Dossie Easton, Janet W. Hardy: The Ethical Slut

A Practical Guide to Polyamory, Open Relationships & Other Adventures. USA 2009 (2nd edition, updated & expanded), 288 pp., brochure, € 15.69
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This 1997 groundbreaking book gave sluts a good name. It is now available again in an updated, expanded 2nd edition. If you've ever yearned for love, sex, and intimacy beyond the limits of conventional monogamy, this book will open up to infinite possibilities. Relationship pioneers Dossie Easton and Janet W. Hardy dispel myths about sluthood and show how to maintain a successful polyamorous lifestyle through open communication, emotional honesty, and safer-sex practices. This guide includes new strategies for single sluts, advice on how to open an existing relationship or marriage, and exercises to help you and your partners define relationships on your own terms. Whether you're a card-carrying slut or just testing the waters, you'll learn how to expand your circle of lovers and partners, balance your family and personal life, and discover romance and friendship beyond your dreams.

Carol Grever, Deborah Bowman: When Your Spouse Comes Out

A Straight Mate's Recovery Manual. USA/CAN 2008, 151 pp., brochure, € 23.99
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Discovering that your mate is gay is one of the most traumatic events in a marriage. This book shows that this is a relatively widespread crisis and offers effective therapeutic self-help techniques for a straight mate's recovery. It provides practical steps that can keep this event from ruining the lives of those involved. It also presents true stories that demonstrate that any damage is not irreparable. It examines various reactions to the coming-out event, underlying psychological forces, and common obstacles for the whole family that complicate straight spouse recovery. Finally, it shares hard-won lessons and secrets of transformation that open the door to personal renewal and happiness, shows ways to process anger, fear, and grief and to deal with health risks while reconfiguring their lives.

Carren Strock: Married Women Who Love Women

USA/UK 2008, 252 pp., brochure, € 29.95
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During middle age, after 25 years of happy marriage to a man, Carren Strock fell in love with a woman. After a period of intense confusion and pain, Strock came to accept her sexuality and realize that there were other women who discovered lesbianism in the context of a heterosexual marriage. This book is based on interviews that Strock conducted with more than 100 women who had that experience - 60 percent of whom were between the ages of 36 and 55 - as well as their husbands, children, and lovers. Some women in this situation have remained in the closet, either repressing their desires or keeping their affairs secret. Others have come out to husbands and friends and been able to incorporate their lesbianism into their marriages. Others have ended their marriages. The updated edition of the classic that helped married women - and their families - come to terms with their being lesbian or bisexual.

David Coad: The Metrosexual

USA 2008, 214 pp., brochure, € 17.99
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How do you explain Dennis Rodman's dyed hair, tattoos, and pierced body parts? Why are there so many athletes stripping for men's underwear ads? Besides sport, what do Pat Riley, Alex Rodriguez, and Ian Thorpe have in common? And why has David Beckham been compared to Louis XIV? In this exploration of past and present celebrity athletes, the author shows how gender roles for men are undergoing a revolutionary change. Once famous for their lack of style off the field, professional players are now fashion-conscious trendsetters. Looking at the certain stellar sports figures of the past, such as Joe Namath and Jim Palmer, who were at the vanguard of reinterpreting gender roles, Coad goes on examine their primped out and »pimped out« contemporary successors - those athletic peacocks in their furs, silks, and diamonds who embody metrosexuality, widen its focus, and demonstrate the range of experiences open to today's male.

Jennifer Baumgardner: Look Both Ways

USA 2008, 244 pp., brochure, € 11.59
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Bisexuality has always been more than »the sexual non-preference of the '90s«. In her book, the author and activist Jennifer Baumgardner takes a close look at gay and bisexual people on the national cultural stage and the issues their growing visibility raises, particularly for younger women navigating the murky waters of identity. In a society supposedly grown more open and accepting in the wake of Stonewall, women's liberation, and AIDS activism, what can it mean that bisexuality continues to be marginalized by both gay and straight cultures, and dismissed as either a phase or, worse, a cop-out? The author discusses her own experience as a bisexual. Part memoir, part pop-culture study, part feminist theory, her book connects the prominent dots of a bisexual community that has bridged feminist aims with those of the gay rights movement.

Pentti Kirstilä: Schwarzer Frühling

Dt.v. G.Schrey-Vasara. D 2008, 283 S., Pb, € 9.77
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Die grausamen Umstände, unter denen seine Freundin aus dem Leben gerissen wurde, haben den eigenbrötlerischen Kommissar Hanhivaara aus Tampere schwer zugesetzt. Sein Job kommt ihm plötzlich vollkommen fremd vor. Dabei steht der nächste Fall schon an: eine junge Kellnerin ist auf brutale Weise ermordet worden. Leider liegt ein Hauptverdächtiger nicht auf der Hand. Hanna Marjala führte ein ausschweifendes, bisexuelles Leben, hatte unzählige Affären mit Männern und Frauen. Und damit nicht genug: ein Heckenschütze schießt wahllos auf Menschen. Wie soll man einen Täter finden, der seine Opfer ziellos auswählt. Mit seinem Gespür liegt Hanhivaara zwar richtig, passt jedoch nicht genügend auf und gerät dadurch in die Hände des Mörders.

Hella Joof (R): Shake It All About

DEN 2004, OF, dt. UT (nicht ausblendbar), 96 min., € 24.99
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Einen perfekteren Schwulen könnte man sich schier nicht ausdenken! So scheint es. Jacob sieht gut aus, hat Karriere gemacht, hat neben vielen guten Freunden einen langjährigen Boyfriend, den er nun heiraten will. Zu dumm, dass Jacob ausgerechnet während der Verlobungsfeier Augen für Caroline bekommt. Die ist mit dem jüngeren Bruder seines Verlobten verheiratet. Nicht nur, dass Jacobs Leben jetzt richtig kompliziert wird, er schwängert Caroline gleich auch noch. Während Carolines Mann von dem Verhältnis zwischen Jacob und Caroline nichts zu bemerken scheint, fällt Jacobs Verlobten die plötzliche Nähe zwischen den beiden sehr wohl auf. Als Jacob sich den Vorwürfen seines Verlobten ausgesetzt sieht, gesteht er die Affäre und entscheidet sich für Frau und Baby. Doch da geht der Trubel richtig los: darf ein Schwuler hetero werden?

Vanessa Baird: The No-Nonsense Guide to Sexual Diversity

UK 2007, 159 S., Pb, € 11.39
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The world is changing and especially so for sexual minorities - for lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender People. In some countries hard-won battles for equality are bearing fruit in non-discrimination legislation. In others being gay incurs the death penalty. This No-Nonsense Guide demystifies the colours of the sexual rainbow, and reveals the hidden history of LGBT people, crossdressers and eunuchs across the world and through time. It traces the often strange search for the scientific »source« of homosexuality, the history of homophobia, the role that religion has played, and the politics of sexual control. In addition to finding out about the rich, diverse reality you can keep up with the laws that affect sexual minorities with the country-by-country, global survey.