Kodo Nishimura: This Monk Wears Heels

Be Who You Are. UK 2022, 256 pp., hardback, € 23.95
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Watkins
His wide smile, however, hid a painful past. The book starts with Kodo's childhood in Japan, playing dress up as Little Mermaid, and his lonely adolescence when, although born into a family of priests, all he wanted to do was wear pretty dresses and become a princess. Growing up an outsider in a society that celebrates uniformity, Kodo's time in ... Weiterlesen

Derek Frost: Living and Loving in the Age of AIDS

A Memoir. UK 2021, 288 pp., brochure, € 19.99
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Watkins
This is the tale of a devastating pandemic, of lives cut painfully short - it's also a love story. Derek, a distinguished designer, and J, a pioneering entrepreneur and creator of Heaven, the iconic gay dance club, met and fell in love more than 40 years ago. In the early 1980s their friends began to get sick and die - ... Weiterlesen

Adam Zmith: Deep Sniff

A History of Poppers and Queer Futures. UK 2021, 180 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Watkins
3, 2, 1... inhale, deep. From the Victorian infirmary and the sex clubs of the 1970s, poppers vapour has released the queer potential inside us all. This is the intriguing story of how poppers wafted out of the lab and into gay bars, corner shops, bedrooms and porn supercuts. Blending historical research with wry observation, Adam Zmith explores the cultural ... Weiterlesen