Yoshino, a law professor at Yale and a gay, Asian-American man, melds autobiography and legal scholarship in this book, marking a move from more traditional pleas for civil equality to a case for individual autonomy in identity politics. In questioning the phenomenon of �covering�, a term used for the coerced hiding of crucial aspects of one's self, Yoshino thrusts the ... Weiterlesen

Jack Fritscher: Some Dance to Remember

USA 2005, 439 pp., brochure, € 26.70
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.

This memoir novel of San Francisco in the 1970s and the early 1980s is one classic of gay literature, seen from the perspective of an eyewitness. This epic of San Francisco's Castro seethes with sex, drugs, panic, and passionate characters: a gay writer, a drop-dead gorgeous bodybuilder, a cabaret singer, a Vietnam vet, a Hollywood bitch, and a rough-trade porn ... Weiterlesen

Lev Raphael: Writing a Jewish Life

USA 2005, 166 pp., brochure, € 13.20
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.

In �Writing a Jewish Life�, novelist Lev Raphael with unflinching honesty his struggles to claim both his religious and sexual identities, and the happyness he subsequently found. A son of Holocaust survivors, Raphael came to a positive Jewish identity late in life and his gay identity even later. He descirbes growing up in unmistakably Jewish but nonreligious home, discovering a ... Weiterlesen

Kevin Bentley: Let's Shut Out the World

USA 2005, 207 pp., brochure, € 15.59
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Whether describing having his hair styled by a gang of eighth-grade bullies, staging a Satan festival in the main hall of Greenvale High, or indulging in inappropriate sex with a caregiver, Kevin Bentley writes with a pen dipped in blood, indignation, and grim whimsy. The autobiographical stories and personal essays in �Let's Shut Out the World� focus on different pivotal ... Weiterlesen

Rich Merritt: Secrets of a Gay Marine Porn Star

USA 2005, 468 pp., brochure, € 14.59
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Rich Marritt - the good son, the teacher's pet, Southern gentleman, model Christian student, Marine officer, and the not-so-anonymous poster boy for a �New York Times Magazine� article on gays in the military - tells the story of his complicated sexual past that caused an international scandal when �The Advocate� outed him as �The Marine Who Did Gay Porn�, putting ... Weiterlesen

Marc Almond: In Search for the Pleasure Palace

UK 2005, 248 pp., pb, € 12.95
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�What happens to people like me who were once pop stars? Am I destined for a life of daytime TV appearances, reunion tours and well-meaning strangers struggling to recognize me before hesitatingly asking, >Didn't you used to be Marc Almond?<� Despite an impending 40th birthday, a milestone age that often results in some sort of midlife crisis, Marc Almond, singer ... Weiterlesen

Augusten Burroughs: Running with Scissors

USA 2005, 315 pp., Pb, € 18.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
SMP

This is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her unorthodox psychiatrist who bore a striking resemblance to Santa Claus. So at the age of 12, Burroughs found himself amidst Victorian squalor living with the doctor's bizarre family, and befriending a pedophile who resided in ... Weiterlesen

Stephen Fry: Moab is My Washpot

UK 2004, 436 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Stephen Fry's bestselling memoir tells how, sent to a boarding school 200 miles from home at the age of seven, he survived beatings, misery, love, ecstasy, carnal violation, expulsion, imprisonment, criminal conviction, probation and catastrophe to emerge, at eighteen, ready to try and face the world in which he had always felt a stranger. Fry writes with the wit to ... Weiterlesen

Alan Sheridan: Time and Place

UK 2004, 488 pp., brochure, € 13.89
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The narrator of this narrative is Mark Sheridan. Born into the theatrical family of his uncle, R.B Sheridan, he recounts his years with a traveling theatre company, and his turbulent love affair with Edmond, a young actor. Interwoven are flashbacks to his turbulent earlier life and a pre-war world long vanished, his childhood in China, his schooldays in Paris, the ... Weiterlesen

E. Lynn Harris: What Becomes of the Brokenhearted

A Memoir. USA 2004, 266 pp., brochure, € 13.89
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Widely known for his sexy, urban African-American novels like �Just as I Am�, Harris now reveals the story of his own life. Harris's smooth, Southern accent and conversational tone immediately put listeners at ease. Convinced he would die �one of the brokenhearted�, Harris recalls his struggles with his abusive father, his 1990 suicide attempt, his battle with depression and his ... Weiterlesen

Reginald L. Hall: Memoir: Delaware County Prison

USA 2004, 193 pp., brochure, € 12.69
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After committing credit card fraud at a local department store, 18-year-old Reginald Hall lands an 8-month sentence at the Delaware County Prison. What complicates his life as an inmate is his sexual orientation. In life, being gay is difficult enough - in prison, it can be a horrendous ordeal. Attempting suicide, taking drugs, and having illicit sex were only some ... Weiterlesen

Chastity Bono, Michele Kort: The End of Innocence

A Memoir. USA 2003, 222 pp., brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.

In this memoir, Chastity Bono recounts a story of love, commitment, and tragedy lived out beyond the glare of the cameras. At age 23, Chastity was well on her way to establishing her own life separate from her superstar parents, Cher and Sonny Bono. Geffen Records had just signed her band, Ceremony, and, best of all, a love affair began ... Weiterlesen

Jeff Mann: Edge

USA 2003, 183 pp., brochure, € 15.69
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With complete candor, celebrated poet and teacher Jeff Mann illustrates the struggles and joys of his life. In elegant prose, Mann's memoir introduces the people and places that inspire him. His physical journeys - to the gay meccas such as Key West and Provincetown and overseas to Germany, Ireland, and Scotland - lead to examinations of gay history, family legacy, ... Weiterlesen

Felice Picano: A House on the Ocean, a House on the Bay

Vol. 3 of the Collected Memoirs. USA 2003, 275 pp., brochure, € 17.45
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The 3rd of Felice Picano's memoir series is a beautifully rendered portrait of gay life on Fire Island, the mythic locus of so much innocence lost and gay celebrity and celebration found. Privileged to live on Fire Island for six months of each year for over a decade, Picano lovingly recounts this part of his life, as well as his ... Weiterlesen

Pieter-Dirk Uys: Elections and Erections

A Memoir of Fear and Fun. SA 2002, 232 pp., brochure, € 12.95
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Pieter-Dirk Uys is arguably South Africa's most famous satirist, AIDS activist and cross-dresser. Here, in his memoirs, he writes with his customary combination of wit and wisdom on such diverse topics as his youth, his early days in theatre, and the birth of Evita Bezuidenhout - his alter ego. He deals frankly with sex, politics, HIV/AIDS and the bizarre twists ... Weiterlesen

Christopher Isherwood: My Guru and His Disciple

USA 2001, 340 pp., brochure, € 19.99
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University of Minnesota Press

�My Guru and His Disciple� is a sweetly modest and honest portrait of Isherwood's spiritual instructor, Swami Prabhavananda, the Hindu priest who guided Isherwood for some thirty years. It is also a book about the often amusing and sometimes painful counterpoint between worldliness and holiness in Isherwood's own life. Sexual sprees, all-night drinking bouts, a fast car ride with Greta ... Weiterlesen

Christopher Isherwood: Lions and Shadows

USA 2000, 313 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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In 1938 the legendary Hogarth Press published the first of Christopher Isherwood's autobiographical writings, �Lions and Shadows�. In this book, Isherwood evokes the atmosphere of Cambridge as only he knew it, describing his life as a tutor, medical student, and struggling writer. The result is a captivating account of a young novelist's development in the burgeoning literary culture of the ... Weiterlesen

Daniel Mendelsohn: The Elusive Embrace

Desire and the Riddle of Identity. USA 1999, 209 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Vintage

Hailed for its searing emotional insights, and for the astonishing originality with which it weaves together personal history, cultural essay, and readings of classical texts by Sophocles, Ovid, Euripides, and Sappho, �The Elusive Embrace� is an exploration of the mysteries of identity. It is also a meditation in which the author uses his own divided life to investigate the ... Weiterlesen

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