Morgan Jon Fox (R): This Is What Love in Action Looks Like

USA 2011, engl.OF, 74 Min., € 15.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Documentary that follows the story of a 16-year-old boy who was sent to a controversial camp run by the Christian ministry, »Love in Action«, that aims to »cure« teenagers of homosexual impulses. Zach Stark was sent to the camp shortly after telling his parents that he believed he was gay. Stark detailed his experiences at the camp in an online ... Weiterlesen

Carter Sickels: The Evening Hour

USA 2012, 328 pp., brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Bloomsbury
Most of the wealth in Dove Creek, West Virginia, is in the mountains - in the coal seams that have provided generations with a way of life, but little prosperity. Born here and raised by his Pentecoastal grandfather, 27-year-old Cole Freeman sidestepped work as a miner to become an aide in a nursing home. He's got a shock of bleached ... Weiterlesen

Emily M. Danforth: The Miseducation of Cameron Post

USA 2012, 473 pp., hardbound, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Harper Collins
When Cameron Post's parents die in a car crash, her shocking first thought is relief - relief they'll never know that, hours earlier, she had been kissing a girl. But that relief doesn't last, and Cam is soon forced to move in with her conservative aunt Ruth and her well-intentioned but hopelessly old-fashioned grandmother. She knows that from this point ... Weiterlesen

Cristy C. Road: Spit and Passion

USA 2012, 160 pp., b/w, brochure, € 15.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
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

John Schwartz: Oddly Normal

One Family's Struggle to Help Their Teenage Son Come to Terms with His Sexuality. USA 2012, 290 pp., hardbound, € 23.49
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Penguin USA
Three years ago, John Schwartz, a national correspondent for »The New York Times«, got a call that every parent hopes never to receive: his 13-year-old son, Joe, was in the hospital following a suicide attempt. Mustering the courage to come out to his classmates, Joe had delivered a tirade about homophobic and sexist attitudes that was greeted with unease and ... Weiterlesen

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

UK 2012, 230 pp., brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
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

Robin Reardon: The Evolution of Ethan Poe

USA 2011, 387 pp., brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Kensington
In the space of a few months, 16-year-old Ethan Poe's life has become a complicated mix of facts, theories, and hypotheses. Things he knows beyond doubt: his parents are divorcing, his older brother Kyle is exhibiting alarming behavior, and his best friend is turning into a spiritual fanatic. Then there are the shifting uncertainties - including his feelings toward his ... Weiterlesen

Jim Grimsley: Das Leben zwischen den Sternen

Die Besten. Dt. v. Frank Heibert. D 2011 (Neuaufl.), 335 S., geb., € 13.40
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Bruno Gmünder - Die Besten 5
Passend zu Weihnachten - einer der besten schwulen Romane aller Zeiten in »Die Besten«: was macht ein schwules Paar zu Weihnachten? Wenn die reiche Familie des einen (Ford) mit der Homosexualität des Sohnes und mit einem Schwiegersohn schon gar nicht zu Rande kommt? Und die Familie des anderen (Dan) in einem ausgebauten Wohnwagen auf einem Friedhofsgelände lebt? Ford und Dan ... Weiterlesen

Tomas Mournian: Hidden

USA 2011, 387 pp., brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
When 15-year-old Ahmed inadvertently outs himself to his parents, they take him to a residential treatment center in the Nevada desert, known as Serenity Ridge: it's with one goal - to »fix« their son, at any cost. But what Ahmed faces is torture, overmedication, abuse, and a really tough »straight« rehabilitation program. All of that leaves him desperate to escape. ... Weiterlesen

Rachel Spangler: The Long Way Home

USA 2010, 249 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Bold Strokes
Rory St. James was disowned after she came out at 17. She rebounded by moving to Chicago, changing her name to Raine and putting down her hometown to audiences around the country. Now, ten years later, too old to be considered a gay youth, broke, evicted, and fresh off a much needed break-up, Raine is forced to accept a job ... Weiterlesen

Jan Dunn (R): Gypo

UK 2007, OF, engl. UT, 100 Min., € 17.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
British drama documenting the breakdown of a working class family when the teenage daughter befriends a refugee girl. Helen has been married to Paul for 25 years. They live a monotonous and frozen existence: Helen is desperate, damaged, and looking for change; while Paul - bitter, hypocritical and bigoted, sick and tired of being in the poverty trap - is ... Weiterlesen

Judy Shepard: The Meaning of Matthew

My Son's Murder in Laramie, and a World Transformed. USA 2010, 273 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Penguin USA
He may have become an ordinary gay guy coming from a decent background and living a normal gay midtown life. Nobody - but friends or family - would know him today. His family could have been the typical Midwest family. But things turned out differently. One unfortunate night from October 6 to October 7, 1998, 21-year-old student Matthew Shepard met ... Weiterlesen

Michael Salvatore: Between Boyfriends

USA 2010, 325 pp., brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Single, slightly neurotic Steven B. Ferrante loves his sharp-tongued, loyal friends, his chaotic job as producer for the daytime soap »If Tomorrow Never Comes«, and his crazy Sicilian mother, not necessarily in that order. Yet at 33, his life is a little like the peppermint mocha coffee drinks that are his favorite indulgence - fun, frothy, but only superficially satisfying. ... Weiterlesen

Tom Mendicino: Probation

USA 2010, 340 pp., brochure, € 14.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
All it took to destroy Andy Nocera's seemingly perfect life was an anonymous tryst at an Interstate rest area. Sentenced to probation and thrown out by his wife, he spends his week as a travelling salesman, and his weekends at his mother's house where no questions are asked - and no explanations are offered. To clear the record, the State ... Weiterlesen

Judy Shepard: The Meaning of Matthew

My Son's Murder in Laramie, and a World Transformed. USA 2010, 273 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
The mother of Matthew Shepard - a 21-year-old victim of a brutal hate crime - shares personal stories about her son's life, the aftermath of his death, and the choice she made to honor his legacy by becoming an international gay rights activist. Today the name Matthew Shepard is synonymous with gay rights, but for most of his life he ... Weiterlesen

Michael Cart (ed.): How Beautiful the Ordinary

USA 2009, 368 pp., hardbound, € 18.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
A girl thought to be a boy steals her sister's skirt, while a boy thought to be a girl refuses to wear a cornflower blue dress. One boy's love of a soldier leads to the death of a stranger. The present takes a bittersweet journey into the past when a man revisits the summer school where he had »an accidental ... Weiterlesen

Mark Behr: Kings of the Water

UK 2009, 242 pp., brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Abacus
Gay 35-year-old Michiel Steyn is living with his boyfriend Kamil in San Francisco. He has already spent close to half his lifetime abroad. Now he has to return to South Africa to attend his beloved mother's funeral. But neither Michiel nor those he left behind have truly come to terms with his terrible flight from the farm they called Paradise. ... Weiterlesen

Martin Sixsmith: Philomena

UK 2009, 452 pp. pb, € 10.40
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Being a pregnant teenager Philomena Lee was sent to the convent at Roscrea to be looked after as a fallen woman. She cared for her baby for three years until the Church took him from her and sold him, like countless others, to America for adoption. Philomena's son, renamed Michael Hess, grew up to be a top Washington lawyer and ... Weiterlesen