Frédéric Martel: Global Gay

How Gay Culture Is Changing the World. USA 2018, 296 pp., hardback, € 24.95
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MIT Press
In »Global Gay«, Frédéric Martel visits more than fifty countries and documents a revolution underway around the world: the globalization of LGBT rights. From Saudi Arabia to South Africa, from Amsterdam to Tel Aviv, from Singapore to the United States, activists, culture warriors, and ordinary people are part of a movement. Martel finds that although the »gay American way of ... Weiterlesen

David J. Getsy (ed.): Queer - Documents of Contemporary Art

USA 2016, 237 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 29.95
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MIT Press
Historically, »queer« was the slur used against those who were perceived to be or made to feel abnormal. Beginning in the 1980s, »queer« was reappropriated and embraced as a badge of honor. While queer draws its politics and affective force from the history of non-normative, gay, lesbian, and bisexual communities, it is not equivalent to these categories, nor is it ... Weiterlesen

Boyd McDonald: Cruising the Movies

A Sexual Guide to Oldies on TV. USA 2015, 304 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 17.95
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MIT Press
»Cruising the Movies« was Boyd McDonald's »sexual guide« to televised cinema, originally published by the Gay Presses of New York in 1985. A compendium of real-life sexual stories that is part pornography, part ethnography - McDonald in his film writing reveals both his studious and sardonic sides. Many of the texts in »Cruising the Movies« were inspired by McDonald's attentive ... Weiterlesen

Didier Eribon: Returning to Reims

Transl. by Michael Lucey. USA 2013, 240 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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MIT Press - Semiotext(e)
»On thinking the matter through, it doesn't seem exaggerated to assert that my coming out of the sexual closet, my desire to assume and assert my homosexuality, coincided within my personal trajectory with my shutting myself up inside what I might call a class closet.« - from »Returning to Reims«. After his father dies, Didier Eribon returns to his hometown ... Weiterlesen

Louis-Georges Tin: The Invention of Heterosexual Culture

USA/UK 2012, 197 pp., hardbound, € 27.95
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Heterosexuality is celebrated - in film and on TV, in pop songs and opera, in literature and on greeting cards - and at the same time taken for granted. It is the cultural and sexual norm by default. And yet, in premodern Europe heterosexuality was perceived as an alternative culture. The practice of heterosexuality may have been standard, but the ... Weiterlesen

Abdellah Taia: An Arab Melancholia

Engl. by Frank Stock. USA 2012, 141 pp., brochure, € 16.95
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Salé, near Rabat. The 1980s. A lower-class teenager is running until he's out of breath. He's running after his dream, his dream to become a movie director. He's running after the Egyptian movie star, Souad Hosni, who's out there somewhere, miles away from this neighborhood - which is a place the teenager both loves and hates, the home at which ... Weiterlesen

William E. Jones: Halsted Plays Himself

USA 2011, 216 pp. with numerous b/w + color photographs, hardbound, € 39.95
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MIT Press - Semiotext(e)
Fred Halsted's »L.A. Plays Itself« (1972) was gay porn's first masterpiece: a sexually explicit, autobiographical, experimental film whose New York screening left even Salvador Dalí repeatedly muttering »new information for me«. Halsted, a self-taught filmmaker, shot the film over a period of three years in a now-vanished L.A. that harbored a long-gone gay lifestyle at a volatile point in time ... Weiterlesen