Sometimes there are second acts, when Timothy Conigrave falls in love with the captain of the football team, John Caleo, the two embark on a passionate journey of love, betrayal and forgiveness that was meant to last 15 years. With honesty and insight, �Holding the Man� explores the highs and lows of their life partnership: the intimacy, constraints, temptations, and ... Weiterlesen

William J. Mann: Men Who Love Men

USA 2007, 314 pp., hardback, € 22.69
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.

For Jeff O'Brien, life has finally fallen into place. He's now a bestselling author, living in Provincetown full-time with Lloyd Griffith, his longtime lover and soon-to-be legal husband. Forty has nothing on Jeff and Lloyd - they're the still-sexy poster boys for settled, contented domesticity. They seem to have everything, in fact - even a foster son, Jeff's 10-year-old nephew, ... Weiterlesen

John Weir: What I Did Wrong

USA 2006, 243 pp., brochure, € 13.89
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42-year-old novelist and College professor Tom, who survived his 20s and 30s in a New York ravaged by AIDS, encounters a lifetime of demons during one jam-packed day in May 2000. Tom's straight boyhood friend Richie, thinking he may be out of his depth on an Internet-arranged date, is bringing Tom along to chaperone. As the two navigate the five ... Weiterlesen

Allison Burnett: The House Beautiful

USA 2006, 231 pp., brochure, € 14.79
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B.K. Troop is a middle-aged, witty, bipolar, alcoholic homosexual living alone in a cramped New York apartment. When his best friend, Sasha Buchwitz, dies following a much-needed round of electroconvulsive therapy, she leaves him her Manhattan brownstone, changing B.K.'s life forever. To afford the property tax, he turns his new home into a colony for young, struggling artists, to whom ... Weiterlesen

Kim Powers: The History of Swimming

USA 2006, 291 pp., hardcover, € 23.90
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This book �The History of Swimming� details author Kim Powers' frantic search for his twin brother Tim - both his best friend and his greatest enemy - who disappears all of a sudden from Manhattan one weekend in his late twenties. Kim - almost mystically - imagines that the clues to Tim's whereabouts have been planted in a series of ... Weiterlesen

Brian Sloan: Tale of Two Summers

USA/UK/CAN/AUS 2006, 245 pp., hardbound, € 15.69
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A 10-year best friendship is put to the test when Chuck and Hal spend their first summer apart falling for two questionable mates: Chuck, a 15-year-old supremely comfortable in his hetero (though adolescently horny) skin, is a major fan of Broadway musicals who is rooming at summer theater school, with admirable tolerance, with a campy queer boy. His best friend ... Weiterlesen

Jay Quinn: Back Where He Started

USA 2006, 271 pp., brochure, € 14.79
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Red-state values meet a blue-state hero in this beautiful exploration of a nontraditional family. The weekend after Thanksgiving, Chris Thayer finds himself packing up the last odds and ends of his quietly extraordinary life. After 22 years of gay marriage to Zack Rowan - and after raising widowed Zack's kids as his own - Chris is suddenly single. What's a ... Weiterlesen

William J. Mann: All American Boy

USA 2006, 360 pp., brochure, € 15.20
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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

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

Arthur Wooten: On Picking Fruit

USA 2005,159 pp., brochure, € 15.89
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Although he was born gay, Curtis Jenkins has trouble picking fruit. Now a successful middle-aged New York City writer, he is still searching for the man of his dreams. Unfortunately, Chris has already formed a self-destructive pattern of choosing all the wrong men in all the wrong places. After a bizarre yet comical attempt at suicide Curtis becomes a reluctant ... Weiterlesen

Paul Golding: Senseless

UK 2005, 525 pp., brochure, € 10.95
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Set against the backdrop of 1980s London, with its spangled haunt and limitless indulgence, �Senseless�, Paul Golding's 2nd novel after �The Abomination� (€ 12,99) chronicles, through the jaded faculties of its narrator, a world which veers from dancing to desiring, from recreational drugs to prescribed ones, and back. At the core of the story lie George's two principal relationships - ... 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

Scott Heim: Mysterious Skin

USA 2005, 292 S., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
HarperPerennial

At the age of 8 Brian Lackey is found bleeding under the crawl space of his house, having endured something so traumatic that he cannot remember it for long. During the following years he slowly recalls details from that night, but these fragments are not enough to explain what happened to him, and he begins to believe that he may ... Weiterlesen

Brent Hartinger: The Order of the Poison Oak

USA 2005, 215 pp., hardback, € 14.89
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The sequel to �Geography Club�: 16-year-old Russel, now openly gay and tired of being the freak at school, tries to escape as a counselor in a rural summer camp with his two best friends. The camp kids are 10-year-old burn survivors, scarred and disfigured, and Russel identifies with them. They also have fun together, once he stops seeing them as ... Weiterlesen

Tom Dolby: The Trouble Boy

USA 2005, 264 pp., brochure, € 13.69
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At 22, Toby Griffin wants it all - fame, fortune, an Oscar-winning screen-play and a good-looking boyfriend by his side. For now, what he's got is a freelance writing job at a tanking online magazine, a walk-up sublet in the East Village and �the boys�, a young posse of preppy Upper East Siders with a taste for high fashion, top-shelf ... Weiterlesen

Christine Geraghty: My Beautiful Laundrette

UK 2005, 108 pp., brochure, € 18.29
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.

�My Beautiful Laundrette� is a phenomenon, a small TV film which became a political and social landmark, a classic which speaks to audiences today. It is a gay romance, a lesson in ethnic diversity, a riposte to Thatcherite principles and a celebration of the edgy possibilities of London in the 1980s. A crucial film for director Stephen Frears and writer ... Weiterlesen

Timothy J. Beck: I'm Your Man

USA 2004, 376 pp., brochure, € 11.49
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At thirtysomething, Blaine Dunhill has a great career in fashion advertising, a fab NYC apartment, and some loyal friends that he's trying to share amicably with his ex, a famous soap star. Working in the big-time cosmetics world is all about glamour and artifice (�Like Barbies that can talk�), but what the self-professed nice guy from Wisconsin really wants is ... Weiterlesen

Christopher Bram: Lives of the Circus Animals

USA 2004, 342 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.

Henry Lense is a prominent British actor starring in a musical, but preoccupied with sex. His latest find is Toby Vogler, a good-looking, not terribly bright young man, honored to have the attention of the star, but too earnest to provide full satisfaction. Toby is longing for Caleb Doyle, a playwright whose first stage success was followed by the immediate ... Weiterlesen

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