Kevin Sessums: Mississippi Sissy

USA 2008, 305 pp., brochure, € 11.59
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Sessums, a journalist who specializes in celebrity interviews, describes and analyzes his own childhood and youth, writing of both sexual orientation and race relations in the '60s and early '70s. As a toddler, he swished and posed instead of responding to his basketball coach father's expectation of masculinity. However, both parents were dead by the time he was 9, and ... Weiterlesen

John Rechy: About My Life and the Kept Woman

A Memoir. USA 2008, 357 pp., cloth, € 20.49
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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

John Cornwell: Seminary Boy

USA 2008, 321 pp., brochure, € 12.39
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The author's memoir of an adolescence spent in the isolated all-male world of a seminary. Born into a destitute family with a dominating Irish-Catholic mother and an absconding father during WW II in London, John Cornwell experienced a deeply dysfunctional childhood. When he was sent to a remote seminary for boys in the countryside at 13. While he lived under ... Weiterlesen

Andy Warhol: The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

GB 2007, 242 pp., pb., € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Penguin UK
In The Philosophy of Andy Warhol - which, with the subtitle »(From A to B and Back Again),« is less a memoir than a collection of riffs and reflections - he talks about love, sex, food, beauty, fame, work, money, and success; about New York, America, and his childhood in McKeesport, Pennsylvania; about his good times and bad in New ... Weiterlesen

Tennessee Williams: Memoirs

USA 2007, 274 pp. with numerous b/w photographs, brochure, € 17.95
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Penguin USA
Long self-identified as a gay man, America's greatest playwright Williams' candour in his book about his love life, sexual encounters, and drug use was found shocking in and of itself. Here, more than thirty years later, Williams' look back at his life is not quite so scandalous as it once seemed. Director John Waters provided an introduction to the book ... Weiterlesen

Kevin Jennings: Mama's Boy, Preacher's Son

USA 2007, 267 pp., brochure, € 13.99
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Long before Kevin Jennings began advocating to end the anti-LGBT bias in schools, he was a victim of it. In his memoir, Jennings traces the roots of his activism to his school days in the conservative South, where »faggot« became more familiar to him than his own name. The youngest son of a born-again Southern Baptist preacher, and a mother ... Weiterlesen

Gore Vidal: Point to Point Navigation

A Memoir. USA 2007, 277 pp., brochure, € 17.99
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In this autobiography that takes up where his best-selling »Palimpsest« left off, novelist, essayist, critic and controversialist Vidal reflects on his remarkable life. Writing from his desks in Ravello and Hollywood Hills, Vidal travels in his memory through the arenas of literature, television, film, theater, politics, and international society where he has cut a wide swath, recounting achievements and defeats, ... Weiterlesen

John Hemingway: Strange Tribe

A Family Memoir. USA 2007, 219 pp., hardbound, € 22.59
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This family memoir reveals the peculiar dynamics between Ernest Hemingway and his youngest son, Gregory, the author's father. Gregory tried to live up to Ernest's macho reputation throughout his life. Yet as a cross-dresser and (ultimately) a transsexual, Gregory was obsessed with his »female half«, and he struggled with personal demons until his death at the Women's Correctional Facility of ... Weiterlesen

Rupert Everett: Red Carpets and Other Banana Skies

UK 2007, 406 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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An element of drama has always attended Rupert Everett, even before he first rose to fame with his outstanding performance in »Another Country«. He has spent his life surrounded by extraordinary people, and has witnessed extraordinary events. He was in Moscow during the fall of communism. He was in Berlin the night the wall came down. And he was at ... Weiterlesen

John Amaechi: Man in the Middle

USA 2007, 290 pp., hardback, € 23.90
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This is John Amaechi's extraordinary journey from awkward, overweight English lad to jet-setting NBA star. Along the way, Amaechi encountered endless obstacles to achieving his hoop dreams - his father's abandonment, being cut from his first college team, a life-threatening injury, abusive coaches, the death of his mother - all the while protecting a vital secret that could end his ... Weiterlesen

Farley Granger with Robert Calhoun: Include Me Out

USA 2007, 255 pp., hardbound, € 24.89
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Working with such creative visionaries as Alfred Hitchcock, Luchino Visconti, and Nicholas Ray, Farley Granger was a celebrated figure in films like »Strangers on a Train«, »Rope«, »Senso«, and »They Live by Night«, bringing a memorable presence to the big screen. Behind his characters, however, he was and remains a complex man, full of whimsy as well as strength. Now, ... Weiterlesen

Edmund White: My Lives

UK 2006, 368 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Bloomsbury
No one has ever been more frank, lucid, rueful and entertaining about growing up gay in Middle America than Edmund White. Best known for his autobiographical novels, White takes the fiction out of his story and delivers the facts in all their shocking and absorbing verity. From an adolescence in the 1950s, an era that tried to »cure« homosexuality, he ... Weiterlesen

Sybille Bedford: Quicksands

UK 2006, 369 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Beginning in 1956 with the publication of »A Legacy«, Sybille Bedford has narrated - in fiction and nonfiction - what has been by turns her sensuous, harrowing, altogether remarkable life. In this memoir, her first new book in over ten years, she provides the moving culmination to an epic personal story that takes readers from the Berlin of World War ... Weiterlesen

James E. McGreevey: The Confession

USA 2006, 369 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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In August 2004, Governor James E. McGreevey of New Jersey made history when he stepped before microphones, declared »My truth is that I am a gay American«, and announced his resignation. The story made international headlines. But what led to that moment was a human and political drama more complex than anyone knew. Now, in this memoir, McGreevey shares his ... Weiterlesen

Tab Hunter: Tab Hunter Confidential

USA 2006, 378 pp., brochure, € 39.95
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Tab Hunter, a star of screen, stage, and TV, has appeared in more than 50 films. He continues to work as a film producer and lives in Southern California. In this autobiography, Hunter speaks out what it was like to be a movie star at the end of the big studio era, to be treated like a commodity, to be ... Weiterlesen

Goldie Hawn: Goldie - A Lotus Grows in the Mud

USA 2006, 447 pp., brochure, € 14.79
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With her trademark effervescence, Goldie delivers a personal look at private and powerful events that carried her through life: her father's spontaneity, her mother's courage, and the joy of being a daughter, a sister, a parent, and a lover. She writes about her childhood dreams of becoming a ballerina. She takes us on a tour of her go-go years in ... Weiterlesen

Aiden Shaw: My Undoing

USA 2006, 308 pp., brochure, € 16.95
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The star of more than 50 adult films ranks as one of gay porn's all-time favourite performers. His films from Falcon, Catalina and Studio 2000 have brought him international celebrity. Now, for the first time, the real Aiden Shaw shares in unsparing details his personal stories about the sex and drugs that have fueled his private life. However, the book ... Weiterlesen

Greg Louganis: Breaking the Surface

USA 2006, 306 pp., brochure, € 19.99
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Revised update of the 1995 bestselling autobiography of athlete, four-time Olympic gold medalist, and gay role model, Greg Louganis: he won back-to-back double gold medals at the 1984 and 1988 Olympics, and his amazing physique and handsome face should have made him a media superstar. Yet Louganis's struggles with self-doubt lack of confidence held him back personally and professionally. He ... Weiterlesen