William J. Mann: All American Boy

USA 2006, 360 pp., brochure, € 15.20
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
With these desperate words from the mysterious, distant mother he hasn't seen in years, Wally Day finds his carefully constructed world falling in on itself. For years, the handsome actor has made denial his own particular art form - from his stalled career to his emotionless embrace of the hard-edged boys who regularly traipse through his bedroom. But now, faced ... Weiterlesen

Bruce Benderson: The Romanian

UK 2006, 366 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Benderson was wandering Budapest researching sex clubs for Nerve.com when he fell in love. Romulus, a Romanian street hustler, was a sleekly attractive, uneducated (though clever) 24-year old, into soccer, TV and swapping dirty stories with his buddies. Living in a largely homophobic culture, Romulus didn't consider himself anything but heterosexual, even as he spent months having sex with Benderson. ... Weiterlesen

David Leavitt: The Lost Language of Cranes

UK/USA 2005, 308 pp., pb, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Bloomsbury
David Leavitt's debut novel is a seminal work about family, sexual identity, home, and loss. It can be considered a gay classic. Set in the 1980s against the backdrop of a swiftly gentrifying Manhattan, »The Lost Language of Cranes« tells the story of 25-year-old Philip, who realizes he must come out to his parents after falling in love for the ... Weiterlesen

Michael Chabon: The Mysteries of Pittsburgh

USA 2005, 297 pp. + 15 P.S. on Author & Book, brochure, € 12.99
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Art Bechstein, a young college student who has a gangster father, romantic problems, and a growing collection of bizarre friends, meets Arthur Lecomte, a handsome young homosexual who proceeds to initiate Art into his own world for reasons that are his own. Through Arthur, Art meets Cleveland, a motorcycle-driving hellion with an untold intelligence, and Phlox, a young woman with ... Weiterlesen

Joe Babcock: The Tragedy of Miss Geneva Flowers

USA 2005, 342 pp., brochure, € 14.79
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Like many gay sixteen-year-olds, Erick Taylor dreams of being a star. But that's a tall order when you're unpopular, stuck in Catholic school, and your Bible-thumping parents make life a holy terror for a closeted gay kid. All of this changes in a snap, however, when Erick meets Chloe, a »grandiloquist« drag queen. With a glam rock makeover and a ... 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

David Sedaris: Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

USA 2004, 245 pp., pb, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Sedaris plays in the snow with his sisters. He goes on vacation with his family. He gets a job selling drinks. He attends his brother's wedding. He mops his sister's floor. He gives directions to a lost traveler. He eats a hamburger. He has his blood sugar tested. It all sounds so normal, doesn't it? In his new collection of ... Weiterlesen

Heidi J. Schmidt: The Bride of Catastrophe

USA 2004, 442 pp., brochur, € 13.89
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
»The Bride of Catastrophe« is the story of Beatrice Wolfe's quest to escape the gothic eccentricity of her family and find an authentic identity of her own. Leaving the confines of the farm where she grew up, Beatrice falls under the spell of her college literature tutor, an exuberant lesbian called Phillipa, who will have a greater influence on her ... Weiterlesen

Beeban Kidron (R): Oranges are Not the Only Fruit

UK 2003, engl. OF, 165 min., € 19.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Jess is the adopted daughter of a strict evangelist. Her adopted mam thinks she's the chosen one from God. With an upbringing spent learning the bible and praying for »heathens in hot countries« she unnerves both classmates and teachers when she begins school. But she fancies girls. And an orange demon keeps popping into her psyche. Later in life she ... Weiterlesen

Lev Raphael: The German Money

USA 2003, 204 pp., brochure, € 14.79
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Paul has spent his life running - from New York, the city of his birth, from the beautiful love of his life, from contact with his own brother and sister, but mostly from his mother, a bitter Holocaust survivor of almost inexplicable coldness. Upon her death, the children face shocking questions. What caused the apparently healthy woman to die? Why ... Weiterlesen

Robert Bernstein: Straight Parents, Gay Children

USA 2003, 254 pp., brochure, € 14.99
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The courageous and levelheaded »Straight Parents, Gay Children«, Armistead Maupin comments, »shows the parents of gay children how to stop merely tolerating their kids and start being their heroes.« Robert A. Bernstein made this essential move to »heroism« himself after his daughter Bobbi came out to him and her stepmother in the mid-1980s, when she was 19. Soon after, they ... Weiterlesen

Patrice Chéreau (R): Son frère

F 2002, fr. OF, engl. UT, 88 min., € 19.99
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Brothers Thomas and Luc have an estranged relationship. One day, Thomas comes to Luc's apartment explaining that he is ill and asks if Luc will accompany him to the hospital. Thomas has an undetermined platelet disorder which is treated with cortisone and splenectomy - neither help. Luc, who happens to be gay, and is in a relationship with Vincent, is ... Weiterlesen

Harvey Fierstein: The Sissy Duckling

Illustrated by Henry Cole. USA 2002, 40 S., Bilderbuch mit englischem Text, Broschur, € 9.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Elmer ist ein Außenseiter. Der Enten-Junge mag nicht mit seinen Schulkameraden Baseball spielen, sondern backt gern, und liebt es, Räume zu dekorieren. In einem hohlen Baum richtet er sich sein Traumzimmer ein. Als sein Vater von den Jägern angeschossen wird, ist es just Elmer, der helfen kann und zum Held der Enten-Familie wird. Und so befinden alle zum Schluss, dass ... Weiterlesen

K. M. Soehnlein: The World of Normal Boys

USA 2001, 221 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Kensington
In his debut novel, »The World Of Normal Boys«, K.M. Soehnlein captures the spirit of a generation and an era, embodied in the haunting, unstoppable voice of 13-year-old Robin MacKenzie, whose struggle for a place in the world is as ferocious as it is real. The time is the late 1970s, an age of gas shortages, head shops, and Saturday ... Weiterlesen

Mariana Romo-Carmona: Conversaciones: Relatos por padres y madres de hijas lesbianas e hijos gay

USA 2001, 166 S., brochure, € 20.35
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Dieses Buch in spanischer Sprache richtet sich vor allem an spanischsprechende amerikanische Eltern schwuler Söhne und lesbischer Töchter. Es zeigt Perspektiven auf, wie innerhalb einer kulturellen bzw. sprachlichen Minderheit, die noch zudem von traditionellen religiösen Vorstellungen geprägt ist, Akzeptanz und Gemeinschaft mit Schwulen und Lesben möglich ist.

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

David Leavitt: The Page Turner

UK 1999, 244 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Abacus
18-year-old Paul Porterfield hopes for a career as a classical pianist and is thrilled to achieve his »debut« turning pages for his idol, Richard Kennington. This would be the only intersection of their careers were it not for a coincidental encounter later that summer in Rome, where Paul and his philistine mother, Pamela, are on vacation. Mutually infatuated, Paul and ... Weiterlesen

Robert A. Bernstein: Straight Parents, Gay Children. Inspiring Families to Live Honestly and with Greater Understanding

USA 1999, 203pp., brochure, € 14.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
A penetrating book. With human warmth and insightful anecdotes, Bernstein, the former national vice-president of P-FLAG (parents & friends of lesbians and gays) invites his readers into the intensely emotional, but deeply human, issue of homosexuality. There he discovers light, not darkness, love not fear.