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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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

Ivan E. Coyote: Bow Grip

CAN 2006, 223 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Arsenal Pulp Press

Ivan E. Coyote is one of North America's most beguiling storytellers and the author of three story collections, including �Loose End�, which was shortlisted for the Ferro-Grumley Award for Fiction in 2006. �Bow Grip�, Coyote's first novel, is a breathtaking story about love and loneliness - in it, a good-hearted, small-town mechanic struggles to deal with a wife who has ... 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

Rigoberto Gonz�lez: Butterfly Boy

USA 2006, 207 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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University of Wisconsin Press

Growing up among poor migrant Mexican farmworkers, Rigoberto Gonz�lez faces the pressure of coming-of-age as a gay man in a culture that prizes machismo. Losing his mother when he is twelve, Gonz�lez must then confront his father's abandonment and an abiding sense of cultural estrangement, both from his adopted home in the United States and from a Mexican birthright. His ... Weiterlesen

Nick Nolan: Strings Attached

USA 2006, 291 pp., brochure, € 17.40
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17 year-old Jeremy Tyler is the puppet of Tiffany, his alcoholic mother. But when she is forced to rehab, Jeremy moves from the slums to the cliff-top estate of Katherine Tyler and Bill Mortson. Stunned by the wealth surrounding him, Jeremy thinks he's landed in paradise until the couple begins dictating his every move. Jeremy tries to fit in with ... Weiterlesen

Aaron Hamburger: Faith for Beginners

USA 2006, 355 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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In the summer of 2000, Israel teeters between total war and total peace. Similarly on edge, Helen Michaelson, a respectable suburban housewife from Michigan, has brought her ailing husband and rebellious college-age son, Jeremy, to Jerusalem. She hopes the journey will inspire Jeremy to reconnect with his faith and find meaning in his life - or, at least, get rid ... Weiterlesen

Brian Sloan: Tale of Two Summers

USA/UK/CAN/AUS 2006, 245 pp., hardbound, € 15.69
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A 10-year best friendship is put to the test when Chuck and Hal spend their first summer apart falling for two questionable mates: Chuck, a 15-year-old supremely comfortable in his hetero (though adolescently horny) skin, is a major fan of Broadway musicals who is rooming at summer theater school, with admirable tolerance, with a campy queer boy. His best friend ... Weiterlesen

Alex Sanchez: Getting It

USA 2006, 213 pp., hardback, € 16.59
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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

Dale Peck: Martin and John

USA 2006, 228 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Reprint of a classic coming-of-age tale that is also a haunting love story set in the very near past. New York, 1982: John is a hustler and falls in love with Martin, who becomes ill with AIDS. Martin dies two years later. To order his new existence without Martin, John starts to keep a journal and then to write stories. ... Weiterlesen

Lauren Myracle: Kissing Kate

USA 2006, 198 pp., pb, € 8.99
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Lissa thought that she and Kate, her beautiful and charismatic best friend, would always be close. Then one night last summer at a drunken party, Kate leaned in to kiss Lissa, and Lissa kissed her back. Now Kate acts as if nothing happened and is pretending Lissa doesn't exist. Suddenly forced to navigate her feelings and her classes without the ... Weiterlesen

James E. McGreevey: The Confession

USA 2006, 369 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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In August 2004, Governor James E. McGreevey of New Jersey made history when he stepped before microphones, declared �My truth is that I am a gay American�, and announced his resignation. The story made international headlines. But what led to that moment was a human and political drama more complex than anyone knew. Now, in this memoir, McGreevey shares his ... Weiterlesen

Graeme Aitken: 50 Ways of Saying Fabulous

AUS 2006, 241 pp., brochure, € 14.79
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Sweet, fat, theatrical Billy-Boy was never cut out to be a farmer, but as his father's only son he's obliged to try. The cows are wayward and the chores are gruelling. But Billy finds escape in a fantasy world where the turnip paddock becomes a lunar landscape, a lavender bed jacket a slinky space suit, a cow's tail a head ... Weiterlesen

Kate Bornstein: Hello Cruel World

USA 2006, 233 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Transgender trailblazer Kate Bornstein has ushered us into a world of limitless possibility through a daring re-envisionment of the gender system as we know it. Here, Kate shares personal and unorthodox methods of survival for navigating in an often cruel world. A one-of-a-kind guide to staying alive outside the box, this book offers 101 alternatives to suicide for teens, freaks ... Weiterlesen

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