Michelle Tea: How to Grow up

A Memoir. USA 2015, 287 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Penguin USA
As an aspiring young writer in San Francisco, Michelle Tea lived in a scuzzy communal house. She drank, smoked, snorted anything she got her hands on. She dated men and women, and sometimes both at once. But between hangovers and dead-end jobs, she scrawled in notebooks and organized dive bar poetry readings, working to make her literary dreams real. In ... Weiterlesen

Joey Graceffa: In Real Life

My Journey to a Pixelated World. USA 2015, 260 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Twenty-three year old Joey Graceffa has captured the hearts of millions of teens and young adults through his playful, sweet, and inspirational YouTube presence (not to mention his sparkling eyes and perfect hair). Yet, Joey wasn't always comfortable in his skin, and in this candid memoir, he thoughtfully looks back on his journey as a gay boy from pain to ... Weiterlesen

Maggie Nelson: The Argonauts

USA 2016, 180 pp., pb., € 17.95
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Maggie Nelson's »The Argonauts« is a genre-bending memoir, a work of »autotheory« offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, identity, and the limitations and possibilities of love and language. At its center is a romance: the story of the author's relationship with the artist Harry Dodge. This story, which includes Nelson's account of falling in love with Dodge, who ... Weiterlesen

Oliver Sacks: On the Move

UK 2015, 397 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Picador
From its opening pages on his youthful obsession with motorcycles and speed, »On the Move« is infused with his restless energy. As he recounts his experiences as a young neurologist in the early 1960s, first in California, where he struggled with drug addiction and then in New York, where he discovered a long-forgotten illness in the back wards of a ... Weiterlesen

Michael V. Smith: My Body is Yours

A Memoir. CAN 2015, 240 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Arsenal Pulp Press
The author is a multihyphenate force of nature, a novelist, poet, improv comic, filmmaker, drag queen, performance artist, and occasional clown. In this, his first work of nonfiction, Michael traces his early years as an inadequate male - a fey kid growing up in a small town amid a blue-collar family, a sissy, an insecure teenager desperate to disappear, and ... Weiterlesen

Brad Gooch: Smash Cut

A Memoir of Howard and Art and the 70s and the 80s. USA 2015, 239 pp., hardback, € 27.99
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Harper Collins
Brad Gooch arrived in New York in the late 1970s, yearning for artistic and personal freedom. At the center of this memoir is his love affair with film director Howard Brookner, pieced together from fragments of memory and fueled by a panoply of emotions, from blazing ecstasy to bleakest despair. Gooch and Brookner's intense relationship is haunted by the specter ... Weiterlesen

Edmund White: Inside a Pearl

My Years in Paris. UK 2015, 263 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Bloomsbury
When Edmund White moved to Paris in 1983, leaving New York City in the midst of the AIDS crisis, he was 43 years old, couldn't speak French, and only knew two people in the entire city. But in middle age, he discovered the new anxieties and pleasures of mastering a new culture. When he left fifteen years later to take ... Weiterlesen

Graham Chapman: A Liar's Autobiography

UK 2014, 248 pp., pb., € 24.95
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Methuen
Required reading for Monty Python fans, this true and false memoir is Graham Chapman's own hilarious account of his life as a Python and as a homosexual. The book equals Joe Orton's famous Diaries in providing an unblushing account of a gay lifestyle linked to entertainment. Full of outrageous fictions and touching truths, in telling surreal and outrageous lies Graham ... Weiterlesen

Mark Gevisser: Lost and Found in Johannesburg

A Memoir. UK 2014, 354 pp., illustrated, brochure, € 17.95
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Granta Books
This is a daring exploration of place and the boundaries upon which identities are mapped. As a child growing up in apartheid South Africa, Gevisser becomes obsessed with a street guide called Holmden's Register of Johannesburg, which literally erases entire black townships. Johannesburg, he realizes, is full of divisions between black and white, rich and poor, gay and straight. He ... Weiterlesen

Robbie Rogers: Coming Out to Play

USA 2014, 222 pp. with color and b/w photographs, brochure, € 19.95
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Penguin USA
Robbie Rogers knows better than most that keeping secrets can crush you. But for much of his life Robbie lived in paralyzing fear that sharing his big secret would cost him the love of his family and his career as a professional soccer player. So he never told anyone what was destroying his soul, both on and off the field. ... Weiterlesen

Stephen Snyder-Hill: Soldier of Change

From the Closet to the Forefront of the Gay Rights Movement. USA 2014, 198 pp., hardcover, € 24.95
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University of Nebraska Press
When »Don't Ask, Don't Tell«, the official U.S. policy on gays serving in the military, was repealed in 2011, soldier Stephen Snyder-Hill (then Captain Hill) was serving in Iraq. Having endured years of this policy, which passively encouraged a culture of fear and secrecy for gay soldiers, Snyder-Hill submitted a video to a Republican primary debate (held two days after ... Weiterlesen

Stephen Fry: More Fool Me

UK 2014, 400 pp., brochure, € 19.90
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Penguin UK
Stephen Fry invites readers to take a glimpse at his life story in the unputdownable »More Fool Me«. It is a heady tale of the late Eighties and early Nineties, in which gay Stephen - ever more driven to create, perform and entertain - burned bright and partied hard with a host of famous and infamous friends, regardless of the ... Weiterlesen

Michelle Theall: Teaching the Cat to Sit

A Memoir. USA 2014, 275 pp., hardbound, € 24.99
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Simon and Schuster
Even when society, friends, the legal system, and the Pope himself swing toward acceptance of the once unacceptable, Michelle Theall still waits for the one blessing that has always mattered to her the most: her mother's. Michelle grew up in the conservative Texas Bible Belt, bullied by her classmates and abandoned by her evangelical best friend before she'd ever even ... Weiterlesen

Sean Straub: Body Counts

A Memoir of Politics, Sex, AIDS, and Survival. USA 2014, 420 pp. with b/w photographs, hardbound, € 28.99
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Scribner
As a politics-obsessed Georgetown freshman, Sean Strub arrived in Washington, D.C., from Iowa in 1976, with a plum part-time job running a Senate elevator in the U.S. Capitol. He also harbored a terrifying secret: his attraction to men. As Strub explored the capital's political and social circles, he discovered a parallel world where powerful men lived double lives shrouded in ... Weiterlesen

Rae Spoon and Ivan E. Coyote: Gender Failure

CAN 2014, 256 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 27.95
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Arsenal Pulp Press
Ivan E. Coyote and Rae Spoon are accomplished, award-winning writers, musicians, and performers - they are also both admitted »gender failures«. In their first collaborative book, Ivan and Rae explore and expose their failed attempts at fitting into the gender binary, and how ultimately our expectations and assumptions around traditional gender roles fail us all. Based on their acclaimed 2012 ... Weiterlesen

Joy Ladin: Through the Door of Life: A Jewish Journey between Genders

USA 2013, 270 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
University of Wisconsin Press
Professor Jay Ladin made headlines around the world when, after years of teaching literature at Yeshiva University, he returned to the Orthodox Jewish campus as a woman: Joy Ladin. In »Through the Door of Life,« Joy Ladin takes readers inside her transition as she changed genders and, in the process, created a new self. With unsparing honesty and surprising humor, ... Weiterlesen

Augusten Burroughs: Dry

USA 2013, 293 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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An advertising executive remembers his childhood with his eccentric foster family and his early adulthood experiences of trying to establish an independent life for himself having finally become an alcoholic. When the ordinary person had two drinks, Augusten was circling the drain by having twelve; when the ordinary person went home at midnight, Augusten never went home at all. Loud, ... Weiterlesen

Richard Rodriguez: Darling

A Spiritual Autobiography. USA 2014, 235 pp., brochure, € 16.95
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Penguin USA
Richard Rodriguez now considers religious violence worldwide, growing public atheism in the West, and his own mortality. Rodriguez's stylish new memoir - the first book in a decade from the Pulitzer Prize finalist - moves from Jerusalem to Silicon Valley, from Moses to Liberace, from Lance Armstrong to Mother Teresa. Rodriguez is a homosexual who writes with love of the ... Weiterlesen