Michelangelo Signorile: It's Not Over

Getting Beyond Tolerance, Defeating Homophobia, and Winning True Equality. USA 2015, 272 pp., hardback, € 27.99
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Marriage equality has surged across the country. Closet doors have burst open in business, entertainment, and even major league sports. But the excitement of such breathless change makes this moment more dangerous than ever. Puncturing the illusion that victory is now inevitable, the author marshals stinging evidence that an age-old hatred, homophobia, is still a basic fact of American life. ... Weiterlesen

Kim Fu: For Today I Am a Boy

USA 2014, 242 pp., pb., € 19.95
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Peter Huang and his sisters - elegant Adele, shrewd Helen, and Bonnie the bon vivant - grow up in a house of many secrets, then escape the confines of small-town Ontario and spread from Montreal to California to Berlin. Peter's own journey is obstructed by playground bullies, masochistic lovers, Christian ex-gays, and the ever-present shadow of his Chinese father. At ... Weiterlesen

Alison Bechdel: Are You My Mother?

USA 2013, 290 pp. b/w, brochure, € 29.95
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Alison Bechdel's »Fun Home« was a literary phenomenon: an intimate account of family secrets. While »Fun Home« explored the cartoonist's relationship with her father, a closeted homosexual, this new memoir is about her mother - a voracious reader, a music lover, a passionate amateur actor. Also a woman, unhappily married to a gay man, whose artistic aspirations simmered under the ... Weiterlesen

William J. Mann: Hello, Gorgeous

Becoming Barbra Streisand. USA 2012, 566 pp. with b/w photographs, hardbound, € 26.95
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
In 1960, she was a 17-year-old Brooklyn kid with plenty of talent but no connections, and certainly no money. Her mother brought her soup to make sure she stayed fed as she took acting classes and scraped out a living. Just four years later, Barbra Streisand was the top-selling female recording artist in America and the star of one of ... Weiterlesen

Monique Truong: The Book of Salt

USA 2003, 262 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Binh, a young gay Vietnamese cook, flees Saigon in 1929, disgracing his family to serve as galley hand at sea. The taunts of his now-deceased father ringing in his ears, Binh answers an ad for a live-in cook at a Parisian household, and soon finds himself employed by lesbian couple Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. Toklas and Stein hold ... Weiterlesen