We just can't put it down! Why are some people gay, some people straight - and many bisexual? All your questions answered in this compelling and informative little gem of a book!

Why do some women feel they are really male and some men feel deep down they are female? Is there a gay gene? The world is changing and especially so for sexual minorities - for lesbians, gays, bisexual and transgendered people. In some countries hard-won battles for equality are bearing fruit in non-discrimination legislation. In others being gay incurs the death penalty. Unearthing the hidden history of lesbians, gays and transsexuals throughout the world and through time.

It looks at the contributions of science and medicine, and it covers the war against sexual nonconformists that is being waged by the religious fundamentalists, be they Christian, Muslim or Hindu. It also shows that a rich, diverse reality exists. Female-to-male and male-to-female transexuals (many of who live their lives as a gender different from their biological sex but have done nothing to alter their biology); transvestites or cross-dressers; intersexuals or hermaphrodites (which far from being the rare occurrence we are led to believe, actually happens in one in every 2,000 births); eunuchs, gay, straight and bi-sexual.

In addition, this Guide includes an essential user-friendly, country-by-country, global survey of laws that affect sexual minorities. This certainly is a fascinating little book and one, which everyone who is intending to travel abroad, should have in their rucksack. It tells you just which countries are liable to put you to death, which will only put you in prison and which will welcome you with open arms!
Paperback - 144 pages