Ergebnis für "Sappho" in LGBT

It's 1895. Amid laundry and bruises, Rina Pierangeli Faccio gives birth to the child of the man who raped her - and who she has also been forced to marry. Unbroken, she determines to change her name; and her life, alongside it. 1902. Romaine Brooks sails for Capri. She has barely enough money...

The idea of sexual fluidity may seem new, but it is at least as old as the ancient Greeks, who wrote about queer experiences with remarkable frankness, wit, and insight. How to Be Queer is an infatuating collection of these writings about desire, love, and lust between men, between women, and between humans and gods, in lucid and lively new translations.

Naser Kazemi has never met a problem a good spending plan couldn’t fix. But working as the chief accountant for his best friend’s resort isn’t turning out to be the dream job he’d hoped for. It doesn’t help that his fashion designer sister is planning an event that just might bring Sapphire Cove crashing down all around them. When the wild party unexpectedly reunites him with Mason Worther, the gorgeous former jock who made his high school experience a living hell, things go from bad to seductive.

For centuries, evidence of queer love in the ancient world was ignored or suppressed. Even today, only a few, famous narratives are widely known - yet there's a rich literary tradition of Greek and Roman love that extends far beyond this handful of stories. Here, the poet Seán Hewitt and painter Luke Edward Hall collect together, for the first time, forty of the most exhilarating queer tales in the classical canon and bring them newly to life.

A flirtatious encounter with the alluring pirate Simone Blackwood, captain of the infamous Sappho Erato, has Maeve Marlowe smitten and emboldens her to defy her cruel brother. Now, she must decide whether to stay and suffer his wrath or run to Simone for the chance of a better future.

Annalise Finch and Brinley Adams have been together for over seven years and are still very much in love. That doesn’t mean things are perfect though. The majority of their relationship has taken place while Brinley completed medical school and a residency, which has caused them to lose some of the spark they had in the beginning. What better way to bring back that spark than to make a sex bucket list?Once they start completing items on their list, it doesn’t take long for them to realize the spark was actually there all along.

A collection of sixteen unique, spicy stories by and for women who love—and lust after—women.