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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Andrew Holleran, Donald Weise: Fresh Men 2

USA 2005, 358 pp., brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.

The new book in the LAMBDA Award-winning series �Fresh Men 2 - New Voices in Gay Fiction�, brings together the very best stories of emerging gay authors. With equal parts sensitivity and irreverence, this collection of homosexual stories speaks to a broad range of gay experiences. From coming-out to coming-of-age, from finding love to living in a post-gay world - ... Weiterlesen

Michael Chabon: The Mysteries of Pittsburgh

USA 2005, 297 pp. + 15 P.S. on Author & Book, brochure, € 12.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.

Art Bechstein, a young college student who has a gangster father, romantic problems, and a growing collection of bizarre friends, meets Arthur Lecomte, a handsome young homosexual who proceeds to initiate Art into his own world for reasons that are his own. Through Arthur, Art meets Cleveland, a motorcycle-driving hellion with an untold intelligence, and Phlox, a young woman with ... Weiterlesen

Joe Babcock: The Tragedy of Miss Geneva Flowers

USA 2005, 342 pp., brochure, € 14.79
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Like many gay sixteen-year-olds, Erick Taylor dreams of being a star. But that's a tall order when you're unpopular, stuck in Catholic school, and your Bible-thumping parents make life a holy terror for a closeted gay kid. All of this changes in a snap, however, when Erick meets Chloe, a �grandiloquist� drag queen. With a glam rock makeover and a ... Weiterlesen

Robert Trachtenberg (ed.): When I Knew

USA 2005, 120 pp., brochure, € 21.95
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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

Scott Heim: Mysterious Skin

USA 2005, 292 S., brochure, € 19.95
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HarperPerennial

At the age of 8 Brian Lackey is found bleeding under the crawl space of his house, having endured something so traumatic that he cannot remember it for long. During the following years he slowly recalls details from that night, but these fragments are not enough to explain what happened to him, and he begins to believe that he may ... Weiterlesen

Brent Hartinger: The Order of the Poison Oak

USA 2005, 215 pp., hardback, € 14.89
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The sequel to �Geography Club�: 16-year-old Russel, now openly gay and tired of being the freak at school, tries to escape as a counselor in a rural summer camp with his two best friends. The camp kids are 10-year-old burn survivors, scarred and disfigured, and Russel identifies with them. They also have fun together, once he stops seeing them as ... Weiterlesen

Augusten Burroughs: Running with Scissors

USA 2005, 315 pp., Pb, € 18.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
SMP

This is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her unorthodox psychiatrist who bore a striking resemblance to Santa Claus. So at the age of 12, Burroughs found himself amidst Victorian squalor living with the doctor's bizarre family, and befriending a pedophile who resided in ... Weiterlesen

Terence Blacker: Boy2Girl

USA 2004, 296 pp., hardbound, € 14.99
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Matthew's American cousin, Sam, has come to London to live with the family. Sam is a charismatic, funny kid, but can he be trusted to be a reliable friend? Matthew and his �mates� decide that Sam must undertake a challenge in order to prove himself: he must start off his new year at their school posing as a girl. It ... Weiterlesen

Blair Mastbaum: Clay's Way

USA 2004, 246 pp., brochure, € 13.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.

A wanna-be punk rocker who writes bad haiku poetry, 15-year-old Sam is fed up with his middle-class parents, his geeky best friend, and his inability to do the raddest skateboard tricks. Then he meets Clay. Mistaking lust for fate, Sam becomes obsessed with the 17-year-old surfer boy, whose island cool masks an internal conflict even darker than Sam's. Directing his ... Weiterlesen

Dale Peck: What We Lost

UK 2004, 229 pp., brochure, € 29.95
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Dale Peck Sr. grows up extremely poor in rural Long Island in the 1950s, sharing a one-room house with seven brothers and sisters, an abusive mother, and an alcoholic father haunted by his past. When, at 12, he is more or less kidnapped by his father and taken to his uncle's farm in Greenville, upstate N.Y., the change is remarkable. ... Weiterlesen

William J. Mann: Where the Boys Are

USA 2003, 442 pp., brochure, € 29.95
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Kensington

In William J. Mann's follow-up to his gay bestseller �The Men From the Boys�, Jeff O'Brien - still in search of love and sex - navigates the circuit in the company of friends, tricks, old loves, and irresistible strangers, going any place. Jeff and his on-again, off-again lover Lloyd Griffith are thirty-something professionals still grieving the death of their mentor, ... Weiterlesen

Brent Hartinger: Geography Club

USA 2003, 226 pp., brochure, € 9.99
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Harper Collins

Russel Middlebrook is convinced he's the only gay kid at Goodkind High School. Then his online gay chat buddy turns out to be none other than Kevin, the popular but closeted star of the school's baseball team. Soon Russel meets other gay students, too. There's his best friend Min, who reveals that she is bisexual, and her soccer-playing girlfriend Terese. ... Weiterlesen

David Levithan: Boy Meets Boy

USA 2011, 186 pp., pb., € 14.95
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This is the story of Paul, a sophomore at a high school like no other: the cheerleaders ride Harleys, the homecoming queen used to be a guy named Daryl (she now prefers Infinite Darlene), and the gay-straight alliance was formed to help the straight kids learn how to dance. When Paul meets Noah, he thinks he's found the one his ... Weiterlesen

Quinn Brockton: Never Tear Us Apart

USA 2003, 293 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Brian and Michael are apart for the first time since grade school. Brian's soccer scholarship takes him to Carnegie-Mellon where he finds that he's a fresh - if not a small - fish in a big new pond. Meanwhile Michael, Deb, and Uncle Vic embark on the annual Novotny family vacation in the Poconos, where Michael makes some �new� friends. When ... Weiterlesen

Melissa M. Wilcox: Coming Out in Christianity

USA 2003, 221 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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For many Christians, homosexuality is an issue that is often presented as a matter of �us (straight) Christians� versus �them�, or worse, as the question of an isolated behavior, somehow not an intrinsic part of the identities of gays and lesbians. Discussion of the issue has become so heated that it threatens to create a yawning chasm within several mainline ... Weiterlesen

Alex Sanchez: Rainbow Boys

USA 2003, 233 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Three teenage boys, coming of age and out of the closet. In a revealing debut novel that percolates with passion and wit, Alex Sanchez follows these very different high-school seniors as their struggles with sexuality and intolerance draw them into a triangle of love, betrayal, and, ultimately, friendship. Jason Carrillo: Jock. Good looks. Beautiful girlfriend. Popular. Unsatisfied. Kyle Meeks: Swim ... Weiterlesen

Charles Hulse: In Tall Cotton

USA 2002, 300 pp., brochure, € 17.89
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In this sensual, beautifully written coming-of-age tale, debut novelist Charles Hulse transports readers to a time when radios crackled with the sounds of Benny Goodman and the Dorsey Brothers, when ice cream was a rare treat, hand-churned in a 2-gallon wooden bucket freezer, and when nobody ever talked about the things a sexually precocious teenage boy might encounter along the ... Weiterlesen

Paul Magrs: Strange Boy

UK 2002, 289 pp., brochure, € 13.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.

Come back to the north east of England, and meet David. Some would say he's a strange boy. David's an outsider. He's smart, sensitive and convinced he has secret super-powers. Life for him and his brother is a constant whirl of would-be step-families and overbearing friends and relations. And even aged ten, he's finding he's not sure what he thinks ... Weiterlesen

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