Javier Samper Vendrell: The Seduction of Youth

Print Culture and Homosexual Rights in the Weimar Republic. USA 2020, 280 pp., brochure, € 59.95
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University of Toronto Press
A simple man from the provinces, Friedrich Radszuweit merged popular culture, consumerism, and politics as the leader of the League for Human Rights, Germany's first mass homosexual organization. The Seduction of Youth is the first study to focus on the League and its leader, using his position at the centre of the Weimar-era gay rights movement to tease out the ... Weiterlesen

Anita Kurimay: Queer Budapest

USA 2020, 336 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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University of Chicago Press
By the dawn of the 20th century, Budapest was a burgeoning cosmopolitan metropolis. Known at the time as the »Pearl of the Danube,« it boasted some of Europe's most innovative architectural and cultural achievements, and its growing middle class was committed to advancing the city's liberal politics and making it an intellectual and commercial crossroads between East and West. In ... Weiterlesen

Renato Miracco: Oscar Wilde's Italian Dream 1875-1900

IT 2020, English text, 160 pp. illustrated, hardback, € 39.95
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Damiani
In »Oscar Wilde's Italian Dream«, leading Wilde author Renato Miracco has combined written research with visual iconographic material - from Wilde's earliest heady trips to Italy as an Oxford student to his final days in France and Italy in 1900 after his incarceration in Reading Gaol, and his voluntary exile from Great Britain. Italy, and the larger world outside of ... Weiterlesen

Jen Jack Gieseking: A Queer New York

Geographies of Lesbians, Dykes, and Queers. USA 2020, 307 pp. with numerous illustrations, brochure, € 39.95
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New York University Press
The first lesbian and queer historical geography of New York City. Over the past few decades, rapid gentrification in New York City has led to the disappearance of many lesbian and queer spaces, displacing some of the most marginalized members of the LGBTQ community. In »A Queer New York«, Jen Jack Gieseking highlights the historic significance of these spaces, mapping ... Weiterlesen

Christopher Chitty: Sexual Hegemony

Statecraft, Sodomy, and Capital in the Rise of the World System. USA 2020, 222 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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Duke University Press
In »Sexual Hegemony«, Christopher Chitty traces the 500 year history of capitalist sexual relations by excavating the class dynamics of the bourgeoisie's attempts to regulate homosexuality. Tracking the politicization of male homosexuality in Renaissance Florence, Amsterdam, Paris, and London between the 17th and 19th centuries, and 20th-century New York City, Chitty shows how sexuality became a crucial dimension of the ... Weiterlesen

Chris Bryant: The Glamour Boys

The Secret Story of the Rebels Who Fought for Britain to Defeat Hitler. UK 2020, 425 pp. with numerous b/w photographs, brochure, € 17.95
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Bloomsbury
In the early 1930s, a group of young, queer British MPs visited Berlin on a series of trips that would change the course of the World War II. As Hitler rose to power they watched the Nazis arrest their gay and Jewish friends, send them to concentration camps and murder them. These men were some of the first to warn ... Weiterlesen

Brooklyn Museum (ed.): Studio 54: Night Magic

USA 2020, 176 pp. illustrated, hardcover, € 49.95
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Rizzoli
There has never been - and will never be - another nightclub to rival the sheer glamour, energy, and wild creativity that was Studio 54. This catalog accompanies an exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum exploring how Studio 54 was a unique zeitgeist of an era. From the moment it opened in 1977, Studio 54 celebrated spectacle and promised a never-ending ... Weiterlesen

Paul Baker: Fabulosa!

The Story of Polari, Britain's Secret Gay Language. UK 2020, 320 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 19.95
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Reaktion
Polari is a language that was used chiefly by gay men in the first half of the 20th century. It offered its speakers a degree of public camouflage and a means of identification. Its colorful roots are varied -from Cant to Lingua Franca to dancers' slang - and in the mid-1960s it was thrust into the limelight by the characters ... 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

Jen Manion: Female Husbands

UK 2020, 320 pp., hardback, € 29.90
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Cambridge University Press
Long before people identified as transgender or lesbian, there were female husbands and the women who loved them. Female husbands - people assigned female who transed gender, lived as men, and married women - were true queer pioneers. Moving deftly from the colonial era to just before the First World War, Jen Manion uncovers the riveting and very personal stories ... Weiterlesen

Hugh Ryan: When Brooklyn Was Queer

USA 2019, 308 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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SMP
»When Brooklyn Was Queer« is an exploration of the LGBT history of Brooklyn, from the early days of Walt Whitman in the 1850s up through the queer women who worked at the Brooklyn Navy Yard during World War II, and beyond. No other book, movie, or exhibition has ever told this sweeping story. Not only has Brooklyn always lived in ... 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

James Polchin: Indecent Advances

A Hidden History of True Crime and Prejudice Before Stonewall. UK 2019, 256 pp., hardback, € 29.95
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Icon
In his skillful hybrid of true crime and cultural history, James Polchin looks at how popular culture, the media, and the psychological profession forcefully portrayed gay men as the perpetrators of the same violence they suffered. He traces how the press depicted the murder of men by other men from the end of World War I to the Stonewall ... 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

Brian Anderson: The Fraternity of the Estranged

The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908. UK 2018, 256 pp., hardbound, € 26.95
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Matador
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