that up to 90% of women experience menstrual abnormalities or pelvic problems in their lifetime? Yet these issues are overwhelmingly misunderstood, misdiagnosed, or dismissed. Conditions such as PCOS, endometriosis, fibroids, ovarian cysts, PMDD, or pelvic floor dysfunction, don’t receive the stream of funding for research and new treatments that other conditions do, despite affecting up to half the population.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIt's Not Hysteria \u003c\/i\u003eshares critical knowledge that anyone impacted by these conditions desperately needs. Covering everything from the anatomy and reproductive health basics you wish you learned at school, to issues such as abnormal periods, PCOS, endometriosis, and fibroids, to more complex aspects of gynaecologic care like fertility, sexual health, and hysterectomies. Dr Tang's accessible advice empowers readers to take action and advocate for themselves with healthcare professionals.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt a turbulent time when global health, reproductive, and human rights are under siege, Dr Tang is determined to revolutionise how gynaecologic health and pelvic pain are treated by the medical community. This book will be part of the fight for the healthcare all people with uteruses deserve - healthcare that is intersectional, gender-affirming, validating and hopeful.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56229763580277,"sku":"9780241633816","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780241633816_dd177cbf-c8ee-4be5-bff3-514c9f1821f1.jpg?v=1786012526"},{"product_id":"9780262049870","title":"More Butch Heroes","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe much-anticipated sequel to \u003ci\u003eButch Heroes\u003c\/i\u003e, an ingenious retelling of history that combines portraits and texts to recover—and celebrate—queer subjects from around the world.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIngeniously conceived, Ria Brodell’s \u003ci\u003eButch Heroes\u003c\/i\u003e books recover and celebrate queer subjects obscured or misrepresented within the dominant narratives of history. \u003ci\u003eMore Butch Heroes\u003c\/i\u003e presents 15 original paintings and biographies in the style of the first volume, \u003ci\u003eButch Heroes\u003c\/i\u003e: slyly subverted Catholic holy cards featuring individuals who were assigned female at birth but who presented as masculine.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this book, we meet queer individuals in their everyday lives, relaxing or working, enduring their struggles (which sometimes led to death or punishment), or simply living their lives with their partners or pets: Esther Eng stands with her camera in front of the Mandarin Theatre in San Francisco where she worked in the box office as a child. Tom fishes on the Fraser River in British Columbia. Joe sits astride his horse, ready for a day's work in southwestern Idaho.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBrodell uses the format of the holy card in its traditional sense, as a means of remembrance and reverence, but also as a way to memorialize those who were often unjustly persecuted by the church. Each deeply researched portrait draws from social class, occupation, clothing, and environmental details of the time period, as well as artifacts, maps, journals, drawings, prints, or photos. For Brodell, who was raised Catholic, these queer holy figures act as retrospective replacements for the role models they wish they had known.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56231670284661,"sku":"9780262049870","price":23.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780262049870_93e333cd-7a43-4162-a293-20e156378e01.jpg?v=1786012459"},{"product_id":"9780253208781","title":"The Practice of Love","description":"\u003cp\u003e\" . . . a work that builds a substantial bridge between Freudian psychoanalysis and radical feminist thought, particularly on the subject of lesbianism. . . . Presenting a complex argument about an issue vital to the psychoanalytic endeavor as well as to feminist theory, \u003ci\u003eThe Practice of Love\u003c\/i\u003e should stimulate a reconsideration of 'perversion' and the construction of sexual fantasy. The illumination of the fantasies that make lesbian desire distinctive will necessarily open up our understanding of all sexuality.\" —Jessica Benjamin, New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e \"Teresa de Lauretis has entwined three books into one: a critical history of psychoanalytic theories of female homosexuality; a bold study of how lesbians keep disappearing from popular culture, especially film; and an original speculation on the dynamics of lesbian desire.\" —Elisabeth Young-Bruehl\u003cbr\u003e \"An important and original contribution not only to lesbian and gay studies, but also to psychoanalytic theory and film criticism. De Lauretis brings a unique and valuable perspective to issues of great importance today in all these areas.\" —Leo Bersani\u003cbr\u003e \"De Lauretis's influential theory gets top marks from sapphic scholars who know best.\" —Out\u003cbr\u003e In an eccentric reading of Freud through Laplanche and the Lacanian and feminist revisions, Teresa de Lauretis delineates a model of \"perverse\" desire and a theory of lesbian sexuality. \u003ci\u003eThe Practice of Love\u003c\/i\u003e discusses classic psychoanalytic narratives of female homosexuality, contemporary feminist writings on female sexuality, and the evolution of the original fantasies into cultural myths or public fantasies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56232470970741,"sku":"9780253208781","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780253208781_04e34432-04fa-4c47-abe7-732216073571.jpg?v=1786012117"},{"product_id":"9780330482240","title":"Strangers","description":"A perceptive, vivid and sometimes startling re-evaluation of homosexuality in the Victorian era.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56285767139701,"sku":"9780330482240","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780330482240_72728794-51d4-4370-9e9d-220844edeffb.jpg?v=1786013573"},{"product_id":"9780565095536","title":"A Little Gay Natural History","description":"A Little Gay Natural History is a celebration of the astonishing diversity of sexual behaviour, biology and reproduction found in nature. From penguins to primates, same-sex behaviours and courtship are more widespread in the natural world than many people realize, while how nature organises sex is not always as straightforward as usually thought. Davis considers how, in many different organisms - both animals and plants - sexual reproduction and determination rely on a surprisingly complex interaction between genes, hormones, environment and chance. We meet turtles whose sex is determined by the incubation temperature of their eggs and butterflies that embody male and female biological tissue in the same organism.   He also reveals animal and plant behaviours in nature that have previously either been covered up or explained away, and presents animal behaviours that challenge us to rethink our assumptions and prejudices.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56292295246197,"sku":"9780565095536","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780565095536_a6adcba6-6e4a-46fa-9af3-79013f2c7914.jpg?v=1786014011"},{"product_id":"9780814774687","title":"Islamic Homosexualities","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe dramatic impact of Islamic fundamentalism in recent years has skewed our image of Islamic history and culture. Stereotypes depict Islamic societies as economically backward, hyper-patriarchal, and fanatically religious. But in fact, the Islamic world encompasses a great diversity of cultures and a great deal of variation within those cultures in terms of gender roles and sexuality.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe first collection on this topic from a historical and anthropological perspective, Homosexuality in the Muslim World reveals that patterns of male and female homosexuality have existed and often flourished within the Islamic world. Indeed, same-sex relations have, until quite recently, been much more tolerated under Islam than in the Christian West. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBased on the latest theoretical perspectives in gender studies, feminism, and gay studies, Homosexuality in the Muslim World includes cultural and historical analyses of the entire Islamic world, not just the so-called Middle East. Essays show both age-stratified patterns of homosexuality, as revealed in the erotic and romantic poetry of medieval poets, and gender-based patterns, in which both men and women might, to varying degrees, choose to live as members of the opposite sex. The contributors draw on historical documents, literary texts, ethnographic observation and direct observation by both Muslim and non-Muslim authors to show the considerable diversity of Islamic societies and the existence of tolerated gender and sexual variances.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56294889161077,"sku":"9780814774687","price":31.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780814774687_e4fb2e41-276a-47f3-888e-4d2bf3079a28.jpg?v=1786015911"},{"product_id":"9780816675487","title":"Gay Rights at the Ballot Box","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe passage of the anti-gay marriage Proposition 8 in California in 2008 stunned gay rights activists across the country. Although facing a well-funded campaign in support of the ballot measure, LGBT activists had good reasons for optimism, including the size and strength of their campaign. Since 1974, the LGBT movement has fought 146 anti-gay ballot initiatives sponsored by the religious right and has developed innovative strategies to oppose these measures. In \u003ci\u003eGay Rights at the Ballot Box\u003c\/i\u003e, Amy L. Stone examines how the tactics of LGBT activists have evolved and unravels the complex relationship between ballot measure campaigns and the broader goals of the LGBT movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe first comprehensive history of anti-gay ballot measures, both those merely attempted and those successfully put before voters, this book draws on archival research and interviews with more than one hundred LGBT activists to provide a detailed account of the campaigns to stop such ballot measures from passing into law. As Stone shows through in-depth case studies, although LGBT activists lost the vast majority of these fights, they also won significant statewide victories in Oregon in 1992 and Arizona in 2006, and local successes, including ones in Ypsilanti, Michigan, in 1998 and 2002. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStone analyzes how LGBT activists constantly refined their campaign tactics in response to both victories and defeats. She also stresses that such campaigns have played both a complementary and contradictory role within the LGBT movement. Specific anti-ballot campaigns and the broader movement do often strengthen each other. However, ballot measure campaigns sometimes distract activists from the movement’s more general goals, and activists at the movement level can pressure local campaigns to take on more than they can handle. With gay rights coming under increasing assault from the religious right, this book is a vital resource for LGBT activists and others working to block their efforts. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56294912098677,"sku":"9780816675487","price":21.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780816675487_2617a3d9-4d41-45b5-ae03-77f71188fed8.jpg?v=1786016289"},{"product_id":"9780822314219","title":"Tendencies","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eTendencies\u003c\/i\u003e brings together for the first time the essays that have made Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick \"the soft-spoken queen of gay studies\" (\u003ci\u003eRolling Stone\u003c\/i\u003e). Combining poetry, wit, polemic, and dazzling scholarship with memorial and autobiography, these essays have set new standards of passion and truthfulness for current theoretical writing.\u003cbr\u003eThe essays range from Diderot, Oscar Wilde, and Henry James to queer kids and twelve-step programs; from \"Jane Austen and the Masturbating Girl\" to a performance piece on Divine written with Michael Moon; from political correctness and the poetics of spanking to the experience of breast cancer in a world ravaged and reshaped by AIDS. What unites \u003ci\u003eTendencies\u003c\/i\u003e is a vision of a new queer politics and thought that, however demanding and dangerous, can also be intent, inclusive, writerly, physical, and sometimes giddily fun.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56294927729013,"sku":"9780822314219","price":21.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780822314219_08508e50-02d0-49f3-ae56-c2e8074fae9b.jpg?v=1786015731"},{"product_id":"9780822343868","title":"The Queer Child, or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century","description":"Children are thoroughly, shockingly queer, as Kathryn Bond Stockton explains in The Queer Child, where she examines children’s strangeness, even some children’s subliminal “gayness,” in the twentieth century. Estranging, broadening, darkening forms of children emerge as this book illuminates the child queered by innocence, the child queered by color, the child queered by Freud, the child queered by money, and the grown homosexual metaphorically seen as a child (or as an animal), alongside the gay child. What might the notion of a “gay” child do to conceptions of the child? How might it outline the pain, closets, emotional labors, sexual motives, and sideways movements that attend all children, however we deny it?Engaging and challenging the work of sociologists, legal theorists, and historians, Stockton coins the term “growing sideways” to describe ways of growing that defy the usual sense of growing “up” in a linear trajectory toward full stature, marriage, reproduction, and the relinquishing of childish ways. Growing sideways is a mode of irregular growth involving odd lingerings, wayward paths, and fertile delays. Contending that children’s queerness is rendered and explored best in fictional forms, including literature, film, and television, Stockton offers dazzling readings of works ranging from novels by Henry James, Radclyffe Hall, Virginia Woolf, Djuna Barnes, and Vladimir Nabokov to the movies Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, The Hanging Garden, Heavenly Creatures, Hoop Dreams, and the 2005 remake of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. The result is a fascinating look at children’s masochism, their interactions with pedophiles and animals, their unfathomable, hazy motives (leading them at times into sex, seduction, delinquency, and murder), their interracial appetites, and their love of consumption and destruction through the alluring economy of candy.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56294935888245,"sku":"9780822343868","price":21.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780822343868_4362c8b1-08fa-4ce6-be72-c8fcbde5bf60.jpg?v=1786015764"},{"product_id":"9780822348047","title":"Time Binds","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eTime Binds\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerful argument that temporal and sexual dissonance are intertwined, and that the writing of history can be both embodied and erotic. Challenging queer theory’s recent emphasis on loss and trauma, Elizabeth Freeman foregrounds bodily pleasure in the experience and representation of time as she interprets an eclectic archive of queer literature, film, video, and art. She examines work by visual artists who emerged in a commodified, “postfeminist,” and “postgay” world. Yet they do not fully accept the dissipation of political and critical power implied by the idea that various political and social battles have been won and are now consigned to the past. By privileging temporal gaps and narrative detours in their work, these artists suggest ways of putting the past into meaningful, transformative relation with the present. Such “queer asynchronies” provide opportunities for rethinking historical consciousness in erotic terms, thereby countering the methods of traditional and Marxist historiography. Central to Freeman’s argument are the concepts of chrononormativity, the use of time to organize individual human bodies toward maximum productivity; temporal drag, the visceral pull of the past on the supposedly revolutionary present; and erotohistoriography, the conscious use of the body as a channel for and means of understanding the past. \u003ci\u003eTime Binds\u003c\/i\u003e emphasizes the critique of temporality and history as crucial to queer politics.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56294987727221,"sku":"9780822348047","price":20.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780822348047_3c8cb611-6ed0-4311-b512-d36b52c01cef.jpg?v=1786015778"},{"product_id":"9780805078152","title":"Gay Marriage","description":"\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56295024460149,"sku":"9780805078152","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780805078152_0e65d560-fb62-4a9e-8594-2d765fc7cadb.jpg?v=1786015908"},{"product_id":"9780814349984","title":"Queering Anti-Zionism","description":"With engaged scholarship and an exciting contribution to the field of Israel\/Palestine studies, queer scholar-activist Corinne Blackmer stages a pointed critique of scholars whose anti-Israel bias pervades their activism as well as their academic work. Blackmer demonstrates how the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement that seeks to delegitimize and isolate Israel has become a central part of social justice advocacy on campus, particularly within gender and sexuality studies programs. The chapters focus on the intellectual work of Sarah Schulman, Jasbir Puar, Angela Davis, Dean Spade, and Judith Butler, demonstrating how they misapply critical theory in their discussions of the State of Israel. Blackmer shows how these LGBTQ intellectuals mobilize queer theory and intersectionality to support the BDS movement at the expense of academic freedom and open discourse.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56295077544309,"sku":"9780814349984","price":36.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780814349984_3fbfe505-b11e-41e3-8759-94aece590bb2.jpg?v=1786015807"},{"product_id":"9780816643967","title":"The Reification of Desire","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eThe Reification of Desire\u003c\/i\u003e takes two critical perspectives rarely analyzed together-formative arguments for Marxism and those that have been the basis for queer theory-and productively scrutinizes these ideas both \u003ci\u003ewith\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eagainst\u003c\/i\u003e each other to put forth a new theoretical connection between Marxism and queer studies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Kevin Floyd brings queer critique to bear on the Marxian categories of reification and totality and considers the dialectic that frames the work of Georg LukÁcs, Herbert Marcuse, and Fredric Jameson. Reading the work of these theorists together with influential queer work by such figures as Michel Foucault and Judith Butler, and alongside reconsiderations of such texts as \u003ci\u003eThe Sun Also Rises\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMidnight Cowboy\u003c\/i\u003e, Floyd reformulates these two central categories that have been inseparable from a key strand of Marxist thought and have marked both its explanatory power and its limitations. Floyd theorizes a dissociation of sexuality from gender at the beginning of the twentieth century in terms of reification to claim that this dissociation is one aspect of a larger dynamic of social reification enforced by capitalism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Developing a queer examination of reification and totality, Kevin Floyd ultimately argues that the insights of queer theory require a fundamental rethinking of both.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56295080198517,"sku":"9780816643967","price":23.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780816643967_c3099643-e2c1-4192-8785-3e11b5412c80.jpg?v=1786033297"},{"product_id":"9780822338697","title":"Imagining Transgender","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eImagining Transgender\u003c\/i\u003e is an ethnography of the emergence and institutionalization of transgender as a category of collective identity and political activism. Embraced by activists in the early 1990s to advocate for gender-variant people, the category quickly gained momentum in public health, social service, scholarly, and legislative contexts. Working as a safer-sex activist in Manhattan during the late 1990s, David Valentine conducted ethnographic research among mostly male-to-female transgender-identified people at drag balls, support groups, cross-dresser organizations, clinics, bars, and clubs. However, he found that many of those labeled “transgender” by activists did not know the term or resisted its use. Instead, they self-identified as “gay,” a category of sexual rather than gendered identity and one rejected in turn by the activists who claimed these subjects as transgender. Valentine analyzes the reasons for and potential consequences of this difference, and how social theory is implicated in it.\u003cp\u003eValentine argues that “transgender” has been adopted so rapidly in the contemporary United States because it clarifies a model of gender and sexuality that has been gaining traction within feminism, psychiatry, and mainstream gay and lesbian politics since the 1970s: a paradigm in which gender and sexuality are distinct arenas of human experience. This distinction and the identity categories based on it erase the experiences of some gender-variant people-particularly poor persons of color-who conceive of gender and sexuality in other terms. While recognizing the important advances transgender has facilitated, Valentine argues that a broad vision of social justice must include, simultaneously, an attentiveness to the politics of language and a recognition of how social theoretical models and broader political economies are embedded in the day-to-day politics of identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56295101071733,"sku":"9780822338697","price":21.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780822338697_9ab2f204-67fa-4e64-83ac-014aa7c84194.jpg?v=1786015758"},{"product_id":"9780822349099","title":"After Sex?","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eSince queer theory originated in the early 1990s, its insights and modes of analysis have been taken up by scholars across the humanities and social sciences. In \u003ci\u003eAfter Sex?\u003c\/i\u003e prominent contributors to the development of queer studies offer personal reflections on the field’s history, accomplishments, potential, and limitations. They consider the purpose of queer theory and the extent to which it is or is not defined by its engagement with sex and sexuality. For many of the contributors, a broad notion of sexuality is essential to queer thought. At the same time, some of them caution against creating an all-embracing idea of queerness, because it empties the term “queer” of meaning and assumes the universality of ideas developed in the North American academy. Some essays recall the political urgency of the late 1980s and early 1990s, when gay and lesbian activist and queer theory projects converged in response to the AIDS crisis. Other pieces exemplify more recent trends in queer critique, including the turn to affect and the debates surrounding the “antisocial thesis,” which associates queerness with the repudiation of heteronormative forms of belonging. Contributors discuss queer theory’s engagement with questions of transnationality and globalization, temporality and historical periodization. Meditating on the past and present of queer studies, \u003ci\u003eAfter Sex?\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates its future. \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eContributors\u003c\/i\u003e. Lauren Berlant, Leo Bersani, Michael Cobb, Ann Cvetkovich, Lee Edelman, Richard Thompson Ford, Carla Freccero, Elizabeth Freeman, Jonathan Goldberg, Janet Halley, Neville Hoad, Joseph Litvak, Heather Love, Michael Lucey, Michael Moon, JosÉ Esteban MuÑoz, Jeff Nunokawa, Andrew Parker, Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Richard Rambuss, Erica Rand, Bethany Schneider, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Kate Thomas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56295107461493,"sku":"9780822349099","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780822349099_6951a4b9-a662-4633-b9a0-9b912387f6bc.jpg?v=1786015779"},{"product_id":"9780822355946","title":"Sex, or the Unbearable","description":"Sex, or the Unbearable is a dialogue between Lauren Berlant and Lee Edelman, two of our leading theorists of sexuality, politics, and culture. In juxtaposing sex and the unbearable they don't propose that sex is unbearable, only that it unleashes unbearable contradictions that we nonetheless struggle to bear. In Berlant and Edelman's exchange, those terms invoke disturbances produced in encounters with others, ourselves, and the world, disturbances that tap into threats induced by fears of loss or rupture as well as by our hopes for repair. Through virtuoso interpretations of works of cinema, photography, critical theory, and literature, including Lydia Davis's story \"Break It Down\" (reprinted in full here), Berlant and Edelman explore what it means to live with negativity, with those divisions that may be irreparable. Together, they consider how such negativity affects politics, theory, and intimately felt encounters. But where their critical approaches differ, neither hesitates to voice disagreement. Their very discussion-punctuated with moments of frustration, misconstruction, anxiety, aggression, recognition, exhilaration, and inspiration-enacts both the difficulty and the potential of encounter, the subject of this unusual exchange between two eminent critics and close friends.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56295124205941,"sku":"9780822355946","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780822355946_69ef6153-227a-46b4-b36e-94a9f5bb1baa.jpg?v=1786015801"},{"product_id":"9781032689647","title":"Teaching LGBTQ+ History in High Schools","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book offers insights, strategies, and lesson plans for teaching LGBTQ+ history. With essays from educators, historians, activists, policy makers, and youth advocates, it speaks to the power and significance of LGBTQ+-inclusive curriculum and its necessity at a time when the LGBTQ+ community is more visible and increasingly targeted.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56296042955125,"sku":"9781032689647","price":33.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781032689647_eb2f71d2-48f6-4faa-81a3-ab86e8be12ad.jpg?v=1786016825"},{"product_id":"9781034650126","title":"Victoria's Not so Little Secret","description":"\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56296052851061,"sku":"9781034650126","price":19.01,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781034650126_6140de9f-f14f-458c-a4bf-7764ba1a8136.jpg?v=1786016848"},{"product_id":"9781035042074","title":"Do Ask, Do Tell","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Bursting with empathy, understanding and humour. A crucial book for our community and allies.' Suzi Ruffell \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat is a black cat lesbian? Is ‘aromantic’ a sexuality or a preference? How are bisexual and pansexual different? What’s it like to be queer and religious? Does Gen Z do darkrooms? How do you navigate life as a OAQ (Old Age Queer)? What does trans euphoria feel like? Why is nightlife so central to the community? What is camp today?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs queer people themselves, authors Lotte Jeffs and Stu Oakley knew they didn’t have all the answers, because their individual experience represents a single pixel of the rainbow. \u003ci\u003eDo Ask, Do Tell \u003c\/i\u003eis an unapologetically curious journey through the dazzling spectrum of queer life that will give people – queer, straight, cis and everything in-between – the confidence to say 'I don’t know'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith humor, warmth, and radically open minds, Stu and Lotte tackle the questions you may have avoided asking for fear of getting it wrong. Covering everything from ageing to open relationships, darkrooms to Drag Kings, camp to carabinas, as well as the intricacies of gender and sexuality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis insightful and provocative exploration challenges assumptions, shatters taboos, and opens up the conversation. Whether you’re seeking clarity for your cis straight self or deeper insight as a member of the community, this book is your guide to better understanding and celebrating the richness of queer life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56296206238069,"sku":"9781035042074","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781035042074_9dc1387b-58b0-4412-b77d-bccafec595a6.jpg?v=1786017061"},{"product_id":"9780745399515","title":"Towards a Gay Communism – Elements of a Homosexual Critique","description":"First published in Italian in 1977, Mario Mieli's groundbreaking book is an early landmark of revolutionary queer theory - now available for the first time in a complete and unabridged English translation.   Among the most important works ever to address the relationship between homosexuality, homophobia and capitalism, Mieli's essay continues to pose a radical challenge to today's dominant queer theory and politics.   With extraordinary prescience, Mieli exposes the efficiency with which capitalism co-opts 'perversions' which are then 'sold both wholesale and retail'. In his view the liberation of homosexual desire requires the emancipation of sexuality from both patriarchal sex roles and capital.   Drawing heavily upon Marx and psychoanalysis to arrive at a dazzlingly original vision, Towards a Gay Communism is a hitherto neglected classic that will be essential reading for all who seek to understand the true meaning of sexual liberation under capitalism today.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56296674492789,"sku":"9780745399515","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780745399515_deddb1f8-710e-40f3-a1cc-9394db874226.jpg?v=1786033036"},{"product_id":"9780738215679","title":"The Velvet Rage","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn this moving guide, a gay man shares his personal journey of letting go of shame and moving forward with self-compassion and healing.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A touchstone in gay culture.\" —\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eObserver\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"The clearest, most succinct delineation of the origins and consequences of internalized homophobia, and how to address them.\" —\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eArtvoice\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e     Even though an entire generation of men have openly and freely come out of the closet, gay men still struggle with self-acceptance. Sexually transmitted diseases, depression, and suicide occur more frequently for gay men than straight men. It doesn’t have to be this way. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e     Through brave individual stories and compassionate analysis, \u003ci\u003eThe Velvet Rage\u003c\/i\u003e explores how shame is insidious, and can be traced back to childhood feelings of “otherness”. Drawing on contemporary psychological research, Alan Downs offers a path to emotional well-being and an end to self-defeating behavior. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eVelvet Rage\u003c\/i\u003e is an empowering book you'll wish you read long ago. It’s not too late to begin the healing process.  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56297174761845,"sku":"9780738215679","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780738215679_38c43457-cb67-4655-9c7b-aeadca635aa4.jpg?v=1786015290"},{"product_id":"9780745628387","title":"Unpacking Queer Politics","description":"Unpacking Queer Politics argues that the strong lesbian feminist movement of the 1970s, which was able to articulate a philosophy and practice that distinguished lesbian politics from gay male politics, was submerged in the 1990s beneath a gay male agenda called queer politics.    The new politics repudiated lesbian feminist ideas and celebrated ‘manhood’ as a goal for gay men. Practices which construct this ‘manhood’, such as sadomasochism, cutting and piercing, female-to-male transsexual surgery, and which are promoted in queer politics, need to be understood as forms of self-harm which result from the oppression of lesbians and gay men. The political agenda of queer politics is damaging to the interests of lesbians, women in general, and to marginalized and vulnerable constituencies of gay men.     The book concludes by arguing that precisely the commitment to equality in relationships and sex that has been so important to lesbian feminists, and so excoriated in much of queer theory, should form the basis of a social transformation. In this way lesbians should be seen as the vanguard of social change.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56297697182069,"sku":"9780745628387","price":15.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780745628387_1ee4a360-3a02-484d-9787-f5782e3714e7.jpg?v=1786014542"},{"product_id":"9781350381087","title":"The Carter Presidency and Gay Rights","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExamining a significant and largely unexplored aspect of Jimmy Carter’s presidency (1977-1981), Harris Dousemetzis radically revises the current understanding of this critical period in American political history.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy using a wealth of previously unpublished archival material, along with personal interviews with 43 prominent gay rights activists of the time and 12 senior Carter White House aides, this book documents what actually happened during Carter’s presidency regarding the development and recognition of gay rights and the efforts of the evangelical right to prevent social reform. Investigating the full range of government actions taken and policies implemented, Carter’s personal commitment and support for the movement, as well as the role of activists in bringing about change, this is a significant and original contribution to knowledge about Carter’s presidency, the gay rights movement, and American political development. Dousemetzis situates Carter’s presidency in its rightful place, as a crucial stage in one of the most dynamic areas of change in recent American politics and political culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFeatures a Foreword by Stuart Eizenstat and an Afterword by Lilian Faderman.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56297718907253,"sku":"9781350381087","price":28.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781350381087_ad9bafc2-86da-4d87-8d55-32d779ac24a9.jpg?v=1786018725"},{"product_id":"9780753555330","title":"The Glass Closet","description":"\u003cp\u003e‘I wish I had been brave enough to come out earlier in my tenure as CEO of BP. I regret it to this day. I know that if I had done so I would have made more of an impact for other gay men and women. With \u003ci\u003eThe Glass Closet\u003c\/i\u003e, I hope to give some of them the courage to make an impact of their own.’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Whether you’re lesbian, gay, transgender or straight, John Browne’s message is simple and clear, it’s better for you and it’s better for business when you bring your authentic self to work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Drawing on his personal experiences and the experience of other gay and lesbian business leaders, and by investigating the research and the social contexts, \u003ci\u003eThe Glass Closet\u003c\/i\u003e strives to give courage and inspire the LGBT community that despite the risks involved, self-disclosure is best for employees and for the businesses that support them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Every CEO, every HR Manager, every team leader – anyone who is responsible for the culture and success of their business should read \u003ci\u003eThe Glass Closet\u003c\/i\u003e. And for anyone fearful or lacking the confidence to bring their true self into work every day, this book was written for you.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56297884123509,"sku":"9780753555330","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780753555330_48aba3f2-3bef-48ab-adf1-de40efa0bdba.jpg?v=1786016274"},{"product_id":"9781398466777","title":"The Gay Bible","description":"\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56298016014709,"sku":"9781398466777","price":23.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781398466777_12167ce4-2363-4949-8997-8a3d163487ae.jpg?v=1786018206"},{"product_id":"9781398466760","title":"The Gay Bible","description":"\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56298077815157,"sku":"9781398466760","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781398466760_5f2a2131-4f6f-4ed2-8abb-e271e7ef6a30.jpg?v=1786018206"},{"product_id":"9781447361961","title":"HIV, Sex and Sexuality in Later Life","description":"Following the development of anti-retroviral therapies (ARVs), many people affected by HIV in the 1980s and 1990s have now been living with the condition for decades.   Drawing on perspectives from leading scholars in Bangladesh, Canada, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Switzerland, Ukraine, the UK and the US, as well as research from India and Kenya, this book explores the experiences of sex and sexuality in individuals and groups living with HIV in later life. Contributions consider the impacts of stigma, barriers to intimacy, physiological sequelae, long-term care, undetectability, pleasure and biomedical prevention (TasP and PrEP).   With the increasing global availability of ARVs and ageing populations, this book offers essential future directions, practical applications and implications for both policy and research.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56299692392821,"sku":"9781447361961","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781447361961_537ef3e4-9cd6-433a-9f3d-ba72a0c4d8eb.jpg?v=1786021016"},{"product_id":"9781447361978","title":"HIV, Sex and Sexuality in Later Life","description":"Following the development of anti-retroviral therapies (ARVs), many people affected by HIV in the 1980s and 1990s have now been living with the condition for decades.   Drawing on perspectives from leading scholars in Bangladesh, Canada, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Switzerland, Ukraine, the UK and the US, as well as research from India and Kenya, this book explores the experiences of sex and sexuality in individuals and groups living with HIV in later life. Contributions consider the impacts of stigma, barriers to intimacy, physiological sequelae, long-term care, undetectability, pleasure and biomedical prevention (TasP and PrEP).   With the increasing global availability of ARVs and ageing populations, this book offers essential future directions, practical applications and implications for both policy and research.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56300148851061,"sku":"9781447361978","price":85.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781447361978_c1be24dc-b7be-404a-8751-c7cfe02ec582.jpg?v=1786021018"},{"product_id":"9781447368700","title":"How Ireland′s LGBTQ+ Youth Movement was Built Civil Society in the Pursuit of Social Justice","description":"This book offers a unique insider perspective from a queer author and activist who was centrally involved in Ireland’s journey from 1993, the year when homosexuality was decriminalised, to 2015, when it became the first country in which marriage equality was enacted by popular vote. It is the first comprehensive study of the impact of LGBTQ+ youth civil society as a leading force on Irish public policy change.   Interdisciplinary in nature, it uses both activist and academic frames to reassess LGBTQ+ activism histories. It draws on personal, historical and policy analysis to provide a comprehensive account of how civil society can drive progressive change in difficult conditions.   Essential reading for understanding the significant public policy changes that have occurred in Ireland, this book provides deep insight into the dynamics of organised social change over long periods of time and offers lessons for future work in this area.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56300173459829,"sku":"9781447368700","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]},{"product_id":"9781478006589","title":"The Queer Games Avant-Garde","description":"In \u003ci\u003eThe Queer Games Avant-Garde\u003c\/i\u003e, Bonnie Ruberg presents twenty interviews with twenty-two queer video game developers whose radical, experimental, vibrant, and deeply queer work is driving a momentous shift in the medium of video games. Speaking with insight and candor about their creative practices as well as their politics and passions, these influential and innovative game makers tell stories about their lives and inspirations, the challenges they face, and the ways they understand their places within the wider terrain of video game culture. Their insights go beyond typical conversations about LGBTQ representation in video games or how to improve “diversity” in digital media. Instead, they explore queer game-making practices, the politics of queer independent video games, how queerness can be expressed as an aesthetic practice, the influence of feminist art on their work, and the future of queer video games and technology. These engaging conversations offer a portrait of an influential community that is subverting and redefining the medium of video games by placing queerness front and center.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Interviewees:\u003cbr\u003e Ryan Rose Aceae, Avery Alder, Jimmy Andrews, Santo Aveiro-Ojeda, Aevee Bee, Tonia B******, Mattie Brice, Nicky Case, Naomi Clark, Mo Cohen, Heather Flowers, Nina Freeman, Jerome Hagen, Kat Jones, Jess Marcotte, Andi McClure, Llaura McGee, Seanna Musgrave, Liz Ryerson, Elizabeth Sampat, Loren Schmidt, Sarah Schoemann, Dietrich Squinkifer, Kara Stone, Emilia Yang, Robert Yang","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56301028114805,"sku":"9781478006589","price":23.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781478006589_c11619bc-a4dd-4b57-86c1-38383200c13d.jpg?v=1786020882"},{"product_id":"9781479817030","title":"Daddies of a Different Kind","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn intimate look at gay and bisexual daddies and their younger partners\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eOver the past several years the term \"daddy\" has increased in popularity. Although the term has existed for centuries, its meaning has changed over time, and today can refer to desirable older men. In the Western world, same-sex male couples are far more likely to have large age gaps than other types of partnerships, and \u003ci\u003eDaddies of a Different Kind\u003c\/i\u003e analyzes the stories of gay and bisexual daddies and asks why younger men are interested in older men for sex and relationships.\u003cbr\u003e Based on interviews with self-described daddies and young adult men in relationships with older men, Tony Silva uncovers why it is more common for gay and bisexual men to have large age gaps in relationships than heterosexuals or LGBTQ women. These stories reveal that queer relationships with large age gaps are not consistent with a sugar daddy\/gold digger stereotype. Instead, daddies mentor younger adult men and transmit knowledge intergenerationally, including how to navigate homophobia, access gay communities, and have fulfilling sex. Silva shows that demographic research understates the commonality of age-gap pairings among gay and bisexual men, and illustrates how daddies shape gay and bisexual communities both culturally and sexually. A fascinating read, \u003ci\u003eDaddies of a Different Kind\u003c\/i\u003e breaks many commonly held stereotypes about gay and bisexual life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56301068616053,"sku":"9781479817030","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781479817030_5b53941d-c2a8-4322-8dd0-a36eb17aa721.jpg?v=1786022020"},{"product_id":"9781479821501","title":"Outskirts","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCelebrates diverse queer experiences on society's margins\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eOutskirts\u003c\/i\u003e addresses the diverse and intricate aspects of the queer experience on the periphery of the social world. From the Korean spa to the Carnival krewe to new sexual identities, this volume asks important questions about the atypical places, spaces, and identities that are an important part of LGBTQ life in the United States. By bringing together scholars specializing in the less visible facets of queer culture, the book offers valuable insights that contribute to a deeper understanding of queer perspectives and their impact on the discipline of sociology. The volume challenges researchers to focus on diversity and complexity of the queer experience in the fringe to inform larger sociological questions and contribute to the field of sociology. Most simply put: what is it that we learn from studying at the margins?\u003cbr\u003e The essays in \u003ci\u003eOutskirts\u003c\/i\u003e focus on the influence of place, both physical and virtual, within institutional settings and in situations of placelessness. This attention to non-normative spaces and identities enriches the collective knowledge of LGBTQ experiences and offers a compelling narrative that pushes the boundaries of sociological inquiry and highlights the importance of queer voices on the fringes of society.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56301402423669,"sku":"9781479821501","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781479821501_7ce10f06-e890-4700-94b9-7c1fd5f82135.jpg?v=1786022052"},{"product_id":"9781478003502","title":"The Queer Commons","description":"The conventional idea of the commons-a resource managed by the community that uses it-might appear anachronistic as global capitalism attempts to privatize and commodify social life. Against these trends, contemporary queer energies have been directed toward commons-forming initiatives from activist provision of social services to the maintenance of networks around queer art, protest, public sex, and bar cultures that sustain queer lives otherwise marginalized by heteronormative society and mainstream LGBTQ politics. This issue forges a connection between the common and the queer, asking how the category “queer” might open up a discourse that has emerged as one of the most important challenges to contemporary neoliberalization at both the theoretical and practical level.    Contributors look to radical networks of care, sex, and activism present within diverse queer communities including HIV\/AIDS organizing, the Wages for Housework movement, New York’s Clit Club community, and trans\/queer collectives in San Francisco. The issue also includes a dossier of shorter contributions that offer speculative provocations about the radicalism of queer commonality across time and space, from Gezi Park uprisings in Turkey to future visions of collectivity outside of the internet.      Contributors Arlen Austin, Zach Blas, Gavin Butt, Beth Capper, Ashon Crawley, Amalle Dublon, Macarena Gomez-Barris, Christina Hanhardt, Diarmuid Hester, Nadja Millner-Larsen, JosÉ Esteban MuÑoz, Cenk Ozbay, Evren Savci, Eric Stanley","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56301604798837,"sku":"9781478003502","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781478003502_a2e41e94-020f-46bb-b3e8-231b56d33530.jpg?v=1786020852"},{"product_id":"9781479818495","title":"Bayard Rustin","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e2024 Outstanding Academic Title, given by Choice Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eCelebrates the life and legacy of Bayard Rustin, the civil rights leader behind the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e While we can all recall images of Martin Luther King Jr. giving his \"I Have a Dream\" speech in front of a massive crowd at Lincoln Memorial, few of us remember the man who organized this watershed nonviolent protest in eight short weeks: Bayard Rustin. \u003cbr\u003e This was far from Rustin's first foray into the fight for civil rights. As a world-traveling pacifist, he brought Gandhi's protest techniques to the forefront of US civil rights demonstrations, helped build the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, led the fight for economic justice, and played a deeply influential role in the life of Dr. King by helping to mold him into an international symbol of nonviolent resistance. Rustin's legacy touches many areas of contemporary life—from civil resistance to violent uprisings, democracy to socialism, and criminal justice reform to war resistance. \u003cbr\u003e Despite these achievements, Rustin was often relegated to the background. He was silenced, threatened, arrested, beaten, imprisoned, and fired from important leadership positions, largely because he was an openly gay man in a fiercely homophobic era. With expansive, searching, and sometimes critical essays from a range of esteemed writers—including Rustin's own partner, Walter Naegle—this volume draws a full picture of Bayard Rustin: a gay, pacifist, socialist political radical who changed the course of US history and set a precedent for future civil rights activism, from LGBTQ+ Pride to Black Lives Matter.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56301807960437,"sku":"9781479818495","price":23.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781479818495_10019c8b-f95a-41c7-aabc-28d6d4b2a1cb.jpg?v=1786022028"},{"product_id":"9781479880584","title":"Queering the Countryside","description":"\u003cp\u003eChoice Outstanding Academic Title of 2016\u003cbr\u003e Rural queer experience is often hidden or ignored, and presumed to be alienating, lacking, and incomplete without connections to a gay culture that exists in an urban elsewhere. Queering the Countryside offers the first comprehensive look at queer desires found in rural America from a genuinely multi-disciplinary perspective. This collection of original essays confronts the assumption that queer desires depend upon urban life for meaning.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e By considering rural queer life, the contributors challenge readers to explore queer experiences in ways that give greater context and texture to modern practices of identity formation. The book's focus on understudied rural spaces throws into relief the overemphasis of urban locations and structures in the current political and theoretical work on queer sexualities and genders. Queering the Countryside highlights the need to rethink notions of \"the closet\" and \"coming out\" and the characterizations of non-urban sexualities and genders as \"isolated\" and in need of \"outreach.\" Contributors focus on a range of topics—some obvious, some delightfully unexpected—from the legacy of Matthew Shepard, to how heterosexuality is reproduced at the 4-H Club, to a look at sexual encounters at a truck stop, to a queer reading of TheWizard of Oz.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A journey into an unexplored slice of life in rural America, Queering the Countryside offers a unique perspective on queer experience in the modern United States and Canada.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56301836501365,"sku":"9781479880584","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781479880584_553c689a-6ebe-4030-b5bb-9de90f8a5b34.jpg?v=1786022231"},{"product_id":"9781487547806","title":"Queer Lives Across the Wall","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eQueer Lives across the Wall\u003c\/em\u003e examines the everyday lives of queer Berliners between 1945 and 1970, tracing private and public queer life from the end of the Nazi regime through the gay and lesbian liberation movements of the 1970s.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAndrea Rottmann explores how certain spaces – including homes, bars, streets, parks, and prisons – facilitated and restricted queer lives in the overwhelmingly conservative climate that characterized both German postwar states. With a theoretical toolkit informed by feminist, queer, and spatial theories, the book goes beyond previous histories that focus on state surveillance and the persecution of male homosexuality.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56301861142901,"sku":"9781487547806","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781487547806_c9897ba6-a7ea-47ec-8f7a-d333e39e72c4.jpg?v=1786022092"},{"product_id":"9781648029202","title":"Queer \u0026 Trans Advocacy in the Community College","description":"\u003cp\u003eLGBTQ+ advocacy and support continues to be a priority in the U.S. higher education, and recent research shows this as a critical population who continues to be marginalized and mistreated on college and university campuses. Over the last few decades there has been significant research describing how LGBTQ students experience higher education and highlighting that these students are not graduating or succeeding at the same rates as the general population. However, few if any research studies or articles address LGBTQ advocacy on community college campuses. There are more than 1,000 community colleges in the U.S. Even with the extraordinary number of students that the community college system educates, approximately 15 institutions nationally have paid staff to provide LGBTQ services to students. That being said, community colleges are now putting a larger emphasis on understanding and supporting this community. For example, The California Community College (CCC) system's 116 colleges now require all campuses to create a plan on how to improve success rates of LGBTQ+ students. The CCC is the largest higher education system in the country serving over 2 million students. This comprehensive practitioner focused book will combine relevant research and guidance on practices to aid colleges in establishing services and programs to build effective LGBTQ+ services on their college campuses. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56301900857717,"sku":"9781648029202","price":47.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781648029202_39e5a646-7706-44a6-9e3b-bd055a11cf8d.jpg?v=1786024798"},{"product_id":"9781506490861","title":"Embracing Queer Family","description":"\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56302083080565,"sku":"9781506490861","price":15.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781506490861_25050241-79c8-47f9-a362-4e804d0889bf.jpg?v=1786021890"},{"product_id":"9781684030309","title":"The Gender Identity Workbook for Kids","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Gender Identity Workbook for Kids\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e offers fun, age-appropriate activities to help your child explore their identity and discover unique ways to navigate gender expression at home, in school, and with friends.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eTransgender and gender-nonconforming (TGNC) children need validation and support on their journey toward self-discovery. Unfortunately, due to stigma and misinformation, these kids can be especially vulnerable to bullying, discrimination, and even mental health issues such as anxiety or depression. The good news is that there \u003ci\u003eare\u003c\/i\u003e steps you can take to empower your child as they explore, understand, and affirm their gender identity. This important workbook will guide you both.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this guide, a licensed clinical social worker who specializes in gender-nonconforming youth offers real tools to help your child thrive in all aspects of life. You and your child will discover a more expansive way of understanding gender; gain insight into gender diverse thoughts, feelings, and experiences; and find engaging activities with fun titles such as, \"Apple, Oranges, and Fruit Bowls\" and \"Pronoun Town\" to help your child to explore their own unique identity in a way that is age-appropriate and validating.\u003cbr\u003eNo child experiences gender in a vacuum, and children don't just transition - families do. Let this workbook guide you and your child on this important journey in their lives.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56302173028725,"sku":"9781684030309","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781684030309_b2fdd8f8-773d-418c-af1f-a25463309e98.jpg?v=1786024209"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/lgbtq.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}