Phil Stamper: The Gravity of Us

UK 2020, 314 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Bloomsbury
Cal wants to be a journalist, and he's already well underway with almost half a million followers on his FlashFame app and an upcoming internship at Buzzfeed. But his plans are derailed when his pilot father is selected for a highly-publicized NASA mission to Mars. Within days, Cal and his parents leave Brooklyn for hot and humid Houston. With the ... Weiterlesen

David Leavitt: Shelter in Place

UK 2020, 369 pp., hardbound, € 27.95
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Bloomsbury
It is the Saturday after the 2016 presidential election, and in a plush weekend house in Connecticut, an intimate group of friends, New Yorkers all, has gathered to recover from what they consider the greatest political catastrophe of their lives. They have just sat down to tea when their hostess, Eva Lindquist, proposes a dare. Who among them would be ... Weiterlesen

Chris Bryant: The Glamour Boys

The Secret Story of the Rebels Who Fought for Britain to Defeat Hitler. UK 2020, 425 pp. with numerous b/w photographs, brochure, € 17.95
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Bloomsbury
In the early 1930s, a group of young, queer British MPs visited Berlin on a series of trips that would change the course of the World War II. As Hitler rose to power they watched the Nazis arrest their gay and Jewish friends, send them to concentration camps and murder them. These men were some of the first to warn ... Weiterlesen

Jim Hutton: Mercury and Me

UK 2019, 211 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Bloomsbury
Freddie Mercury was a rock superstar like no other. But for all his riches, he could not buy the thing he sought most: the love of one particular man. Jim Hutton was a modest gentleman's barber when the two met in 1983. After many fiery false starts, they became lasting lovers. From the moment they lived together, wherever Freddie went, ... Weiterlesen

Frédéric Martel: In the Closet of the Vatican

Power, Homosexuality, Hypocrisy. UK 2019, 555 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Bloomsbury
The celibacy of priests, the condemnation of the use of contraceptives, the cover up of countless cases of sexual abuse, the resignation of Benedict XVI, misogyny among the clergy, the dramatic fall in Europe of the number of vocations to the priesthood, the plotting against Pope Francis - all these issues are clouded in mystery and secrecy. This book reveals ... Weiterlesen

George Saunders: Lincoln in the Bardo

UK 2018, 368 pp., brochure, € 10.99
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Bloomsbury
The debut novel by George Saunders, is about Abraham Lincoln and the death of 11-year-old son, Willie, at the dawn of the Civil War. The American Civil War rages while President Lincoln's beloved young son lies gravely ill. In a matter of days, Willie dies and is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery. Newspapers report that a grief-stricken Lincoln ... Weiterlesen

Mike Bartlett: Cock

UK/USA/AUS 2017, 112 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Bloomsbury
When John takes a break from his boyfriend, his accidentally meets the girl of his dreams. Filled with guilt and indecision, he decides there is only one way to straighten this out. Mike Bartlett's metrosexual play about love and longing provides us with questions of who we are and who we want to be. John's refusal to fix his identity ... Weiterlesen

Melissa Febos: Abandon Me

Memoir. UK 2017, 313 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Bloomsbury
Febos captures the intense bonds of love and the need for connection - with family, lovers, and oneself. First, her birth father, who left her with only an inheritance of addiction and Native American blood, its meaning a mystery. As Febos tentatively reconnects, she sees how both these lineages manifest in her own life, marked by compulsion and an instinct ... Weiterlesen

Darryl W. Bullock: David Bowie Made Me Gay

100 Years of LBGT Music. UK 2017, 372 pp., pb., € 19.95
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Bloomsbury
LGBT musicians have shaped the development of music over the last century, with a sexually progressive soundtrack in the background of the gay community's struggle for acceptance. LGBT messages are now brought to the forefront of popular music. This book covers the breadth of history of recorded music by and for the LGBT community and how those records influenced the ... Weiterlesen

Laurie Penny: Bitch Doctrine

Essays for Dissenting Adults. UK 2017, 384 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Bloomsbury
This collection of Laurie Penny's writing establishes her as one of the most urgent and vibrant feminist voices of our time. From the shock of Donald Trump's election and the victories of the far right, to online harassment and the transgender rights movement, these darkly humorous articles provoke challenging conversations about the definitive social issues of today. Penny is lyrical ... Weiterlesen

Frank Browning: The Fate of Gender

Nature, Nurture, and the Human Future. USA 2017, 320 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Bloomsbury
This investigation on the modern fluidity of gender asks how people question what masculinity and femininity are, and how much of that is the result of biology and social conditioning. Social trends towards more gender fluidity were assisted by the separation of sex and reproduction after the introduction of contraceptives, and the spread of the idea of gender as performance. ... Weiterlesen

Emer O'Sullivan: The Fall of the House of Wilde

Oscar Wilde and His Family. UK 2017, 512 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Bloomsbury
Oscar Wilde owed his most outstanding characteristics - his intellectualism, his flamboyance, his hedonism, his pride, his sense of superiority, his liberal sexual values - to his parents. Oscar's mother, Lady Jane Wilde, rose to prominence as a political journalist. She passed on her infectious delight in the art of living to Oscar, who imbibed it greedily. His father was ... Weiterlesen

Edmund White: Our Young Man

UK 2017, 283 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Bloomsbury
Edmund White's new novel follows the life of a gorgeous Frenchman, Guy, as he goes from a French industrial city to the top of the modeling profession in New York City's fashion world, becoming the darling of Fire Island's gay community. Enjoying a full gay amorous life through the disco era and into the age of AIDS, like ... Weiterlesen

Natasha Pulley: The Watchmaker of Filigree Street

UK 2016, 329 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Bloomsbury
In 1883, Thaniel Steepleton returns to his tiny flat to find a gold pocketwatch on his pillow. When the watch saves Thaniel's life in a blast that destroys Scotland Yard, he goes in search of its maker, Keita Mori - a kind, lonely immigrant. Meanwhile, Grace Carrow is sneaking into an Oxford library, desperate to prove the existence of the ... Weiterlesen

K.J. Dover: Greek Homosexuality

UK 2016, 246 pp., brochure, € 59.95
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Bloomsbury
Hailed as magisterial when it first appeared, »Greek Homosexuality« remains an academic milestone and continues to be of major importance for students and scholars of gender studies. Kenneth Dover explores the understanding of homosexuality in ancient Greece, examining a vast array of material and textual evidence that leads him to provocative conclusions. - This new release of the 1989 second ... Weiterlesen

Matthew Griffin: Hide

USA 2016, 272 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Bloomsbury
Wendell and Frank meet at the end of World War II, when Frank returns home to their North Carolina town. Soon he's loitering around Wendell's shop, and the two come to understand their connection as love - a love that, in this time and place, can hold real danger. Cutting nearly all ties with the rest of the world, they ... Weiterlesen

Edmund White: Inside a Pearl

My Years in Paris. UK 2015, 263 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Bloomsbury
When Edmund White moved to Paris in 1983, leaving New York City in the midst of the AIDS crisis, he was 43 years old, couldn't speak French, and only knew two people in the entire city. But in middle age, he discovered the new anxieties and pleasures of mastering a new culture. When he left fifteen years later to take ... Weiterlesen

Paul Bailey: The Prince's Boy

UK 2015, 152 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Bloomsbury
Wer Paul Baileys schwulen Bestseller »Sugar Cane« aus dem Jahr 1993 kennt (heute auf Deutsch erhältlich unter dem Titel »Auf Tour«) und sich sein neues Buch »The Prince's Boy« vornimmt (erstmals 2013 und bisher nur auf Englisch erschienen), wird schnell feststellen, dass sich der Autor deutlich weiterentwickelt hat. Es gibt Parallelen zwischen den beiden Büchern. In beiden Büchern spielen männliche ... Weiterlesen
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