Originally passed in 1885, the law that had made homosexual relations a crime remained in place for 82 years. Between 1891 and 1908, three books on the nature of homosexuality appeared. They were written by two homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and John Addington Symonds, and a third, Havelock Ellis. At this time, the study of homosexuality was limited almost exclusively ... Weiterlesen

Marion Kraft: Empowering Encounters with Audre Lorde

D 2018, 120 pp., brochure, € 13.20
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Unrast

A hommage to the great Afroamerican lesbian poet and feminist Audre Lorde. Her works were essential for liberation movements in many countries and are still up to date today. She as a person gave the new Black movement in Germany during the 1980s direction. Marion Kraft was a personal friend of Audre Lorde. She uses essays, speeches and interviews of ... Weiterlesen

Chavoya Frantz: Axis Mundo

Queer Networks in Chicano L.A. USA 2018, 413 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 59.99
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Prestel

The powerful work of queer Chicano artists in Los Angeles is explored in this book. Working between the 1960s and early 1990s, the artists profiled in this compendium represent a broad cross section of L.A.'s art scene. With nearly 400 illustrations and ten essays, this volume presents histories of artistic experimentation and reveals networks of collaboration and exchange that resulted ... Weiterlesen

Jonathan Lerner: Swords in the Hands of Children

Reflections of an American Revolutionary. USA 2017, 224 pp., hardcover, € 22.99
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This memoir of an American radical arrives at a moment of surging activism and rage. Against the chaos and conflicts of the 1960s, Jonathan Lerner probes the impulses that led a small group of educated, privileged young Americans to turn to violence as a means of political change. Beyond that, he tells the true story of an intellectually adventurous but ... Weiterlesen

Avram Finkelstein: After Silence

A History of AIDS Through Its Images. USA 2017, 248 pp. illustrated, hardcover, € 27.95
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University of California Press

Early in the 1980s AIDS epidemic, six gay activists created one of the most iconic and lasting images that would come to symbolize a movement: a protest poster of a pink triangle with the words �Silence = Death�. The graphic and the slogan still resonate today, often used to brand the entire movement. Avram Finkelstein tells the story of how ... Weiterlesen

Stuart Feather: Blowing the Lid

Gay Liberation, Sexual Revolution and Radical Queens. USA 2016, 565 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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The Gay Liberation Front founded in 1970 urged gay men and gay women to unite around a simple set of demands among which were calls for an end to discrimination against homosexuals in employment, in sex education, in the age of consent and in being treated as sick by the medical establishment. GLF saw itself as a people's movement for ... Weiterlesen

Dan Nicoletta (ed.): LGBT San Francisco

The Daniel Nicoletta Photographs. USA 2017, 304 pp. illustrated, hardback, € 59.99
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Dan Nicoletta has been a leading chronicler of the LGBT civil rights movement in San Francisco over the last 40 years. This is the first book dedicated to his powerful photographs documenting the journey of the burgeoning lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender mecca that was San Francisco in the 1970s through to the present. Nicoletta is best known for his iconic images of Harvey ... Weiterlesen
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Dennis Altman / Jonathan Symons: Queer Wars

UK 2016, 178 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Wiley and Sons

The claim that LGBT rights are human rights encounters fierce opposition in many parts of the world, as governments and religious leaders have used resistance to LGBT rights to cast themselves as defenders of traditional values against neo-colonial interference and western decadence. �Queer Wars� explores the growing international polarization over sexual rights, and the creative responses from social movements and ... Weiterlesen

Bennett Singer and David Deschamps: LGBTQ Stats

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer People by the Numbers. USA 2017, 224 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Perseus Group

20 years ago it was impossible to imagine the president of the United States embracing same-sex marriage or Bruce Jenner transitioning to Caitlyn Jenner, an open transgender woman. �LGBTQ Stats� chronicles the ongoing LGBTQ revolution, providing the critical statistics, and draws upon and synthesizes newly collected data. The authors provide chapters on family and marriage, workplace discrimination, education, youth, criminal ... Weiterlesen

Cleve Jones: When We Rise

Coming of Age in San Francisco, AIDS, and My Life in the Movement. USA 2017, 256 pp., hardback, € 24.95
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Little Brown

This is a personal memoir from a leading figure in the gay rights movement, Cleve Jones. It partially inspired the forthcoming TV mini-series �When We Rise� from Academy Award-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, executive producer Gus Van Sant, and starring Guy Pearce. Longtime LGBTQ and AIDS activist Cleve Jones' memoir is a sweeping, profoundly moving account of his life from ... Weiterlesen

Ann Bausum: Stonewall

Breaking Out in the Fight for Gay Rights. USA 2016, 122 pp., brochure, € 12.99
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Penguin USA

The first history of gay rights for teen readers. In 1969 being gay in the United States was a criminal offense. It meant living a closeted life or surviving on the fringes of society. People went to jail, lost jobs, and were disowned by their families for being gay. Most doctors considered homosexuality a mental illness. There were few safe ... Weiterlesen

Donald Albrecht: Gay Gotham

Art and Underground Culture in New York. USA 2016, 304 pp., hardbound, € 66.90
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Rizzoli

�Gay Gotham� brings to life the countercultural artistic communities that sprang up over the last hundred years, a creative class whose radical ideas would determine much of modern culture. More than 200 images - both works of art, such as paintings and photographs, as well as letters, snapshots, and ephemera - illuminate their personal bonds, scandal-provoking secrets at the time ... Weiterlesen

Phillip M. Ayoub: When States Come Out

Europe's Sexual Minorities and the Politics of Visibility. USA/UK 2016, 275 pp., brochure, € 38.99
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Cambridge University Press

In the last two decades, the LGBT movement has gained momentum that is arguably unprecedented in speed and suddenness when compared to other human rights movements. This book investigates the recent history of this transnational movement in Europe, focusing on the diffusion of the norms it champions and the overarching question of why, despite similar international pressures, the trajectories of ... Weiterlesen

Katherine McFarland Bruce: Pride Parades

How a Parade Changed the World. USA 2016, 320 pp., brochure, € 39.95
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New York University Press

On June 28, 1970, two thousand gay and lesbian activists in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago paraded down the streets of their cities in a new kind of social protest, one marked by celebration, fun, and unashamed declaration of a stigmatized identity. With vivid imagery, and showcasing the voices of these participants, �Pride Parades� tells the story of Pride ... Weiterlesen

David Alderson: Sex, Needs, and Queer Culture

From Liberation to the Post-Gay. USA 2016, 256 pp., brochure, € 29.95
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Zed

The belief of many in the early sexual liberation movements was that capitalism's investment in the norms of the heterosexual family meant that any challenge to them was invariably anti-capitalist. In recent years, however, lesbian and gay subcultures have become increasingly mainstream and commercialized - as seen, for example, in corporate backing for pride events - while the initial radicalism ... Weiterlesen

Gregory Woods: Homintern

How Gay Culture Liberated the Modern World. USA 2016, 432 pp., hardbound, € 24.95
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Yale University Press

In a study which crosses continents, languages, and almost a century, the author identifies the ways in which homosexuality has helped shape Western culture. Extending from the trials of Oscar Wilde to the gay liberation era, this book examines a period in which increased visibility made acceptance of homosexuality one of the measures of modernity. Woods shines a light on ... Weiterlesen

Lilian Faderman: The Gay Revolution

The Story of a Struggle. USA 2016, 795 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 29.95
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Simon and Schuster

The story of the modern struggle for gay, lesbian, and trans rights from the 1950s to the present is based on interviews with politicians, military figures, legal activists, and members of the entire LGBT community who face these challenges every day. The fight for gay, lesbian, and trans civil rights - the years of outrageous injustice, the early battles, the ... Weiterlesen

Adrian Brooks: The Right Side of History

100 Years of LGBTQI Activism. USA 2015, 242 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Cleis

How queer activists changed the United States of America, before, during and after Stonewall. Described by gay scholar Jonathan Katz as �willfully cacophonous, a chorus of voices untamed�, �On The Right Side of History� sets itself apart from oral histories by pinpointing how LGBTQ folk have been in the forefront of progressive social evolution in the United States, bringing attention ... Weiterlesen

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