LGBTQ Cleveland - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook LGBTQ Cleveland write by Ken Schneck. This book was released on 2018. LGBTQ Cleveland available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Cleveland's LGBTQ history exhibits the classic components of a Hollywood blockbuster. At the heart of the story are unforgettable characters--heroes, big and small--united by their vision of a city where everyone stands tall together. Clevelanders bravely went to battle in their quest for equal rights, fighting racism, sexism, homophobia, and transphobia. Unyielding in times of desperation, the community bound together to combat the HIV/AIDS epidemic and comfort those left in its wake. A nefarious billboard-maker, an adversarial state senator, and unidentified arsonists played villainous parts promoting a repressive antigay agenda. Epic crowd scenes showcase scores of determined individuals gathered for candlelight vigils, Dancing in the Streets, and the Gay Games, illustrating Cleveland's swelling pride and appeal before a local, national, and international audience.
The Cleveland Heights LGBTQ Sci-Fi and Fantasy Role Playing Club
The Cleveland Heights LGBTQ Sci-Fi and Fantasy Role Playing Club - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cleveland Heights LGBTQ Sci-Fi and Fantasy Role Playing Club write by Doug Henderson. This book was released on 2021-04-15. The Cleveland Heights LGBTQ Sci-Fi and Fantasy Role Playing Club available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. On Thursday nights, the players assemble in the back of Readmore Comix and Games. Celeste is the dungeon master; Valerie, who works at the store, was roped in by default; Mooneyham, the banker, likes to argue; and Ben, sensitive, unemployed, and living at home, is still recovering from an unrequited love. In the real world they go about their days falling in love, coming out at work, and dealing with their family lives all with varying degrees of success. But in the world of their fantasy game, they are heroes and wizards fighting to stop an evil cult from waking a sleeping god. But then a sexy new guy, Albert, joins the club, Ben’s character is killed, and Mooneyham’s boyfriend is accosted on the street. The connections and parallels between the real world and the fantasy one become stronger and more important than ever as Ben struggles to bring his character back to life and win Albert’s affection, and the group unites to organize a protest at a neighborhood bar. All the while the slighted and competing vampire role playing club, working secretly in the shadows, begins to make its move.
LGBTQ Columbus
LGBTQ Columbus - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook LGBTQ Columbus write by Ken Schneck and Shane McClelland. This book was released on 2019. LGBTQ Columbus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A pictorial history of the LGBTQ community of Columbus, Ohio.
Precious and Adored
Precious and Adored - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Precious and Adored write by Lizzie Ehrenhalt. This book was released on 2019. Precious and Adored available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Captivating letters, published in their entirety, that document almost thirty years of love between two women of the Gilded Age.
Who Needs Gay Bars?
Who Needs Gay Bars? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Who Needs Gay Bars? write by Greggor Mattson. This book was released on 2023-05-30. Who Needs Gay Bars? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Gay bars have been closing by the hundreds. The story goes that increasing mainstream acceptance of LGBTQ+ people, plus dating apps like Grindr and Tinder, have rendered these spaces obsolete. Beyond that, rampant gentrification in big cities has pushed gay bars out of the neighborhoods they helped make hip. Who Needs Gay Bars? considers these narratives, accepting that the answer for some might be: maybe nobody. And yet... Jarred by the closing of his favorite local watering hole in Cleveland, Ohio, Greggor Mattson embarks on a journey across the country to paint a much more complex picture of the cultural significance of these spaces, inside "big four" gay cities, but also beyond them. No longer the only places for their patrons to socialize openly, Mattson finds in them instead a continuously evolving symbol; a physical place for feeling and challenging the beating pulse of sexual progress. From the historical archives of Seattle's Garden of Allah, to the outpost bars in Texas, Missouri or Florida that serve as community hubs for queer youth—these are places of celebration, where the next drag superstar from Alaska or Oklahoma may be discovered. They are also fraught grounds for confronting the racial and gender politics within and without the LGBTQ+ community. The question that frames this story is not asking whether these spaces are needed, but for whom, earnestly exploring the diversity of folks and purposes they serve today. Loosely informed by the Damron Guide, the so-called "Green Book" of gay travel, Mattson logged 10,000 miles on the road to all corners of the United States. His destinations are sometimes thriving, sometimes struggling, but all offering intimate views of the wide range of gay experience in America: POC, white, trans, cis; past, present, and future.
