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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Anthony Giardina: Recent History

USA 2002, 249 pp., brochure, € 12.30
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In 1962, 12-year-old Luca Carcera's father suddenly moves out of the house under mysterious circumstances and surfaces across town in a run-down rooming house, living with another man. This event casts a long shadow over Luca's own sexual coming-of-age, calling into dramatic question every relationship he develops - or fails to. Years later, Luca enters his own marriage harboring a ... Weiterlesen

Christopher Rice: A Density of Souls

USA 2002, 275 pp., Pb, € 0.00
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In New Orleans, three formerly inseparable friends are drawn back together. New facts about their mutual past are revealed: Meredith, Brandon, Stephen and Greg used to stick together until Greg's little brother was killed in a car-accident and grief drove his mother to madness. After the litte boy's funeral Greg was found shot dead. Was it suicide or an accident? ... Weiterlesen
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James Morrison: Broken Fever

USA 2002, 242 pp., brochure, € 15.89
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The author explores the emotional reality of his own gay boyhood in an attempt to pinpoint the beginnings of his self-identity. From questioning his religious beliefs to exploring his first homoerotic attraction, Morrison's experiences are chronicled in the course of a journey with which anyone - gay or straight, young or old - can identify.

Philippe Besson: In the Absence of Men

UK 2001, 198 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Vintage

It is the summer of 1916 and, with German Zeppelins on the skyline, the men of Paris are off at war. For Vincent, the sixteen-year-old son of a prestigious family, the tranquillity of the city sits at odds with the salons and soirees he attends. But, after an electrifying encounter with the enigmatic writer, Marcel P, draws Vincent's desires out ... 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

Tom Spanbauer: The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon

USA 2000, 368 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Set against the harsh reality of an unforgiving landscape and culture, �The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon� provides a vision of the Old West unlike anything seen before. The narrator, Shed, is one of the most memorable characters in contemporary fiction: a half-Indian gay boy who lives and works at the Indian Head Hotel in the tiny ... Weiterlesen

James Baldwin: Giovanni's Room

USA 2000, 159 pp., pb., € 14.95
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Penguin USA

Baldwin's haunting and controversial second novel is his most sustained treatment of sexuality, and a classic of gay literature. In a 1950s Paris swarming with expatriates and characterized by dangerous liaisons and hidden violence, an American finds himself unable to repress his impulses, despite his determination to live the conventional life he envisions for himself. After meeting and proposing to ... Weiterlesen

Hans Siemsen: Die Geschichte des Hitlerjungen Adolf Goers

D 2000, 239 S., Pb, € 16.50
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M�nnerschwarm - Bibliothek rosa Winkel 24

Hans Siemsen (1891-1969) ver�ffentlichte in den 20er Jahren mehrere B�nde mit Erz�hlungen sowie Sachb�cher. Viele der Geschichten handeln von Begegnungen mit Jungen (Das Tigerschiff, 1923). 1927 erschien seine Anklageschrift gegen den � 175: Verbotene Liebe. 1934 ging Siemsen aus politischen Gr�nden in die Emigration - in Paris entstand 1937/38 Die Geschichte des Hitlerjungen Adolf Goers.

Dwight York: Bellringer

USA 2000, 225 pp., brochure, € 25.15
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Set in the late 60s/ early 70s, �Bellringer� follows the trials and tribulations of Tony, a likeable college student who discovers his homosexuality and gay militancy during his freshman year. He is inspired to come out by his linguistics professor, Robert Miller, an openly gay man who, despite being at the top of his field, has yet to be granted ... 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

Paul Russell: The Coming Storm

USA 1999, 371 pp., pb, € 25.99
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St. Martin's Press

Set against the backdrop of a traditional boys' school in upstate New York, �The Coming Storm� is a delicately and brilliantly rendered tale that reveals the most closely held secrets of the human heart. Russell's award-winning novel is the story of four interlocking lives - Louis Tremper, the head-master at the Forge School, his wife, Claire, Tracey Parker, a twenty-fie-year-old ... Weiterlesen

William J. Mann: The Men from the Boys

USA 1998, 342 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Plume

This is William J. Mann's first novel about gay life in the 1990s. It's also a story about sex - safe sex, casual sex, real sex - and love - young lovers, old lovers, ex-lovers, falling in love, and staying in love. Thirty-plus freelance writer Jeff O'Brien panics when Lloyd, his partner of seven years, announces that there's no passion ... Weiterlesen

Shyam Selvadurai: Funny Boy

UK 2020, 316 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Vintage

Set in the mannered, lush world of upper middle class Tamils in Sri Lanka, this deeply moving first novel, though not autobiographical, draws on Selvadurai's experience of being gay in Sri Lanka and growing up during the escalating violence between the Buddhist Sinhala majority and Hindu Tamil minority in the 1970s and early 1980s. Arjie Chelvaratnam, at the age of ... Weiterlesen

Patricia Nell Warren: The Front Runner

USA 1996, 320 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Wildcat - Harlan's Story 1

First published in 1974, The Front Runner raced to international acclaim - the first novel about gay love to become popular with mainstream. In 1975, coach Harlan Brown is hiding from his past at an obscure New York college, after he was fired from Penn State University on suspicion of being gay. A tough, lonely ex-Marine of 39, Harlan has ... Weiterlesen

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

Brendan Behan: Borstal Boy

UK 1990, 372 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Arrow

In 1939, Liverpool, 16 year-old Brendan Behan is arrested for carrying explosives in his suitcase. A fervent republican undergoing a mission for the IRA, with designs to blow up a shipyard, Behan is sentenced to three years Borstal detention as he is a minor, and cannot be given the death sentence. - In this autobiography, Behan writes about the experiences ... Weiterlesen

Jeremy Reed: Inhabiting Shadows

GB 1990, 112 pp., pb., € 27.90
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Reed has been cited as the most outstanding poet of his generation, as well as one of the most prolific. In this third novel, he writes of a group of self-admiring adolescents meeting in a seaside town in their last summer before joining the adult world. Here they come to terms with their sexual proclivities (and with tragedy) when one ... Weiterlesen

John Fox: The Boys on the Rock

USA 1984, 146 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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St. Martin's Press

Written with uncanny precision and wild humor, this is the story of Billy Connors, high school student in the Bronx, member of the swim team, and all-around regular guy, who in his 16th year has to face the fact that he's a little different from everyone else, a little �weird�. Though he's sort of going steady with a girl and ... Weiterlesen

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