Eugene Kennedy: The Unhealed Wound

USA 2001, 214 pp., pb, € 15.84
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The leaders of the Catholic Church have failed to understand and embrace human sexuality. This dismissive, even condemnatory, attitude toward sex has caused great pain in millions of believers and has led to a church that is out of touch with its true spirituality and the spirituality of its people.

Andrew Harvey (ed.): The Essential Gay Mystics

USA 2001, 290 pp., brochure, € 23.19
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From Sappho to Whitman, Vergil to Audre Lorde, those who love others of the same sex have been foremost in the ranks of artists whose work reflects a mystical experience of God. Gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people will find writings that illuminate the mystical path in this bountiful collection of selections from their spiritual forebears. The radical lesson of ... Weiterlesen

Christoph Kranich, Anna Merklin, Linda Steger: Liebe Leben (Flensburger Hefte 68)

Homosexualität und die Vielfalt der Lebensformen. D 2000, 187 S., Broschur, € 14.90
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Aus anthroposophischer Sicht beschreiben die AutorInnen die Chancen, die im unvoreingenommenen und aufgeklärten Umgang mit Lesben und Schwulen und in der gesellschaftlichen und rechtlichen Emanzipation liegen. Weil anthroposophische Gedanken vor allem im Erziehungssystem immer wieder eine große Rolle spielen, ist dieses Buch besonders wichtig, weil hierdurch Jugendlichen Perspektiven für ihren Lebensplan gegeben werden können, ohne sie von vornherein in die ... Weiterlesen

Mark D. Jordan: The Invention of Sodomy in Christian Theology

UK 1997, 200 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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Oxford University Press
This text explores the invention of sodomy in medieval Christendom, examining its conceptual foundations in theology and gauging its impact on Christian sexual ethics both then and now. It traces the historical genealogy of this enduring cultural construct through many of the idiosyncratic worldviews of the Middle Ages - worldviews at war with themselves in their attitudes toward sex, love ... Weiterlesen

Stephen Moore: God's Gym

USA/UK 1996, 185 pp., brochure, € 37.99
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If man is created in the image of a perfect God, does the mortal body strive for physical perfection as well? Is bodybuilding part of God's plan for us? Is this strikingly original work, Moore considers God's male bodies - the bodies of Yahweh, of the Father of Jesus Christ, and of Jesus himself - and our obsessive earthly quest ... 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

Jeanette Winterson: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

USA 1985, 182 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Grove Press
Jeanette is a bright and rebellious orphan who is adopted into an evangelical household in the dour, industrial north of England. Her youth is spent embroidering grim religious mottoes and shaking her little tambourine for Jesus. But as this budding missionary comes of age and comes to terms with lesbian (that is: unorthodox) sexuality, the peculiar balance of her God-fearing ... Weiterlesen

John Boswell: Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe

USA 1994, 412 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 24.95
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Vintage
Boswell has taken great care to assemble, transcribe, translate and interpret a persuasive array of texts describing same-sex relationships in the ancient world. It is a testimony to the fairness of the book that he confronts the opposing arguments clearly. At a time when strictures against homosexuality are the subject of impassioned debate, this groundbreaking work of scholarship has generated ... Weiterlesen

Derek Jarman (R): The Garden

UK 1990, OF, 86 Min., € 29.99
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Derek Jarman's »The Garden« is a collection of images dealing with homosexuality and Christianity in experimental fashion, with Jarman's own presence integral to the film. At its heart is a passion play. Themes such as AIDS, repression, police brutality and the end of the world are also explored.

Jean Delannoy (R): Heimliche Freundschaften

F 1964, SW, OF, dt. UT, 98 MIn., € 17.99
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Pro-fun
Der sensible und ausgesprochen konservativ erzogene Georges wird von seinen Eltern auf ein streng katholisches Internat geschickt. Als der 15-Jährige dort den engelsgleichen Alexandre trifft, erscheint ihm diese Begegnung gleich einer göttlichen Vorhersehung. Doch allzu viele Hindernisse drohen ihre junge Liebe zu zerstören, das ebenso homophobe wie erotisch aufgeladene Umfeld im Jungen-Internat ist eine Brutstätte für Gewalt und Zärtlichkeit unter ... Weiterlesen

Ken Russell (R): The Devils

UK 1971, engl. OF, 111 Min., € 19.99
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Ken Russell helms this graphic 1971 adaptation of a documented witchcraft case, which took place in France in 1634. Outspoken priest Urbain Grandier (Oliver Reed) finds himself accused of seducing a group of hysterical nuns while in demon form by Mother Superior Sister Jeanne (Vanessa Redgrave), who is obsessed with Grandier and driven into a fit of envy when he ... Weiterlesen

John N. Smith (R): The Boys of St. Vincent

2 Teile. CAN 1993, engl.OF, dt.SF, 178 min., € 17.99
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Pro-fun
Die beiden Teile dieser Skandalverfilmung zu einer wahren Geschichte gibt es jetzt erstmals in einer ungekürzten Fassung auf DVD. »Schrei nach Hilfe« spielt in den 70er Jahren in dem kirchlichen Waisenhaus St. Vincent. Die Fratres agieren mit brutaler Strenge. Nichts von den Vorgängen im Innern des Hauses dringt zunächst nach außen, bis der kleine Kevin Reevey wegläuft, weil ihn Bruder ... Weiterlesen

Derek Jarman: Sebastiane

UK 1976, lat.OF, dt.UT, 82 min., € 19.99
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Salzgeber - gay classics
Kaum eine Figur der christlichen Mythologie hat Künstler derart inspiriert wie der Heilige Sebastian - ein schöner, junger Märtyrer nackt an einen Pfahl gefesselt, von Pfeilen durchbohrt. In seinem ersten Spielfilm zeigte Derek Jarman den Heiligen Sebastian als eine moderne schwule Ikone. In »Sebastiane« lassen sich alle Elemente des Jarman'schen Filmschaffens entdecken, die er später in Filmen wie »Caravaggio« oder ... Weiterlesen

The Investigative Staff of The Boston Globe: Betrayal

The Crisis in the Catholic Church, € 15.65
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»Betrayal« provides a detailed, devastating account of the Catholic Church's decades-long cover-up that has left millions of American Catholics shocked, angry, and confused. It brings into sharp focus the scores of abusive priests who preyed upon children and the cabal of senior Church officials who covered up their crimes. If Boston was the epicenter of of the abuse scandal, the ... Weiterlesen

John Boswell: Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality

USA 1980, 424 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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John Boswell’s highly acclaimed study of the history of attitudes toward homosexualiy in the Christian West challenges received opinion and our own preconceptions about the Chruch’s past relationship to its gay members, among whom were priests, bishops and even canonized saints.