David Sedaris: Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

USA 2004, 245 pp., pb, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Sedaris plays in the snow with his sisters. He goes on vacation with his family. He gets a job selling drinks. He attends his brother's wedding. He mops his sister's floor. He gives directions to a lost traveler. He eats a hamburger. He has his blood sugar tested. It all sounds so normal, doesn't it? In his new collection of ... Weiterlesen

Heidi J. Schmidt: The Bride of Catastrophe

USA 2004, 442 pp., brochur, € 13.89
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»The Bride of Catastrophe« is the story of Beatrice Wolfe's quest to escape the gothic eccentricity of her family and find an authentic identity of her own. Leaving the confines of the farm where she grew up, Beatrice falls under the spell of her college literature tutor, an exuberant lesbian called Phillipa, who will have a greater influence on her ... Weiterlesen

Beeban Kidron (R): Oranges are Not the Only Fruit

UK 2003, engl. OF, 165 min., € 19.99
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Jess is the adopted daughter of a strict evangelist. Her adopted mam thinks she's the chosen one from God. With an upbringing spent learning the bible and praying for »heathens in hot countries« she unnerves both classmates and teachers when she begins school. But she fancies girls. And an orange demon keeps popping into her psyche. Later in life she ... Weiterlesen

Lev Raphael: The German Money

USA 2003, 204 pp., brochure, € 14.79
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Paul has spent his life running - from New York, the city of his birth, from the beautiful love of his life, from contact with his own brother and sister, but mostly from his mother, a bitter Holocaust survivor of almost inexplicable coldness. Upon her death, the children face shocking questions. What caused the apparently healthy woman to die? Why ... Weiterlesen

Robert Bernstein: Straight Parents, Gay Children

USA 2003, 254 pp., brochure, € 14.99
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The courageous and levelheaded »Straight Parents, Gay Children«, Armistead Maupin comments, »shows the parents of gay children how to stop merely tolerating their kids and start being their heroes.« Robert A. Bernstein made this essential move to »heroism« himself after his daughter Bobbi came out to him and her stepmother in the mid-1980s, when she was 19. Soon after, they ... Weiterlesen

Patrice Chéreau (R): Son frère

F 2002, fr. OF, engl. UT, 88 min., € 19.99
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Brothers Thomas and Luc have an estranged relationship. One day, Thomas comes to Luc's apartment explaining that he is ill and asks if Luc will accompany him to the hospital. Thomas has an undetermined platelet disorder which is treated with cortisone and splenectomy - neither help. Luc, who happens to be gay, and is in a relationship with Vincent, is ... Weiterlesen

Harvey Fierstein: The Sissy Duckling

Illustrated by Henry Cole. USA 2002, 40 S., Bilderbuch mit englischem Text, Broschur, € 9.99
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Elmer ist ein Außenseiter. Der Enten-Junge mag nicht mit seinen Schulkameraden Baseball spielen, sondern backt gern, und liebt es, Räume zu dekorieren. In einem hohlen Baum richtet er sich sein Traumzimmer ein. Als sein Vater von den Jägern angeschossen wird, ist es just Elmer, der helfen kann und zum Held der Enten-Familie wird. Und so befinden alle zum Schluss, dass ... Weiterlesen

K. M. Soehnlein: The World of Normal Boys

USA 2001, 221 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Kensington
In his debut novel, »The World Of Normal Boys«, K.M. Soehnlein captures the spirit of a generation and an era, embodied in the haunting, unstoppable voice of 13-year-old Robin MacKenzie, whose struggle for a place in the world is as ferocious as it is real. The time is the late 1970s, an age of gas shortages, head shops, and Saturday ... Weiterlesen

Mariana Romo-Carmona: Conversaciones: Relatos por padres y madres de hijas lesbianas e hijos gay

USA 2001, 166 S., brochure, € 20.35
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Dieses Buch in spanischer Sprache richtet sich vor allem an spanischsprechende amerikanische Eltern schwuler Söhne und lesbischer Töchter. Es zeigt Perspektiven auf, wie innerhalb einer kulturellen bzw. sprachlichen Minderheit, die noch zudem von traditionellen religiösen Vorstellungen geprägt ist, Akzeptanz und Gemeinschaft mit Schwulen und Lesben möglich ist.

Daniel Mendelsohn: The Elusive Embrace

Desire and the Riddle of Identity. USA 1999, 209 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Vintage
Hailed for its searing emotional insights, and for the astonishing originality with which it weaves together personal history, cultural essay, and readings of classical texts by Sophocles, Ovid, Euripides, and Sappho, »The Elusive Embrace« is an exploration of the mysteries of identity. It is also a meditation in which the author uses his own divided life to investigate the ... Weiterlesen

David Leavitt: The Page Turner

UK 1999, 244 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Abacus
18-year-old Paul Porterfield hopes for a career as a classical pianist and is thrilled to achieve his »debut« turning pages for his idol, Richard Kennington. This would be the only intersection of their careers were it not for a coincidental encounter later that summer in Rome, where Paul and his philistine mother, Pamela, are on vacation. Mutually infatuated, Paul and ... Weiterlesen

Robert A. Bernstein: Straight Parents, Gay Children. Inspiring Families to Live Honestly and with Greater Understanding

USA 1999, 203pp., brochure, € 14.99
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A penetrating book. With human warmth and insightful anecdotes, Bernstein, the former national vice-president of P-FLAG (parents & friends of lesbians and gays) invites his readers into the intensely emotional, but deeply human, issue of homosexuality. There he discovers light, not darkness, love not fear.

Leroy Aarons: Prayers for Bobby

A Mother's Coming to Terms with the Suicide of Her Gay Son. USA 1995, 271 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Harper Collins
»Prayers for Bobby«, nominated for the 1996 Lambda Literary Award, is the story of the emotional journey that led Bobby Griffith to a tragic conclusion. He was an all-American boy, and he was gay. Faced with an irresolvable conflict - for both his family and his religion taught him that being gay was »wrong« - Bobby chose to take his ... Weiterlesen

David Leavitt: Equal Affections

UK 1989, 339 pp., brochure, € 12.95
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Bloomsbury
»Equal Affections« tells the story of the funny, loving, and tragic Cooper family. Louise, the indomitable matriarch, has had cancer for twenty years. Her gay son Danny, a lawyer, lives in a New Jersey suburb with his lover Walter, who is slowly growing obsessed with on-line sex. Her daughter April is a lesbian activist and folk singer, who knows how ... Weiterlesen

Jeanette Winterson: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

USA 1985, 182 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Grove Press
Jeanette is a bright and rebellious orphan who is adopted into an evangelical household in the dour, industrial north of England. Her youth is spent embroidering grim religious mottoes and shaking her little tambourine for Jesus. But as this budding missionary comes of age and comes to terms with lesbian (that is: unorthodox) sexuality, the peculiar balance of her God-fearing ... Weiterlesen

Andrew Holleran: Nights in Aruba

USA 2001, 240 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Harper Collins
This novel of gay life centers around Paul, an uneasy commuter between two parallel worlds. He is the dutiful son of aging, upper-middle-class parents living in Florida, and a homosexual man plunged deliriously into the world of New York City's bars, baths, and one-night stands. With wry humor and subtle lyricism, Holleran reveals the tragedy and comedy of one man's ... Weiterlesen

Patricia Nell Warren: Billy's Boy

USA 1997, 341 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Wildcat - Harlan's Story 3
For those who know Warren's previous novels, this is the third in a series. The first, The Front Runner, is about a young gay distance runner who was outed on his way to the Olympics. For those who haven't read The Front Runner yet, Billy's Boy stands alone as a story. Billy's Boy is a first person story, about a ... Weiterlesen