Barbara Eden and Wendy Leigh: Jeannie Out of the Bottle

USA 2011, 274 pp. with numerous photographs, brochure, € 14.29
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Three Rivers
Barbara Eden's memoir is a thrilling insider's look at the glittery life in showbiz, which takes us behind the scenes of NBC's iconic TV series »I Dream of Jeannie« as well as Barbara Eden's dozens of other stage and screen performances. But it is also a deeply intimate memoir of personal tragedy, from a stillborn child and a verbally abusive, ... Weiterlesen

John Waters: Role Models

USA 2011, 304 pp. with b/w photographs, brochure, € 15.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Here, from the incomparable John Waters, is a paean to the power of subversive inspiration that will delight, amuse, enrich, and happily horrify readers everywhere. »Role Models« is, in fact, a self-portrait told through intimate profiles of favorite personalities - some famous, some unknown, some criminal, some surprisingly middle-of-the-road. From Esther Martin, owner of the scariest bar in Baltimore, to ... Weiterlesen

James Lord: My Queer War

USA 2011, 344 pp., brochure, € 15.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
In 1942, a timid, inexperienced 21-year-old James Lord reported to Atlantic City, New Jersey, to enlist in the U.S. Army. His career in the armed forces took him to Nevada and California, to Boston, to England, and eventually to France and Germany, where he witnessed first-hand the ravages of total war on Europe's land and people. Along the way he ... Weiterlesen

Ricky Martin: Me

USA 2011, 292 pp. with many color photos, brochure, € 10.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Throughout a career spanning nearly three decades, Ricky Martin drew a clear line between the person within and the one he shared with the world, choosing to keep his deepest emotions to himself. In »Me«, he shares defining memories of his early childhood, his family's sacrifices to support his dreams, and coming-of-age experiences in the famed boy band Menudo - ... Weiterlesen

Chaz Bono: Transition

The Story of How I Became a Man. USA 2011, 245 pp. with photographs, hardbound, € 21.29
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For better or worse, since his TV debut at the age of two, she has always been thought of as Sonny and Cher's adorable daughter, Chastity. Her parents' decision to put her on their TV show has shaped the course of her entire life: that cherubic little girl from the TV screen would grow up to be a middle-aged man. ... Weiterlesen

Stephen Fry: The Fry Chronicles

An Autobiography. D 2011, 446 pp. illustrated, Pb, € 14.95
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Stephen Fry arrived at Cambridge on probation: a convicted fraudster and thief, an addict, liar, fantasist and failed suicide, convinced that at any moment he would be found out and flung away. Instead, university life offered him love, romance and the chance to stand on a stage and entertain. He met and befriended bright young things like Emma Thompson and ... Weiterlesen

Stephen Fry: The Fry Chronicles

An Autobiography. UK 2010, 438pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Stephen Fry arrived at Cambridge on probation: a convicted fraudster and thief, an addict, liar, fantasist and failed suicide, convinced that at any moment he would be found out and flung away. Instead, university life offered him love, romance and the chance to stand on a stage and entertain. He met and befriended bright young things like Emma Thompson and ... Weiterlesen

Edmund White: City Boy

My Life in New York During the 1960s and 1970s. UK/D/USA/AUS 2010, 297pp., Pb, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
When Edmund White left the Midwest after college he had an opportunity to pursue a Ph.D. at Harvard. Instead, he followed a lover to New York City. There he arrives broke and unknown, struggling to express himself as a gay man even as he holds out hope of being »cured«. Present at the Stonewall uprising in 1969, White witnesses the ... Weiterlesen

John Waters: Role Models

USA 2010, 304pp., hardbound, € 23.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Here, from the incomparable John Waters, is a paean to the power of suversive inspiration that will delight, amuse, enrich, and happily horrify readers everywhere. »Role Models« is, in fact, a self-portrait told through intimate profiles of favorite personalities - some famous, some unknown, some criminal, some surprisingly middle-of-the-road. From Esther Martin, owner of the scariest bar in Baltimore, to ... Weiterlesen

Patti Smith: Just Kids

USA 2010, 291 pp. + b/w photographs, hardbound, € 22.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, devotion, and initiation. Patti Smith would evolve as a poet and performer, and Robert Mapplethorpe would direct his highly provocative style toward photography. Bound in innocence and enthusiasm, they traversed ... Weiterlesen

Martin Duberman: Waiting to Land: A Mostly Political Memoir, 1985-2008

USA 2009, 334 pp. hardbound, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
New Press
Although best known for his acclaimed biographies, historian Martin Duberman is also a renowned memoirist who has plumbed his own life for truths that have meaning for us all. »Waiting to Land« takes Duberman's story up to the present day. As his public engagement deepens, Duberman finds himself increasingly at odds with the mounting assimilationism of the mainstream gay movement ... Weiterlesen

Abdellah Taïa: Salvation Army

Introduction by Edmund White. English by Frank Stock. USA 2009, 144 pp., brochure, € 24.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
An autobiographical novel by turns naïve and cunning, funny and moving, this most recent work by Moroccan expatriate Abdellah Taïa is a major addition to the new French literature emerging from the North African Arabic diaspora. This is a coming-of-age novel that tells the story of Taïa's life with complete disclosure - from a childhood bound by family order and ... Weiterlesen

John Barrowman: Anything Goes

The Autobiography. UK 2009, 256 pp., Pb, € 11.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
From his Glaswegian childhood and American adolescence to his starring role in the »Doctor Who« spinoff »Torchwood«, this memoir traces the life and career of actor John Barrowman. John made a name for himself with remarkable West End achievements, including success in the movies »The Producers« and »De-Lovely«. John also lays bare his personal life: his emigration as a child, ... Weiterlesen

Aiden Shaw: Sordid Truths

Selling My Innocence for a Taste of Stardom. USA 2009, 235 pp., brochure, € 14.39
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This autobiography chronicles the author's ascent from being just another broke and very horny college boy, who dabbled with the idea that he could sell his young body for hard cash, to becoming the internationally renowned adult film idol. After finishing just one year of his BA degree he was 21 and easily lured away from study by the lusty ... Weiterlesen

David Bergman (ed.): Gay American Autobiography

Writings from Whitman to Sedaris. USA 2009, 403 pp., brochure, € 27.95
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
The first anthology to survey the full range of gay men's autobiographical writing from Walt Whitman to the present draws excerpts from letters, journals, oral histories, memoirs, and autobiographies to provide examples of the best life writing from the last century and a half. The editor guides the reader chronologically through selected writings that give voice to every generation of ... Weiterlesen

Lev Raphael: My Germany

A Jewish Writer Returns to the World His Parents Escaped. USA 2009, 210 pp., hardbound, € 24.95
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Lev Raphael grew up loathing everything German. A son of Holocaust survivors, haunted by his parents' suffering and traumatic losses under Nazi rule, he was certain that Germany was one place in the world he would never visit. Those feelings shaped his Jewish and gay identity, his life, and career. Then the barriers of a lifetime began to come down, ... Weiterlesen

John Rechy: About My Life and the Kept Woman

USA 2009, 356 pp., brochure, € 12.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Novelist John Rechy probes his nascent self-identity as a Mexican-American and a homosexual. Growing up during the Depression in El Paso, Texas, the youngest son of a Mexican woman who spoke no English and a Scottish musician father, Rechy recalls his early fascination with beauty. Moreover, amid a society that excoriated Mexicans, young Rechy grew into a beautiful, fair-skinned young ... Weiterlesen

Jean Cocteau: My Contemporaries

UK 2009, 141 pp., brochure, € 16.39
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) holds a unique place in French culture. His success in the theatre, cinema, ballet, opera, art and literary worlds bears witness to his prodigious talents, and in all these fields he made lifelong friends. It is in his portraits of them that the essence of his work can be found, for they illustrate everything in it that ... Weiterlesen