Kriss Rudolph: Paaroli! Schwule in jeder Beziehung

D 2004, 255 S., geb., € 15.37
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Wie sehen Schwule ihre eigene Beziehung - und wie sehen sie die der anderen? Kriss Rudolph hat einen Fragebogen ausgearbeitet, in dem er nicht nur nach Heirats- und Kinderwunsch, Lebenszielen und der Rolle anderer Männer fragt, sondern auch nach alltäglicher Lebensführung, gemeinsamem und getrenntem Ausgehen, dem offenen Auftreten als Schwuler usw. Unter den Befragten sind auch viele Prominente, wie die Geschwister Pfister, Ralf König, Georgette Dee ... Neben den Antworten auf den Fragebogen ist noch Platz für intensive Interviews, die zusammen vor allem eines deutlich machen: Schwule teilen keinen gemeinsamen Lebensentwurf, ihre Ziele sind nicht nur verschieden, sondern widersprechen einander häufig. Was hätte man auch anders von uns erwartet? Denn das ist gut so.

John E. Campbell: Getting It on Online

USA 2004, 221 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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»Getting It on Online: Cyberspace, Gay Male Sexuality, and Embodied Identity« explores the online embodied experiences of gay men. At once scholarly and sensual, this unique book is the result of a three-year ethnographic study chronicling the activities an three distinct social scenes in the world of Internet Relay Chat (IRC) - virtual spaces constructed by gay men for the erotic exploration of the male body. Examining the vital role the body plays in defining these online spaces, this book offers insight into how gay men negotiate their identities through emerging communication technologies. The author combines a critical look at the role of the body in cyberspace with candid accounts of his own online experiences to challenge conventional views on sex, sexuality, and embodied identity.

Emmanuel Cooper: Male Bodies

D 2004, 144 pp., cloth, € 40.95
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Today, despite increased exposure, whether in gay magazines or in advertising, the naked male figure retains an aura of mystery, a secret to be revealed only in the privacy of the bedroom or, briefly, the changing room. »Male Bodies« looks at the new wave of photography of the male nude within its historical context, and asks how this reflects and comments on the times in which we live. From paradigms of physical perfection to gay icons, this illustrated survey of male nude photography presents various portrayals of masculinity as ssen through the eyes of the world's most renowned photographers. Photographers have been documenting the male form in order to serve a variety of purposes, from motion and anatomical studies to models for subsequent paintings to purely aesthetic and erotic ends.

Rainer Hörmann, Jim Baker (Hrsg.): Der Bärenkult

D 2004, 254 S., Broschur, € 15.32
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Nicht so leicht einzuordnen ist dieses Buch über den Bärenkult, über das Tier im Mann. Glattrasierte und gertenschlanke Männer sind in diesem Biotop jedenfalls nicht angesagt. Der Bär ist haarig, trägt Bart und verfügt über einen lebensfrohen Leibesumfang. Doch nicht alle Bären sind gleich: Jung- oder Muskelbären, Grizzly- oder Eisbären, Otter oder Wolf - für jeden Geschmack ist etwas dabei. Diese genüßliche Tierkunde führt uns durch eine haarige schwule Subkultur und dokumentiert die Vielfalt in einer recht lebendigen Szene. Sie eignet sich für Bären selbst, für Bärenkenner, Bärenliebhaber und Bärenjäger gleichermaßen. Ausgehend von einer kleinen Bärenkunde lernt der Leser Verhaltensregeln und »Bärisch« kennen. V.a. erfährt er auch, wie Man(n) ein Bär wird und dass Köln (nicht Bärlin!) die Bärenhauptstadt ist.

A.D. Peterkin: Outbursts!

A Queer Erotic Thesaurus. CAN 2003, 149 pp., brochure, € 16.29
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Erotic slang words from the U.K., Canada, the U.S., Australia, and other English-speaking nations number well into the tens of thousands. But the history of terms used to describe the sexual activities of gays and lesbians have opposing sources: one, the discreet networks of gay men and lesbians who sought to come up with a new terminology for the pleasures of their secret lives, and the other, those who found gay sexuality repellent, and created phrases that denigrated and insulted its proponents. The result? A coded language, for better or worse, that celebrates sexuality in all its queerness. The author shows how euphemism, camp humor, rhyme, acronym, foreign language, mythology, metaphor, and secret code have all been recruited imaginatively by gay men, lesbians, bisexuals, and transfolk to name what was thought to be unnameable.

Dana Rosenfeld: The Changing of the Guard

USA 2003, 250 pp., brochure, € 24.20
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One of the first books to link identity, age, and gender, »The Changing of the Guard« offers a significant meditation on the politics of older lesbians and gays. Combining interviews and sustained critical thought, Rosenfeld links the development of lesbian and gay elders' identity with the key moments in the 20th century reinvention of homosexuality. In doing so, she bridges the gap between history and interaction that has characterized - and constrained - previous studies of identity. The author summarizes the meaning of homosexuality that prevailed when her subjects came of age and the radical changes it underwent during their middle years. She uses these changes to trace the paths they took toward one of two homosexual identities: a discreditable one adopted before the advent of gay liberation, or an accredited one, adopted during and through those momentous years. She theorizes that there is the existence of two distinct identity »cohorts«, shaped by a willingness or resistance to accept the historical forces at work on lesbian and gay identity

Jack Rinella: Partners in Power

USA 2003, 183 pp., brochure, € 17.89
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Is it possible to form lasting, healthy, loving relationships that are based on power, control and pain? Of course it is - if you approach it with common sense, care and affection. Respected scene leader Jack Rinella has carefully explored how BDSM relationships fit into the lives of real people of all genders and orientations. From that research, and his own two decades as an active leatherman, he has assembled this senisble, readable manual about how kinky relationships really work. You'll learn how to decide what you want from a relationship, find partners, distinguish between fantasy and reality, negotiate agreements to accomodate your changing needs and desires, resolve conflicts, and much more.

Ted Allen, Kyan Douglas etc.: Queer Eye for the Straight Guy

USA 2004, 256 pp., hardbound, € 25.95
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Imagine this: 5 eminently stylish and witty gay men - authorative experts in food and wine, grooming, decorating, fashion, and culture - invade a ordinary male heterosexual life, assess his strengths and weaknesses, and, in the course of a day, make him better dressed, better groomed, better mannered, and a better cook, living in a better home. All of this is painless (unless he has a really egregious body-hair situation), liberating, and downright fun. This is what »Queer Eye for the Straight Guy« does on one of the hottest TV shows in years, as the Fab 5 turn an everyman frog into an every-girl's-dream prince. This book offers the essential »make better« advice from each of the Fab 5. Many straight men have long felt that these subjects are not for them. Nothing could be sillier. In this book the Fab 5 sets them straight (so to speak).