Coming-out im engeren Sinn bedeutet, anderen davon zu erz�hlen, lesbisch oder schwul zu sein. F�r uns Lesben und Schwule ist dies ein wichtiger Wendepunkt oder Abschnitt unseres Lebens und unserer Pers�nlichkeitsentwicklung. Im weiteren Sinn ist mit Coming-out auch gemeint, sich selbst �ber die eigene Homosexualit�t klar zu werden und dazu zu stehen. Auch f�r Erfahrungen, von gesellschaftlichen Normvorstellungen und Stereotypen abzuweichen, wird der Begriff Coming-out verwendet.

Thema: Coming-of-age

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Will Davis: My Side of the Story

UK 2008, 256 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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So what if your parents hate each other and want you to have therapy? So what if your holier-than-thou sister (also known as �The Nun�) and her posse have decided you're going to hell? So what if the school tyrant and his goons are hunting you down, or if your best friend has just outed you to a neo-Nazi? 16-year-old ... Weiterlesen

John Cornwell: Seminary Boy

USA 2008, 321 pp., brochure, € 12.39
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The author's memoir of an adolescence spent in the isolated all-male world of a seminary. Born into a destitute family with a dominating Irish-Catholic mother and an absconding father during WW II in London, John Cornwell experienced a deeply dysfunctional childhood. When he was sent to a remote seminary for boys in the countryside at 13. While he lived under ... Weiterlesen

Shyam Selvadurai: Swimming in the Monsoon Sea

CAN 2007, 274 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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The setting is Sri Lanka, 1980, and it is the season of monsoons. Fourteen-year-old Amrith is caught up in the life of the cheerful, well-to-do household in which he is being raised by his vibrant Auntie Bundle and kindly Uncle Lucky. He tries not to think of his life �before� when his doting mother was still alive. Amrith's holiday plans ... Weiterlesen
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Alex Sanchez: Getting It

USA 2007, 211 pp., brochure, € 9.99
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It's embarrassing enough that Carlos Amoroso is 15 and the only virgin among his friends, but he's never really kissed a girl. The object of Carlos's desire, Roxy Rodriguez, is popular and hot - and has no idea that Carlos is alive. But watching a TV show one night gives Carlos an idea: what if he got a makeover from ... Weiterlesen

Christopher Barzak: One for Sorrow

USA 2007, 309 pp., brochure, € 10.79
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Adam McCormick had just turned 15 when the body was found in the woods. It is the beginning of an autumn that will change his life forever. Jamie Marks was a boy a lot like Adam, a boy no one paid much attention to - a boy almost no one would truly miss. And for the first time, Adam feels ... Weiterlesen

Perry Moore: Hero

USA 2007, 428 pp., hardback, € 15.69
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At the same time that he's coming to terms with his sexual orientation, basketball star Thom Creed is trying to figure out exactly what his untrained superpowers can do. In an attempt to break away from his seemingly non-understanding father (an ex-hero with something to hide) and homophobic community, Thom runs away, only to find himself in the middle of ... Weiterlesen

Ski Hunter: Coming Out and Disclosures

USA 2007, 219 pp., brochure, € 22.59
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This book is a one-of-a-kind guide to the coming-out process for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals, how to prepare for disclosure, and how disclosure is received in various groups. It also examines sexual orientation and identities, developmental models of coming out, disclosure in adolescence, midlife, or later, coming out to parents and family members, and disclosure to non-family. Moreover, ... Weiterlesen

Carrie Jones: Tips on Having a Gay (Ex) Boyfriend

USA 2007, 283 pp., hardback, € 15.69
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Senior Belle Philbrick is known as one half of her rural Maine high school's most established couples. Everyone in town just assumes that she and Dylan will get married after college. When he confesses to her that he is gay, Belle doesn't know how to react. She wants to be there for him, the boy who had been her best ... Weiterlesen

Alex Sanchez: The God Box

USA 2007, 255 pp., hardback, € 14.59
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High school senior Paul has dated Angie since middle school, and they're good together. They have a lot of the same interests, like singing in their church choir and being active in Bible club. But when Manuel transfers to their school, Paul has to rethink his life. Manuel is the first openly gay teen anyone in their small town has ... Weiterlesen

Sarah Schulman: The Child

USA 2007, 282 pp., hardbound, € 22.59
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Structured like a classic novel of legal suspense, �The Child� explores what happens when Stew, a lonely 15-year-old boy, looks for and finds an adult boyfriend online. In short order his lover is arrested in an Internet pedophilia sting and Stew's world is turned upside down. He's exposed to his family and community, leaving the young outcast to fend for ... Weiterlesen

Alex Sanchez: Rainbow Road

USA 2007, 250 pp., brochure, € 9.20
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It's the end of the road. Jason Carrillo came out to his basketball team and lost his university scholarship. Now that he's graduated, he's been asked to speak at the opening of a gay and lesbian high school across the country - but what is he going to say? Kyle Meeks is getting ready to go to Princeton in the ... Weiterlesen

Andr� Aciman: Call Me by Your Name

USA 2007, 248 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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The author poignantly probes a boy's erotic coming-of-age at his family's Italian Mediterranean home. Elio -17-year-old, extremely well-read, sensitive and the son of a prominent expatriate professor - finds himself troublingly attracted to this year's visiting resident scholar, recruited by his father from an American university. Oliver is 24, breezy and spontaneous, and working on a book about a Greek ... Weiterlesen

Patrick Ryan: Send Me

USA 2007, 312 pp., brochure, € 12.99
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Teresa Kerrigan, ungrounded by two divorces, tries to keep herself together. But her ex-husbands linger in the background while her four children spin away to their own separate futures, each carrying the baggage of a complex family history. Matt serves as caretaker to the ailing father who abandoned him as a child, while his wild teenage sister, Karen, hides herself ... Weiterlesen

Wade Rouse: America's Boy

USA 2007, 341 pp., brochure, € 13.89
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Growing up gay in the Missouri Ozarks in the 60s and 70s, the author was always a bit of an outsider. While some of his roughneck peers wore Wrangler jeans and had stylish crew cuts, Wade feathered his golden hair and sported a handmade leatherwork belt bearing his unfortunate childhood nickname, Wee-Pooh. Wade was hopelessly out of step with the ... Weiterlesen

Terry Trueman: 7 Days at the Hot Corner

USA 2007, 153 pp., hardback, € 15.69
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18-year-old Scott Latimer, a baseball fanatic, plays for his high school's team. Scott's world is thrown into disarray when his best friend, Travis, reveals that he's gay during the citywide baseball tournament. Now, in addition to worrying about playing well in a tournament, Scott anxiously awaits the results of an HIV test that he gets in secret: he fears he ... Weiterlesen

Dennis Cooper: Frisk

USA 1991, 128 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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When Dennis is 13, he sees a series of photographs of a boy apparently unimaginably mutilated. Dennis is not shocked, but stunned by their mystery and their power, their glimpse at the reality of death. Some years later, Dennis meets the boy who posed for the photographs. He did it for love. Surrounded by images of violence, the celebrity of ... Weiterlesen

Larry Duplechan: Blackbird

USA 2006, 252 pp., brochure, € 15.95
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First published by St. Martin's in 1986, �Blackbird� is a funny, moving, gay coming-of-age novel about growing up black and gay in Southern California. The lead character, Johnnie Ray Rousseau, is a high school student upset at losing the lead role in the school staging of �Romeo and Juliet�. If that weren't enough, his best friend has been beaten badly ... Weiterlesen

T. J. Parsell: Fish. A Memoir of a Boy in a Man's Prison

USA 2006, 324 pp, pb, € 24.95
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When seventeen-year-old T.J. Parsell held up the local Photo Mat with a toy gun, he was sentenced to four and a half to fifteen years in prison. The first night of his term, four older inmates drugged Parsell and took turns raping him. When they were through, they flipped a coin to decide who would �own� him. Forced to remain ... Weiterlesen

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