In just six years, ACT UP, New York, a broad and unlikely coalition of activists from all races, genders, sexualities, and backgrounds, changed the world. Armed with rancor, desperation, intelligence, and creativity, it took on the AIDS crisis with an indefatigable, ingenious, and multifaceted attack on the corporations, institutions, governments, and individuals who stood in the way of AIDS treatment ... Weiterlesen

Brontez Purnell: 100 Boyfriends

USA 2021, 180 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Transgressive, foulmouthed, and devastatingly funny, »100 Boyfriends« is a revelatory spiral into the imperfect lives of queer men desperately fighting - and often losing - the urge to self-sabotage. His characters solicit sex on their lunch breaks, expose themselves to racist neighbors, sleep with their coworker's husbands, rub Preparation H on their hungover eyes, and, in an uproarious epilogue, take ... Weiterlesen

George M. Johnson: All Boys Aren't Blue

UK 2020, 320 pp. pb., € 14.95
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In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and gay activist George M. Johnson explores his childhood, adolescence, and college years in New Jersey and Virginia. From the memories of getting his teeth kicked out by bullies at age five, to flea marketing with his loving grandmother, to his first sexual relationships, this young-adult memoir weaves together the trials and ... Weiterlesen

Mary Blume: The Master of Us All: Balenciaga, His Workrooms, His World

USA 2014, 228 pp., pb., numerous illustrations, € 12.99
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One of the most innovative and admired figures in the history of haute couture, Cristóbal Balenciaga was, said Christian Dior, »the master of us all.« Despite his extraordinary impact, Balenciaga was a man hidden from view. He saw to it that little was known about him, to the point that some French journalists wondered if he existed at all. Even ... Weiterlesen

Maggie Nelson: The Argonauts

USA 2016, 180 pp., pb., € 17.95
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Maggie Nelson's »The Argonauts« is a genre-bending memoir, a work of »autotheory« offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, identity, and the limitations and possibilities of love and language. At its center is a romance: the story of the author's relationship with the artist Harry Dodge. This story, which includes Nelson's account of falling in love with Dodge, who ... Weiterlesen

Larry Kramer: Search for My Heart, No.1

USA 2015, 800 pp., hardback, € 39.99
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Forty years in the making, »The American People« embodies Larry Kramer's vision of his beloved and accursed homeland. As the founder of ACT UP and the author of »Faggots« and »The Normal Heart«, Kramer has affected American lives and letters. Here he tells the heroic story of one nation under a plague, contaminated by greed, hate, and disease yet host ... Weiterlesen

John Waters: Carsick

John Waters Hitchhikes Across America. USA 2014, 323 pp., hardbound, € 25.95
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John Waters is putting his life on the line. Armed with wit, a pencil-thin mustache, and a cardboard sign that reads »I'm Not Psycho«, he hitchhikes across America from Baltimore to San Francisco, braving lonely roads and treacherous drivers. But who should we be more worried about, the delicate film director with genteel manners or the unsuspecting travelers transporting the ... Weiterlesen

Nicola Griffith: Hild

USA 2013, 546 pp., hardbound, € 26.95
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Hild is born into a world in transition. In 7th-century Britain, small kingdoms are merging, usually violently. A new religion is coming ashore. The old gods' priests are worried. Edwin of Northumbria plots to become overking of the Angles, ruthlessly using every tool at his disposal: blood, bribery, belief. Hild is the king's youngest niece. She has the powerful curiosity ... Weiterlesen

Peter Cameron: Coral Glynn

USA 2012, 210 pp., hardbound, € 21.95
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Coral Glynn arrives at an isolated mansion deep in the English countryside early in the very wet spring of 1950 to nurse the elderly Edith Hart, who is dying of cancer. Hart House is also inhabited by Mrs Prence, the perpetually disgruntled housekeeper, and Major Clement Hart, Mrs Hart's war-ravaged son, who is struggling to endure his thwarted life. When ... Weiterlesen

Charles Rowan Beye: My Husband and My Wives

A Gay Man's Odyssey. USA 2012, 257 pp., hardbound, € 23.95
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This is the memoir of a man looking back over eight tumultuous decades at the complications brought on by the discovery, during adolescence, of his attraction to other men. The ordeal of remaining true to what his libido tells him is right, in the midst of a disapproving and sometimes hostile society, is one side of his story. Another is ... Weiterlesen

John Waters: Role Models

USA 2011, 304 pp. with b/w photographs, brochure, € 15.95
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Here, from the incomparable John Waters, is a paean to the power of subversive inspiration that will delight, amuse, enrich, and happily horrify readers everywhere. »Role Models« is, in fact, a self-portrait told through intimate profiles of favorite personalities - some famous, some unknown, some criminal, some surprisingly middle-of-the-road. From Esther Martin, owner of the scariest bar in Baltimore, to ... Weiterlesen

James Lord: My Queer War

USA 2011, 344 pp., brochure, € 15.99
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In 1942, a timid, inexperienced 21-year-old James Lord reported to Atlantic City, New Jersey, to enlist in the U.S. Army. His career in the armed forces took him to Nevada and California, to Boston, to England, and eventually to France and Germany, where he witnessed first-hand the ravages of total war on Europe's land and people. Along the way he ... Weiterlesen