Sheila Whiteley, Jennifer Rycenga (eds.): Queering the Popular Pitch

USA/UK 2006, 308 pp., brochure, € 36.95
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Taylor and Francis
This new collection of 18 essays by international scholars explores the queer iconography implicit in a variety of art forms, including film musicals, videos, cabaret, Latin House, poetry and, in some cases, cultural personae. The authors delve into issues concerning race and ethnicity, forgotten histories, the body in music, and the use of popular music in power politics - situating music within the broader patterns of culture that it both mirrors and actively reproduces. The essays also forge alliances between academics, activists, scholars and listeners - with the aim of exploring the ways in which »queering« has challenged cultural, social and musical structures. The book promises to establish a new level of discourse in a growing field of musicological research.

Tom Santopietro: Considering Doris Day

USA 2007, 388 pp., hardbound, € 24.89
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The biggest female box-office attraction in Hollywood history, Doris Day remains unequaled as the only entertainer who was ever triumphed in movies, radio, recordings, and a multi-year weekly TV series. America's favorite girl next door may have projected the kind of wholesome image that led Oscar Levant to quip, »I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin«. Day's acting and singing range (which ran the gamut from musicals to comedy to drama and made her nothing short of a worldwide icon) were underappreciated and effortless. Covering the early Warner Bros. years through Day's triumphs working with artists as varied as Alfred Hitchcock and Bob Fosse, the biographer deconstructs the myth of Day as America's perennial virgin.

Terry Trueman: 7 Days at the Hot Corner

USA 2007, 153 pp., hardback, € 15.69
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18-year-old Scott Latimer, a baseball fanatic, plays for his high school's team. Scott's world is thrown into disarray when his best friend, Travis, reveals that he's gay during the citywide baseball tournament. Now, in addition to worrying about playing well in a tournament, Scott anxiously awaits the results of an HIV test that he gets in secret: he fears he may have contracted AIDS after getting accidentally in contact with Travis's blood. When Travis's parents kick their son out of the house, thinking he may influence his younger brother, Travis moves in with Scott's family, causing additional tension between the two best friends. An article in the high school newspaper anonymously relates Travis's struggles as a gay high school senior, and Scott fears that his classmates might think he's gay as well if they discover the article is about Travis.

John Carlyle: Under the Rainbow

USA 2006, 326 pp., hardbound, € 25.79
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Actor John Carlyle got his big break in 1954 when, at age 23, he was cast for George Cukor's »A Star is Born«. Although Carlyle's scene was later cut from the film, the job brought him in touch with Judy Garland who, up until her death, was Carlyle's friend and sometimes lover. This book tells the story of their rocky but close friendship. No longer the great star who first enthralled Carlyle as an adolescent, Garland lived an often desperate, hand-to-mouth existence that was eased only by pills and liquor. She turned to Carlyle for support, even with the hope of marrying the openly gay actor. Carlyle takes us also on a behind-the-scenes tour of gay Hollywood. He slept with Marlon Brando and James Dean, rubbed shoulders with Raymond Burr, double-dated with Rock Hudson, and watched Montgomery Clift spiral out of control from drink. He befriended Lana Turner, and Hedy Lamarr.

Jay Harcourt (ed.): Current Issues in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Health

USA 2006, 206 pp., brochure, € 19.39
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Most literature that explores LGBT health issues concentrates on HIV/AIDS while leaving research studies on other vital issues lacking. This book addresses this inadequacy by presenting a broad range of LGBT health issues from an interdisciplinary and mixed-method perspective. Leading experts present both quantitative and qualitative descriptions of health issues among various population groups, focusing on those topics poorly represented in present-day literature. This book is a strong start to fill in the blanks about unrealized health issues of LGBT individuals and offers insights into the resources needed to address them. This book collects studies that challenge the field to move from simply acknowledging health disparities based on sexual orientation and gender identities to systematically collecting data that will reduce those disparities.

Giancarlo Ambrosino (ed.): David Wojnarowicz - A Definitive History of Five or Six Years on the Lower East Side

USA 2006, 231 pp., hardback, € 23.90
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In the wake of David Wojnarowicz's death, critic and cultural theorist Sylvère Lotringer undertook to track down all of Wojnarowicz's friends and former collaborators. Lotringer wanted to talk not just about David, but about the East Village cultural scene they'd created. Some - like Nan Goldin and Kiki Smith - had become luminaries in the international art world. Others - like Bill Rice, and Steve Brown - remained local. Through their accounts, the protagonists of the East Village art scene reclaim their history, on their own terms. Profusely illustrated with photographs and artworks by Nan Goldin, Peter Hujar, and David Wojnarowicz, this book tears open art history's myth of the single Great Artist to reveal Wojnarowicz's real life, and the real lives surrounding him.

Peter Gill: Body Count

Fixing the Blame for the Global AIDS Catastrophe. USA 2006, 217 pp., brochure, € 14.79
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25 years. 25 million dead. 40 million infected. AIDS is the world's most catastrophic epidemic. This book explains how millions could have been saved if the world had responded properly to the crisis. Politicians and religious leaders in both the rich and poor countries have failed to protect their people from the disease. Simple messages about safe sex and condoms have been consistently downplayed out of embarrassment or misplaced moral fervor. And just as the world begins to wake up to the enormity of the AIDS disaster. Bush threatens to undermine the global effort by reinforcing the christian right's decree that sexual abstinence is the answer to the pandemic. Big business maneuvers to protect the profits and patents of the pharmaceutical industry against cheap AIDS drugs from developing countries.

Robert Aldrich (Hsrg.): Gleich und anders

Dt.v. Benjamin Schwarz. D 2007, 384 S., geb., € 19.90
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Homoerotische Anziehung und homosexuelle Liebe zwischen Männern, bzw. zwischen Frauen lässt sich aus der heutigen Welt nicht mehr wegdenken. Dabei hat es Homosexualität in allen Kulturen und zu jeder Zeit gegeben. Historiker unternehmen hier den Versuch, den Wissensstand über Geschichte und Gegenwart der Homosexualität vorzustellen und dabei die globale Bedeutung der Homosexualität interessant und allgemein verständlich herauszuarbeiten. Der historische Bogen reicht von rituellem Sex unter Aborigines und der Liebe des geteilten Pfirsichs im China der Ming-Dynastie über Männerbünde im Wilden Westen und die Garconnes im Paris der 20er Jahre bis hin zu den Ledermännern heutiger CSD-Paraden. Der Herausgeber bietet einen guten Überblick über die Welt der Homosexualität. Da es auf deutsch derzeit nicht einmal ansatzweise etwas Vergleichbares gegeben hat, ist »Gleich und anders« auf bestem Weg das Standardwerk für die Geschichte der Homosexualität zu werden. (Also available in the original hardbound edition »Gay Life and Culture - A World History« for € 44,95)