Ron Suresha (ed.): Bi Guys

Firsthand Fiction for Bisexual Men and Their Admirers. USA 2006, 216 pp., brochure, € 16.59
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Stimulating bisexual fiction from a decidedly masculine viewpoint. Busting open the closet door of bisexual men, this exploration of the bi male experience will change how you look at guys. The stories by renowned queer authors portray the male heat of bisexual desire as well as men's struggles to understand themselves and their own sexuality, and to make others understand ... Weiterlesen

David Levithan, Billy Merrell (eds.): The Full Spectrum

USA 2006, 277 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Using works submitted anonymously through the Web site the authors created in conjunction with the »Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network« (GLSEN), the editors have selected 40 essays, mini-autobiographies, poems, and photographs that chronicle the lives of 21st-century young people, ages 13 to 23. The handsomely dense package includes real-life stories about coming out, falling in and out of love, ... Weiterlesen

Terry Castle (ed.): The Literature of Lesbianism

A Historical Anthology from Ariosto to Stonewall. USA 2006, 1110 pp., brochure, € 69.99
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Since the Renaissance, countless writers have been magnetized by the notion of love between women. From Renaissance love poems to 20th-century novels, plays, and short stories, this book brings together hundreds of literary works on the subject of female homosexuality. This is not an anthology of »lesbian writers«. Nor is it simply a one-sided compendium of »positive« or »negative« images ... Weiterlesen

Henry James: The Portable Henry James

UK 2004, 618 pp., brochure, € 17.79
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With a mind that took in every nuance of speech, manner, thought, and half-thought, Henry James set out to define the restless - and sometimes innocent - American imagination in conflict with the great European tradition. Along the way he discovered the countless hesitancies, betrayals, and self-betrayals that make up the true substance of human relationships. This entirely new Portable ... Weiterlesen

Jennifer Robertson (ed.): Same-Sex Cultures and Sexualities

USA/UK/AUS 2004, 310 pp., brochure, € 36.99
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This anthropological reader demonstrates the centrality of the complicated relationship of sex, gender, and sexuality to theories of human behaviors and practices. Although heterosexuality has been interrogated and demystified, it retains normative dominance. By drawing on the fresh and illuminating perspectives of anthropology, this collection moves beyond other »lesbian and gay studies« readers by presenting a broader view of the ... Weiterlesen

David Leavitt, Mark Mitchell (eds.): The New Penguin Book of Gay Short Stories

UK 2004, 668 pp., pb, € 16.29
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From the tenderness of the swimming boys in D.H. Lawrence's »A Poem of Friendship« to the explicit sexuality of A.M. Homes's »The Whiz Kids«, with its boys in a bathtub, these 36 stories celebrate both the diversity and commonality of gay experience. Noel Coward's »Me and the Girls«, at once campy and touching, presents an unexpected side of this writer ... Weiterlesen

Harry Benshoff, Sean Griffin (eds.): Queer Cinema - The Film Reader

USA/CAN/UK 2004, 242 pp., brochure, € 39.95
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»Queer Cinema« brings together key writings that use queer theory to explore cinematic sexualities. The collection examines the relationship between cinematic representations of sexuality and their social, historical, and industrial contexts. »Auteurs« examines the ways in which sexuality figures in the work of queer filmmakers. »Forms« explores how the horror film, the musical, film noir, and the animated film construct ... Weiterlesen

Various Authors: Angelwings

Contemporary Queer Fiction from Taiwan. USA 2003, 248 pp., brochure, € 39.95
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Lesbian and gay fiction (known as »tongzhi wenxue« in Mandarin) constitutes a major contribution to Taiwanese literature, as evidenced by the remarkable number of prestigious literary awards won by authors of the short stories presented here. But most strikingly, this fiction has been immensely popular with general readers in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore, as well as in diasporic Chinese ... Weiterlesen

Luc Brisson: Sexual Ambivalence

USA 2002, 196pp., brochure, € 34.95
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This book collects and translates most of the extant Graeco-Roman writing on human beings, divinities, animals, and other creatures who were both female and male. The author provides a commentary that situates the rich source material within its historical and intellectual contexts. These selections- from mythological, philosophical, historical, and anecdotal sources - describe cases of either simultaneous dual sexuality, as ... Weiterlesen

Daryl Hines (ed.): Puerilities - Erotic Epigrams of »The Greek Anthology«

USA 2001, 127 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Elegiac lyrics celebrating the love of boys, which the translator terms "Puerilities", comprise most of the 12th book of "The Greek Anthology". That book, the so-called "Musa Puerilis", is brilliantly translated in this, the first complete verse version in English, it is a delightful eroticopia of short poems by great and lesser-known Greek poets, spanning hundreds of years, from ancient ... Weiterlesen

Kevin Moss (ed.): Out of the Blue

Russia's Hidden Gay Literature. USA 1997, 414 pp., brochure, € 39.95
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An in-depth collection of Russiona gay literature - from the classics of the 19th century Golden Age to the erotica of the »New Russia«. 30 Authors in over 400 pages of brilliant writing make this pioneering anthology a publishing event. - Part One: »Gay Themes in Golden Age Literature« (19th century) includes several of its most famous authors (Pushkin, Tolstoy, ... Weiterlesen