Jack Halberstam: Trans

A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variability. USA 2018, 164 pp., brochure, € 29.95
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University of California Press
In the last decade, public discussions of transgender issues have increased exponentially. However, with this increased visibility has come not just power, but regulation, both in favor of and against trans people. What was once regarded as an unusual or even unfortunate disorder has become an accepted articulation of gendered embodiment as well as a new site for political activism ... Weiterlesen

Martin Duberman: Has the Gay Movement Failed?

USA 2018, 247 pp., hardbound, € 39.95
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University of California Press
The past fifty years have seen significant shifts in attitudes toward LGBTQ people and wider acceptance of them in the US and the West. Yet the extent of this progress has been more broad and conservative than deep and transformative. One of the most renowned historians of the American left and the LGBTQ movement, Duberman reviews the period since Stonewall. ... Weiterlesen

Avram Finkelstein: After Silence

A History of AIDS Through Its Images. USA 2017, 248 pp. illustrated, hardcover, € 27.95
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University of California Press
Early in the 1980s AIDS epidemic, six gay activists created one of the most iconic and lasting images that would come to symbolize a movement: a protest poster of a pink triangle with the words »Silence = Death«. The graphic and the slogan still resonate today, often used to brand the entire movement. Avram Finkelstein tells the story of how ... Weiterlesen

Jason E. Black and Charles E. Morris (eds.): Harvey Milk - An Archive of Hope

Harvey Milk's Speeches and Writings. USA 2013, 256 pp., brochure, € 39.95
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University of California Press
Harvey Milk was one of the first openly and politically gay public officials in the United States, and his remarkable activism put him at the very heart of a pivotal civil rights movement reshaping America in the 1970s. »An Archive of Hope« is Milk in his own words, bringing together in one volume a substantial collection of his speeches, columns, ... Weiterlesen

Matti Bunzl: Symptoms of Modernity

Jews and Queers in Late-20th-Century Vienna. USA/UK 2004, 292 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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University of California Press
In the 1990s, Vienna's Jews and queers abandoned their clandestine existence and emerged into the city's public sphere in unprecedented numbers. »Symptoms of Modernity« traces this development in the context of Central European history. Jews and homosexuals are signposts of an exclusionary process of nation-building. Cast in their modern roles in the late 19th century, they functioned as »Others«, ... Weiterlesen

Nadine Hubbs: The Queer Composition of America's Sound

Gay Modernists, American Music, and National Identity. USA 2004, 282 pp. with several b/w photos, brochure, € 49.95
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University of California Press
In this vibrant and pioneering book, Nadine Hubbs shows how a gifted group of Manhattan-based gay composers were pivotal in creating a distinctive »American sound« and in the process served as architects of modern American identity. Focusing on a talented circle that included Aaron Copland, Virgil Thomson, Leonard Bernstein, Marc Blitzstein, Paul Bowles, David Diamond, and Ned Rorem, »The Queer ... Weiterlesen