The Stapleton 2012 Gay Guide to Key West & The Florida Keys

Complete Gay Guide to Key West and the Florida Keys (Upper Keys Middle Keys Lower Keys) including lodgings restaurants attractions outdoor sports snorkeling water tours and excursions shopping and everything else you'd want to do in the Keys - edited with an emphasis on gay travel.[]

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Casino Women: Courage in Unexpected Places

Casino Women is a pioneering look at the female face of corporate gaming. Based on extended interviews with maids cocktail waitresses cooks laundry workers dealers pit bosses and vice presidents the book describes in compelling detail a world whose enormous profitability is dependent on the labor of women assigned stereotypically female occupations-making beds and serving food on the one hand and providing sexual allure on the other. But behind the neon lies another world peopled by thousands of remarkable women who assert their humanity in the face of gaming empires' relentless quest for profits.

The casino women profiled here generally fall into two groups. Geoconda Arguello Kline typical of the first arrived in the United States in the 1980s fleeing the war in Nicaragua. Finding work as a Las Vegas hotel maid she overcame her initial fear of organizing and joined with others to build the preeminent grassroots union in the nation-the 60000-member Culinary Union-becoming in time its president. In Las Vegas "the hottest union city in America" the collective actions of union activists have won economic and political power for tens of thousands of working Nevadans and their families. The story of these women's transformation and their success in creating a union able to face off against global gaming giants form the centerpiece of this book.

Another group of women dealers and middle managers among them did not act. Fearful of losing their jobs they remained silent declining to speak out when others were abused and in the case of middle managers taking on the corporations' goals as their own. Susan Chandler and Jill B. Jones appraise the cost of their silence and examine the factors that pushed some women into activism and led others to accept the status quo.

Casino Women will appeal to all readers interested in women gambling and working-class life and in how ordinary people stand up to corporate actors who appear to hold all the cards.

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Wide-Open Town: A History of Queer San Francisco to 1965

Wide-Open Town traces the history of gay men and lesbians in San Francisco from the turn of the century when queer bars emerged in San Francisco's tourist districts to 1965 when a raid on a drag ball changed the course of queer history. Bringing to life the striking personalities and vibrant milieu that fueled this era Nan Alamilla Boyd examines the culture that developed around the bar scene and homophile activism. She argues that the communities forged inside bars and taverns functioned politically and ultimately offered practical and ideological responses to the policing of San Francisco's queer and transgender communities. Using police and court records oral histories tourist literature and manuscript collections from local and state archives Nan Alamilla Boyd explains the phenomenal growth of San Francisco as a "wide-open town"--a town where anything goes. She also relates the early history of the gay and lesbian civil rights movement that took place in San Francisco prior to 1965.
Wide-Open Town argues that police persecution forged debates about rights and justice that transformed San Francisco's queer communities into the identity-based groups we see today. In its vivid re-creation of bar and drag life its absorbing portrait of central figures in the communities and its provocative chronicling of this period in the country's most transgressive city Wide-Open Town offers a fascinating and lively new chapter of American queer history.[]

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THE LAND NEAR OZ: Two Gay Yankees Move To New Zealand

In THE LAND NEAR OZ: TWO GAY YANKEES MOVE TO NEW ZEALAND memoirist and humorist Aaron Allbright examines the mystical fringes of life with a side of love and a little hash. Filled with great affection indescribable moments of serendipity and a few cattle calls this debut is a raucous spot of fun. When Aaron Allbright and his better half Beau buy a piece of paradise from the direct descendants of the first English missionaries to inhabit the far side of the Far North of New Zealand they meet the offspring of whores convicts whalers English pirates and those first missionaries. Their closest seaside neighbor is Australia 2000 miles away (known to everyone thereabouts as Oz). From Orange County to the land of cannibals and flightless birds the Land Near Oz two gay men decide to chuck it all and light our for the Territory—and to find what's over the rainbow. There are Maoris with traditional full face and body tattoos; a former member of Led Zeppelin; a Texan named Big Mama. And in the wild hinterland paradise of evermore dreams are made and life is good just not in the way either Aaron or Beau hoped planned or could have ever imagined.
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Bruce Chatwin: A Biography

Award-winning novelist Nicholas Shakespeare has written the definitive biography of one of the most influential literary figures of our time: Bruce Chatwin whose works’ strangely compelling combination of research first-hand experience myth and mystification may have been the real substance of his seemingly contradictory life.

Chatwin’s first book In Patagonia became an international bestseller revived the art of travel writing and inspired a generation to set out in search of adventure. Chatwin became a celebrity while remaining a conundrum. With little formal education he had become a director of Sotheby’s. An avid collector he eschewed material things and revered the nomadic life. Married for twenty-three years he had male lovers throughout the world. And only at his death did his personal myth fail him. Nicholas Shakespeare who was given unrestricted access to his papers spent eight years retracing Chatwin’s steps and interviewing the people who knew him. The result is a biography that is at once sympathetic and revelatory.[]

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