Virginia Erhardt: Head Over Heels

USA 2007, 233 pp., brochure, € 18.29
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
This book tells the real stories of ordinary women living extraordinary lives with their gender-variant natal male partners (cross-dressers, transgenderists, and male-to-female transsexuals). These unique women discuss, with honesty and great candor, how they first learned of their partners' gender issues, how they've coped with the emotions that followed, how they've dealt with concerns about privacy/secrecy, and how they've handled ... Weiterlesen

Helen Boyd: She's Not the Man I Married

USA 2007, 311 pp., brochure, € 15.69
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Helen Boyd's husband is considering becoming a woman, a choice that would alter both of their lives forever. But in what ways? The author explores the impact her husband's gender change threatens to have on their relationship. And how about her own feelings about being married to a transgender partner. Boyd, an androgynous-looking heterosexual woman (often mistaken for a lesbian), ... Weiterlesen

Claudia Breitsprecher: Bringen Sie doch Ihre Freundin mit!

Gespräche mit lesbischen Lehrerinnen. D 2007, 215 S., geb., € 16.45
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Krug und Schadenberg
»Bringen Sie doch Ihre Freundin mit!« - Es soll schon vorgekommen sein, dass lesbische Lehrerinnen von ihren Schülern und Schülerinnen aufgefordert wurden, zur Abiturfeier einfach ihre Partnerin mitzubringen. Doch dieser legere Umgang entspricht noch lange nicht der Regel. Die Autorin hat Eindrücke von lesbischen Lehrerinnen in ganz Deutschland gesammelt, sie nach ihren Erfahrungen im Berufsleben als Lesben befragt. Die lesbischen ... Weiterlesen

Michael T. Luongo: Looking for Love in Faraway Places

USA 2007, 154pp., brochure, € 14.79
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
This collection of real stories of gay men who sought and found love and romance in exotic and distant locations candidly recalls the fact that while love may have no boundaries, the law certainly does. And so does life sometimes. Travel, like love, is perilous, surprising, exhausting, rewarding, and ultimately necessary for those souls looking to gain new perspectives of ... Weiterlesen

Harlyn Aizley (ed.): Confessions of the Other Mother

Nonbiological Lesbian Moms Tell All! USA 2006, 173 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Beacon
After author Harlyn Aizley gave birth to her daughter, she watched in unanticipated horror as her partner scooped up the baby and said, »I'm your new mommy!« While they both had worked to find the perfect sperm donor, Aizley had spent nine months carrying the baby and hours in labor, so how could her partner claim to be their child's ... Weiterlesen

Max Wolf Valerio: The Testosterone Files

My Hormonal and Social Transformation from FEMALE to MALE. USA 2006, 344 pp., brochure, € 24.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Seal
Max Wolf Valerio crafts a raw, gripping, and poetic account of life before, during, and after injecting testosterone. Valerio's detailed observations about a lesbian transitioning from female to a heterosexual male highlights the physical and emotional differences between women and men, and alternately challenges and confirms readers' assumptions about gender. »The Testosterone Files« addresses the most fundamental issues of transitioning, ... Weiterlesen

Vicky Whipple: Lesbian Widows

USA 2006, 216 pp., brochure, € 59.95
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
The death of a life partner poses unique challenges for lesinas. This book reveals the touching and very personal stories of 25 women, including the author, who were widowed at a young age and forced to create a new life without their life partners. The widows discuss their efforts to create funerals and memorial services, give their accounts of the ... Weiterlesen

David Levithan, Billy Merrell (eds.): The Full Spectrum

USA 2006, 277 pp., brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Using works submitted anonymously through the Web site the authors created in conjunction with the »Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network« (GLSEN), the editors have selected 40 essays, mini-autobiographies, poems, and photographs that chronicle the lives of 21st-century young people, ages 13 to 23. The handsomely dense package includes real-life stories about coming out, falling in and out of love, ... Weiterlesen

Viola Roggenkamp: Von mir soll sie das haben?

Porträts von Müttern lesbischer Töchter. D 2006, 197 S., pb, € 10.23
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In Interviews mit sieben verschiedenen Frauen, die allesamt Mütter lesbischer Töchter sind, versucht die feministische Erfolgsautorin Viola Roggenkamp herauszufinden, ob das Gerücht, dass Homosexualität vererbbar ist, nun wahr ist oder nicht. Sie besucht die Mütter bei ihnen zu Hause und redet ganz locker und ungezwungen mit ihnen über Themen wie Lesbischsein, Mutter-Tochter-Beziehungen, Klischees, Sex und die Rolle des Vaters in ... Weiterlesen

Lauren Levin: Same Sex in the City

USA 2006, 250 pp., brochure, € 14.79
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
The journey from sexual curiosity to finally coming out can be confusing without proper guidance and empowering role models. In »Same Sex in the City«, Lauren Levin and Lauren Blitzer provide women - gay, straight, and bi-curious alike - with firsthand insight into the advantages and challenges of being a lesbian. The Laurens relate their own experiences and those of ... Weiterlesen

Martin Moran: The Tricky Part

USA 2006, 285 pp., brochure, € 13.89
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Raised in a loving Catholic family in Denver, Martin Moran was a star student who imagined that he would one day become a U.S. senator. When he was 12 years old, a camp counselor seduced him, initiating a sexual relationship that would last years and haunt Moran's life for decades. He discovered a passion for acting and built a career ... Weiterlesen

Peggy Drexler with Linden Gross: Raising Boys Without Men

USA 2006, 224 pp., brochure, € 12.39
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
According to prevailing wisdom, a boy must be raised with a man in the house. Otherwise, he's bound to be a failure. That same wisdom tells us that mothers left to their own devices will smother their sons and turn them into sissies, and that sons of unmarried women are destined to a life of crime. The author wasn't quite ... Weiterlesen

Heidi Hassenmüller, Udo Rauchfleisch, Hans-Georg W: Warum gerade mein Kind?

D 2006, 147 S., Broschur, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
»Warum gerade mein Kind?«, fragen sich viele Eltern, wenn sie erfahren, dass ihre Kinder schwul oder lesbisch sind. Die vordergründige Besorgnis, ihre schwulen oder lesbischen Kinder hätten es schwerer im Leben verschleiert dabei allzu oft, dass sie in Wahrheit weniger Probleme mit der Homosexualität ihrer Kinder haben, als Angst vor der eigenen Aufrichtigkeit - z.B. darüber im eigenen Bekanntenkreis zu ... Weiterlesen

Ritch C. Savin-Williams: The New Gay Teenager

USA 2006, 288 pp., cloth, € 16.59
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Gay, straight, bisexual: how much does sexual orientation matter to a teenager's mental health or sense of identity? In this down-to-earth book, filled with the voices of young people speaking for themselves, the author argues that the standard image of gay youth presented by mental health researchers - as depressed, isolated, drug-dependent, even suicidal - may have been exaggerated even ... Weiterlesen

Robert Trachtenberg (ed.): When I Knew

USA 2005, 120 pp., brochure, € 21.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Documentarian Trachtenberg brings together the comical, sometimes bitter and always poignant moments when gay men and women first realize (or admit) the truth about their own sexual preference. Trachtenberg has gathered some famous names for his collection (Gavin Lambert, Arthur Laurents, B.D. Wong, Simon Doonan), but perhaps the freshest stories come from voices unknown. What surprises is how often these ... Weiterlesen

Victoria C. Murray: Grown Folks Business

USA 2005, 431 pp., brochure, € 13.89
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Sheridan Hart's husband wanted to stop living a lie, but how was she going to live her life knowing the truth? Her life as she knows it comes to a crashing halt. She thought she was livinbg every woman's dream: for the past 17 years of marriage, Quentin had been a model husband, father, and business partner. But for all ... Weiterlesen

Frank Sanello: Tweakers

USA 2005, 249 pp., brochure, € 14.79
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The author examines how crystal abuse is reaching epidemic levels among gay men. Tweakers get a quick cheap high, an exhilarating loss of inhibition, and increased stamina at the price of permanent behavioral changes, brain damage, and death due not only to the dangers associated with routine methamphetamine use but also the horrifying side-effects brought on by the reagenting ingredients ... Weiterlesen

Kriss Rudolph: Paaroli! Schwule in jeder Beziehung

D 2004, 255 S., geb., € 15.37
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Wie sehen Schwule ihre eigene Beziehung - und wie sehen sie die der anderen? Kriss Rudolph hat einen Fragebogen ausgearbeitet, in dem er nicht nur nach Heirats- und Kinderwunsch, Lebenszielen und der Rolle anderer Männer fragt, sondern auch nach alltäglicher Lebensführung, gemeinsamem und getrenntem Ausgehen, dem offenen Auftreten als Schwuler usw. Unter den Befragten sind auch viele Prominente, wie die ... Weiterlesen