Frank Spinelli: Pee-Shy

USA 2013, 352 pp., brochure, € 15.95
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Kensington
In this memoir, Frank Spinelli recounts a childhood marked by trauma and of finding the courage that ultimately transformed his life. He grew up on Staten Island in the 1970s to Italian-born parents who viewed cops and priests as second only to the Pope in infallibility. His mother, concerned that her son was being bullied at school for being »different«, ... 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

Alison Bechdel: Are You My Mother?

USA 2013, 290 pp. b/w, brochure, € 29.95
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Alison Bechdel's »Fun Home« was a literary phenomenon: an intimate account of family secrets. While »Fun Home« explored the cartoonist's relationship with her father, a closeted homosexual, this new memoir is about her mother - a voracious reader, a music lover, a passionate amateur actor. Also a woman, unhappily married to a gay man, whose artistic aspirations simmered under the ... Weiterlesen

Rupert Everett: Vanished Years

UK 2012, 326 pp., brochure, € 12.30
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Rupert Everett's first memoir »Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins« was an international bestseller. Rupert Everett is of one of a kind: Mischievous, touching and nothing less than brilliant, this new memoir »Vanished Years« is filled with brand-new stories, from childhood to the present. Astonishing encounters - tragedy and comedy - vivid portraits of friends and rivals - razor-sharp observations ... Weiterlesen

Cristy C. Road: Spit and Passion

USA 2012, 160 pp., b/w, brochure, € 15.95
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Feminist Press
At its core, »Spit and Passion« is about the transformative moment when music crashes into a stifling adolescent bedroom and saves you. Suddenly, you belong. At 12 years old, Cristy C. Road is trying to balance the values of a Cuban catholic family with her newfound queer identity, and begins a chronic obsession with the punk band Green Day. In ... Weiterlesen

Charles Rowan Beye: My Husband and My Wives

A Gay Man's Odyssey. USA 2012, 257 pp., hardbound, € 23.95
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
This is the memoir of a man looking back over eight tumultuous decades at the complications brought on by the discovery, during adolescence, of his attraction to other men. The ordeal of remaining true to what his libido tells him is right, in the midst of a disapproving and sometimes hostile society, is one side of his story. Another is ... Weiterlesen

Beth Ditto: Coal to Diamonds

A Memoir. USA 2012, 155 pp., hardbound, € 18.39
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Spiegel and Grau
In this raw coming-of-age memoir, Mary Beth Ditto, a girl from rural Arkansas, tells her story. There, Beth Ditto stood out. Beth was a fat, pro-choice, sexually confused choir nerd with a great voice, an 80s perm, and a Kool Aid dye job. Her single mother worked overtime, which meant Beth and her siblings were often left to fend for ... Weiterlesen

Kate Bornstein: A Queer and Pleasant Danger

A memoir. USA 2012, 258 pp., hardbound, € 24.95
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Beacon
»I was born male and now I've got medical and government documents that say I'm female - but I don't call myself a woman, and I know I'm not a man.« - Scientologist, husband and father, tranny, sailor, slave, playwright, dyke, gender outlaw, Buddhist - these are just a few words that have defined Kate Bornstein during her extraordinary life. ... Weiterlesen

Abdellah Taia: An Arab Melancholia

Engl. by Frank Stock. USA 2012, 141 pp., brochure, € 16.95
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MIT Press
Salé, near Rabat. The 1980s. A lower-class teenager is running until he's out of breath. He's running after his dream, his dream to become a movie director. He's running after the Egyptian movie star, Souad Hosni, who's out there somewhere, miles away from this neighborhood - which is a place the teenager both loves and hates, the home at which ... Weiterlesen

Dyan Cannon: Dear Cary

My Life with Cary Grant. USA 2012, 344 pp. with photographs, brochure, € 15.95
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Harper Collins
He was the ultimate star - defining Hollywood glamour as well as cinematic achievement. She was a bright new actress, beautiful and funny, who would one day prove her talent by being the first woman to receive Academy Award nominations for her work on-screen and behind the camera. On his arm, she found herself traveling in the inner circles of ... Weiterlesen

Jeanette Winterson: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

UK 2012, 230 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Vintage
In 1985 Jeanette Winterson's first novel, »Oranges Are not the Only Fruit«, was published. It was Jeanette's version of the story of a terraced house in Accrington, an adopted child, and the thwarted giantess Mrs Winterson. It was a cover story, a painful past written over and repainted. It was a story of survival. This book is that story's silent ... Weiterlesen

James C. Hormel and Erin Martin: Fit to Serve

Reflections on a Secret Life. USA 2011, 288 pp., illustrated, hardbound, € 22.95
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Skyhorse
James Hormel - a man who grew up feeling different not only because his family built the SPAM meatpacking »empire« and lived in the only mansion in his small Midwestern town, but because he was gay at a time when homosexuality was not mentioned, never mind accepted. Outwardly, he tried to live up to the life his parents wanted for ... Weiterlesen

Barbara Eden and Wendy Leigh: Jeannie Out of the Bottle

USA 2011, 274 pp. with numerous photographs, brochure, € 14.29
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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
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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
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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