Kai Spellmeier: Boy Friends

UK 2026, 320 pp., brochure, € 15.95
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Bloomsbury
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How do you close the space between boy friends?- Luca has secretly been in love with Simo for as long as he can remember. He wishes he knew how to tell Simo the truth, but he's terrified that it will mean losing his best friend. When an anonymous message on the town noticeboard announces that »SIMO AND LUCA ARE IN ... Weiterlesen

Samantha Shannon: Among the Burning Flowers

UK 2025, 278 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Bloomsbury
With the awakening of fire-breathing dragons, »Among the Burning Flowers« sees the first sparks of danger that threaten to consume the world in »The Priory of the Orange Tree«. Yscalin, land of sunshine and lavender, will soon be ablaze. It has been centuries since the Draconic Army took wing, almost extinguishing humankind. Marosa Vetalda is a prisoner in her own home, ... Weiterlesen

Michael Koresky: Sick and Dirty: Hollywood's Gay Golden Age and the Making of Modern Queerness

USA 2025, 320 pp., hardbound, € 39.95
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Bloomsbury
From the 1930s to the 1960s, the Motion Picture Production Code severely restricted what Hollywood cinema could depict. This included »any inference« of the lives of homosexuals. In a landmark 1981 book, gay activist Vito Russo famously condemned Hollywood's censorship regime, lambasting many midcentury­ films as the bigoted products of a »celluloid closet.« But there is more to these movies ... Weiterlesen

Harry Tanner: The Queer Thing about Sin

Why the West Came to Hate Queer Love. UK 2025, 272 pp., hardback, € 34.95
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Bloomsbury
A journey through ancient history, uncovering the origins of homophobia and the untold stories of those who dared to love. In the early days of ancient Greece, queer love was celebrated. The most famous warrior in antiquity loved another man, the poet whose lyrics were memorised by philosophers and kings sang of her desire for women. Men could swear oaths ... Weiterlesen

Kevin Guyan: Rainbow Trap

Queer Lives, Classifications and the Dangers of Inclusion. UK 2025, 248 pp., hardbound, € 39.95
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Bloomsbury
»Rainbow Trap« reveals how the fight for LGBTQ equalities in the UK is shaped - and constrained - by the classifications we encounter every day. Looking across six systems - the police and the recording of hate crimes, dating apps and digital desire, outness in the film and TV industry, borders and LGBTQ asylum seekers, health and fitness activities, and ... Weiterlesen

Edmund White: The Loves of My Life

A Sex Memoir. USA 2025, 225 pp., hardbound, € 29.95
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Bloomsbury
With his trademark wit, candour and relentlessly perceptive eye, Edmund White, the beloved 85-year-old »paterfamilias of queer literature« (New York Times) delves unflinchingly into the aspect of his life which has inspired so many of his masterpieces: sex. Documenting everything from covert fumblings in the repressed American Midwest of the 1950's to the Arcadian gay debauchery of New York in ... Weiterlesen

Hongwei Bao / Diyi Mergenthaler / Jamie J. Zhao (eds.): Contemporary Queer Chinese Art

Queering China: Transnational Genders and Sexualities.UK/USA 2025, 227 pp., brochure, € 69.95
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Bloomsbury
Contemporary Queer Chinese Art is the first English-language academic book that explores the intersections of queer culture and contemporary Chinese art from the mid-1980s to the present. This book brings together 15 internationally renowned artists, activists, curators and scholars to explore heterogeneous expressions of Chineseness and queerness in contemporary art from China and Chinese diasporas in Asia, Europe and North ... Weiterlesen

Michael Sappol: Queer Anatomies - Aesthetics and Desire in the Anatomical Image, 1700-1900

UK 2025, 280 pp., brochure, € 39.95
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Bloomsbury
In centuries past, sexual body parts and same sex desire were unmentionables debarred from polite conversation and printed discourse. Yet one scientific discipline - anatomy - had license to represent and narrate the intimate details of the human body - anus and genitals included. Figured within the frame of an anatomical plate, presentations of dissected bodies and bodyparts were often ... Weiterlesen

Adam Geczy / Vicki Karaminas: Queer Style

UK 2024, 336 pp., 81 b/w illustrations, brochure, € 49.95
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Bloomsbury
First published in 2013, Queer Style was ahead of its time. It was the first book to address the cultural, political, and material histories of clothes as signs and markers of gender and sexual identity, and remains key reading for scholars and students across fashion studies and the humanities more broadly. Now, 10 years later, the authors have revisited their ... Weiterlesen

Glyn Davis / Laura Guy (ed.): Queer Print in Europe

UK 2022, 266 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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Bloomsbury
How have radical print cultures fostered and preserved queer lived experience from the 1960s to the present? What alternative stories about queer life across Europe can visual material reveal? »Queer Print in Europe« is the first book devoted to the exploration of queer print cultures in Europe, following the birth of an international gay rights movement in the late 1960s. ... Weiterlesen

Phil Stamper: Golden Boys

UK 2022, 372 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Bloomsbury
Gabriel, Reese, Sal, and Heath are four best friends, bonded in their small rural town by their queerness, their good grades, and their big dreams. They are about to embark on the summer before senior year of high school, where each is going on a new, big adventure. Reese is attending a design school in Paris. Gabriel is going to ... Weiterlesen

Kevin Guyan: Queer Data

Using Gender, Sex and Sexuality Data for Action. UK 2022, 240 pp., brochure, € 37.95
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Bloomsbury
Data has never mattered more. Our lives are increasingly shaped by it and how it is defined, collected and used. But who counts in the collection, analysis and application of data? This book is the first to look at »queer data« - defined as data relating to gender, sex, sexual orientation and trans identity/history. The author shows us how current ... Weiterlesen

Laurie Penny: Sexual Revolution

Modern Fascism and the Feminist Fightback. UK 2022, 256 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Bloomsbury
This is a story about how modern masculinity is killing the world, and how feminism can save it. It's a story about sex and power and trauma and resistance and persistence.It's a story about how you can track the crisis of democracy against the crisis of White masculinity, and how the far right is rising in response to both.It's a ... Weiterlesen

Edmund White: A Previous Life

UK 2021, 273 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Bloomsbury
A daring, category-confounding and ruthlessly funny novel from Edmund White, exploring polyamory and bisexuality, ageing and love. Sicilian aristocrat and musician Ruggero, and his younger American wife, Constance, agree to break their marital silence and write their Confessions. Until now they had a ban on speaking about the past, since transparency had wrecked their previous marriages. As the two take ... Weiterlesen

Edmund White: A Saint from Texas

UK 2021, 289 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Bloomsbury
Yvette and Yvonne Crawford are twin sisters, born on a humble patch of East Texas prairie but bound for far grander fates. Just as an untold fortune of oil lies beneath their daddy's land, both girls harbor their own secrets and dreams - ones that will carry them far from Texas and from each other. As the decades unfold, Yvonne ... Weiterlesen

Kalynn Bayron: This Poison Heart

UK 2021, 374 pp., pb., € 14.95
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Bloomsbury
Briseis has a gift: she can grow plants from tiny seeds to rich blooms with a single touch. When Briseis's aunt dies and wills her a dilapidated estate in rural New York, Bri and her parents decide to leave Brooklyn behind for the summer. Hopefully there, surrounded by plants and flowers, Bri will finally learn to control her gift. But ... Weiterlesen

Phil Stamper: As Far as You'll Take Me

UK 2021, 352 pp., pb., € 12.95
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Bloomsbury
Now that Marty is almost 18, he's about to decide what he wants for his future, and finally moving to London is it. He arrives with nothing but his oboe and some savings from his summer job, but Marty is excited to start his new life - where he's no longer the closeted, shy kid who slips under the radar ... Weiterlesen

Frank Wynne (ed.): Queer

LGBTQ Writing From Ancient Times to Yesterday. UK 2023, 624 pp, pb., € 34.95
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Bloomsbury
Drawing together writing from Catullus to Sappho, from Rimbaud to Anaïs Nin, and from Armistead Maupin to Alison Bechdel, translator Frank Wynne has collected a hundred of the finest works representing queer love by LGBTQ authors. »Queer« straddles the spectrum of queer experience, from Verlaine's sonnet in praise of his lover's anus and Emily Dickinson's exhortation of a woman's beauty, ... Weiterlesen