Beatrice Kizza, a lesbian woman who fled Uganda where homosexuality is illegal, comes to London. There, she shields her sorrow from the indifference of her adopted city, and navigates a night-time world of shift-work and bedsits. Howard Pink is a self-made millionaire who has risen to the mansions of Kensington on a tide of determination and bluster. Carol Hetherington, recently ... Weiterlesen

Thomas Spijkerboer: Fleeing Homophobia

Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Asylum. UK 2015, 264 pp., brochure, € 59.95
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Routledge

Each year, thousands of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex asylum seekers apply for asylum in EU member states. This book considers the position of LGBTI asylum seekers in European asylum law. Developing an encompassing approach to the topic, the book identifies and analyzes the main legal issues arising in relation to LGBTI people seeking asylum including: the underestimation of ... Weiterlesen

Benjamin Law: Gaysia

Adevntures in the Queer East. USA 2014, , € 19.95
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Cleis

Benjamin Law considers himself pretty lucky to live in Australia: he can hold his boyfriend's hand in public and lobby his politicians to recognize same-sex marriage. But as the child of immigrants, he's also curious about how different life might have been had he grown up in Asia. So he sets off to meet his fellow Gaysians. Law takes his ... Weiterlesen

Frank Spinelli: Pee-Shy

USA 2013, 352 pp., brochure, € 15.95
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Kensington

In this memoir, Frank Spinelli recounts a childhood marked by trauma and of finding the courage that ultimately transformed his life. He grew up on Staten Island in the 1970s to Italian-born parents who viewed cops and priests as second only to the Pope in infallibility. His mother, concerned that her son was being bullied at school for being �different�, ... Weiterlesen

Andr� Aciman: Harvard Square

USA 2013, 292 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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W. W. Norton

1977: amid the lovely streets of Cambridge a young Harvard graduate student, a Jew from Egypt, longs more than anything to become an assimilated American and a professor of literature. He spends his days in a pleasant blur of 17th-century fiction, but when he meets a brash, charismatic Arab cab driver in a Harvard Square caf�, everything changes. Nicknamed Kalashnikov ... Weiterlesen

Benjamin Alire S�enz: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

USA 2012, 359 pp., pb., € 14.95
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Dante can swim. Ari can't. Dante is articulate and self-assured. Ari has a hard time with words and suffers from self-doubt. Dante gets lost in poetry and art. Ari gets lost in thoughts of his older brother who is in prison. Dante is fair skinned. Ari's features are much darker. It seems that a boy like Dante, with his open ... Weiterlesen
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Neel Mukherjee: A Life Apart

UK 2011, 402 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Corsair

Ritwik Ghosh, 22 and recently orphaned, finds the chance to start a new life when he arrives in England from Calcutta. But to do so, he must revisit his past and make sense of his relationship with his mother - scarred, abusive and all-consuming. When Oxford brings little of the salvation Ritwik is looking for, he moves to London, disappearing ... Weiterlesen

Jan Dunn (R): Gypo

UK 2007, OF, engl. UT, 100 Min., € 17.99
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British drama documenting the breakdown of a working class family when the teenage daughter befriends a refugee girl. Helen has been married to Paul for 25 years. They live a monotonous and frozen existence: Helen is desperate, damaged, and looking for change; while Paul - bitter, hypocritical and bigoted, sick and tired of being in the poverty trap - is ... Weiterlesen

Elana Dykewomon: Beyond the Pale

USA 2008, 406 pp., brochure, € 29.95
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Set in the early 20th century, this classic follows the lives of Chava and Gutke, two women born in a Russian-Jewish settlement who ultimately immigrate to New York's Lower East Side with its teeming crowds, its sweatshops, the Henry Street Settlement House, and events like the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire. Chava becomes active in the Women's League and is confronted ... Weiterlesen

Christine Geraghty: My Beautiful Laundrette

UK 2005, 108 pp., brochure, € 18.29
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�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

Martin Manalansan: Global Divas

Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora. USA 2003, 222pp., brochure, € 26.99
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The author offers the first ethnography of the global and transnational dimensions of gay identity as lived by Filipino immigrants in New York City, and describes how Filipino gay immigrants, like many queers of color, are creating alternative paths to queer modernity and citizenship. The author locates diasporic, transnational, and global facets of gay and other queer identities within the ... Weiterlesen