Mark Gevisser: The Pink Line

The World's Queer Frontiers. UK 2020, 525 pp., pb., € 17.95
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Profile
Six years in the making, »The Pink Line« follows protagonists from nine countries all over the globe to tell the story of how LGBTQ rights became one of the world's new human rights frontiers in the second decade of the 21st century. From refugees in South Africa to activists in Egypt, transgender women in Russia and transitioning teens in the ... Weiterlesen

Matthew Todd: Pride

The Story of the LGBTQ Equality Movement. UK 2022 (revised), 384 pp., b/w, colour illustrations, hardback, € 39.95
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Andre Deutsch
In June 1969, police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City. »Pride« charts that historic event, the rioting that followed, the radicalization and organization of the LGBTQ+ community worldwide, and the activism that has taken place in the 50 years since. It documents the milestones in the fight for equality between genders and sexualities, from early ... Weiterlesen

Fred W. McDarrah: Pride

Photographs after Stonewall. USA 2019, 240 pp. with numerous b/w photographs, brochure, € 34.95
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Counterpoint
The ultimate visual chronicle of life in New York's gay community circa 1970, released in time for the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall rebellion and World Pride Day in June 2019. In 1969, the Stonewall uprising occurred in Greenwich Village - an event that marked the coming-out of New York's gay community and a refusal by gays to accept underground ... Weiterlesen

New York Public Library (ed.): The Stonewall Reader

USA/CAN 2019, 304 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Penguin USA
June 28, 2019 marks the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising - the most significant event in the gay liberation movement and the catalyst for the modern fight for LGBTQ rights in the United States. Drawing from the New York Public Library's archives, »The Stonewall Reader« is a collection of firsthand accounts, diaries, periodic literature and articles from LGBTQ magazines ... Weiterlesen

Charles Kaiser: The Gay Metropolis

The Landmark History of Gay Life in America. USA 2019, 432 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Grove Press
»The Gay Metropolis« is a landmark saga of struggle and triumph that was instantly recognized as the most authoritative and substantial work of its kind. For the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprisings, Charles Kaiser has brought this history into the 21st century. In this new edition he covers the three court cases that lead to the revolutionary legalization of ... Weiterlesen

David K. Johnson: Buying Gay: How Physique Entrepreneurs Sparked a Movement

USA 2019, 328 pp., hardbound, € 49.95
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Columbia University Press
In 1951, a new type of publication appeared on newsstands: the physique magazine produced by and for gay men. For many men growing up in the 1950s and 1960s, these magazines and their images and illustrations of nearly naked men, as well as articles, letters from readers, and advertisements, served as an initiation into gay culture. The publishers behind them ... Weiterlesen

Wim Peumans: Queer Muslims in Europe : Sexuality, Religion and Migration in Belgium

UK 2019, 304 pp., pb., € 49.95
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I.B. Tauris
Belgium was the second country in the world to introduce same-sex marriage. It has an elaborate legal system for protecting the rights of lesbian, gay, bi- and transsexual individuals in general and queer asylum seekers in particular. At the same time, since 2015 the country has become known as the »jihadi centre of Europe« and criticized for its »homonationalism« where ... Weiterlesen

Jonathan D. Luthor / Jennifer U. Loh (eds.): Queer Asia

Decolonising and Reimagining Sexuality and Gender. USA 2019, 288 pp., brochure, € 39.95
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Zed
Queer studies is now a rapidly expanding field, as scholars from a variety of disciplines seek to address the long-running marginalization of queer perspectives and experiences. But there has so far been little effort to unify the study of queer communities outside the West, and much of the current writing views these communities through a narrowly Western lens. Building on ... Weiterlesen

Fred W. McDarrah: Pride

Photographs After Stonewall. USA 2019, 208 pp. with numerous b/w photographs, hardback, € 44.95
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Zed
The ultimate visual chronicle of life in New York's gay community circa 1970, by the incomparable Fred McDarrah, released in time for the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall rebellion and World Pride Day in June 2019. Fifty years ago this spring, the Stonewall uprising occurred in Greenwich Village - an event that marked the coming-out of New York's gay community ... Weiterlesen

Robert W. Fieseler: Tinderbox

The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation. USA 2019, 384 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 27.95
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W. W. Norton
Buried for decades, the Up Stairs Lounge tragedy has only recently emerged as a catalyzing event of the gay liberation movement. In revelatory detail, the author chronicles the tragic event that claimed the lives of gay men and one woman on June 24, 1973, at a New Orleans bar, the largest mass murder of gays until 2016. Relying on unprecedented ... Weiterlesen

Jason Bauman (ed.): Love and Resistance

Out of the Closet into the Stonewall Era. USA 2019, 224 pp. with numerous photographs, hardcover, € 27.95
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W. W. Norton
A ragtag group of women behind a police line in the rain. A face in a crowd holding a sign that says, »Hi Mom, Guess What!« at an LGBT rights rally. Two lovers kissing under a tree. These images are among the hundreds housed in the New York Public Library's archive of photographs of LGBT history from photojournalists Kay Tobin ... Weiterlesen

Leighton Brown / Matthew Riemer: We Are Everywhere: Protest, Power, and Pride in the History of Queer Liberation

USA 2019, 368 pp., hardbound, € 49.95
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Ten Speed
A photographic history of the Queer Liberation Movement. Through the lenses of protest, power, and pride, »We Are Everywhere« is an introduction to the history of the fight for queer liberation. The book traces queer activism from its roots in late-19th-century Europe - long before the pivotal Stonewall Riots of 1969 - to the gender warriors leading the charge today. ... Weiterlesen

Conor O'Dwyer: Coming Out of Communism

The Emergence of LGBT Activism in Eastern Europe. USA 2018, 333 pp., brochure, € 45.95
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New York University Press
While LGBT activism has increased worldwide, there has been strong backlash against LGBT people in Eastern Europe. Although Russia is the most prominent anti-gay regime in the region, LGBT individuals in other post-communist countries also suffer from discriminatory laws and prejudiced social institutions. Combining an historical overview with interviews and case studies in Poland, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, and the Czech ... Weiterlesen

Melissa M. Wilcox: Queer Nuns

Religion, Activism, and Serious Parody. USA 2018, 336 pp., brochure, € 39.95
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New York University Press
An engaging look into the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, queer activists devoted to social justice. The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence make up an unlikely order of nuns. Self-described as »twenty-first century queer nuns,« the Sisters began in 1979 when three bored gay men donned retired Roman Catholic nuns' habits and went for a stroll through San Francisco's gay Castro district. ... Weiterlesen

Aubrey Walter (ed.): Come Together

Years of Gay Liberation. UK 2018, 224 pp., brochure, € 18.95
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Verso
On the origins of European queer politics, »Come Together« tells the incredible story of the emerging radicalism of the Gay Liberation Front, providing a vivid history of the movement, as well as the new ideas and practices it gave rise to across the United Kingdom. Before marriage equality or military service, »Come Together« reminds us of paths forged but not ... Weiterlesen

Jeffrey Escoffier: American Homo

Community and Perversity. UK 2018, 288 pp., brochure, € 18.95
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Verso
An account of the way lesbian, gay, and bisexual people have challenged and changed society. The author tracks LGBT movements across the contested terrain of American political life, where they have endured the historical tension between the homoeroticism coursing through American culture and the virulent periodic outbreaks of homophobic populism. Escoffier explores how every new success enables a new disciplinary ... Weiterlesen

Martin Duberman: Has the Gay Movement Failed?

USA 2018, 247 pp., hardbound, € 39.95
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University of California Press
The past fifty years have seen significant shifts in attitudes toward LGBTQ people and wider acceptance of them in the US and the West. Yet the extent of this progress has been more broad and conservative than deep and transformative. One of the most renowned historians of the American left and the LGBTQ movement, Duberman reviews the period since Stonewall. ... Weiterlesen

Frédéric Martel: Global Gay

How Gay Culture Is Changing the World. USA 2018, 296 pp., hardback, € 24.95
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MIT Press
In »Global Gay«, Frédéric Martel visits more than fifty countries and documents a revolution underway around the world: the globalization of LGBT rights. From Saudi Arabia to South Africa, from Amsterdam to Tel Aviv, from Singapore to the United States, activists, culture warriors, and ordinary people are part of a movement. Martel finds that although the »gay American way of ... Weiterlesen