Anne Dohrenwend: Coming Around

Parenting Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Kids. USA 2012, 223 pp., brochure, € 13.99
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New Horizon
»I'm gay.« If a child confides these words to a parent they can totally transform the relationship. Will that transformation result in a closer bond or a broken one? »Coming Around« is an insightful and uplifting guide for understanding and coming to terms with a child's sexual orientation and maintaining a dialogue between parent and child. The author addresses parents' fears regarding: - what to say and not to say, how to deal with social concerns, religious prejudice and bigotry, which legal issues LGBT individuals face, how to understand homophobia. Most important, she shares how to communicate that, whatever happens with a child's sexual or gender choice, parents will never withdraw their love. Coming out is a vulnerable time. Its announcement requires the re-exploration of a parent's personal feelings on homosexuality.

St. Sukie de la Croix: Chicago Whispers

A History of LGBT Chicago Before Stonewall. USA 2012, 326 pp. with numerous b/w photographs, brochure, € 27.59
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University of Wisconsin Press
This book illuminates a colorful and vibrant record of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered people who lived and loved in Chicago from the city's beginnings in the 1670s as a fur-trading post to the end of the 1960s. The author reclaims Chicago's LGBT past that had been forgotten, suppressed, or overlooked. Included here are Jane Adams, the pioneer of American social work, Blues legend Ma Rainey, who recorded »Sissy Blues« in Chicago in 1926, commercial artist J.C. Leyendecker, who used his lover as the model for »The Arrow Collar Man« advertisements, and celebrated playwright Lorraine Hansberry, author of »A Raisin in the Sun«. Here, too, are accounts of vice dens during the Civil War and classy gentlemen's clubs, gender-crossing performers in cabarets, and evidence of thousands of nameless queer Chicagoans.

Ellen D.B. Riggle and Sharon S. Rostosky: A Positive View of LGBTQ

Embracing Identity and Cultivating Well-Being. UK 2012, 193 pp., hardbound, € 41.99
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Rowman and Littlefield
This book is meant to start a new conversation about the strengths and benefits of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer identities. Positive LGBTQ identities are affirmed through inspiring firsthand accounts. Focusing on how LGBTQ-identified individuals can cultivate a sense of well-being and a personal identity that allows them to flourish in all areas of life, the authors explore a variety of themes. Through personal stories from people with a variety of backgrounds and gender and sexual identities, readers will learn more about expressing gender and sexuality, creating strong and intimate relationships, exploring unique perspectives on empathy, compassion, and social justice, belonging to communities and acting as role models and mentors, and enjoying benefits of living an authentic life.

Adriano: Kick Verlangen Leidenschaft

CH 2011, 318 S., Broschur, € 28.79
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Hellwach Verlag
Das Doppelleben von Heteros und Bisexuellen, die sich auf spontane Treffs oder auf Affären mit Schwulen einlassen, ist einerseits eine prickelnde erotische Fantasie, andererseits ein fester Bestandteil schwulen Sexlebens. Der Autor schildert diese Szene für Zürich in den letzten vierzig Jahren. Spielte sich früher vieles nachts in Parkanlagen oder tagsüber in öffentlichen Toiletten oder Sexkinos ab, ist das Cruisen dank Internet für viele dieser vermeintlichen Außenseiter heute leichter geworden. In Reports, Tagebuchaufzeichnungen, Briefen, E-Mails, Chats, Telefongesprächen, Monologen und humorvollen Erzählungen dokumentiert der Autor das Erotische, Emotionale und Grenzüberschreitende zwischen Schwulen und bisexuellen Männern. Eine Dokumentation und gleichzeitig erotische Lektüre.

Kelly Huegel: GLBTQ - The Survival Guide for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning Teens

USA 2011, rev., updated 2nd edition, 229 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 14.49
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Free Spirit
If you're a GLBTQ teen, or think you might be, or know someone who is - this book is for you. Discovering that you might be gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender is a big revelation. Accepting it is a process full of questions, challenges, worries, and fears. One thing that can help in that process is information. This book provides the answers, insight, and support queer or questioning teens need, putting to rest myths and stereotypes about what it means to be GLBTQ. The book offers realistic advice on coming out (or not), responding to homophobia, dating, building relationships, and staying healthy. It gives you ideas for creating a more accepting school environment, starting a gay-straight alliance, exercising your rights, and reconciling your sexual orientation or gender identity with cultural and religious beliefs.

Stuart Biegel: The Right to Be Out

Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in America's Public Schools. USA 2010, 303 pp., brochure, € 18.30
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University of Minnesota Press - GLBT Studies
Despite significant advances for gay and transgender persons in the U.S., the public school environment remains daunting, even frightening, as evidenced by numerous high-profile incidents of discrimination, bullying, violence, and suicide. Yet efforts to protect the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender students and educators, or to enhance curricula to better reflect the experience of differing sexual orientations and gender identities, are bitterly opposed in the courtroom, at the ballot box, and especially in the schools. Underlying all of these issues is an implicit tension about the right to be out - a right that is seen as fundamental within LGBT communities today and, legally, draws on the right to express an identity, and on the right to be treated equally.

Joachim Klinkenberg: Seitenwechsel - Coming-out mit 40

Ein ernster, heiterer Blick auf eine späte Pubertät, € 0.00
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August v. Goethe Literaturverlag
Wie sich das Leben eines Menschen auf dramatische Weise ändern kann, erzählt Joachim Klinkenberg augenzwinkernd in seinem ernsten, heiteren, ehrlichen Buch. Der verheiratete Familienvater, der sich mit knapp 40 Jahren zu seiner sehr spät entdeckten Homosexualität bekennt und ganz von vorne beginnt, erzählt teils humorvoll, teils gefühlvoll, aber immer ehrlich den Weg in das neue Leben, ohne sein altes zu verleugnen. Er erzählt von den Schwierigkeiten, der Liebe zu seinen Kindern und den Zweifeln, aber auch von Aufbruch, Spiritualität und bemerkenswerten Begegnungen. Er erspart sich dabei nichts, beschreibt aber auch die Mechanismen und seine persönlichen Erlebnisse in der schwulen Welt. Im Dialog mit seiner besten Freundin entstand dieses lesenswerte und immer optimistische Buch seiner Jahre nach dem Coming-out.Dieser Titel ist leider vergriffen, wir versuchen aber gern, ihn bei Interesse antiquarisch zu besorgen.

Donald Spoto: Possessed

The Life of Joan Crawford. USA 2010, 336 pp. with numerous b/w photographs, brochure, € 13.49
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Joan Crawford was one of the most incandescent film stars of all time, yet she was also one of the most misunderstood. The biographer here goes beyond the popular caricature - the abusive, unstable mother portrayed in her adopted daughter Christina Crawford's memoir, »Mommie Dearest« - to give us a three-dimensional portrait of a very human woman, her dazzling career, and her extraordinarily dramatic life and times. Based on new archival information and exclusive interviews, »Possessed« offers a fascinating portrait of a courageous, bisexual, and ambitious woman whose strength and drive made her a forerunner in the fledgling film business. The book goes behind the myths to examine Crawford's four marriages, her passionate, on-and-off-again affair with Clark Gable, her friendships and rivalries with other stars.