John Rechy: City of Night

UK 2009, 384 pp., pb., € 19.95
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Grove Press
When John Rechy's explosive first novel appeared in 1963, it marked a radical departure in fiction, and gave voice to a subculture that had never before been revealed with such acuity. It earned comparisons to Genet and Kerouac, even as Rechy was personally attacked by scandalized reviewers. Nevertheless, the book became an international bestseller, and fifty years later (2013), it ... Weiterlesen

Gayletter

Zeitschrift, halbjährlich, € 24.99
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Lifestyle - photography - art - opinion.

Dust

Fanzine, halbjährlich, € 28.95
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Dust is a biannual magazine born in 2010 based between Berlin and London and distributed worldwide. The intent of the project is to explore the universe of youth, in the context of a present time marked by a continuous state of crisis. The publishers' interest is to enlighten the genuine and non-codified aspects of youth and of the new emerging ... Weiterlesen

Hello Mr.

Fanzine, halbjährlich, € 16.95
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More than a magazine, »Hello Mr.« is a community of men who date men starting new conversations about their interests, loves, hopes, and fears. We are free-thinking men with a keen sense of style, insight, and humor. The Hello Mr. ?mister? prides himself on emotional intuition and champions his individuality above everything else. Since launching in April 2013, »Hello Mr.« ... Weiterlesen

Ed Bye (R): Vicious - Series One

UK 2013, engl.OF, engl.UT, 134 min., € 19.99
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4 DVD
»Vicious« tells the story of partners Freddie (Ian McKellen) and Stuart (Derek Jacobi), two gay men who lived together in a small central London flat for nearly 50 years. Constantly picking each other apart and holding onto petty slights for decades, we can still see that underneath all their vicious co-dependent fighting they have a deep love for each other. ... Weiterlesen

Brian Merriman: Wilde Stages in Dublin

A Decade of Gay Theatre. Ireland 2013, 254 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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»Wilde« - a term that survived the constructed shame of criminalisation of love for over a century. The name Wilde allowed for some visibility and discussion of a human circumstance, that law intended to obliterate and punish. This book is a personal memoir of the various stages in law, religion, advocacy and campaign that overturned the repression in some countries ... Weiterlesen

David Leddick: The Beauty of Men Never Dies

An Autobiographical Novel. USA 2021, 135 pp, pb., € 19.95
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University of Wisconsin Press
Buoyant and entertaining, this melding of memoir and fiction recounts with humor and candid observation a gay man's romances in his seventies, offering insight into the joys (and a few of the sorrows) of loving, living, and aging with grace, style, and a fearless sense of fun. Bouncing between Montevideo, New York, and Paris, the narrator reveals his adventurous life, ... Weiterlesen

Margret Grebowicz: Why Internet Porn Matters

USA 2013, 135 pp., brochure, € 17.99
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Stanford University Press
Now that pornography is on the Internet, its political and social functions have changed. So contends Grebowicz in this philosophical analysis of Internet porn, in her account, are symptoms of the obsession with self-exposure in today's social networking media, which is, in turn, a symptom of the modern democratic construction of the governable subject as both transparent and communicative. In ... Weiterlesen

Alan Downs: The Velvet Rage

USA 2012, 252 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Today's gay man enjoys unprecedented, hard-won social acceptance. Despite this victory, however, serious problems still exist. Substance abuse, depression, suicide, and sex addiction among gay men are at an all-time high, causing many to ask, »Are we really better off?« Drawing on contemporary research, psychologist Alan Downs's own struggle with shame and anger, and stories from his patients, »The Velvet ... Weiterlesen

Craig M. Loftin (ed.): Letters to ONE

Gay and Lesbian Voices from the 1950s and 1960s. USA 2012, 238 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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SUNY
Long before the Stonewall riots, ONE magazine - the first openly gay magazine in the United States - offered a positive viewpoint of homosexuality and encouraged gay people to resist discrimination and persecution. Despite a limited monthly circulation of only a few thousand, the magazine influenced the substance, character, and tone of the early American gay rights movement. This book ... Weiterlesen

David Leddick: How to Be Gay

A Short Guide. D 2012, 72 pp., brochure, € 6.95
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Bruno Gmünder
Do it right! many guide books have been written for gay men - whether they are about sex, family or lifestyle. But how does one manage to be gay with poise and confidence? If anyone has the answer to this question, it's probably David Leddick. He has been a self-confident gay man for some decades now. He was friends with ... Weiterlesen

Neel Mukherjee: A Life Apart

UK 2011, 402 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Corsair
Ritwik Ghosh, 22 and recently orphaned, finds the chance to start a new life when he arrives in England from Calcutta. But to do so, he must revisit his past and make sense of his relationship with his mother - scarred, abusive and all-consuming. When Oxford brings little of the salvation Ritwik is looking for, he moves to London, disappearing ... Weiterlesen

Scott Pasfield: Gay in America

USA 2011, 224 pp. with colour photographs, hardbound, € 44.95
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In this photographic survey of gay men in America, stereotypes are laid to rest and an intimate, honest picture of contemporary gay life is revealed through personal portraits and narratives. Photographer Scott Pasfield traveled 54,000 miles across all 50 states over a 3-year span gathering stories and documenting the lives of 140 gay men from all walks of life. At ... Weiterlesen

David A. Gerstner (ed.): Routledge International Encyclopedia of Queer Culture

UK/USA 2011, 720 pp., brochure, € 67.99
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Taylor and Francis
This encyclopedia covers gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer (GLBTQ) life and culture post-1945, with a strong international approach to the subject. The scope of the work is extremely comprehensive, with entries falling into the broad categories of dance, education, film, health, homophobia, the Internet, literature, music, performance, and politics. Slang is also covered. The international contributors come from a ... Weiterlesen

Armistead Maupin: Mary Ann in Autumn

Tales of the City, Vol.8. UK 2011, 365 pp., Pb, € 17.95
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20 years have passed since Mary Ann Singleton left her husband and child in San Francisco to pursue her dream of a TV career in New York. Now, a pair of personal calamities has driven her back to the city of her youth and into the arms of her oldest friend, Michael »Mouse« Tolliver, a gay gardener happily ensconced with ... Weiterlesen

Jonathan Kemp: London Triptych

UK 2010, 239 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Myriad Editions
Rent boys, aristocrats, artists and criminals populate this début as the author interweaves the lives and loves of three very different men in the Underground gay scene across the decades. Jack Rose begins his apprenticeship as a rent boy with Alfred Taylor in the 1890s, and finds that a life of pleasure and excess leads him to new friendships - ... Weiterlesen

Moe Meyer: An Archaeology of Posing

Essays on Camp, Drag, and Sexuality. USA 2010, 221pp., brochure, € 28.69
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University of Wisconsin Press
This book compiles two decades of new and previously published writing on gay culture by one of the field's most provocative and outspoken critics. Diverging from the text-based premise of most queer theory, Meyer utilizes performance studies and interpretive anthropology to examine camp and drag performances in the spaces in which they appear. He explores a variety of topics - ... Weiterlesen

Edmund White: Chaos

UK 2010, 196 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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What happens when a life implodes? When a respected older man, a product of the liberated 1970s, is incapable of cleaning up his act in the 21st century? When he pursues sex with a rabidity his body and his reputation can no longer sustain? Chaos results. In this novella White takes an unsparing look at gay midlife. Here, nostalgia has ... Weiterlesen