Portia de Rossi: Unbearable Lightness

A Story of Loss and Gain. UK 2010, 309 pp., brochure, € 9.30
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The author, an actor in movies and TV (including »Ally McBeal«), model, and gay rights advocate, writes that »playing the role of heterosexual while fantasizing about being a homosexual had been my reality since I was a child«. It was one she played into her 20s, when she was married to a man. Now, she's married to Ellen DeGeneres, whom ... Weiterlesen

Portia de Rossi: Unbearable Lightness

A Story of Loss and Gain. USA 2010, 308 pp., hardbound, € 23.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
The author, an actor in movies and TV (including »Ally McBeal«), model, and gay rights advocate, writes that »playing the role of heterosexual while fantasizing about being a homosexual had been my reality since I was a child«. It was one she played into her 20s, when she was married to a man. Now, she's married to Ellen DeGeneres, whom ... 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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

Terry Galloway: Mean Little Deaf Queer

A Memoir. USA 2009, 230 pp., hardback, € 21.69
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When Terry Galloway was born on Halloween, no one knew that an experimental antibiotic given to her mother had wreaked havoc on her fatal nervous system. After her family moved from Berlin, Germany, to Austin, Texas, hers became a deafening, hallucinatory childhood where everything, including her own body, changed for the worse. But those unwelcome changes awoke in this particular ... Weiterlesen

Jean Cocteau: My Contemporaries

UK 2009, 141 pp., brochure, € 16.39
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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

John Barrowman: Anything Goes - The Autobiography

UK 2008, 256 pp., hardback, € 23.69
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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

Augusten Burroughs: A Wolf at the Table

USA 2008, 242 pp., hardback, € 19.95
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»As a little boy, I had a dream that my father had taken me to the woods where there was a dead body. He buried it and told me I must never tell. It was the only thing we'd ever done together as father and son, and I promised not to tell. But unlike most dreams, the memory of this ... Weiterlesen

Jennifer Baumgardner: Look Both Ways

USA 2008, 244 pp., brochure, € 18.95
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Bisexuality has always been more than »the sexual non-preference of the '90s«. In her book, the author and activist Jennifer Baumgardner takes a close look at gay and bisexual people on the national cultural stage and the issues their growing visibility raises, particularly for younger women navigating the murky waters of identity. In a society supposedly grown more open and ... Weiterlesen