Now that, in the latest twist of tolerance, gays are required to flaunt their well-adjustedness, this book may feel backward indeed as it cotemplates the pain, anger, isolation, and sheer crankiness prominent in literary figures of our queer past. It weighs the costs of the contemporary move to the mainstream in lesbian and gay culture. While the widening tolerance for ... Weiterlesen

C. Todd White: Pre-Gay L.A.

A Social History of the Movement for Homosexual Rights. USA 2009, 260 pp., brochure, € 32.95
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This book explores the origins and history of the modern American movement of homosexual rights, which originated in Los Angeles in the late 1940s and continues today. Part ethnography and part social history, it is a detailed account of the history of the movement as manifested through the emergence of four related organizations: Mattachine, ONE Incorporated, the Homosexual Information Center ... Weiterlesen

Tommi Avicolli Mecca (ed.): Smash the Church, Smash the State!

The Early Years of Gay Liberation. USA 2009, 304 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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From the first high heel thrown at Stonewall to the last performance of the drag burlesque group The Cockettes, enter the wild days of the late 1960s and the early 1970s with the individuals who lived them! Celebrating 40 years since the June 1969 Stonewall Riots, the essays, manifestos, artwork and photos in this anthology represent a group of radical ... Weiterlesen

David A.J. Richards: The Sodomy Cases

Bowers v. Hardwick and Lawrence v. Texas. USA 2009, 214 pp., brochure, € 20.59
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The US Supreme Court's decision in Bowers v. Hartwick (1986) stemmed from a 1982 gay-sex arrest in an Atlanta home under a Georgia law that criminalized �sodomy� - a case not originally prosecuted, but then pursued in court to challenge the statute's constitutionality. Lawrence v. Texas (2003) followed a similar arrest in 1998 in Houston, where Texas law also criminalized ... Weiterlesen

Rodger Streitmatter: From �Perverts� to �Fab Five�

The Media's Changing Depiction of Gay Men and Lesbians. UK/USA 2009, 222 pp., brochure, € 34.95
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This book tracks the dramatic change in how the American media have depicted gay people over the last 50 years. Each chapter illuminates a particular media product that served as a milestone on the media's journey from demonizing homosexuals some 50 years ago to celebrating gay people - or at least some categories of gay people - today. The media ... Weiterlesen

Randy Shilts: The Mayor of Castro Street

The Life and Times of Harvey Milk. USA 2008 (Reprint), 388 pp., brochure, € 19.99
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SMP

Known as �The Mayor of Castro Street� even before he was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, Harvey Milk's personal life, public career, and final assassination reflect the dramatic emergence of the gay community as a political power in America. It is a story full of personal tragedies and political intrigues, assassinations at City Hall, massive riots in ... Weiterlesen

Dustin Lance Black (ed.): Milk - A Pictorial History of Harvey Milk

USA 2008, 144 pp., brochure, € 18.30
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In 1977, Harvey Milk was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, becoming the first openly gay man to be voted into major public office in America. Milk changed the very nature of what it means to be a fighter for human rights and became, before his untimely death in 1978, a hero for all Americans. In 2004, screenwriter ... Weiterlesen

Amin Ghaziani: The Dividends of Dissent

USA 2008, 419 pp., brochure, € 29.99
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Marching on Washington is a hallowed tradition of American political protest, and demonstrations led by the women's rights, civil rights, and anti-war movements all endure in popular memory. Between 1979 and 2000 four major lesbian and gay demonstrations took place there, and while these marches were some of the largest of their time, they have been sorely overlooked. Drawing on ... Weiterlesen

Jennifer Baumgardner: Look Both Ways

USA 2008, 244 pp., brochure, € 18.95
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Bisexuality has always been more than �the sexual non-preference of the '90s�. In her book, the author and activist Jennifer Baumgardner takes a close look at gay and bisexual people on the national cultural stage and the issues their growing visibility raises, particularly for younger women navigating the murky waters of identity. In a society supposedly grown more open and ... Weiterlesen

Audre Lorde: Sister Outsider

Foreword by Cheryl Clarke. USA 2007 (1984), 190 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Crossing Press

Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, �Sister Outsider� celebrates an influential voice in 20th-century literature. In this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and propounds social difference as a vehicle for action and change. Her prose is incisive, unflinching, and lyrical, reflecting struggle ... Weiterlesen

Katherine V. Forrest, Jim van Buskirk (eds.): Love, Castro Street

USA 2007, 288 pp., brochure, € 29.95
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Because San Francisco has seemingly always been a leading city for both cultural and societal change, it's only natural that there is good literature about the gay scene there. Castro Street has always played a major role in the shaping of gay identity - it's as mythological as it's real. Castro Street has always been a home - both ideological ... Weiterlesen

Matt Cook etc.: A Gay History of Britain

UK 2007, 256 pp., hardback, € 69.00
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Covering nearly 1000 years from the Norman Conquest to the internet age, it's a history rich in personalities, not only public figures like Richard Lionheart or Derek Jarman, but also little-known individuals such as �Eleanor�, a cross-dresser in Chaucer's England, and Mark Partridge, branded a �mollying bitch� in 18th-century London. �A Gay History of Britain� tells their stories against a ... Weiterlesen

Felice Picano: Art and Sex in Greenwich Village

USA 2007, 265 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Almost a decade after the Stonewall rebellion lit the political fuse of Gay Liberation in 1969, its impact on the arts remained minimal. While a handful of gay plays, films, and a small number of gay-themed books were available, few of these reflected the new, out-of-the-closet realities of the post-Stonewall scene. That landscape began to change in 1977, when Felice ... Weiterlesen

Jim Buzinski, Cyd Zeigler (eds.): The Outsports Revolution

USA 2007, 304 pp., brochure, € 18.29
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Nearly 10 years ago, Outsports.com was launched, yet the issue of gay athletes remains one of the last taboo subjects in the half trillion-dollar sports industry. What is it about homosexuality and sports that make people assume they are mutually exclusive subjects? Now, the founders of Outsports.com detail the place of gay sports in society, and offer up profiles of ... Weiterlesen

Marge Piercy: Sex Wars

Novel of Gilded Age New York. USA 2006, 411 pp., brochure, € 14.99
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Harper Collins

Post-Civil War New York City is the battleground of the American dream. In this era of free love, emerging rights of women, and brutal sexual repression, Freydeh, a spirited young Jewish immigrant, toils at different jobs to earn passage to America for her family. Learning that her younger sister is adrift somewhere in the city, she begins a determined search ... Weiterlesen

William Lipsky: Gay and Lesbian San Francisco

USA 2006, 127 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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In modern times, San Francisco has been synonymous with gay and lesbian pride, and the various achievements of the gay and lesbian community are personified in the city by the bay. The tumultuous and ongoing struggles for this community's civil rights from the 1950s to the present are well documented, but queer culture itself goes back much further than that, ... Weiterlesen

Neil Miller: Out of the Past

Gay and Lesbian History from 1869 to the Present. USA 2006, 678 pp., brochure, € 18.39
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In this updated and revised edition of this classic narrative history, the author chronicles gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender lives beginning in 1869 when the concept of homosexuality was invented. This volume traces each step in gay culture since that time: from the age of Walt Whitman to the trials of Oscar Wilde and Radclyffe Hall to the Stonewall riots ... Weiterlesen

Kenji Yoshino: Covering

The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights. USA 2010, 285 pp., pb., € 17.95
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Yoshino, a law professor at Yale and a gay, Asian-American man, melds autobiography and legal scholarship in this book, marking a move from more traditional pleas for civil equality to a case for individual autonomy in identity politics. In questioning the phenomenon of �covering�, a term used for the coerced hiding of crucial aspects of one's self, Yoshino thrusts the ... Weiterlesen

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