Joel Derfner / Foreword by Elton John: Swish

My Quest to Become the Gayest Person Ever and What Ended up Happening Instead. USA 2009, 256 pp., brochure, € 12.99
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Joel Derfner is a knitter, an aerobics intructor, a cheerleader, a go-go dancer, and a musical theater composer, but when he realizes one day that he's a walking gay cliché he embarks on a quest for deeper meaning. A very, very funny quest for deeper meaning. And whether he's confronting the demons of his past at a GLBT summer camp, ... Weiterlesen

Laud Humphreys: Tearoom Trade: Impersonal Sex in Public Places

USA 2008, 238 pp., pb., € 69.95
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From the time of its first publication, »Tearoom Trade« engendered controversy. It was also accorded an unusual amount of praise for a first book on a marginal, intentionally self-effacing population by a previously unknown sociologist. The book was quickly recognized as an important, imaginative, and useful contribution to our understanding of »deviant« sexual activity. Describing impersonal, anonymous sexual encounters in ... Weiterlesen

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (ed.): That's Revolting!

Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation. USA 2008 (Rev., expanded edition), 350 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Publishers Group West
As the growing gay mainstream prioritizes the attainment of straight privilege over all else, it drains queer identity of any meaning, relevance, or cultural value. What's more, queers remain under attack. Gay youth shelters can be vetoed because they might reduce property values. Trannies are out because they might offend straights. »That's Revolting!« offers a bracing tonic to these trends. ... Weiterlesen

Edmund White: The Flaneur

UK 2008, 214 pp., brochure, € 15.95
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White, who lived in Paris for 16 years, wanders through the avenues and along the quays, into parts of the city virtually unknown to visitors and indeed to many locals, luring the reader into the fascinating and seductive backstreets of his personal Paris. The organizing principle is the combined force of White's perception, imagination, frame of reference and voice. He ... Weiterlesen

William J. Mann: Men Who Love Men

USA 2008, 330 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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For Jeff O'Brien, life has finally fallen into place. He's now a bestselling author, living in Provincetown full-time with Lloyd Griffith, his longtime lover and soon-to-be legal husband. Forty has nothing on Jeff and Lloyd - they're the still-sexy poster boys for settled, contented domesticity. They seem to have everything, in fact - even a foster son, Jeff's 10-year-old nephew, ... Weiterlesen

Mickey Weems: The Fierce Tribe

Masculine Identity and Performance in the Circuit. USA 2008, 272 pp., hardback, € 30.99
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The author applies an overtly interdisciplinary interpretation to a subject that demands such a breakdown of intellectual boundaries. In a kind of ethnography the book documents the folk nature of popular culture. »The Circuit«, an expression of gay culture, comprises large dance events (gatherings, celebrations, communions, festivals). Music and dance drive a complex, shared performance at these events?electronic house music ... Weiterlesen

Susan Driver (ed.): Queer Youth Cultures

USA 2008, 307 pp., brochure, € 29.20
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Engaging a wide range of cultural practices, including zine-making, drag performance, online chatting, music, gay porn, and organizing resistance, the essays explore the creative, political, energetic, and artistic worlds of contemporary queer youth. The research in this collection bridges the perspectives of academics and queer youth, and the voices the youth resonate throughout the analyses of their communities and lives. ... Weiterlesen

Armistead Maupin: Michael Tolliver Lives

UK 2008, 335 pp., Pb, € 12.95
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Michael Tolliver, the sweet-spirited Southerner in the classic »Tales of the City« series, is arguably the most beloved gay character in fiction. Now, almost 20 years after ending his saga of San Francisco life, Maupin revisits his all-too-human hero, letting the 55-year-old gardener tell his story in his own voice. Having survived the plague that took so many of his ... Weiterlesen

L.M. Ross: The Moanin' After

USA 2008, 340 pp., brochure, € 12.39
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David Richmond is a lost dancer struggling to reclaim his equilibrium after his core rhythm has been taken away by loneliness, disease and the death of his best friend. It is a look at his journey from promiscuous party animal to a sober, mentally stable adult by way of analysis. This is also a deep, wistful, brave and harrowing account ... Weiterlesen

Armistead Maupin: Babycakes

UK 1984 (Reissue 2007), 316 pp., Pb, € 12.95
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Black Swan - Tales of the City 4
The characters that filled the pages of the three earlier »Tales of the City« books with love and laughter are at it again, as an ordinary house-husband and his ambitious wife discover there's more to making a baby than meets the eye. Unexpected help arrives in the form of a British monarch, a grieving gay neighbour, and an international ring ... Weiterlesen

Randy Shilts: And the Band Played on

Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic. USA 2007 (Reprint), 630 pp., brochure, € 22.99
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It was the first major book on AIDS, San Francisco Chronicle reporter Randy Shilts examined the making of an epidemic. Shilts researched and reported the book exhaustively, chronicling almost day-by-day the first 5 years of AIDS. His work is critical of the medical and scientific communities' initial response and particularly harsh on the Reagan Administration, that he claims cut funding, ... Weiterlesen

Katherine V. Forrest, Jim van Buskirk (eds.): Love, Castro Street

USA 2007, 288 pp., brochure, € 29.95
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Because San Francisco has seemingly always been a leading city for both cultural and societal change, it's only natural that there is good literature about the gay scene there. Castro Street has always played a major role in the shaping of gay identity - it's as mythological as it's real. Castro Street has always been a home - both ideological ... Weiterlesen

Ski Hunter: Coming Out and Disclosures

USA 2007, 219 pp., brochure, € 22.59
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This book is a one-of-a-kind guide to the coming-out process for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals, how to prepare for disclosure, and how disclosure is received in various groups. It also examines sexual orientation and identities, developmental models of coming out, disclosure in adolescence, midlife, or later, coming out to parents and family members, and disclosure to non-family. Moreover, ... Weiterlesen

Thomas Piontek: Queering Gay and Lesbian Studies

USA 2006, 133 pp., brochure, € 27.95
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University of Illinois Press
»Queering Gay and Lesbian Studies« is a broadly interdisciplinary study that considers a key dilemma in gay and lesbian studies through the prism of identity and its discontents: the field studies has modeled itself on ethnic studies programs, perhaps to be intelligible to the university community, but certainly because the ethnic studies route to programs is well established. Since this ... Weiterlesen

Various Artists: From the Closet to the Charts - Queer Noises 1961 - 1978

CD mit 24 Tracks, € 14.95
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Indigo
Diese Geschichte schwuler Popmusik wurde als Compilation »Queer Noises« herausgegeben von Jon Savage. Die Sammlung enthält Klassiker von Sylvester, den Kinks und den Ramones. Aber ebenso vertreten sind weniger bekannte Songs von Entdeckungen wie Chris Robison, den Miracles und Curt Boettcher. Die Compilation beginnt 1961 mit schwulen Scheiben von winzigen Labels, streift den Pop der 1960er Jahre, Soul- und Songwriter-Stücke ... Weiterlesen

Daylle D. Schwartz: Straight Talk With Gay Guys

USA 2006, 331 pp., brochure, € 15.69
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A straight woman who's about to get the inside scoop on men should keep a gay man on hand for self-esteem emergencies. Who better to tell her everything she needs and wants to know about the opposite sex than gay guys? The author gives you the real deal on how and why men think and act as they do. Featuring ... Weiterlesen

Sheila Whiteley, Jennifer Rycenga (eds.): Queering the Popular Pitch

USA/UK 2006, 308 pp., brochure, € 36.95
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Taylor and Francis
This new collection of 18 essays by international scholars explores the queer iconography implicit in a variety of art forms, including film musicals, videos, cabaret, Latin House, poetry and, in some cases, cultural personae. The authors delve into issues concerning race and ethnicity, forgotten histories, the body in music, and the use of popular music in power politics - situating ... Weiterlesen

Giancarlo Ambrosino (ed.): David Wojnarowicz - A Definitive History of Five or Six Years on the Lower East Side

USA 2006, 231 pp., hardback, € 23.90
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In the wake of David Wojnarowicz's death, critic and cultural theorist Sylvère Lotringer undertook to track down all of Wojnarowicz's friends and former collaborators. Lotringer wanted to talk not just about David, but about the East Village cultural scene they'd created. Some - like Nan Goldin and Kiki Smith - had become luminaries in the international art world. Others - ... Weiterlesen